History
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 ...
03-10-2025
11 rare shots from the construction of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frederic Bartholdi together with engineer Gustave Eiffel (who worked on the frame). It was ...
02-10-2025
Why is the devil depicted with horns and hooves
Devils are traditionally depicted with horns, hooves and tails. Sometimes a pig's piglet and wings are added, as well as thick fur ...
02-10-2025
Lunch on the Beam of Rockefeller Plaza: The Secret Behind One ...
Everyone probably knows the old photograph of 11 workers sitting on a beam located at a great height above New York. It always ...
01-10-2025
The story of "Princess Manuella" — the only daughter of ...
History knows many examples when the most notorious scoundrels were exemplary caring fathers who doted on their offspring. A good ...
01-10-2025
"Dancing plague" of the middle Ages — a deadly epidemic, ...
Among the many different epidemics, vukasinovich the population of Europe for the last thousand years, "the dancing plague" can be ...
01-10-2025
Frank and daring Spain in the illustrations of the 1900s
On a sultry summer day, Maite Zubiarre, a professor of Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles, went into an antique ...
01-10-2025
The cradle of Orthodoxy, or the abode of debauchery? What we ...
In countries where the majority profess Orthodoxy, Byzantium is perceived as a source of spirituality and Christian wisdom. At the ...
01-10-2025
10 secrets of the Masons that they carefully guard
It is known that the Masons are one of the most secret organizations in the world. No one even knows exactly when they appeared and ...
01-10-2025
22 Archival Photos That Reveal Hidden Pages of History
History in photographs is often much more informative than long descriptions and reflections. It is simply a silent witness of an ...
01-10-2025
20 fascinating photos of Moscow at the beginning of the last ...
Often, when viewing images of the modern capital, the viewer has a lot of questions: in what form the architecture of the city is ...
01-10-2025
About ugly women, or "I won't drink that much"
A Pikabu user under the nickname vad. nes shared his rather contradictory opinion about how much women's appearance has changed ...
30-09-2025
The story of Baldwin IV — the leper king "without a face", ...
Kings in all times is called sun and the subjects should have been familiar with his monarch in the face. But there is in history ...
30-09-2025
Down with the new, give the old! An American collects ...
Photographer, illustrator and designer Troy Litten lives in San Francisco. Although it is almost impossible to find him at home, ...