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18-08-2025
Mundaneum: How a 'paper Google' appeared in Belgium a ...
Got it, I'll update the alt tags in the post code now, using the title and captions. Today, it only takes a couple of minutes ...
18-08-2025
10 women of easy virtue, whose names are firmly stuck in history
While much is known about such historical figures as King Louis XV, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and King Charles II, few people know ...
18-08-2025
The Tragic Love Story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
The love story of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier is a true Hollywood drama, full of passion, ambition and painful jealousy. ...
18-08-2025
Land and Will: how Anarcho-socialism worked in the States of ...
Americans are very offended when they are told that socialism was invented in Europe. In fact, the first half of the XIX century ...
18-08-2025
The last peaceful summer of pre-war Paris, 1939
These photos are 80 years old this year. They were taken by LIFE magazine photographer William Vandiver during his business trip to ...
18-08-2025
The real story of the "Curse" was scarier than the movie
The film is directed by James WAN's the Conjuring became one of the best horror movies of the 21st century. He looks fantastic, he ...
18-08-2025
Terrible "medicine" of quarrelsomeness and nymphomania: Top ...
Medicine is not always professed sparing treatment. Sometimes Hippocratic "do no harm" was interpreted not always in favor of the ...
18-08-2025
Eleanor of Aquitaine: how the blonde princess conquered ...
It is known that medieval minstrels never skimped on flattery and, quite often, sang the virtues of beautiful ladies, which they ...
18-08-2025
Retro photos of interiors and appliances in offices of the ...
The 1970s were a time of dramatic changes in office culture, layout and technology. Offices have become more ergonomic, employees ...
17-08-2025
The history of Nike Cortez sneakers – the most criminal ...
In the USA, the best and sometimes the only way to recognize a gangster is to look at his sneakers. Each gang in the States has its ...
17-08-2025
The story of the indomitable polar explorer Peter Freuchen, ...
In the glorious cohort of reckless daredevils, Dane Peter Freuchen occupies a special place. This man, who explored the North, was ...
17-08-2025
How People Partyed in Africa in the Late 1960s
The late 60s, the sexual revolution, distant South Africa, the apartheid regime – it would seem that they have absolutely nothing ...
17-08-2025
"Instead of culture, there are lice." Anti-Russian postcards ...
The war is waged not only on the battlefield. The most important element of large—scale armed conflicts that require the ...
17-08-2025
The most unusual and eerie monuments to the victims of human hate
Just recently, the world shook photos Turkish memorial dedicated to the memory of the women killed their husbands. 440 pairs of ...
17-08-2025
Cocaine Bear, or the Story of How an American Policeman ...
On September 11, 1985, a resident of the town of Knoxville, Tennessee, found on the path leading to his house the body of an ...
16-08-2025
21 rare photos of the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley
On August 16, the world celebrates Elvis Presley Memorial Day, and thousands of his fans are eager to honor the memory of this rock ...
16-08-2025
What is meaning, or Unromantic Robinson Crusoe, which ...
Since time immemorial many peoples banishment was a popular punishment. People — a social being and the deprivation of ...
16-08-2025
The inverted tower of the Freemasons: the well Dedication
A mysterious network of underground tunnels in the Palace and Park complex of QUINTA da Regaleira (Quinta da Regaleira), built in ...
15-08-2025
5 little-known unpleasant facts about Natalia Goncharova, ...
The life of Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova was held in the shadow of the spouse of Alexander, therefore, about the wife of Pushkin ...
15-08-2025
"Woodstock" in 1969 in pictures of LIFE magazine
The most famous rock festival "Woodstock", which began on August 15, 1969 on one of the farms of the town of Bethel, New York, USA, ...
15-08-2025
Margaret Hamilton is a modest conqueror of the Moon, about ...
Everyone knows that success in any large-scale project is ensured by a lot of people who work tirelessly for a common goal. But ...
15-08-2025
How the Jesuit Order Changed the World
On August 15, 1534, the Society of Jesus was born in the heart of Paris, which would later become known as the Order of the ...
15-08-2025
Fritz Honka - The Story of Hamburg's Jack the Ripper
Maniacs rarely look like monsters. In everyday life, they are ordinary people, sometimes even pleasant to talk to. It is this trait ...
14-08-2025
Urinal de Paris: Paris ' surprisingly well-designed public ...
In a bygone era, photographer Charles Marville was an avid toilet photography enthusiast. Strange as it may sound, there were ...
14-08-2025
10 amazing sights in China besides the Great Wall and the ...
If you are a tourist and come to China, then, most likely, at some point in your journey through this country, you will probably ...
14-08-2025
22 old, but very cool things that will last forever
We are used to the fact that things tend to wear out, and devices break down. But there are situations "on the contrary": Grandma's ...