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23-09-2025
22 retro photos - what the fitness of the early 20th century ...
Despite the fact that fitness, shaping and other figure improvement programs have become popular only in recent decades, the desire ...
23-09-2025
Russian models from aristocratic families who conquered Paris
It is well known that our models are highly valued all over the world. Strange as it may sound, but the fashion for Russian girls ...
!["Ethnoexotica" from around the world on autochrome (1907-1931)](/img/2025/ethnoexotica-from-around/ethnoexotica-from-around-170x170.jpg ""Ethnoexotica" from around the world on autochrome (1907-1931)")
23-09-2025
"Ethnoexotica" from around the world on autochrome ...
As noted, in the first third of the 20th century, several global projects focused on systematically capturing images in color using ...
22-09-2025
A Midsummer night's dream... in the closet. Why in the Middle ...
Over the centuries, the concept of personal space was very abstract. Privacy for sleeping can afford very few. The poor lived in ...
22-09-2025
10 types of unusual weapons of the Middle Ages
Before the advent of computer games, people had little entertainment, except for killing each other with the help of all sorts of ...
22-09-2025
5 Surprising Facts About The Big Bang Theory
In the early 20th century, astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason discovered that galaxies were gradually moving away from the ...
22-09-2025
What did barbershops look like in the late XIX - early XX century
A few years ago, the world did not even hear about the fashion for beards, barbershops and everything related to it. Until ...
22-09-2025
Polish Jews through the eyes of Alter Katzizne. Amazing pictures!
There was a man with a funny name Alter Katzizne. He was a writer and playwright, and even a poet in some ways. A couple of his ...
21-09-2025
Why were the Scots prohibited from wearing underwear under ...
Among the many questions that are asked about the Scottish kilt, not least is the one regarding underwear. Most often you can hear ...
21-09-2025
Ice Cream Killer: The creepy story of a woman who dreamed of ...
Estibaliz Carranza is one of the most cold—blooded serial female killers known to date. She was given the nickname "ice cream ...
21-09-2025
The 10 most expensive thefts in the history of mankind
It happens that the love of money makes people commit crimes, and theft is the easiest and most effective way. In our review, there ...
21-09-2025
Murder victim or insane masochist: the story of the ...
In June 1989, the quiet coastal town of Richmond, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, was shaken by a mysterious ...
21-09-2025
What's wrong with babies in old paintings
Even if you are not interested in painting at all, you still noticed how strange children were portrayed several centuries ago. ...
21-09-2025
What happened to Napoleon's manhood, treacherously stolen ...
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is an extraordinary person and, without any doubt, a great one. He still has a huge army of ...
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 ...