History
07-10-2025
Why Muslim men are forbidden to wear silk and gold
Islam — it is the religion of enjoining the believers to adhere strictly to certain rules and rituals. Most of them are ...
07-10-2025
The last secret of the Great Alexander: where did two ...
By the age of 30, Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedon, had become the ruler of a vast empire from Greece to India. Even ...
07-10-2025
The collection is simple and stunning photographs of the ...
The past has passed and will never return, but examining a bundle of old pictures, you can again feel an attack on paper and light ...
07-10-2025
How Fyre Festival became the worst music festival in history
Tickets to the Fyre Festival music festival cost several thousand dollars. The event promised to be grandiose, but something went ...
06-10-2025
Deadly and beautiful weapons from the ninja arsenal
In 15th-century feudal Japan, secret mercenaries were spies, scouts, and assassins. They were called ninjas, and they needed ...
06-10-2025
The ball of metamorphoses, or Why Russian empresses dressed ...
Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was distinguished by her cheerful disposition and stormy imagination. The daughter of Peter I adored ...
06-10-2025
Mad Patty: why a girl from high society joined the terrorists
The rich heiress Patricia Hurst, brought up in the best traditions of high society, has entered the annals of forensic medical ...
06-10-2025
“I only ate the living”: the history of the island of ...
The Nazi tragedy is one of the most terrible events in Soviet history. Six thousand people were deported to Siberia and landed on ...
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 ...