Secrets of history 2024, October

After the Great Patriotic War, according to economists, Germany compensated less than five percent of the damage caused to the economy of the Soviet Union. It would be interesting to see the figures of compensation results in other countries

Knights of the Frankenstein familyIn thirty-five kilometers from the German city of Frankfurt, surrounded by a dense dark forest, is the Frankenstein Castle. Built on one of the peaks of Mount Odenwald, the castle served as the ancestral home of the Frankenstein barons, who once owned the lands of Hesse

To begin with, a little history … In the Berlin region in the 7-12 centuries lived 2 Slavic families, in German transcription - Heveller (Gavolian) and Sprewanen (Spreeane). The Slavs of the Spree family - Sprewanen lived on both sides of the Spree River, at Barnim and Ostteltow. P

Researcher and writer Ben Blum came to the conclusion that the famous Stanford Experiment - hoax. If you are fond of psychology, then you must have heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment

Today everyone knows the value of information. Publication of documents by WickiLeaks hackers sparked an international reaction that still affects the whole world

Archimedes' law, Archimedes screw, "Give me a fulcrum and I will turn the Earth!", "Eureka!" And finally, "Don't touch my blueprints!" These words and expressions exhaust almost everything that we learn about the famous Syracuse in high school

But history has preserved quite a few cases when elephants had to EXECUTE.On June 28, 1970, a big commotion arose in the Yerevan Zoo. A crowd of visitors watched with curiosity as a group of workers tried to return the free-roaming elephant Vova to the enclosure

In October last year, Swiss archaeologists discovered a very interesting artifact: a bronze hand with a gold cuff around the wrist, and next to it is a fragment of a human rib and a thin dagger.Currently, the exhibits are in the storage of the Berne Archaeological Service, and the more experts work with them, the more they are perplexed

On October 30, workers of the Argun Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve visited the ancient settlement of Vilakh (Yalkhora Society) of the Galanchozh District of the Chechen Republic.The expedition was attended by the senior researcher of the Argun Museum-Reserve Khizar Yakhyaev, the head of the ChRO of the Lam-Berd off-road club Umar Masaev, the correspondent of the art programs of the ChGTRK Grozny Chechen Republic Raisa Sadaeva, the operator Akhmed Abazov

Deserts are as unexplored areas as oceans. It seems to us that we can see everything from satellites, but the sands are moving all the time, and further than a few meters we do not see what is hiding under them. The dry desert air and the finest sand are ideal ways to hide an artifact for thousands and millions of years

In the 1970s, paleontologist Dale Russell unearthed the skull of an unusual dinosaur while excavating in Alberta, Canada

Every state committed to communist ideology considers it its duty to oppose itself to the capitalist West. An alternative system of values, a planned economy - and, of course, the destruction of everything capitalist on its territory. Democratic Kampuchea approached this too diligently, leaving aside all doubts and common sense

Cambodia is one of the most mysterious countries in Southeast Asia, in which many secrets have not yet been revealed. Since the ruins of Angkor Wat were officially found, researchers and travelers have found a lot of interesting things in Cambodia

Every Soviet citizen had a different income. But the distribution of public money in the Soviet Union was fundamentally different from what we can observe today. Ordinary workers in factories and factories could have an order of magnitude higher wages than their immediate superiors

In a burial mound near the village of Glinoye, Slobodzeya District, archaeologists discovered human bone remains with traces of a surgical operation. The find is more than 4 thousand years old.An ancient tomb of a representative of the Ingul catacomb culture was discovered in the Slobodzeya region

Mysterious and mysterious events, at all times, for a long time attracted the attention of a person inquiring to riddles. The mysterious disappearance of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War 1915-1918 was no exception.The circumstances of the disappearance of the soldiers can be explained only by moving in time, or falling into parallel worlds

According to statistics, most of the murders are solved without delay, with fresh traces. Most of the missing people are found dead or alive after a certain period of time. However, some murders and disappearances do not find their logical solution

During archaeological excavations in Sudan on the banks of the Nile River, a mummy of a woman was found who died presumably in the seventh century AD. Egyptologists from the main historical and archaeological museum of Britain decided to enlighten this mummy in a tomograph

When this [CIA] espionage organization was formed at the start of the Cold War, surprisingly little effort was made to hide the subversive nature of its program, hastily dubbed Operation X. The main task of the Central Intelligence Agency was: to raise and unite all anti-Soviet elements on a crusade against the Soviet state and other democratic countries of Eastern Europe

They were afraid. They were cursed. They were admired. Having absorbed the northern valor and devotion to the harsh northern gods with their mother's milk, they did not look for easy ways. In search of glory, they left their icy lands and went to sail the seas and conquer new territories

