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18-08-2025
The last peaceful summer of pre-war Paris, 1939
These photos are 80 years old this year. They were taken by LIFE magazine photographer William Vandiver during his business trip to ...
18-08-2025
David Lozano's Toothy Monsters Inscribed in Abandoned Interiors
Spanish street artist David Lozano uses the gray and lifeless walls of abandoned buildings as a canvas for his graffiti, on which ...
18-08-2025
Eleanor of Aquitaine: how the blonde princess conquered ...
It is known that medieval minstrels never skimped on flattery and, quite often, sang the virtues of beautiful ladies, which they ...
17-08-2025
"Instead of culture, there are lice." Anti-Russian postcards ...
The war is waged not only on the battlefield. The most important element of large—scale armed conflicts that require the ...
17-08-2025
The Black and White Magic of Giulio Magnifico's Street Portraits
Italian photographer Giulio Magnifico works in different genres, but he has a special love for black-and-white portraits and street ...
16-08-2025
How is Swiss cheese made?
In Gruyères, in Western Switzerland, from mid-May to mid-October, cows of the Müritz family graze on excellent mountain pastures, ...
16-08-2025
The inverted tower of the Freemasons: the well Dedication
A mysterious network of underground tunnels in the Palace and Park complex of QUINTA da Regaleira (Quinta da Regaleira), built in ...
15-08-2025
Fritz Honka - The Story of Hamburg's Jack the Ripper
Maniacs rarely look like monsters. In everyday life, they are ordinary people, sometimes even pleasant to talk to. It is this trait ...
14-08-2025
Urinal de Paris: Paris ' surprisingly well-designed public ...
In a bygone era, photographer Charles Marville was an avid toilet photography enthusiast. Strange as it may sound, there were ...
14-08-2025
16 interesting and surprising facts about life in Sweden
Everyone knows that Sweden has a very high standard of living. And there are also many interesting innovations and features in this ...
13-08-2025
A sexy Margaret Nolan: Busty sex bomb from prudish England
Blonde with elegant forms and tantalizing sight attracts attention, despite the fact that these photos were taken more than half a ...
13-08-2025
20 with integrally colored retro photos: how did teenage ...
These young Victorian beauties were contemporaries of the famous Alice, of Lewis Carroll. What girls wore the XIX century? What ...
12-08-2025
Forced labor, or How Ceausescu by decree 770 "improved" the ...
The difficult demographic situation in the country may require decisive action from the authorities. But sometimes the measures ...
11-08-2025
Death from a Jar, or the Mysterious Murder of Almon Farnsworth
Strychnine is one of the most powerful poisons. But unlike many other toxic substances, it does not kill instantly, but causes the ...
11-08-2025
Medieval beekeeper was kapowee plague doctor
It is known that on Halloween people often dress up in a plague doctors, or vampires. But it seems that this year the trends will ...
11-08-2025
Parisian windows into the history of the 19th and 20th centuries
French photographer from Paris Julien Knez found retrophotographs taken between 1871 and 1968. In the photos you can see what the ...
10-08-2025
Sex in the time of cholera: about sexual life during the ...
"Black death" — the second plague pandemic, which occurred in the middle of the XIV century and claimed the lives of tens of ...
10-08-2025
The epidemic of madness in Pont-Saint-Esprit: how poisoned ...
In August 1951, the whole world suddenly found out about the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, located in the south of France. ...
09-08-2025
9 unusual burgers that you will definitely want to try
If you naively think that you have seen all the variations of burgers, you should think about whether this is really the case. In ...
09-08-2025
Looks like the crooked house in Sopot, Poland
In Sopot on the street heroes of Monte Cassino (Poland) is one of the most unusual homes on the planet, it is called — ...
09-08-2025
Paradise inhabited by devils: all the vices of St. Naples ...
Goethe wrote: "Naples is a paradise inhabited by devils." Scottish-Italian photographer Robbie McIntosh documents life on ...
09-08-2025
Burnesha: Women-Men of Albania
In Albania, the tradition of "remaking" women into men is still alive – there are several thousand of them. They take men's ...
09-08-2025
The Bloody Sun of Russia: what kind of person was the Holy ...
The grandson of Rurik and the son of Igor, Prince Svyatoslav, was a true pagan who preferred the battlefield to the Kiev prince's ...
09-08-2025
Monumental Cemetery of Certosa in Bologna
It's no secret that many of us love to walk around cemeteries. Here you can find both history and beautiful architecture, and ...
08-08-2025
Impenetrable poverty on the streets of London in 1873-1877
In the period from 1873 to 1877, Scottish photographer John Thomson together with journalist Adolph Smith documented the life of ...
08-08-2025
Everyday life of English crime
The series of photographs presented here by Jocelyn Bain Hogg is called The Firm. The Firm is a large criminal gang based in ...