Secrets of history 2024, October
The life of Catherine de Medici - the "black queen", as her contemporaries called her, was filled with mysticism, witchcraft and terrible prophecies. For almost 30 years she ruled France - the most powerful country in Europe in the 16th century
Louis XIV de Bourbon, also known as the "sun king", also Louis the Great, (born September 5, 1638, death September 1, 1715) - King of France and Navarre from 14 May 1643
The name of the French monarch Louis XIV is associated with the "golden age" of monarchical power in the country. Under the Sun King, balls and festivities were held on a truly royal scale
A lot of scientific research has been written about her, and despite this - or perhaps precisely because of this, the disputes around her fate not only do not subside, but, on the contrary, flare up with increasing force.The official life story of the Virgin of Orleans has existed since the time of the French Revolution and is detailed in school textbooks
I do not know if there is any more weighty confirmation of this, but the entire Internet is replete with approximately the same information, without references to serious sources. In general, you will have to figure out the reliability of certain events yourself
Adolf Hitler had an illegitimate son in France. French journalists found out that a young French woman who became pregnant with him during the First World War could give birth to a child to the future Fuhrer
The fate of the library of the Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise is one of the most mysterious mysteries of Ukrainian history
Kievan Rus owed its greatness to Yaroslav the Wise. This outstanding prince ruled the state for almost 40 years and made Russia one of the most powerful and influential countries in Europe
On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which went down in history as one of the worst disasters of its kind
Part 1. Red sign Five golden arrows. RED SIGN. AGAINST NAPOLEON. ON THE TOP OF POWER. SUETSK LOAN. CREDITANSTALT CRASH. AVANTURE WITH HIMMLER. CLAN REVIVAL. Rothschild Banking House
And although the manuscript of "Sibiu" was found in the distant already 1961, the mysterious tome still haunts various researchers, from historians to ufologists
If we talk about the history of the Tmutarakan principality in the XI century, one should start with the following. In historical science at different times there have been many disputes on various issues. Starting with the existence of the legendary Atlantis, and ending with the Varangian question
During the last Kola expedition organized by the Institute for the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg archaeologists discovered ancient artifacts next to the famous rock paintings of this peninsula
Most of the exiled Decembrists showed remarkable entrepreneurial fervor. For example, in the Siberian exile N
The figurine was hidden between two blocks at the base of the pyramid. A group of Egyptian specialists conducting restoration work on the step pyramid of Djoser discovered a unique bronze statuette of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris
At the beginning of the 19th century, German newspapers were full of headlines: "Westphalia is seized with horror", "The Mystery of the Cemetery", "The Mysterious Deaths of Babies."Lively journalists vied with each other to write about such horrors in the small town of Taylfingen that ordinary inhabitants had their blood cold in their veins
The originality of its development stems from a whole range of new features in urban planning, architecture, fine arts, Mexican in origin
Although a lot has been written about Nicholas II, much of what has been written refers to "folk fiction", delusions. The king was modest in dress. Unpretentious Nicholas II was remembered by the many surviving photographic materials as an unpretentious person
The US National Archives has released 10,744 more FBI documents in the November 1963 assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, WBay reported on Friday, November 17. The content of the documents is not specified
2016 marks the 360th anniversary of the birth of the most famous Russian gunsmith and entrepreneur Nikita Demidov
Throughout the centuries-old history of the Russian state, not only representatives of the Russian people were involved in military service, but also people of other nationalities inhabiting the vast expanses of our country
A fountain is depicted on the modern coat of arms of Konstantinovka. This is puzzling and surprising. Why a fountain? These events took place in the distant 30s.By the decree of the US Congress dated June 15, 1936, 64 states were invited to take part in the World Exhibition in New York "Building the World of Tomorrow"
Many amazing stories are told about the Pniew castle-fortification. Each "worthy" castle should have its own legends and ghosts
The most formidable, daring and absolutely reckless pirates did not live in England, as we used to think. They lived in Ireland and their formidable "Yo-ho-ho!" made the whole admiralty tremble, the Privy Council and personally the English king
In the early morning of June 30, 1908, a huge aerolite flew into the Earth's atmosphere over the headwaters of the Yenisei in the direction from west to east, and after 30 to 40 minutes the inhabitants of Eastern Siberia felt a shaking of the soil
Oleg "Prophetic", what kind of personality in history? According to legend, Oleg died of a snakebite in 912, and this campaign of the Rus took place in 913. A large army of the Rus, by agreement with the Khazars, was allowed to pass down the Volga to the Caspian
Among the European tribes that actively influenced the course of historical events of the "era of the great migration of peoples", one of the leading places belongs to the Antsky union, which is repeatedly mentioned in their writings by early medieval authors
On the night of February 24, 1978, a group of five youths who were part of a mentally handicapped program attended a basketball game at California State University's college in Chico. They were Jack Madruga (30), William Sterling (29), Ted Weicher (32), Gary Mathias (25), and Jack Hewitt (24), all from the Marysville area of California. A g
In the middle of the XIII century, the Russian land was invaded by the Mongols. Terrible hordes of steppe nomads, united by Temuchin - Genghis Khan, moved from East to West. For three years, from 1237 to 1240, the Russian people waged a courageous struggle against innumerable enemy forces
Beginning: "The first stage of the war between Svyatoslav and the Byzantine Empire". The second war with Byzantium The first stage of the war with the Byzantine Empire ended in victory for Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich
In 1931, American journalist Annette Anton of Detroit News interviewed the new leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Above the working table of the main Nazi, the correspondent noticed a portrait of the main American car dealer Henry Ford
This silver is now considered less valuable than gold, but in ancient times everything was different. Native silver is rare, and its extraction from ores becomes possible only at a certain technical level of development of society
In general, I have an opinion that more than half of the historical moments, and even more so of some historical subtleties, were invented or at least transmitted through the channels of the "broken phone" during which everything was so transformed that it already has little in common with reality
On September 1, 2011, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Center of Disease Control and Prevention) officially announced that an epidemic of drug addiction was raging in the country. Before considering what is happening now, a little history
Last week, workers in Valdosta, Georgia, America, were struck to the core when hundreds of human teeth were unexpectedly found in a wall during a renovation of an old commercial building
Throughout the history of mankind, there have been mysterious books, artifacts and relics, supposedly containing some mystical knowledge or powers
The Phaistos disc is a unique ancient monument of writing, which could not be deciphered for a long time. Cryptography was unraveled by the Russian linguist G.S. Grinevich in 1983. This fact is little known, since it was not made public. When people began to talk about deciphering the document more and more often, Grinevich's version was severely criticized and recognized as unreliable
Two Canadian cryptanalysts may have deciphered a medieval manuscript known as the Voynich Manuscript, which has opposed attempts to understand it for centuries
Artificial intelligence has helped scientists at the University of Albertus discover the secret of the famous Voynich manuscript. In particular, researchers are now confident in the language of the document and even know how to translate the first sentence
Russian mathematicians have deciphered the most mysterious document in history - the Voynich manuscript. According to one version, it contains a recipe for the elixir of immortality. The artifact is 500 years old. The manuscript is written in an unknown language, by an unnamed author