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20-09-2025
A time when there were no iPads yet, and children played outside.
Technologies of the 21st century have firmly entered not only our lives, but also the lives of our children. Now they master ...
20-09-2025
Everyday life in Soviet Georgia in 1976, captured by a ...
Until 1936, the Russian name for Tbilisi was Tiflis, but since August of that year, the more native-sounding "tbili" ...
20-09-2025
The sad story of the Spanish king Charles II — the ugliest ...
King Charles II Enchanted was the last representative of the dynasty of Habsburg on the Spanish throne. His 35-year reign was ...
20-09-2025
How were the fates of the beauties from the portraits of ...
Looking at the paintings of famous portraitists, you involuntarily think about the heroines of these canvases. Who were they-the ...
20-09-2025
The story of the real Lolita and her connection to the novel ...
70 years ago, one of the Newspapers of Philadelphia shortly before Christmas published an article called "the Christmas tree ...
20-09-2025
Ancient structure or hoax? Scientists still doubt the origins ...
From school we know that Stonehenge is a megalithic ancient monument located in Great Britain. Also, everyone has heard that the ...
20-09-2025
Peter the Great's Culinary Preferences: What Delicacies ...
It's well known that Tsar Peter the Great was frugal when it came to food and discouraged gluttony among his entourage. He ...
20-09-2025
Why are there two different types of toilets in Turkish ...
If you have been to Turkey and visited the residents of this country (or rented an apartment in a Turkish house), you may have ...
19-09-2025
Color photographs of peaceful Los Angeles during and after ...
Los Angeles in the early 1940s, despite the tense global situation due to World War II, remained a glamorous, vibrant, and sunny ...
19-09-2025
"Blood opening": what is the essence of bloodletting ...
Nowadays, a person has access to modern medical technologies and methods of treatment, and often even has the opportunity to choose ...
19-09-2025
15 funny retro comics about a beauty named Yucika
You can often hear that time will put everything in its place. It will show what was valuable and what was fleeting, what was truly ...
19-09-2025
Very strange things which excited the ancient Egyptians
What do we know about Ancient Egypt? Cleopatra, papyrus, pyramids, mummies... and dildos? In General, the representatives of an ...
19-09-2025
Halley's Comet and the failed Apocalypse of 1910
In 1910, the whole world was waiting for a guest from the depths of the universe – Halley's comet-to appear near the Earth. ...
19-09-2025
How the Belarusian Jew Meyer Lansky became the criminal king ...
Meyer Lansky is one of the most successful gangsters in the history of the United States. He was born into a poor Jewish family, ...
18-09-2025
Unique archival photos that will make you look at the past in ...
In our menu — another assortment of archival photographs from different years. Some of them are amazing, some are funny, some are ...
18-09-2025
What did the first beauty treatments look like
We have already got acquainted with the features of women's fitness a century ago, and today we will arrange a tour of the beauty ...
18-09-2025
How they lit up at parties in the 1970s
A selection of warm lamp vintage photos from the distant 70s. Chic, glitter, beauty, alcohol and dancing at retro parties of the ...
18-09-2025
The ruined childhood of Eva Ionesco, a girl who became her ...
Parents who force their children to participate in beauty contests are simply "sweethearts" compared to Irina Ionesco, a French ...
18-09-2025
Blokhovka, pomander and other mysterious accessories of the past
From time immemorial, people have strived to be more beautiful... The ancient Egyptians were the first to apply makeup, the ancient ...
18-09-2025
7 fuu-facts about the smelliest men in the world
These seven great men did not wash and smelled like a two-week sock in which they kept herring, but this did not prevent them from ...
18-09-2025
Photos from the past that are worth seeing
The phrase "a picture instead of a thousand words" was coined by the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. These ...
18-09-2025
Chateau d'If - the legendary prison of French kings
Many of us have read Alexandre Dumas’s novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” or watched the wonderful Soviet film “The Prisoner ...
17-09-2025
Color photographs of the First World War that were taken as ...
More than a hundred years have passed since the end of the First World War. Many generations have passed since then. When you look ...
17-09-2025
Miracle Lee Kuan yew or Singapore tackle corruption and ...
Singapore was not always a prosperous state. Today it is called a miracle, and millions of tourists and entrepreneurs are choosing ...
17-09-2025
How did the Apaches, the French gopniks of the early 20th ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was terrorized by gangs of Apaches, which made headlines all over Europe and ...
17-09-2025
How in different eras people protected the privacy of ...
Today, confidentiality of correspondence is one of the rights guaranteed to a person by law. Despite this, there are always plenty ...