History
26.10.25
Tovarozameschenie on-old Russian
24-10-2025
Schumacher, Paparazzi, Stakhanov and other people whose names ...
There are people who leave their mark in history with great deeds and accomplishments, there are those who write great books or ...
24-10-2025
How the first Soviet meme Ushats appeared
Today, Internet memes have become an integral part of our lives. Some of them appear and are forgotten after a couple of months, ...
24-10-2025
9 Pilots Who Intentionally Crashed Planes
On Sunday morning, September 26, 1976, pilot Vladimir Serkov flew an An-2 plane without passengers to a five-story residential ...
24-10-2025
Unique paintings of Morris Hirshfield, who began drawing out ...
Many people in older age are hesitant to take up something new: they feel that they can not learn to do it the new good, no one ...
23-10-2025
22 things that will easily carry on waves of nostalgia back ...
Do you dream of time travel to plunge back into the long-forgotten atmosphere of a carefree childhood? Fortunately, there are some ...
23-10-2025
How Agnes Sorel, the most beautiful woman in history, died
Agnès Sorel went down in history not only as the mistress of the French King Charles VII, but also as a woman whose beauty became ...
23-10-2025
Mistress of Africa Al-Kahina: The witch the Arabs feared
In the Islamic world, men reign supreme and their authority is unshakable. Therefore, the Arab chronicles, which describe the ...
23-10-2025
"Rat trails" of the Vatican: how the Catholic Church saved ...
"Rat trails" – such an apt name was given by the US special services to the routes along which thousands of Nazis and fascists ...
23-10-2025
Harem of King Louis XV: the best traditions of the East in ...
We are all used to the fact that harems and concubines belong to the oriental flavor. Is such a thing possible in Europe, given the ...
23-10-2025
Marshal Zhukov's favorite women
Zhukov's private life is ambiguous. It was stormy, confused, happy, and tragic. Despite the black-and-white Soviet principles and ...
22-10-2025
Mordovian Joan of Arc, the nun Alena Arzamas: ally Stepana ...
This woman combines disparate XVII century things — she was a nun, a rebel and a witch. It is shot from a bow, treat people ...
22-10-2025
Life in the "zoo": the tragic fate of the five-year-olds Dion
The five sisters who were born into the family of a poor farmer on May 28, 1934, became a real gold mine, earning a lot of money ...
22-10-2025
What is "Waterloo teeth", or As the battle of 1815 influenced ...
Dental clinic in our days — it's not cheap, but available for each institution. Today, dentists use modern equipment and ...
22-10-2025
Why Walt Disney shows two fingers in all his photos
Studying the history of the Disney company, you can notice an unusual thing: the founder of the company Walter Elias Disney in the ...
22-10-2025
Quinoa, bear meat, sterlet and other delights of Old Slavic ...
And what do you have for dinner tonight? Vegetable salad, fried potatoes with chicken? These dishes have become so familiar to us ...
21-10-2025
Women on the verge of hysteria: the story of a vibrator
From a medical device to a "personal back massager" — the vibrator has experienced a rich and eventful history. It is now that he ...
21-10-2025
Not a single bottle of wine for the Musketeers, or How ...
On July 24, 1802, Alexander Dumas's father, the author of the famous Musketeer trilogy, was born. On his birthday, we want to tell ...
21-10-2025
Hair lifetime: beauties of the Victorian era, which never had ...
Long hair has always been considered a virtue and pride girls. But during the Victorian era ladies were so fond of growing ...
21-10-2025
Bird Genocide: How Nature Took Revenge on the Chinese for the ...
Mao Zedong's sparrow extermination campaign in the 1950s backfired tragically in China. This ambitious attempt to improve ...
21-10-2025
40 nostalgic frames: Yalta 90‑ies in the lens of British ...
In summer 1995, British photographer Martin Parr visited Yalta, which he himself called the "Russian Riviera". In this series you ...
21-10-2025
Obscene legacy of Pushkin wrote the great poet "poetry for ...
We all know Alexander Pushkin as the author of a fine lyric poems, great poems and captivating prose. Much less known classics as ...
21-10-2025
Style and swing: what the participants of the Monterey Jazz ...
The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It was founded on ...
20-10-2025
From dudes to hard workers: photos of Soviet youth of the 60s
What do you associate the 60s with? Maybe it was the youth of your parents or their parents, or maybe something else? This ...
20-10-2025
The story of the brave Katherine Sloterback, who killed 140 ...
We know many stories when a person, forced to protect himself and his loved ones, did incredible things. But among all of them, ...
20-10-2025
Did everyone wake up on Monday?
Knocker-up or Knocker-upper is a forgotten profession in England and Ireland, which consisted in waking people up to work. It ...
20-10-2025
Big Love: The Story of the Tallest Couple in History
Unfortunately, the lives of very tall people are fraught with numerous difficulties. In a world where the average height, depending ...