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27-08-2025
A fairy tale in reality: 7 places where you can see mermaids ...
For centuries, mermaids have captured the imagination of both sailors and ordinary people, fascinated by the idea of the existence ...
27-08-2025
Why is the body of the Tsar-reformer Peter I lay unburied 6 years
Most researchers of the life of Tsar Peter I believe that it was buried soon after death, according to Christian tradition, in the ...
27-08-2025
An amazing story about the boy Lev
A story that all of us should know. In one Moscow school, a boy stopped going to classes. He doesn't go for a week, two... Leva ...
27-08-2025
Modern Movie Posters in Medieval Style
The original style of medieval artists is very popular these days. There are many memes on the Internet based on old paintings and ...
27-08-2025
45 archival photos that you won't see in history textbooks
To better understand the present, we often turn to the past, and photos help us a lot with this. After all, many events and ...
27-08-2025
"Jugs of the dead" found in remote mountain forests of Laos
The places of Southeast Asia, remote from civilization, hide many secrets and riddles that they are in no hurry to part with. In ...
27-08-2025
Bride auction, or why in Babylon even ugly girls were in ...
In many ancient cultures, women were treated as commodities and their opinions were completely ignored. In Babylon, they even held ...
26-08-2025
The former king, which did not want to remember: as the uncle ...
Edward VIII – the British king abdicated for love. Real men act worthy of admiration. But there is life Edward and the other ...
26-08-2025
Treasures electrician Ilyina, or How the Soviet collector and ...
When in 1993 in the Ukrainian city of Kirovohrad died a pensioner Alexander Borisovich Ilyin, nobody could even imagine that he ...
26-08-2025
Crazy beauty techniques from the past that make the hair ...
Over time, ideas about female beauty have changed, and sometimes the words "beauty requires sacrifice" had the most literal ...
26-08-2025
Who are musume, or How Russian sailors rented Japanese wives
Japan has been a closed country for many centuries. Sailors, merchants and diplomats were the first to get to know her. First it ...
25-08-2025
Vintage photos of the Gold Rush Legacy
The bitter irony of the California gold rush is that the first person to find gold in this region, James W. Marshall, died alone ...
25-08-2025
Hand of glory — the eerie exhibit of the British Museum Whitby
Parts of dead bodies had long been the attributes of witchcraft. The most famous occult object of this type in the Middle ages was ...
25-08-2025
How the cherry blossom became a sacred tree for the Japanese
When we hear about sakura, we most often think of Japan. It is in this country that a real cult of this tree has reigned for many ...
25-08-2025
The story of Frank Costello, who became the prototype for the ...
Frank Costello, the boss of the New York mafia, has been through a lot in his life. He was the subject of government ...
25-08-2025
From the old to the new: 30 cases in skilled hands ...
People consume more and more things. Now, even phones without a removable battery, because either, the device will die before the ...
25-08-2025
7 Inventions Made So Well They Never Needed Improvement
In October 1873, Joseph Glidden, an American farmer from Illinois, applied for a patent on barbed wire, giving it the form in which ...
24-08-2025
13 Historical Facts That Seem Fiction But Are Actually Real
Sometimes reality surpasses the wildest fantasies. There are events and facts in human history that sound so incredible that it is ...
24-08-2025
Even girls received initial military training in Soviet schools
In 1968, a new subject was introduced in Soviet schools — initial military training. Each educational institution was equipped ...
24-08-2025
Screams of pain and boiling blood: archaeologists told how ...
In 79 AD, the inhabitants of Pompeii died as a result of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The city was located 20 kilometers from ...
24-08-2025
The Captain from Kepenik: how the shoemaker robbed the Town ...
When Kaiser Wilhelm learned the story of the captain from Kepenik, he laughed until tears came. He personally pardoned a man who ...
24-08-2025
Intimate photos of the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and other ...
According to Michael Putland himself, he didn't have days off in the 70s. The renowned music photographer has been capturing rock ...
24-08-2025
10 outstanding personalities who could have changed the ...
The largest maritime disaster of the early 20th century claimed the lives of 1,490 people, among whom there were many people who ...
23-08-2025
The tragic story of a noble bandit Salvatore Giuliano
Salvatore Giuliano is one of the national heroes of Sicily. A young man he went to the mountains and declared war on the rich, who ...
23-08-2025
What are "hungry stones" and why did people cry when they saw ...
To find out about the upcoming disasters, people have long resorted to fortune-telling or to the services of all kinds of ...