Secrets of history 2024, October

If a Western man in past centuries ended up on the Yap Islands, which are part of the Federated States of Micronesia, his gold or silver coins would be worth absolutely nothing

The Unlearned Lessons of the Collapse of the People's State and the Social Justice SocietyIt is fashionable to be against the state. It is even more popular to seek to occupy the place of prosecutor in the self-appointed court of history, castigating shortcomings and revealing mistakes

The mysterious incident at the Dyatlov Pass has fed various crazy theories for many years. Family members and some experts are suspicious of the official investigation, which ended 61 years after the events, the author writes.“While we sit and sing songs. T

There were many outstanding personalities among Russian monarchs, such as Peter I or Catherine II. There were also less famous rulers. But there are kings that most people know almost nothing about

The article, according to photographs and drawing of petroglyphs, describes the compositional solution, size, material and, mainly, the shape and nature of the images

Restorers and archaeologists from Russia and other countries have discovered an unusual camel pattern in the Kapova cave in Bashkiria, indicating that people of the Stone Age actively exchanged artistic know-how, the press service of Moscow State University reports

In the middle of the eighteenth century, everyone was discussing a book written by the scientist Pierre Louis Leroy. In his book, he told about Russian sailors who ended up on the island of Svalbard because of the storm that broke out. The author described the difficulties the sailors had to face, what adventures they went through and how they were not afraid in the face of danger

I do not know if Belle Gannes, popularly nicknamed "Lady Bluebeard", can be called a woman or even just a man

Quite recently, there was a simple and seemingly irrefutable answer to the question of how and when the first people reached America: about 13 thousand years ago, via a land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska. Who were they?

This is a strange place, Mamaev Kurgan. As historical events show, conquerors, both "small" and great, who claimed world domination, were drawn here with incredible strength. The Persian king Darius really wanted to take possession of it, and after hundreds of centuries - Hitler

Everyone knows from childhood about the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on a desert island. Have you heard that the hero had a real prototype? LAREINA decided to figure out what he was like - the real Robinson Crusoe

Read the beginning of here. 1942 01.01.42 Will he bring us something, this 42nd? About such an unusual and joyful event, there was shooting all night. But no artillery. Apparently, both those and others, only amused

Scientists studying biblical texts came to the conclusion that Jesus Christ had not only men in his disciples, but also the same number of women, but references to this were erased from history

A Boeing 737-29 flying AQ 243 to Honolulu began to fall apart right in the air. The chances of survival in such a situation for the crew and passengers were one in a million, no more. 04/28/1988, 13:58, Kahului airport

When you begin to read and understand historical events yourself, with historical figures, heroes, it suddenly turns out that a significant part of all this appears at all not the same as we are told about it at school, as they write in popular books and shown in films

Probably, evidence was found for the existence of one of the greatest Old Testament prophets, Isaiah, who predicted the birth of Christ from the Virgin and the suffering of the Savior

He wrote scripts for Marlene Dietrich, drank with Remarque and Chaliapin, and received millions for his plays. The Nazis forced playwright Karl Zuckmeier to flee to the United States, where he plowed on a farm and secretly worked for the future of the CIA

There are many versions about the motives for the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, but they are all approximate: there is no reliable data on the background of the conspiracy

We all read the classics and remember how we once moved across the country, extorting and begging, fake grandchildren of Karl Marx, non-existent nephews of Friedrich Engels, brothers Lunacharsky, cousins of Clara Zetkin, descendants of the famous anarchist Prince Cro

There is something morbidly attractive about death. On the one hand, from things related to death, frost goes on the skin. On the other hand, it is impossible to take your eyes off them. In our roundup of 10 incredible images taken in ossuaries and crypts around the world

Once upon a time on the island at the mouth of the Hudson River there were Indian burial places and sanctuaries, and the island was called Shainashkinek - "A place to communicate with ancestors." In the 1620s, the Dutch founded a nearby colony and named it New Amsterdam

The key to one of the mysteries of the unrecognized relic of the Christian world is hidden in the sermon of the referendarium of the Church of St. Sophia Gregory 430 years ago, on September 14, 1578, the 1,500 year wanderings of the Savior's funeral veils stopped

In the Western European history of the XIII-XV centuries A.D. e. traditionally considered the era of the “ Proto-Renaissance ” (i.e. “ pre-revival ”) and early “ Renaissance ” following the “ dark ages ” general European decline (VII-XII centuries A.D

Why did people stop dying in the Moldavian village, why did they hunt for the dead in the Middle Ages, and how did other inconsolable lovers act - - we talk about the most impossible cases of life after death

When the leader of the Soviet people and the world proletariat, Joseph Stalin, died at his dacha in Kuntsevo on the morning of March 5, the whole country froze in anticipation. What will happen now? Who will replace the genius? This is on the one hand

How many people came to say goodbye to Stalin on March 9, 1953 is not known exactly. Tens or even hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens flocked to the Column Hall of the House of the Unions, where his body was exhibited for farewell. Their faces expressed real grief

Exactly half a century has passed since the moment when Stalin was carried out of the Mausoleum. And all this time the event, significant for the whole country, was covered with a dark secret. The time has come not only to remember him, but to restore everything in detail. Down to the smallest detail

Geneticists refute conventional theories about the influence of the Tatar-Mongol invasion on the "root" gene pool. There is a widespread opinion that there are simply no Russians as a people and they all remained in the legends of deep antiquity, and now the country is inhabited by meth

In the late seventies, Vera Rubin and Kent Ford explored the spiral galaxy Andromeda. The results that astronomers received on punch cards surprised and even alarmed them

Who has not heard of the so-called "chastity belts" that representatives of the medieval nobility allegedly put on their wives so that they could not cheat on them while the husband was away?

In 1986, 20-year-old Sergei Preminin, the hold driver of the Soviet missile submarine cruiser K-219, did not hesitate to accomplish the feat. At the cost of his own life, he saved the Atlantic Ocean and the east coast of America from nuclear contamination

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The history of this monument, unique both in its beauty and in its importance in the destinies of Russia, counts nine centuries. The walls of the Lavra have seen many great, mysterious, and sometimes scandalous events

"Uncle Sam" is sometimes referred to as the United States. It's hard to believe that this name came about by chance and that there really was such a person who was called "Uncle Sam".Uncle Sam (Uncle Sam) is a remarkable figure, whose image has been a symbol of the United States of America for so many years

For centuries, Tartess was one of those mysterious states of antiquity, known to scientists only from written sources

Humanity has always been interested in two questions - - how to cure effectively from certain diseases and how to maximize your life

At the beginning of 1959, a group of tourists-skiers from the tourist club of the Ural Polytechnic Institute planned to make a hike in the Northern Urals, which the participants intended to devote to the XXI Congress of the CPSU

The attention of historians is increasingly attracted by unusual plots - far from central events, but showing the life of people and society in a new light

Before entering the cadet school, in 1859, 11-year-old Paul von Hindenburg, future field marshal and Reich President of Germany, wrote a "will" - in it a punctual and executive boy "bequeathed" all his toys to his brothers and sister

Russian scientists have conducted a large-scale study of the gene pool of the Russian people. Its results - a real sensation. In particular, it has been established that genetically Russians do not belong to the Slavic, but to the Finno-Ugric group of peoples

On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died suddenly in Hong Kong - probably the most famous Chinese actor in the world. He was only 32 years old. The mystery of this strange death has not yet been solved