History
06-10-2025
Treasures of Ghana how did the glory of the Gold Coast
When in the XV century the first Portuguese landed their ships to the shores of Ghana, they were amazed by the amount of gold. It ...
06-10-2025
The battle for the wooden bucket. Who won the most stupid war ...
In 1325 between the Italian cities of Bologna and Modena, there was a battle, which killed thousands of people. The reason for the ...
06-10-2025
The last Rock revolution: rare photos of cult grunge bands of ...
The grunge gods rocked the music world in the early ' 90s, starting a new movement. It was an explosion that covered an entire ...
05-10-2025
Why did the Germans have three reichs and how did they differ
Even schoolchildren know that Adolf Hitler called his state the Third Reich. In the spring of 1945, a fat point was put in its ...
05-10-2025
The story of Ann Russell Miller, a socialite and millionaire ...
The other day, a 92-year-old nun who had taken vows of silence, seclusion and poverty many years ago died in a Chicago convent. For ...
05-10-2025
How the most expensive and magnificent funerals of famous ...
On November 15, 1982, the funeral of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev took place on Red Square. As at the farewell to his predecessors, ...
05-10-2025
6 Most Ridiculous Accidents That Led to the Death of Past Kings
It is not customary to give the Darwin Award retroactively, but many historical figures could have earned it. Kings, tsars, dukes ...
05-10-2025
What first class looked like on cruise ships before the era ...
Before airplane travel became commonplace, cruise ships were the only way to travel vast distances. And if you had money, then ...
05-10-2025
The century-old history of the main cabaret of the world ...
In In Paris, at the foot of Montmartre, on October 6, 1889, the Moulin Rouge night cabaret received its first visitors. This year, ...
05-10-2025
From frivolous stories to pornoglans: the history of erotic ...
Currently, no one will be surprised by erotic photos in swimsuits. On the Internet, you can easily find much more explicit content. ...
05-10-2025
What did household appliances of the last century look like
Since a person began to wear clothes, he faced the question of how to wash them. The need for washing clothes has existed at all ...
04-10-2025
Ivan Rykov's Skopinsky Bank: the first pyramid in Russia, ...
Everyone knows how financial pyramids work these days. But few people know that this is not such a modern way of cheating. At the ...
04-10-2025
The phenomenon of the Russian hand-to-hand combat, or 70 wins ...
Even during the Napoleonic wars Russian hand to hand combat to induce the enemy of horror. But over time, the technique was ...
04-10-2025
He's not Ivan IV: how were the early years of Tsar Ivan ...
The personality of Ivan the terrible in Russian history, stands out in brightness and inconsistency. At the mention of the king ...
04-10-2025
Bonnie and Clyde: The Story of the Barrow Gang
Bonnie and Clyde are the most famous pair of American robbers during the Great Depression. The Barrow gang is responsible for ...
04-10-2025
Pierre de Bayard - a knight without fear or reproach, who ...
In combination with the word “knight” we often hear the expression “without fear or reproach.” But was it really like that? ...
04-10-2025
The Butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein's Horrible Story That ...
Serial killers are rarely pleasant people. But few of these monsters evoke the same revulsion as the American maniac Ed Gein, ...
04-10-2025
How to raise children in Cossack families
Don, Siberian, Greben, Kuban and other Cossack integral part of the Russian people. They owned land in return for a commitment to ...
03-10-2025
How have ideas about sexuality changed over the last 60 years
On December 1, 1953, the first issue of the men's magazine Playboy with the inimitable Marilyn Monroe on the cover appeared on ...
03-10-2025
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Rome - Who and Why They Sacrificed
History books, novels and films portray the ancient Romans as a peculiar but quite civilized people. Therefore, references to human ...
03-10-2025
Unique photos from the first Australian Antarctic Expedition ...
In 1911, a group of scientists and adventurers led by geologist Douglas Mawson left the Australian city of Hobart. A team of 37 ...
03-10-2025
Harbin: an amazing history of a Chinese city with Russian roots
The capital of the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, Harbin, is located at a considerable distance from the border with Russia. ...
03-10-2025
Sexual slavery, orgies, legalized pedophilia: how the ancient ...
Ancient Rome is the foundation of modern civilization. The Eternal City has given us jurisprudence, principles of government, and a ...
03-10-2025
Terribly uncomfortable shoes of medieval women
In Europe in the XIV-XVII centuries, women's shoes with very thick soles were common — chopins, zoccoli or pianella. It is ...
03-10-2025
12 records that no one will ever break
It seems that since the Guinness Book of Records became popular in 1955, people are constantly trying to break other people's ...
03-10-2025
Hippies and the Summer of Love in California 1967
Long hair, colored ribbons, peace signs, the smell of marijuana and natural nudity are the hippie culture that swept California in ...