History
13.10.25
That Russia borrowed from the Tatars
10-10-2025
Why suicide that occurred in England from the early 20th ...
In September 1905 a small English town of Wickford, Essex, was shaken by a horrible event. 24-year-old wife of the priest of the ...
10-10-2025
Deadly striptease in Auschwitz
The legend of this Jewish ballerina was made not by dancing, but by murder. When she, a former star, was ordered to undress in ...
10-10-2025
The Wangongchang Plant Explosion That Changed Chinese History
Experts believe that the explosion at the Wangongchang plant in Beijing was the most powerful in history, not counting nuclear ...
10-10-2025
The style of the 80s and 90s in the bright photos of ...
In this nostalgic collection of photographs, photographer Stephen Martin captured stylish girls dressed in the fashion of the late ...
10-10-2025
Causes of death recorded by priests in pre-revolutionary Russia
To monitor the statistics of mortality in the Russian Empire officially began only during the reign of Alexander II, who signed the ...
10-10-2025
Cannibals-the Cossacks in the steppes of Ukraine: horror of ...
In 1927, the historian Mykola Gorban found in the Kharkiv historical archives of the documents of the investigation conducted in ...
10-10-2025
The life, crimes and death of Ilse Koch, nicknamed the ...
In the past, an inconspicuous librarian, this frau was included in the list of the most violent women in the world. She was called ...
10-10-2025
Why in the Middle Ages the church called the fork a ...
An ordinary dining fork has an impressive history with many interesting facts. It seems to us that these devices have always been ...
10-10-2025
23 photos of items from the past that will have you feeling ...
They say that the past is always necessary to leave in the past. But sometimes you want to remember how it all happened, to plunge, ...
10-10-2025
Retro beauties from the covers of a Yugoslav computer magazine
A selection of covers from the Yugoslav magazine Računari from the 1980s and 1990s. The word Računari is translated from Bosnian ...
10-10-2025
The story of Andy - a gray goose in children's sneakers
Our smaller brothers are often in trouble. It is much more difficult for them to get help than for people. For this to happen, you ...
09-10-2025
Never give up! The story of the Englishman who died and ...
In April 1943, off the coast of the Spanish town of Huelva, fishermen picked up a drowned man in the uniform of a British Marine ...
09-10-2025
How teenagers have changed over the past 50 years
Have you ever wondered how teenagers have changed over the past five decades? How have the clothes they wear changed? What have ...
09-10-2025
Mystical cases of mass disappearance of people, and remained ...
Any crime leaves traces. This is an immutable truth, from which investigators and criminologists around the world start. A person ...
09-10-2025
"Aretino Poses– - medieval Kama Sutra from Europe, which ...
The genre of erotic art has been known since ancient times and it existed in different parts of the world. We are well aware of the ...
09-10-2025
How did the fashion for huge wigs appear in Europe and what ...
We are all familiar with the image of an aristocrat of the 17th-18th century. Stockings, a lush lace frill collar, buckled shoes, a ...
09-10-2025
35 color photos from the past and the history behind them
Now it's hard to imagine that once it was impossible to just get a smartphone and instantly take a picture, and then process it as ...
09-10-2025
Rare photos of everyday life on Sakhalin of the late XIX - ...
Sakhalin is Russia's largest island in the Pacific Ocean. The population of the island according to the latest data is about 489 ...
09-10-2025
Stars of the 80s: young, bright and unbridled
The 1980s were a truly revolutionary decade — in everything related to fashion, music, cinema, etc. Here are some candid (and ...
08-10-2025
10 trademarks that have become household names
Sometimes using one or another product name, you think about its origin. We decided to reveal the secret of the formation of ...
08-10-2025
Incredible color photos of Japan of the XIX century
The Japanese allowed foreigners to trade in the ports of the country only in the middle of the XIX century. It was then that ...
08-10-2025
The story of Isaac and Rose, Slave children from New Orleans, ...
The boy and the girl looked at the camera. They were old enough to understand their task: to stand still, hands clasped, and direct ...
08-10-2025
"Black Cossacks" Ukrainian Cossacks who did not take prisoners
"Black Cossacks" was the most fearsome fighters of the Civil war in Ukraine. They were remembered not only for his military ...
08-10-2025
27 creepy photos of an abandoned farmstead
Deep in the woods of Maryland stands a house full of secrets. This late-19th-century farmstead is a kind of time capsule of a ...
08-10-2025
The Beautiful Carolina Otero: How a Former Prostitute Drove ...
The French courtesan Carolina Otero was called the "Queen of Paris". She was admired not only in France, but also in ...
08-10-2025
How mice helped defeat the Red Army of the Germans in the ...
When people talk about the contribution of animals to the victory over Nazi Germany, dogs and horses are most often remembered. The ...