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12-05-2025
Contactees: stories of people who met with aliens (but this ...
American photographer Matt Hoyle made portraits of people who came into contact with aliens. 1. Pat, Rachel, Nevada, USA I am the ...
!["The Axeman of New Orleans": the story of one maniac who killed for the glory of jazz](/img/2025/the-axeman-of-new-orleans/the-axeman-of-new-orleans-170x170.jpg ""The Axeman of New Orleans": the story of one maniac who killed for the glory of jazz")
12-05-2025
"The Axeman of New Orleans": the story of one ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, jazz was rapidly gaining popularity. By 1918, New Orleans in the state of Louisiana in the ...
12-05-2025
What does the Thule tree look like, an ancient cypress in ...
The Thule tree is located in the courtyard of the church in the picturesque town of Santa Maria del Thule. This is a 2,000-year-old ...
11-05-2025
Mysterious underwater river flows along the ocean floor in Mexico
If you needed a reason to start diving, then consider that now you have it. In Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, there is a hidden ...
11-05-2025
Garry Winogrand – the giant of street photography
In photography, as in any other art form has its classics. One of them is Garry Winogrand, star of the new York photos. On his ...
10-05-2025
Loneliness in the jungle: world fame and the sad ending of ...
Trapper Nelson is still remembered in South Florida. He became famous thanks to the experimental zoo, and most of all-because of ...
09-05-2025
Why do Americans do laundry in laundries and not at home?
American films and TV series feature laundries, which locals use with enviable constancy: there they not only wash, but also get ...
08-05-2025
The revolution without pants: how the hippies of the 60s hung out
"The rabbit was mussing a cabbage leaf, in the 69th year there was the famous Woodstock Festival" - Yegor Letov composed on the ...
06-05-2025
The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan
Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back at ...
06-05-2025
Robert Fisher: The killer who blew up his family was never caught
Many people believe that the lists of the most wanted criminals include only terrorists or heads of drug cartels. In fact, this is ...
05-05-2025
The Eerie Secret of the Lawson Family Photograph
At first glance, this old photo seems like the most ordinary one. But that's only if you don't know its history. The photo ...
04-05-2025
Grace and seduction: 30 hot photos of ballerinas
The art of ballet is one of the most amazing. The feelings embodied in the dance are impressive in their depth. The American ...
04-05-2025
Elusive femininity by photographer Nina Lin
Nina Lin's beautiful black and white photographs reflect the notion of beauty and style in the 1940s and 1950s. Lyn was one of ...
03-05-2025
The best pictures of Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
On May 4, 1947, the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was formed in California. There have been many scandals around this legendary club ...
03-05-2025
"Bad blood", or How Elizabeth Holmes swindled the whole world ...
The American Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the startup "Teranos", was called "Steve Jobs in a skirt." Her fortune in 2014 was ...
03-05-2025
Oil painting: dark hyperrealistic drawings by Damien Loeb
Damien Loeb, an American artist from New Haven, Connecticut, uses oil paints to create hyper-realistic paintings that are sometimes ...
02-05-2025
18 quirks in American culture that Americans themselves don't ...
In any culture, there are phenomena that seem at least strange, illogical and bizarre to representatives of another nationality. We ...
30-04-2025
A rattling mix: spies, beauties, Nazis and heroes in stunning ...
Artist Mort Kunstler is known for his vivid live works, which bring to life scenes from American history. Especially often the ...
28-04-2025
Up, down and out
Photographers Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton not only work together, but also live in their small bohemian apartment in the center of ...
27-04-2025
The Guevedos Phenomenon: Why Girls in the Dominican Republic ...
Every person is born either male or female. But there are exceptions - for example, cases of genetic or hormonal disorders, when a ...
27-04-2025
Las Vegas night from a height
On May 15, 1905, Las Vegas was founded, the same Sin City in the Nevada Desert, which for many years became a symbol of excitement, ...
27-04-2025
Tuskegee: A Terrible page in American History
For 40 years, the United States has conducted an unprecedented human experiment. Black residents from Alabama were deliberately ...
26-04-2025
Ugliness eternal seal: the tragic fate of the "girl with big ...
The so-called "freak shows" were very popular in the USA at the end of the 19th century. People came in droves to look at disabled ...
26-04-2025
Photos of Manhattan 1870-1900, when the island was a slum of ...
In the last decades of the XIX century, Lower Manhattan in New York could be safely called the capital of the slums. In those ...
26-04-2025
"Children are not yours, and you're not you" or the unborn ...
"These children are not your" — to such conclusion came the doctors after comparing DNA Lydia Fairchild and her own children. ...
25-04-2025
10 false ideas about slavery in the United States
Slavery existed in the British American colonies and the United States from 1619 to 1865. Today, this is a difficult topic for ...