History
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, ...
29-09-2025
Monica Bellucci's 10 Sexiest Roles
Italian Monica Bellucci, who turned 57 today, September 30, chooses roles to match her burning beauty - daring, dangerous and ...
29-09-2025
15 inventions of the Victorian era that shock with their ...
The Victorian era began in 1837 with the arrival of Queen Victoria and lasted until 1901. During this period, people managed to ...
29-09-2025
How cologne appeared: the military history of "Cologne water"
It's hard not to agree that wars that sow death and destruction simultaneously help to move progress. Some of the inventions of ...
29-09-2025
30 unique views of old Paris
Paris is an amazing and magical city, with streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historical center has been developing for many ...
29-09-2025
One against all: why car mechanic Marvin Himeyer is called ...
Marvin Himeyer — a simple American hard worker, faced with the arbitrariness of a large corporation and city authorities. When it ...
29-09-2025
Life of Roma in Europe before World War II
Take a look into the past! These rare images take us into the lives of European Roma before World War II. Archival photos reveal ...
28-09-2025
The history of the American dollar, the main currency of the ...
The US dollar is the main currency of the world and a synonym of economic stability. That dollar world powers choose to accommodate ...
28-09-2025
And on this day, women found happiness – nylon stockings ...
Today is considered something of a birthday for nylon stockings: on October 24, 1939, nylon stockings first went on sale in a ...
28-09-2025
The most mysterious deaths of famous people: from Osama bin ...
When a public person suddenly dies, the hype and rumors surrounding his death cannot be avoided. Some fans refuse to believe that ...
28-09-2025
Almost like 300 Spartans: How a squad of 21 Sikhs stopped an ...
Everyone knows about the feat of 300 Spartans, which still causes doubts among historians. But few of us know the real heroic ...
27-09-2025
The whole truth and lyricism of our history in the ...
Marc Riboud (1923-2016) was a French photographer and photojournalist with over 60 years of experience, one of the most famous ...
27-09-2025
For that, the last master of the knights Templar cursed the ...
On January 21 1793, the French revolutionaries beheaded king Louis XVI of the Bourbon. Someone in the crowd shouted that the master ...
26-09-2025
The Leo Frank case: why Atlanta residents lynched a Jewish ...
Late in the evening of August 17, 1915, hundreds of Atlanta residents filled the streets of the small town of Milledgeville. They ...
26-09-2025
Ruth Orkin's legendary photo series "An American Woman in ...
Photographer Ruth Orkin became famous thanks to the picture "An American woman in Italy", taken by her in 1951. On it she captured ...
26-09-2025
How the animals of the XIX century were friends with people
We are always fascinated by vintage pictures from the era of bulky cameras and elegant suits. It seems that people of that time did ...
26-09-2025
Rostov "Fantomas": The bloody history of the Tolstopyatov ...
The gang of "Fantomas" kept Rostov-on-Don in fear for five long years. This gang has 14 armed robberies and several human lives on ...
26-09-2025
"The Russian maiden scorns me": how the Viking Harald the ...
King of Norway Harald III the Severe went down in history as a brave soldier, a successful politician and the king of the Vikings, ...
26-09-2025
Our story, complete madness — 30 photos that prove it
History is full of mysteries, and most of them are quite strange. Generations are changing, and the events of the recent past seem ...
26-09-2025
The most impressive images of the life of American workers of ...
The famous American photographer Lewis Hine was born on September 26, 1874. At the beginning of the 20th century, he worked as a ...
26-09-2025
The death of Prince Svyatoslav: who really killed Alexander ...
According to the "tale of bygone years", the Kiev Prince Svyatoslav the conqueror died on the Dnieper rapids. Killed him the ...