Secrets of history 2024, October

Ostrogoths - a Germanic tribe that once lived in the south of today's Russia. Where did they come from there, what happened to them in the future?

Somehow we had a controversial post about what Russia was like before baptism and how Russians began to be called "Russians". Let's continue this topic with more indisputable information - traditions when building a house

My grandfather went through the entire Great Patriotic War, served in the tank forces. Further from the author: My grandfather went through the entire Great Patriotic War, served in the tank forces. When I was a teenager, he told me a lot about the war, about the life of soldiers, etc

John Kerry flew to Antarctica, where on November 11 there was a closed discussion and signing of a new Intergovernmental Treaty, according to which, visits to Antarctica by private vessels are closed for 35 years without the prior consent of the Commissioner for

On September 8, 1698, a mysterious prisoner, known as the "Iron Mask", arrived in the Bastille

According to the widespread version, the foundations of the state in Russia were laid by the Varangian squad of Rurik, called by the Slavic tribes to reign. However, Norman theory has always had many opponents

Iron Mask - under this name the most mysterious prisoner of the era of Louis XIV remained in history. All that is reliably known about this man is the number under which he was listed in the Bastille (64489001)

In the winter of 1565, the country was covered by a seven-year "pitch darkness" - oprichnina. Its causes, course and consequences have been argued for more than one century. The phenomenon of the oprichnina has already become a myth living in parallel with the historical truth

Scandinavian countries are in many ways a model of gender equality for residents of other states

These places are associated in the national memory with the name of the great Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli, for against their background the events in his epic poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" are played out

September 18, 1698

In fact, the mask was velvet, black, and, according to some sources, it had clasps at the back - it was only later that the thrill-seekers called it iron. She covered the face of a man whose name is still unknown to history

A scalpel with a huge six-inch blade (15 cm) was found in a property formerly owned by the Welsh surgeon Sir John Williams

John the Sixth is the son of Anna Leopoldovna, niece of Empress Anna Ioannovna, and a German from the noble family of Welfs - Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig. He became emperor in two months, but his mother actually ruled

A bow in Ancient Russia and in general in the ancient world meant not only a sign of humility and obedience to another person, but made the bowing helpless, because in this position the enemy could easily remove the head of a person who was bending down from his shoulders

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin was born on April 22, 1870. We are, of course, talking about Lenin the Man. Lenin as the idea and symbol of the revolution is still alive today, and this image obscures the real Lenin for us. Chess and townsLenin played chess well

1935, May 23, morning - a dark red Ford was driving along a country road. Six riflemen armed with carbines were waiting for him behind the tall bushes. Inside the Ford were a man and a girl whose heads the American police estimated at $ 50,000

Which of the stories told in the famous novel was true, and what Dumas preferred to keep silent about Despite the royal dignity, the spouses Anne of Austria and Louis XIII did not become the most prominent characters in French history

Anyone who has had to go to work after a sleepless night knows that there is no more challenging challenge for a sleepy person than trying to focus on an important subject

Creepy clowns have been talked about a lot lately

At the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. in one of the remote villages of the Poltava province, mysterious events began to occur. In early spring, a girl, Maria Burova, disappeared from the village. For some reason, she was away from home for a while and disappeared

In the summer of 1668, a detachment of archers, 125 people, was under the walls of the Solovetsky Monastery. They looked confused: it seemed that the archers themselves did not understand why they were ordered to come here

The world around us is full of secrets, mysterious crimes and horrific incidents. Ask yourself if all the unusual events in your life have always been intelligently explained to yourself

Yes Yes! The same Parisian Bastille. Have you seen her in Paris? Well preserved? Remember from "Yeralash" - - Little Johnny, who took the Bastille !? - Yes, I did not take it, Olga Petrovna

One of the most widespread myths about Russia is the world-wide opinion about the innate intemperance of the Russian people when drinking alcoholic beverages

Everyone knows that a Russian person is not averse to having a glass or two. An excessive love of alcohol is considered our national trait. But there were times when people voluntarily refused to drink. Moreover, in 1858-1860

The most popular commander in Russian history - enemy of the Germans and Swedes or an ally of the Horde? Terrible ruler or holy monk? We figure out whether it is true that Russian prince Alexander Yaroslavich was adopted by Batu Khan No

January 27 is the Day of Military Glory of Russia - day of complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade in 1944. The blockade of Leningrad is one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War

If we told our ancestors that we use paper and plastic for our shopping today, they would probably ask, “Why? And what is plastic? " In ancient times, money was not at all the same as it is now

The Aztecs pricked naughty children with cactus needles, in China they used “sea pike bites” for treason, and in ancient Rome, a brother could punish his sister by having sex with her. How human society punished its negligent members

“Americans - these are people with chicken brains. This country - a house of cards built on a shaky foundation of material prosperity. Americans live like pigs, albeit in a very luxurious pigsty. "

Thanks to one well-known federal TV channel, all Russians know that Adolf Hitler most likely escaped from Soviet troops in 1945 under the ice of Antarctica, and UFOs - this is almost certainly a product of the fascist German aircraft industry

Among the declassified CIA files is a 1943 report written for then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hitler was "both homosexual and heterosexual," according to the report

We used to call Nazi Germany, led by Hitler, the Third Reich. But where did the previous two go? History of Germany - this is the history of the three republics - Weimar, East Germany, and West Germany, and three empires - in German, the Reichs

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (born April 26, 1894 - death August 17, 1987) - German politician. Since 1925 - personal secretary to Adolf Hitler, since 1933, his deputy for the party

Many aristocratic houses of Russia descend from the Lithuanian dynasty of the Gediminids. In the unspoken table of ranks, they occupy an honorable third place after the direct descendants of Rurik and Genghis Khan

In the Great Patriotic War, 3286 people were mobilized from the village of Rashevatskaya. Almost half of them never returned from the battlefields

The United States of America became the only country to use nuclear weapons against civilians. This demonstration of indestructible power, technology that no one else on the planet had before, at once gave the United States a leading position

Historians say there were 8 women in Hitler's life. And one of them became his official wife. Eva Braun - her biography is well studied, but still there are some facts that are little known. Eva was born in Germany to a teacher's family

Nuclear war seems almost fantasy today. But during several decades of nuclear confrontation between the USSR and the United States, it was a very real threat