There are funeral rituals in the world that seem creepy to us. However, where they are carried out, no one considers such "manipulations" with corpses sacrilegious. On the contrary, it is precisely such ways of saying goodbye to the dead that seem to be the most correct in those places

These are, perhaps, one of the most interesting heroes of Slavic mythology, which, having passed into the category of fairy-tale characters, has changed a lot. The mythological Yaga has little in common with our childhood memories of the old woman who is always hurting at New Year's parties

Archaeologists find evidence of human sacrifice in all corners of the globe. But what they saw in the north of Peru in the vicinity of the ancient capital of the Chimu people, Chan-Chan, shocked even experienced researchers: the remains of 269 children with traces of cut wounds on the sternum and ribs

The debate about who the first man was, man or woman, has been going on for centuries. But so far no one has managed to reach the truth

On September 8, 1992, a traffic jam occurred on a busy street in Port Jaenem, California (USA) due to a woman standing in the road. The woman gestured strangely and made unusual dance moves, while not answering any questions.The arrived police took the woman to the police station, but even there they could not get any specific information from her

It is unlikely that Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, in the most wonderful dreams that often visited him, could have assumed that he would become one of the most revered saints in the distant and unfriendly cold northern country - Russia. In terms of the number of temples dedicated to him, he is second only to the Mother of God

In the old days in Russia, children played with rag dolls, which, as a rule, had no faces. Why? Was it really just that the craftswomen were too lazy to draw the doll's eyes, nose and mouth? No, there were completely different reasons for that

Description of the origin and meaning of the term "witch" in our time can be read on almost every fence. In most cases, it is argued that this word is called a woman who possesses some secret knowledge, the ability to magically influence the world around, and it comes from the Old Slavic "vdati" - "know" or "understand"

Most of the women killed in Europe during the medieval "witch hunt" today are perceived as faceless victims of religious obscurantism. The names of almost all these unfortunates, sacrificed to human stupidity, are hidden from us in the depths of past centuries; only a few of the most famous "accomplices of the devil" have been honored to go down in history

Familiars are supernatural beings whose job it is to help witches and sorcerers. When stories of witches were told throughout England in the 1500s and 1600s, everyone knew that every witch had a small helper animal.This animal was also used for spying or intimidating unwanted people

What infuriates Sprenger and Kramer most of all is the fact that most people do not fully realize how dangerous witchcraft is, how it has become a widespread evil.They decided to complain to Pope Innocent VIII himself about such a "bleak" situation in European countries

The first mention of the witch in the Old Testament we find in the Pentateuch, in the Book of Exodus. Wise Moses, dictating his Law to the Jews, says: "Do not leave the sorcerers (that is, the witch) alive."However, some theologians believe that the word "Chasaph" used here actually means only "poisoner

We have all heard about the merciless medieval Inquisition.About how many innocent beautiful girls were set on fire in order to cleanse their souls.- Salik.bizBut without knowing it, the inquisitors thus performed the ancient Aryan ritual of checking the purity of a person

In 1963, the ballet Distant Planet was staged in Leningrad. It told about the journey of earthlings to another planet and about its conquest. A little later, the official opinion of the censors about ballet appeared. It condemned the consumer attitude towards aliens

80 years ago, the military command of Hitlerite Germany began work on a plan for an attack on the Soviet Union, which was later codenamed "Barbarossa". Historians note that, despite the thoughtful organization of this operation, Hitler and his entourage did not take into account a number of factors

In the UK, a team of archaeologists and historians from the MOLA project and the University of Hertfordshire urged fellow citizens to "hand over" to them the so-called "witch's bottles" of the 17th century, found in old houses during repairs or renovations

As a result of a strong drop in the level of the Volga, the inhabitants of Kazan saw an old pavement running along the bottom of the Kazanka River. The townspeople find there artifacts from different eras, someone has already started "archaeological" research with metal detectors in their hands

The discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun became one of the most important discoveries in archeology, but subsequent events forced the world press to switch attention from science to mysticism.On November 4, 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter and his team discovered the pharaoh's tomb, which was practically untouched by robbers in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings

The first thing that comes to mind when Karelia is mentioned is a picturesque northern forest, rocky shores and, of course, wooden churches. People are poisoned here not only for recreation or hunting, but also in order to feed themselves with spiritual energy, because it is on its prayed ground that you can still find samples of ancient Russian architecture in their original form

Yesterday we published an article about the connection of plague-infected rats with an unidentified flying object that fell in Roswell. A new article highlights the theory that the strange bodies of the Roswell "aliens" may have been dummies