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03-10-2025
Why are dark-skinned blondes born in the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is a small archipelago lost in the Pacific Ocean. It is inhabited by Melanesians — a dark-skinned people ...
03-10-2025
Sexual slavery, orgies, legalized pedophilia: how the ancient ...
Ancient Rome is the foundation of modern civilization. The Eternal City has given us jurisprudence, principles of government, and a ...
02-10-2025
How did the Yagans live and why did they disappear — the ...
Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago of more than 40 thousand islands located in the very south of the mainland of South America. It ...
01-10-2025
On schedule: why the Chinese eat only in 12 days and sleep in ...
Most of us live without some sort of clear routine: Wake up in the morning, drinking coffee, and further — as will go. But the ...
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
10 Countries That Revere Female Obesity
Despite the many problems that come with being overweight, obesity is embraced voluntarily by many countries because it is ...
28-09-2025
Miracle Casket: where in Bulgaria to buy anything and whenever
In the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, there are street stalls of the basement type, where the windows are barely above the level of ...
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
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 ...
25-09-2025
A complete list of the wives of Ivan the terrible. Do not ...
Tsar Ivan the terrible created for himself the image of the monk on the throne, who is forced not to pray, and to rule. His ...
24-09-2025
Standing before pyramids and had a different head: what ...
Length Egyptian Sphinx of 70 meters and a height of 20 meters. These dimensions make it the largest on the planet monument, carved ...
24-09-2025
Traditions of "family shaming": how wives in Russia called ...
Cute scold – only amuse themselves. This is what people say about family squabbles. Conflicts between close people, alas, happen ...
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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 ...
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 ...
19-09-2025
How the Belarusian Jew Meyer Lansky became the criminal king ...
Meyer Lansky is one of the most successful gangsters in the history of the United States. He was born into a poor Jewish family, ...
18-09-2025
Blokhovka, pomander and other mysterious accessories of the past
From time immemorial, people have strived to be more beautiful... The ancient Egyptians were the first to apply makeup, the ancient ...
18-09-2025
Why do Jews stretch kilometers of fishing line over cities ...
It is known that Jews are a smart and resourceful people. They are so clever that they manage to gracefully bypass their own ...
18-09-2025
Polar Frankenstein is a terrible weapon of Eskimo shamans
When an Eskimo shaman (angakok) is unable to solve a problem with the help of authority, intrigue or ice spirits summoned from the ...
17-09-2025
What facial features can tell you about what part of Russia ...
It is believed that the Russians are a nation that is quite homogeneous in its anthropometry and genetics. Residents of different, ...
17-09-2025
The Spirit of the Amazon: the life of the ancient Matses ...
Amazing photos of an ancient tribe of Amazons give an opportunity to look into their life in the depths of Peru. Militant women ...
15-09-2025
What kind of tea is drunk in different countries of the world
Tea is the most international drink that is drunk, if not in all countries of the world, then certainly in the vast majority. ...
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
Love polygons, and the death of superstition: the primitive ...
You would think that in today's world there is no place to wild customs? Sorry, you're wrong: the life of the pygmies of the Congo ...
15-09-2025
The disappearing world of Sea Gypsies
Photographer David Kashlikowski captured the life of the Bajo people — a tribe of nomadic seafarers who live in the seas between ...
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 ...
13-09-2025
"Polar Jesus": how sectarians staged the worst massacre in ...
History knows many cases when a person called himself the Messiah and tried to decide the fate of people. It almost always ended in ...