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28.10.25
How cats went to sea
27-10-2025
The Kidnapping of Sherry Papini: The Story of a Crime That ...
In November 2016, 34-year-old Sherri Papini disappeared while jogging near her California home. Three weeks later, she was found ...
26-10-2025
Aztec crystal skulls: how exposed one of the largest frauds ...
Aztec crystal skull and scary at the same time beautiful long been the object of desire collectors of ancient artifacts and entire ...
26-10-2025
In the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century, ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century in the USA it was possible to send a child by mail: the service cost less than a dollar, ...
26-10-2025
12 absurd but true facts about the Chukchi that will surprise you
Have you ever wondered how the inhabitants of Chukotka live? What is their culture, customs, what do they like and how do they ...
26-10-2025
How the huge armies of the past relieved themselves
In the history of mankind it is hardly possible to find a year when there was not a war somewhere. The armies of the past were huge ...
26-10-2025
Braveheart: 7 women to whom we should be grateful for the ...
One of the main achievements of the XX century is the establishment of equality between people. Including gender equality. And, of ...
26-10-2025
Tovarozameschenie on-old Russian
Our life consists of wireless technologies. It's hard to imagine that the ancestors had not that light bulb over my head, but even ...
26-10-2025
The man with two heads: portraits of Pasqual Pinon, the ...
Pasqual Pinon (1889-1929), known as the two-Headed Mexican, was a circus performer MPEI cells-Vlotho in the early 1900-ies. Pignon ...
26-10-2025
The "Leper Conspiracy" is a fictional coup that cost the ...
Leprosy is a dangerous and intractable disease that has accompanied humanity throughout its history. Today we know almost ...
26-10-2025
Portraits of children of the XIX century, sentenced to hard ...
In the color portraits of the 1870s, colored by the colorization expert Tom Marshall, children look at the lens too severely and ...
25-10-2025
Taking it to the chest: a global history of the bra
The first official patent for a bra was received on September 3, 1914. The author of this remarkable invention was a woman - ...
25-10-2025
The secret of the "Bloody Quran" — a book written in the ...
It is well known how intolerant Muslims are to blasphemy. Everything that casts a shadow on Islam in one way or another is usually ...
25-10-2025
Mercury treatment, drunkenness and luxury: how women lived in ...
Brothels in the Russian Empire in the 19th century were quite legal. In 1889, there were 111 brothels in Moscow alone. In fact, ...
25-10-2025
10 Interesting Facts About the Ku Klux Klan
In December 1865, the Ku Klux Klan, an ultra-right organization based on racist ideas, was created in the American city of Pulaski, ...
24-10-2025
22 unique artifacts from the past that amaze and delight
It seems that the past epochs, with their primitive technologies, have left us nothing impressive except for famous works of art ...
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 ...