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2022-05-02 14:18:00 An Italian anti-American World War II poster about their destruction of traditional European culture.

The author of the image, cartoonist Gino Boccasile, used the image of a Negro American soldier as a symbol of the cultural barbarism of the Americans, which he depicted in contrast to the snow-white marble sculpture of Venus of Milos (a symbol of classical European purity and high culture), which already had a price tag of $2.00 stamped on its body. Open / Comment

2022-05-01 21:18:00 Pictured: Imre Kertész, a 15-year-old prisoner of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
In 1975 he wrote a novel about the life of a teenager in the concentration camps. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002. On March 31, 2016, the Hungarian writer died in Budapest at the age of 86.

"The true fact is that our imagination remains free even in slavery," Imre Kertész. Open / Comment

2022-05-01 17:18:00 The ancient Greek goddess of truth, Dicke, was a minor character in the pantheon, but gave her name to two zodiac signs at once.

According to legend, she lived on Earth with humans, and then ascended into the sky and became the constellation Virgo.

And her constant attribute - scales, similar to the scales of justice of her mother Themis, became the constellation Libra. Open / Comment

2022-05-01 14:18:00 Personal belongings of warrior king Charles XII of Sweden.

He was wearing this uniform when he was shot in the temple with a musket in 1718. The uniform still has dirt on it and the gloves still have traces of royal blood on them. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 21:18:00 Bootleggers. USA, 1925

Bootleggers were sellers and purveyors of liquor during the Prohibition years in the United States. Women outnumbered men five to one. The fact is that in many states there was a law forbidding to search women, which the criminal syndicates did not fail to take advantage of. Moreover, women were very eager to join the bootlegging business on their own: despite the danger of the enterprise, the earnings could be fantastic. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 17:18:00 In Egypt it was believed that all the pharaohs were the earthly incarnation of the god Horus. And so the supreme power in the country belonged only to men.

But one day a woman was on the throne. So that there was no excitement among the people, the priests came up with a legend, saying that she was the daughter of the god Amon.

Still at various official ceremonies Hatshepsut was present in men's clothing and with an artificial beard. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 14:18:00 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to take part in any public events on Tuesdays because three members of his family had died on that day of the week. In the end, he decided to do away with the "silly prejudice”. One Tuesday, the king paid an official visit to Marseilles and was shot and killed by a terrorist. Open / Comment

2022-04-29 21:18:00 Self-hanging in the name of science.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Romanian forensic doctor Nicolae Minovici decided to find out what happens to people while they are in the noose. To this end, he made several attempts at self-immolation with the help of assistants.

Describing his sensations, the doctor stated: "As soon as my legs came off the support, my eyelids cramped. My airways were blocked so tightly that I could neither inhale nor exhale. There was a kind of whistling in my ears. I could no longer hear the assistant's voice as he pulled the cord and noted the time on the stopwatch. Eventually the pain and lack of air forced me to stop the experiment. When the experiment was over, I went downstairs and tears spurted from my eyes".

After the experiment, Minovici experienced pain in swallowing, thirst for more than 10 days, and the mark of the noose was visible throughout the following week. Open / Comment

2022-04-29 17:18:00 Omaima Nelson, the model who murdered and ate her spouse, 1991.

Omayma confessed that she skinned the corpse, cut off the head and baked it in the oven; roasted the ribs "like in a restaurant" and ate this "delicacy" dipped in barbecue sauce.

“The most delicious thing in life is the man I married. At least if it's seasoned with sauce! It's so delicious, it's so exquisite. I love my honey." Open / Comment

2022-04-29 14:18:00 During World War II, pigeons were used by the Soviet army to deliver small incendiary shells to enemy aircraft.

For this purpose pigeons were dropped from an airplane, where they were in a special cassette. An incendiary projectile of pressure action was attached to the pigeon. Using a special mechanism, the pigeons were released from a cassette attached to the aircraft, which held twenty-four birds. When the pigeon landed on an object, the projectile triggered a pressure fuse. Open / Comment