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![How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan](/img/2025/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or/how-the-tomb-of-christ-or-540x310.jpg "How the "Tomb of Christ", or the Alternative Gospel, appeared in Japan")
24.12.25
Amazing photos of new York 1980‑ies
22-12-2025
Winter in Soviet retro photos
Drifts of snow, frost and sun, winter fun — c Soviet time, little has changed for this time of year. Feel the true atmosphere ...
22-12-2025
Athletes, Komsomol, just beauty
Students, workers, collective farmers. From the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova… They are all very ...
22-12-2025
6 Inventions That Killed Their Creators
Invention is a creative, exciting, yet sometimes dangerous process. When creating something new, a person isn't always able to ...
22-12-2025
How drinking straws were invented
Straws are such a commonplace item that we rarely think about their origins. It seems they've always been around: in cocktails, ...
21-12-2025
The time of fridges: a butcher's shop in Victorian England
In the Victorian era Britain was quickly urbanized. By 1851 it became the first country lived in cities of more people than in the ...
21-12-2025
The Life and Death of Jean Harlow, Hollywood's First ...
Hollywood diva Jean Harlow became the first actress to be nicknamed a "platinum blonde." Men were ready to follow her to ...
21-12-2025
Burundanga - does the creepy jungle drug really exist?
The number of urban legends generated by human imagination in recent years has been enormous. Some of them are invented from ...
21-12-2025
Why the name Svetlana is not recognized by the Church
The formation of Russian names occurred centuries under the influence of many factors and cultures. Despite this, our imenoslov ...
21-12-2025
The secret of Marilyn Monroe's skirt: why she pulled up and ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Manhattan became a favorite walking place for lonely New York men. They gathered in groups in ...
21-12-2025
Why do men grow long nails on his pinky
Many are tormented by the question — why do some grow long nails on his pinky. If you ask the owners of such "decorations", we ...
21-12-2025
22 photos that prove that people were pretty damn cool in the ...
Viewing old photos is always interesting and a little sad. But these pictures will cause you only positive emotions. It turns out ...
21-12-2025
Where is the "Kemska volost" about which the Swedish ...
Leonid Gaidai's comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" has been supplying us with catch phrases for half a century. But ...
21-12-2025
Hacker Kevin Mitnick: From Enemy of the State to Defender of ...
Kevin Mitnick is a name that became legendary in the world of information technology back in the last century. In the 1990s, he was ...
20-12-2025
Eight strange and unexpected things that were on board the ...
The tragic story of the wreck of the Titanic, which collided with an iceberg and sank more than a hundred years ago, has become the ...
20-12-2025
The Hippie Trail: The Legendary Freedom Route Across the ...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of young people from all over the world embarked on an incredible journey that would ...
20-12-2025
Mae West-the controversial actress who became the first sex ...
May West once jokingly said that she should be given a license to invent sex, which she discovered for Americans. The name of this ...
20-12-2025
The Great Lisbon Earthquake: How One Disaster Changed the ...
Portugal was long the world's largest colonial power. This small European kingdom controlled vast territories in the New World, ...
20-12-2025
The most ruthless child killers in history
The mention of murderers makes the blood run cold, but the scariest thing is when these murderers are children. It doesn't even fit ...
19-12-2025
What the Internet looked like 30+ years ago
On December 20, 1990, the first website was launched, created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at the time at the ...
19-12-2025
The legend of Judith and Oloferne
After defeating the median king Arphaxad, the Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled in Nineveh, sent his captain Holofernes to ...
18-12-2025
The story of the suicidal chef Bernard Loiseau, who became ...
Most of us have seen the American full-length cartoon "Ratatouille", released in 2007. Someone remembers such a character as the ...
18-12-2025
10 Best Films About the Plague in the Middle Ages
The gloomy streets of deserted cities, the stinking carts laden with corpses, the fear in people's eyes, and the all-pervasive ...
18-12-2025
From Rasputin to Vysotsky: famous faces in color
We tend to perceive color photographs as something more real and modern. Thanks to the passion of the artist Olga Shirnina, who ...
!["All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s](/img/2025/all-the-girls-are/all-the-girls-are-170x170.jpg ""All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are clowns": children's costumes for New Year's parties in the 90s")
18-12-2025
"All the girls are snowflakes, and the boys are ...
Nowadays, children at New Year's parties shine in a variety of outfits depicting hundreds of different characters, from banal ...
18-12-2025
Adele Syndrome: How Love Turns into a Dangerous Diagnosis
An extreme form of love addiction, reminiscent of obsession, is known as Adele syndrome. Although in the International ...
18-12-2025
Mysterious Indochina: 100 years ago
The Indochina Peninsula, located in southeast Asia, is a favorite place for tourists all over the world. Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, ...