Secrets of history 2024, October

In the old days, people were sentenced to death for all sorts of crimes: from murder to petty theft. Most often, executions were public, so in order to attract more onlookers, they tried to make the act of killing more spectacular

Mary I Stuart, Queen of Scots (Born 8. 12. 1542 Linlithgow, Lothian. Day of death 8. 2. 1587 (age 44) Fotheringay, England)

The Middle Ages were a cruel time. People were beheaded and hanged, burned at bonfires and boiled in boiling water, trampled by horses and chopped down with swords for the slightest offense and even without any real guilt

One of the reasons for the Crimean War in the 1850s was the dispute over the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire

Can a person live forever? This is the question people ask when they talk about the historical figure known as the Comte Saint-Germain. Little is known about his life

Human sacrifices played an important role in the development of civilization: according to New Zealand scientists, it was they who created the class structure of society

The Soviet government began building the "new world" immediately after the October Revolution. The transformations were carried out with unprecedented enthusiasm, eradicating almost everything that was associated with the appearance of old Russia

A heavy stone calendar, about 3.5 thousand years old, discovered in the east of the Dobropolsky district, became a sensational find of the season in the Donetsk region

In Tatarstan, at the bottom of the Kuibyshev reservoir, divers found the remains of 15 churches and 2 mosques

I do not believe in visits by spacecraft piloted by aliens from other planets. I have never believed and I am sure that I will never believe in them, - said Sir Patrick Moore

A documentary film about the consequences of Chernobyl, filmed in 1999 by the German documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geierhalter on the territory of Pripyat and the areas adjacent to the city

On April 26, Ukraine commemorated the 26th anniversary of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A lot has been written about this sad and tragic event, as well as the hero-liquidators who courageously fought against radiation

I will not turn on the TV today: Pripyat will be shown there on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the accident. 30 years have passed! "Oh, where are your 17 years old?", - mine stayed there, in our little Pripyat. Then there was the main - forget to be able to live on

Remembering the Chernobyl disaster: on April 26, 1986 at 01:23, an explosion thundered at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, forever changing the fate of thousands of people and went down in the history of mankind and nuclear energy as the largest, from the aftermath

Many birds like to dress in bright outfits - first of all, this makes it easier for birds to find sexual partners. Let us recall at least a peacock, which always spreads its gorgeous tail, showing off in front of its friends

A terrible colossal disaster happened in the spring of 1986 at 1 am on April 27

On April 26, 1986, there was one of the largest nuclear disasters in the history of mankind and the largest disaster in the field of energy - explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

The Chinese periphery is a sleeping hotbed of tension. Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia - they don't even need to fight directly against China to bring it to its knees in 3-4 months. It is enough to cut off sea communications, and China - like the USSR in its time - can be sent to the dustbin of world history

The disaster at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, which happened 30 years ago, ruined the lives of thousands of people. A reconstructed course of events through the eyes of several of them. April 26, 1986

The unsolved mystery of "Maria Celeste" About the mysterious fate of the brigantine "Maria Celeste" so much has already been written and told that now it is impossible to tell where in this story is truth, and where is fiction

This powerful at that time battleship called "Giulio Cesare" (or "Julius Caesar") began to be built at the shipyard of the Italian city of Genoa back in 1910

For almost 150 years, enthusiasts and researchers have been struggling to solve one of the main mysteries in the history of navigation - the disappearance of the entire crew of the ship "Maria Celeste"

The researchers are confident that they have found the wreckage of the ship "Endeavor", on which the English cartographer and discoverer James Cook reached the shores of Australia in 1770. Reported on Tuesday, May 3, CNN

The English steamer Huarata, built at the beginning of the last century, was rightfully considered the largest in the world at that time. In 1909, with 211 passengers and crew, he sailed from Australia to England. Then no one suspected that this flight would be the last

The history of the ultra-modern fascist battleship Scharnhorst for its time recalls the eerie legends of the Viking Age. Too many coincidences to consider what happened as a simple series of failures

In Lake Ladoga, fragments of barge No. 725 were discovered only recently, which historians call the "Russian Titanic" due to the huge number of victims

Ships, like humans, are born, live and die. Fate gives some ships the opportunity to live to a ripe old age and end up being dismantled for scrap metal under the merciless flame of a cutter

Yamato on testing On the morning of April 7, 1945, at about 10 o'clock, the pilots of two PBM Mariner patrol flying boats noticed a Japanese squadron heading towards the island of Okinawa

There are many tragic pages in the history of astronautics

If you ask any of us about the greatest maritime disaster of all time and peoples, then most of us will remember the "Titanic" or "Lusitania"

The wreck of the Titanic, the largest and most technically equipped ship of its time, was the greatest tragedy of the early 20th century. Nothing can overshadow his gloomy glory, his name has become a household name, and he himself has become a symbol

Canadian scientists have questioned the popular hypothesis that the death of the famous expedition was the result of poisoning sailors with lead, which in the middle of the 19th century was used for tinning cans

Canadian scientists from Macwon University, Lakehead University and other research organizations have disproved the hypothesis that Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition was killed by lead poisoning

The Baltic at the end of September 1994 was particularly turbulent. A stormy wind was blowing, the speed of which reached 20 meters per second, waves of up to 6 meters in height ran onto the shore, making it difficult for small and medium-sized vessels to moor

On the last day of August 1986, a huge passenger steamer "Admiral Nakhimov" with a displacement of seventeen thousand tons departed from the Novorossiysk pier exactly on schedule, at 22 o'clock, the size of a five-story building, shining with lights and proceeded to

In 1994, many media reported that on March 22 at 20.58.01 Moscow time in the area of Mezhdurechensk a passenger airbus A-310-300 "Glinka" crashed

On the night of August 31 to September 1, 1983, a South Korean Boeing 747 airliner was shot down over Sakhalin Island. For fourteen minutes, the remains of the aircraft, 269 passengers and crew members fell from a height of 11 thousand meters

From a terrible incident that happened on a wonderful Sunday, August 28, 1988 on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the whole of Europe shuddered

At the end of the 60s, rivalry between the USSR, the USA and England, together with France, intensified in the creation of the most powerful, fastest and most promising passenger aircraft in the world

In October 1972, a rugby team from Montevideo went to compete in the Chilean capital, Santiago. In the plane of the Uruguayan airline, besides them, there were also passengers and five crew members - only 45 people