History
20-08-2025
John Smith or Chief White Wolf, the oldest Indian who ...
Chief White Wolf, aka John Smith, was a Native American from the Ojibwe tribe (also known as Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Salt) who lived ...
20-08-2025
Investigation by journalist Nellie Bly: 10 days in the most ...
In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly did something incredible: she pretended to be crazy and spent 10 days in the worst mental hospital ...
20-08-2025
Jose de Ribera is a maniac artist, acquitted after 400 years
Finding the fine line between genius and madness is very difficult. It is especially difficult to understand the worldview and ...
20-08-2025
Dr. Death Josef Mengele is a killer of thousands who has not ...
Dr. Josef Mengele is one of the most demonized Nazi criminals. Unfortunately, most of the nightmares attributed to the doctor are ...
19-08-2025
The life and death of Anna Geldi, the last witch from Switzerland
Witch hunts claimed the lives of thousands of women-young and old-between the 14th and 18th centuries. Mass hysteria over ...
19-08-2025
Young American women on the beaches of Texas in the 80s
Minimum clothing and maximum drive: the main motto of American youth 80 years. Girls loved to experiment with his looks, spending a ...
19-08-2025
Singing breasts: musical topless groups of the second half of ...
Women sing on stage with bare breasts. It seems that this idea is so simple and so brilliant for a mass audience that it is ...
19-08-2025
Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America
The Miss America beauty pageant may seem like an absolute anachronism, but once it really mattered a lot. In 1921, Margaret Gorman ...
19-08-2025
How people fought the heat before the era of air conditioners
Using many things that have been familiar to us for a long time every day, we don't think much about where they came from, who ...
19-08-2025
Who made the Croatian island of Baljenac look like a fingerprint
Everyone who sees the island of Balenac from above has a question - what happened to this piece of land. This is not surprising, ...
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 ...