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09-06-2025

5 useful household life hacks

Do you want to upgrade the surrounding space and simplify your life? We tell you about secret life hacks that make life much easier ...

09-06-2025

One Contact Story: Rosa Lotti and the UFO Dwarfs

Amazing stories of contacts of earthlings with alien civilizations appear regularly. Now that science fiction has become one of the ...

09-06-2025

Bathing the Red Chairman: The story of Mao Zedong's ...

The story of how the Great Helmsman in his eighth decade struggled with nature. The creator of Communist China, Mao Zedong, is an ...

09-06-2025

A photographer who bought an old camera at a flea market ...

Old things have a special charm, although not everyone thinks so. But photographer Kati Dimoff from Portland occasionally searches ...

08-06-2025

Muscovites: do they exist and where to find them?

Historians have studied archive documents for several centuries, I believe that in modern Moscow there are not more than 10% of ...

08-06-2025

Soviet caricature of the family theme

Overage loafers sitting on the neck of their industrious old parents, old old men who marry young persons, bewilderment of the ...

08-06-2025

Yuzhny Island is a real paradise on Earth!

Photographer Anthony Harrison claims that the New Zealand island of Yuzhny is a real paradise on Earth. Magical mountains, secluded ...

08-06-2025

Underground New York in the 70s as captured by photographer ...

American photographer David Godlis began taking pictures in the early 70s. During the day, he would search for interesting shots on ...

08-06-2025

What happened to Dusya Merzlyakova, whom her own mother kept ...

In 2000, the terrible story of Dusi Merzlyakova, a disabled person without hands and feet, appeared in the press. She was kept on ...

08-06-2025

10 stories that prove that it is kindness that will save the ...

Kindness and love is what everyone on our planet needs. It cures the most terrible diseases, saves in the wildest conditions and, ...

08-06-2025

Sculptor Carol Feuerman and her "wet" hyperrealism

There are a lot of hyperrealist artists these days. But sculptors working in this direction are less common. American Carol A. ...

08-06-2025

Strange book covers that can be found in transport

No matter what evil tongues are spoken there, but we are still the most reading nation on the planet. Moreover, we do not read any ...

08-06-2025

10 facts about what used to be considered indecent

Times change, and customs change with them. What used to be considered indecent now seems absolutely normal, just like what is ...

08-06-2025

Why do Uzbek women braid a lot of pigtails

The tradition of women of Uzbekistan to braid pigtails is not one hundred years old. In the middle of the 20th century, this custom ...

08-06-2025

9 rules of a brilliant snapshot

No one knows the recipe for a masterpiece, but there are rules that will bring you closer to it. It was about them that Steve ...

08-06-2025

The Patty Cannon Gang: 20 Years of Murder, Kidnapping, and ...

In the early 1800s, the Delaware-Maryland border was home to one of the most brutal gangs in American history. The Patty Cannon ...

08-06-2025

What the girls who posed for the most famous pin-up posters ...

We all know what a pin-up is, and often enjoy looking at the standards of female beauty of the mid-XX century. As behind any work ...

08-06-2025

How to make sure that shoes do not rub — a couple of tricks ...

Rubbed feet are painful, unpleasant and, as a rule, unexpected. And all of us, one way or another, are familiar with this problem. ...

08-06-2025

How did the word “idiot” appear and what meaning was put ...

Nowadays, the word “idiot” has only two interpretations. This is either a person suffering from dementia, or an ignorant, ...

08-06-2025

American scientists have found the age at which puppies are ...

Have you ever thought about why young puppies are cute, but older dogs don't seem so attractive? American scientists come to grips ...

08-06-2025

10 most spectacular shipwrecks from different parts of the world

Ships are created for the seas and oceans and often serve people to the last, finding their last refuge there. But not all of them ...

08-06-2025

Harmless Russian words that will be taken for swearing abroad

Before traveling abroad, every Russian tourist would do well to study the traditions of the country to which he is traveling, ...

08-06-2025

5 simple and delicious recipes for lavash snacks

When you don't want to devote too much time to cooking, but at the same time you need something to surprise the guests who suddenly ...

08-06-2025

"Golden hands": Finnish artist knits people and even whole rooms

Finnish artist Liisa Hietanen is a real "master from God". A knitted grandmother with a dog, whom you have probably already met on ...

08-06-2025

The Dog-headed Martyr: The Most Mysterious Saint in Christianity

After seeing the icon with St. Christopher for the first time, many people begin to be indignant, believing that they see a fake in ...

08-06-2025

18 times when they wanted to make it expensive-rich, but ...

Many people, doing some work, try to apply their skills to the maximum and use all their creativity. In most cases, the result ...