Secrets of history 2024, October

Perhaps the most famous inscription in the US Central Intelligence Agency, which is headquartered, as we all know, in Langley - Virginia, are the biblical words chipped in the marble of the main hall: “And ye shall

Recently, Russian scientists have finally managed to drill through the prehistoric ice of Antarctica. It took a whole thirty years to drill a well 3768 meters deep. Such persistence of researchers is explained by the desire to get into the most mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok

“It was a Scythian bow, short and tight. The Amazon entered the water almost to her knees, threw the silver braid from her shoulders back, put an arrow on the bowstring … She was like the Goddess of the Moon: deadly and innocent, graceful and terrible, like a lioness. " (

The most famous miracle of St. George is the release of Princess Alexandra (in another version, Elisawa) and the victory over the devil's serpent.It happened in the vicinity of the Lebanese city of Lasia. The local king paid an annual tribute to a monstrous snake that lived in the Lebanese mountains, in a deep lake: one person was given to it by lot to be eaten every year

Amelia Mary Earhart. Date of birth: 24 July 1897. Date of death: disappeared on 2 July 1937. Profession: pilot and journalist. Dry lines of Wikipedia on the Internet can tell nothing about Amelia Earhart

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States has published a large array of declassified archival documents: 275 summaries of American intelligence reports, which every day lay on the table of President Harry Truman in 1946

The protracted period of the Cold War brought the technology of the opposing countries to a completely new level

Stanford Prison Experiment - psychological experiment that was conducted in 1971 by the American psychologist Philip Zimbardo

Science requires sacrifice, and medical science is no exception. But only in medicine, innocent people become victims. Doctors conducted these terrible experiments, sincerely believing that they were acting for the sake of progress

Found a very interesting archive of photos. The greedy and greedy hand of various, unscrupulous, enthusiasts has not yet reached him. However, this is even good. If they knew about this archive, they would have tidied everything up for themselves long ago

The Victorian era lasted for 64 years of the 19th century, occupied 20% of the land, and affected a quarter of humanity. The Victorian era dates back to the reign of the British Queen Victoria, who was the monarch of the largest empire and reigned from 1837 to 1901

Many adventurers take trips to the wilderness and go hiking, but in these cases, things didn't go according to plan

People have always realized that they need to save a piece of their time for the future. The oldest time capsule was buried in 1777. It was dug up in the city of Burgos, Spain. Inside the bottle were items such as a wooden statue of Christ, as well as papers related to the politics, culture and economics of that era

It is very difficult to reconstruct the biography of the real Zarathustra on the basis of few and indistinct evidences. This is the most mysterious founder of religion, in whose biography there are the fewest precisely known facts. The legendary chronicle of his life is comparable to the curriculum vitae of any founding father of a religious teaching

In war, as in ordinary life, different things happen. No one is immune from tragic and sometimes criminal accidents, negligence or omissions.Today we will tell you about one of the most curious battles in world military history - the Battle of Caransebes

A photo of seven smiling people in space suits against the background of the Stars and Stripes appeared in the press a few days before the ill-fated launch

Mining was constantly developing to one degree or another throughout the empire

Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 3, 1891 in Kiev in the family of the associate professor of the Kiev Theological Academy Afanasy Ivanovich Bulgakov and his wife Varvara Mikhailovna. In 1916 he graduated from the medical faculty of the university and worked as a doctor

The Ministry of Defense had already put forward a similar hypothesis in the same year, believing that it was a missile launched by one of the countries of the Warsaw Pact

The Bashibuzuki are irregular foot and horse troops in the Ottoman Empire in the 18-19th century. They were undisciplined warriors, distinguished by high cruelty and tendency to violence, and looked more like robber squads.Irregular troops are military units, detachments, military units that are not part of the regular army, they served in a special period, and not constantly

Tales about Babu Yaga, the Serpent Gorynych and Koshchei the Immortal are known to us from an early age. Evil heroes are necessarily defeated by good ones, and justice prevails

Terrible historical interpretations of Russian folk tales. Baba Yaga The image of Baba Yaga goes back to the ancient times of matriarchy. This prophetic old woman, mistress of the forest, mistress of animals and birds, guarded the borders of the "other kingdom" - realms of the dead

The reign of Justinian the Great (527-565) was glorified with remarkable deeds. Two famous generals, Belisarius and Narses, conquered him in the west of the kingdoms of Vandal and Ostrogothic

During the Civil War in Siberia, most of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire disappeared without a trace. The story of the "golden train" is one of the most intricate plot lines in the huge drama of the Russian Civil War in 1918-1920

In our age of rapid scientific and technological progress, knowledge of the world and history is growing. However, so far, most promising research on human origins - collapsed. This is a big mistake of modern scientists and researchers

A world-renowned scientist, a great physiologist, the creator of the science of higher nervous activity, the first Russian Nobel laureate. All this is about academician Ivan Pavlov. September 26 marks the 170th anniversary of his birth.In Russia, his name has been known since school - from biology lessons about conditioned and unconditioned reflexes

Call of RuskolaniIf you open the "Book of Veles", then we will immediately see the image of the powerful ancient kingdom of Ruskolani in the Northern Black Sea region

And today there are a lot of encrypted mysteries of the past in the world. The Voynich manuscript is one of them, and is described in this article

The history of the Roman Empire is highly confused and fictional so that it is difficult to determine the exact dates. In his book on the ancient history of Russia, Lomonosov does not set dates, but indicates who and when ruled, where he ruled

The most famous of all the secret Nazi bases in the Soviet sector of the Arctic is considered the secret stronghold of the meteorological expedition "Treasure Hunter. It existed in 1943-1944 (there is evidence that Soviet pilots observed the base warehouses as early as 1942) on the westernmost island of the Franz Josef Land archipelago - Alexandra Land Island

In early 1947, the whole world was stirred up by sensational news. During a military and scientific expedition in Antarctica, the powerful American squadron of Admiral Byrd was defeated

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation. In 1517, 95 theses of the German theologian Martin Luther ended the Middle Ages and led to the formation of a new denomination. He himself considered the Reformation destructive, and his teaching was not understood

War of the Scarlet and White Rose (1455 - 1485) - the struggle for the English throne between the two lateral branches of the Plantagenet royal dynasty - Lancaster (coat of arms with a scarlet rose) and Yorks (coat of arms with a white rose)

In the one and a half year epic of the arrest, exile and execution of the royal family, there is a mysterious episode that went down in history as "Yakovlev's adventure"

Monetary reform of 1961 is often tried to be presented as an ordinary denomination, like the one that was carried out in 1998

The chronicles taken now as a basis for studying the history of Russia, or as they are also called "The Tale of Bygone Years" ", compiled by the unscrupulous monk Nestor, in many places contradict common sense, and in some they simply blatantly misinterpret

In the era of the Great Migration of Peoples I - IV centuries. AD part of the Slavs was conquered by the East German tribe of the Goths. The ancient cultural heritage at this time practically did not touch our ancestors

Russian archaeologists Elena and Igor Kachalov argue that the falsification of the history of ancient Russia continues to this day

He was one of the most famous people of his time, and his name is found today in almost every textbook of geometry. Who is he - the great mystic Pythagoras?It is difficult to find a student who does not know Pythagoras and his famous theorem

An interesting engraving came across. In the center, all spheres are framed by a ribbon with an inscription from the Book of Ecclesiastes "In Search of the Meaning of Life" (more on that later). The inscription reads"MUNDUM TRADIDIT DISPUTATIONI EORUM", tried to translate, but ran into some kind of confusion