Secrets of history 2024, October
On the island of Borneo, a team of specialists discovered a skull, which, according to preliminary estimates, is 37,000 years old. Scientists suggest that this find could "rewrite" the history of the planet's settlement
Professor DI Ilovaisky (1832 - 1920) in his work "History of Russia" (v. 1) wrote that the formation of the Russian state should be attributed to very ancient times and precisely to those when the Roksolan tribes settled on the middle Dnieper, conquering the neighboring tribes, t
"Paracelsus" translated from Latin means "super-noble". This "pseudonym" was taken by the famous medieval physician Philip Aureol Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim
Can you say something about Pythagoras, except that he was a great mathematician and formulated the famous theorem about "pants that are equal in all directions"? Meanwhile, most of his cases have nothing to do with proving theorems
The trials that began in the USSR in the mid-1930s did not concern only political opponents of Stalin
In 1874, the Italian Ascanio Sobrero managed to develop an oil with very explosive properties - - nitroglycerine
American magazine Life paid tribute to the memory of the missing. Yes, not simple, but outstanding
To understand who King Belshazzar is, one should return to the origins and get acquainted with the kingdom, whose name is Babylonia. This kingdom has a 1,500 year history
Whatever they say, one thing is indisputable: there is no more extensive and more ramified underground fortification in the world than the one that was dug in the Warta river triangle - Obra - Oder more than half a century ago
Tuva is located in the very center of Asia and is practically isolated from the world. Thanks to this, the land of Scythian burial mounds, Chinese palaces, shamans and strange customs has managed to preserve its unique identity
This mummy remains unchanged for 40 years longer than the mummy of V. Lenin
780 years ago began the five-day siege of Ryazan by the Mongols - one of the main and most developed centers of Ancient Russia
Prince Boris Alekseevich Golitsyn (July 29, 1651 (according to some sources, 1654) - October 18, 1714, Florischeva Monastery) - boyar (1689), statesman of the times of Tsarevna Sophia and Peter the Great, head of the Order of the Kazan Palace
Glenn Miller, the famous American trombonist, composer, author of the world famous Moonlight Serenade, leader of a popular orchestra, disappeared without a trace at the end of 1944 during a flight across the English Channel
What can I say, the Nazis created a great visual background for themselves: events, symbols, clothing. I remember as a kid I looked at Stirlitz in a German uniform - spectacularly
It turns out for a long time in the media and on the Internet the version about the existence of the SON OF LENIN is walking. In general, this is more reminiscent of the story of the "children of Lieutenant Schmidt", but I still decided to ask
Nowadays, it is quite difficult to completely hide data about yourself, because it is enough to type a few words in a search engine - and secrets are revealed, and secrets come to the surface
More than three centuries ago, in 1709 year, the "Bruce calendar" was published. Not one century he "dictated" to people "the rules of life"
In 1954, the Central Committee of the CPSU makes a historic decision (however, any decisions of the Central Committee should have been considered historical at that time) "On the further increase in grain production in the country and the development of virgin and fallow lands"
Early in the morning of December 5, 1917, a small French transport ship Mont Blanc, with a displacement of 3121 tons, arrived from New York, docked on the roadstead of the Canadian port of Halifax
Miraculously surviving parts of military equipment, two swords with scabbards and saddles lined with gold plates, horse harnesses made of gold and gilded linings, decorated with grenades … About a hundred valuable things by chance went to an unemployed resident
The fact that a pig is certainly dirty, and that "Rusish Schweine" is also extremely lazy is, of course, a "historical axiom". This is written about in all the memoirs of foreigners who have visited here, in Russia, who with strange persistence and consistency (it would seem: if you don’t like it - don’t go!) Si
A high-tech mechanism discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century near Crete is one of the arguments for the assertion that our history textbooks on the development of mankind contain many blank spots
At dawn on May 4, 1882, a sailor from a Brazilian patrol boat in service noticed a bottle swaying on the waves in the sea. Bottles found in the sea were treated with more respect back then than they are today
Since the end of 2015, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is no longer copyrighted. What happens when the authorities cannot control its publication
A previously unbroken tomb filled with treasures, some of which once again led to believe in the existence of ancient highly developed civilizations
In general, the preconditions for the emergence of law are similar to the reasons that gave rise to the state. Law arises together with the state, is inextricably linked with it. Law is the result of his activities under the prevailing economic, class conditions
A new man-made sea will spill in the upper reaches of the Kolyma during the construction of a hydroelectric power station. In the meantime, according to the established rules, intensive archaeological research is underway in the flood zone
The successes of the First Crusade came to naught. Jerusalem, taken with such difficulty from the infidels, is about to be lost again. Only now the knights realized what an impossible task they got into
The mythical land In October 1822 Gregor MacGregor - native of Scotland - made a startling statement. According to him, he was not only the son of a local banker, but also the "prince" of the land of Poyis, which is located along the Black River in Honduras
Who does not know them - harsh northern warriors. However, as always happens in such cases, much of what we know is just myths and fictions that have nothing to do with reality
Prophetic Oleg (i.e. one who knows the future) (died in 912), - the great prince who came to power immediately after the legendary Rurik - the first ruler of Russia. It is the Prophetic Oleg who is credited with the formation of the state - Kievan Rus, centered in Kiev
In the mid-sixties of the last century, the United States of America was preparing to take revenge and finally bypass the Soviet Union in the field of space research
I am sure that many, having read the title, immediately recalled the words of Pushkin: "How the prophetic Oleg is getting ready now / To take revenge on the unreasonable khozars …", and how it all ended: "Like a black ribbon wrapped around his legs, / and suddenly cried out the stung prince"
The "Famine Plan" was part of the economic strategy of the Third Reich, according to which no more than 30 million people were to remain in the occupied territories of the USSR
Archaeologists have unearthed a "magic wand" with two realistic human faces carved on it near a cemetery where about 30 headless people were buried in southern Syria
This shell, at least in the form as it was used in Europe, is only one of the links in a whole system of magical devices
Penal battalions consisting of former criminals or fined soldiers and officers are known mainly from the historiography of the Red Army
The mystery of the Philadelphia Experiment has been alive for over half a century. During this time, the movement in space of the US Navy destroyer Eldridge, which allegedly took place in 1943, managed to acquire an unthinkable number of myths, turning into an "urban legend"
Once Dursun Bey (Turkish chronicler) wrote: "If the sun were a man, then even he would be forbidden to look into the harem." Odalisques, the so-called beauties, intended only for the sultan, and living in real paradise