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15-09-2025
12 of the world's worst architectural disasters
An architect is a responsible and difficult job, but everyone tends to make mistakes. Miscalculations in construction can sometimes ...
15-09-2025
Harvey's Casino's Highest Bid: Why the biggest US Bomb failed ...
On August 26, 1980, the night administrator of the Harvey’s casino and hotel, located in Nevada, found a large object covered ...
15-09-2025
Megaliths of Puma Punku — the riddle of the "Tetris of ...
Everyone knows about the Egyptian pyramids, Easter Island figures and Stonehenge. These structures have been striking the ...
15-09-2025
Sunbathing, rose water, cabbage mask: beauty secrets of ...
In each epoch, different peoples had their own habits and customs, including those related to personal hygiene. Even before the ...
15-09-2025
The story of the leader Udre Udre — the most voracious ...
Such a terrible phenomenon as cannibalism was widespread throughout the planet in ancient times. Pagan religions contributed to ...
15-09-2025
25 interesting archive photos that take us back in time
Analyzing archival photos, it's as if you feel the very breath of time. History holds many mysteries, and the past always predicts ...
14-09-2025
What did a woman need in Russia to get married?
From the very birth, a dowry was collected for a girl in a Russian family. And in the state treasury there was even a separate item ...
14-09-2025
Amazing Facts About Agatha Christie's Life
On September 15, 1890, Agatha Miller was born in the British county of Devon. Today we know her as a detective genius, one of the ...
14-09-2025
Harems of the Middle Kingdom: hierarchy, recorded sex and ...
Turkish and Persian harems are well known to everyone, many poems and novels have been written about them, as well as historical ...
14-09-2025
Amazons of Dahomey — who were the women who put the French ...
Dahomey, a small state located in the West of Africa, became a "tough nut" for the colonizers. France, which claimed these lands, ...
14-09-2025
6 events that happened only once in history
Our world is not without miracles: sometimes amazing things happen, moreover, sometimes they repeat themselves. For example, did ...
14-09-2025
Love and the bomb: how, because of problems in the family, a ...
On August 17, 1988, a Tu-154B plane with 176 people on board took off from Kiev to Kuibyshev (now Samara). Among them was ...
14-09-2025
Vintage Beauties of 1940s New York
Many fashion lovers will agree that the only thing better than gazing at fresh photos from today's fashion magazines is looking ...
14-09-2025
Taburetovka, gas station and govenovka: how the Soviet drunks ...
Thank you to the native party that there is no vodka on the weekend! But don't cry, my Marusya — I'll get drunk on cologne! ...
14-09-2025
9 of the most brutal psychological experiments in history
What happens if you tell a boy half his life that he is a girl? And if you torture a person with electric shock or force the ...
14-09-2025
Who cries on the famous painting by Edvard Munch
Great creative heritage of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch painting "the Scream" is the most famous. She not only often ...
13-09-2025
Robots, knights and monsters: the mystical world of Jakub ...
Polish artist Jakub Rozalski was born in Krakow but lives in Hamburg. Paintings of Jakub is a real opportunity to make a journey ...
13-09-2025
A look into the past: 22 old photographs that bring history ...
Diving into the past reveals amazing stories and moments captured on film. In this collection you will find archival photographs ...
13-09-2025
A happy childhood without the Internet: how it was in the 90s
Now smartphones, tablets and consoles have penetrated so tightly into the lives of children that it is already difficult to ...
13-09-2025
"Commander-in-Chief Stalin" and other typos that have gone ...
From pre-revolutionary times to the present day, an annoying typo in the press was sometimes paid with a career, or even with life. ...
13-09-2025
Incredibly rare historical footage that we will never forget
Behind each photograph there is someone's story or even a whole life of a person with all the ups and downs, sorrows and joys. ...
12-09-2025
The touching story of Mikhail Lomonosov's German love
Many great people had a peculiar idea of relationships and were not particularly loyal. The Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov ...
12-09-2025
The mystery of the death of King Richard the Lionheart, who ...
The English king Richard I Plantagenet, nicknamed Lionheart for his determination and bravery, ruled the kingdom for only ten years ...
12-09-2025
World war Bronze age: who won the first battle in European ...
Historians believed that during the Bronze age, Northern Europe was a backward region. However, findings on the German river ...
12-09-2025
29 most expensive and crazy PR moves in history
Advertising surrounds us from all sides. And if anyone can put up ads on the entrances or order a video on television, then only ...
12-09-2025
The history of the "Black rose": widowed at the age of 16, ...
Love story is a classic of Russian literature, Alexander Griboyedov and the Georgian Princess Nina Chavchavadze so tragic, that it ...