Fun historical facts. The most interesting historical facts
In 1992, a group of Australians set themselves the goal of winning the national lottery jackpot at all costs. They invested $5 million in lottery tickets ($1 per ticket) to cover almost every possible combination and won $27 million.
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One nun really needed a ladder, but she had no one to turn to. The devout woman began to fervently pray to the patron saint of carpenters, Saint Joseph. Soon a man appeared on the doorstep who offered his services and in a couple of months made a beautiful, strong spiral staircase. When the work was completed, the man simply disappeared without receiving any payment or gratitude, and all attempts to find him were unsuccessful. It is curious that the staircase is made without any supports, without a single nail, and at the same time makes a 360-degree turn. 
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Elephants rape and kill rhinoceroses. In Pilanesberg National Park (South Africa) alone, 63 such cases were recorded. 
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In 1995, New York magazine Newsweek published an article, “Why the Web Can Never Become Nirvana,” mocking the future of the Internet. The author of the article ridiculed the idea that someday people would get news, buy airline tickets and study online. This article can still be read on the publication’s website. 
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Between Egypt and Sudan there is territory that is not claimed by any state. It is called Bir Tawil and is a quadrangle with an area of about 2000 kilometers. In theory, this territory should currently belong to Egypt. However, in 1958, Egypt demanded that Sudan return to the 1899 borders and hand over the Halaib Triangle, refusing Bir Tawil in return. Sudan refused. So Bir Tawil turned out to be the only “no man's” territory outside of Antarctica. 
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In 1730, the French pirate Olivier Levasseur was sentenced to the gallows. Just before his execution, he suddenly threw a note with a cryptogram into the crowd, shouting: “Find my treasures if you can!” The treasure has not yet been found. 
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During excavations at an ancient Roman temple in London's Southwark, a jar of ointment was discovered that was at least 2,000 years old. The substance retained its structure, and there were even fairly clear fingerprints on it. 
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The largest robbery in Japan occurred in 1968. One day, a bank car carrying a large sum of money was stopped by a policeman on a motorcycle. He said that, according to his information, there was a bomb in the car and ordered everyone to get out. He then climbed inside “to defuse the explosive device.” Suddenly the car filled with smoke and the bank employees accompanying the valuable cargo fled in panic. And the “policeman” calmly left. During this heist (crime scene pictured below), 300 million yen was stolen and remains unsolved to this day. 
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Most of the borders of the Middle East were established by a couple of European aristocrats in 1916. The Frenchman François Georges-Picot and the Englishman Mark Sykes developed the so-called “Sykes-Picot Agreement,” which delimited the spheres of interest of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy in the Middle East after the First World War. 
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In 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace. I went for a swim with friends in the bay and disappeared. He could not drown, since he was an excellent swimmer; there were no sharks in those places; the cheerful prime minister had no reason to commit suicide. Holt's body was never found. This disappearance has become part of Australian folklore. The expression “to make Harold Holt” means to disappear suddenly and mysteriously among the locals. 
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In May 2013, an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York was forced to make an emergency landing to evict a Whitney Houston fan who had driven passengers and crew into despair. The woman, without stopping, screamed the famous hit “I Will Always love you” and flatly refused to shut up. She sang even when the police took her out of the salon:
Good day, dear friends!
The last bells in schools recently rang out, and graduates took a little breath: they took a break from preparing for the unified state exam. And this is great, since periodic rest is a necessary component of any preparation. By the way, I wrote about this in more detail in a post.
Today I also invite you to take a break from preparation and spend time on intellectual entertainment - getting to know fun historical facts. These facts will help you look at history not as a boring series of facts and events, but as entertaining stories that can motivate you to study more thoroughly this or that period of Russian history before the Unified State Exam.
If history has already bored you, then I also highly recommend that you read my post on how to learn history so that this teaching is more interesting and exciting.
Well, now let's move on to the most interesting part: fun facts from history. I'll focus on a few of these entertaining stories and facts, but I will draw parallels with Russian history. By the end of the article you will understand why I did this :).
We will move chronologically and start from the 13th century.
FIRST FUNNY STORY. KAMIKAZE
As you remember very well, in the 13th century, Rus' was not going through the best of times; it fought off both the Mongol-Tatars and the crusaders... At the same time, Japan was also experiencing aggression from the Mongol-Tatars. Japan, like Rus', was fragmented into different principalities, and therefore it could not withstand the onslaught of the Mongols. Meanwhile, her enslavement did not happen. That's why?
The western principalities of Japan would be the first to suffer in the event of Mongol-Tatar aggression. The princes of these principalities ordered services in a Shinto temple (Shinto is Japanese paganism). And when the Mongol khan gathered a huge fleet and sent it to enslave Japan, a storm broke out and scattered the khan’s fleet! This storm was nicknamed kami kaze (kami - deity, kaze - wind). That is why in World War II Japanese pilots called themselves that, because they, like a divine wind (kamikaze), fell on the enemy fleet...:
SECOND FUN FACT. LIFE AND CORNERS OF MEDIEVAL Rus'.
There is every reason to believe that domestic violence and alcoholism are almost a tradition in Russia. Here, for example, is a quote from Sylvester’s Domostroi:
“Discipline your son in his youth, and he will give you peace in your old age, and give beauty to your soul. Loving your son, increase his wounds - and then you will not boast about him. Punish your son from his youth and you will rejoice for him in his maturity, and among your ill-wishers you will be able to boast about him, and your enemies will envy you. Raise your children in prohibitions and you will find peace and blessing in them.”
And here is the testimony of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich’s doctor, Samuel Collins:
“At Maslenitsa, before Lent, Russians indulge in all kinds of amusements with unbridledness, and in the last week of Lent there is so much, as if they were destined to drink for the last time in their lifetime. Some drink vodka, distilled four times, until the mouth flares up and flames come out of the throat, as if from the mouth of hell (Bocca di inferno); and if they are then not given milk to drink, they die on the spot. .
Some, returning home drunk, fall sleepy into the snow, if there is no sober friend with them, and freeze on this cold bed. If one of his acquaintances happens to walk past and see a drunken friend on the verge of death, then he does not give him help, fearing that he will die in his arms and fearing to be subjected to the anxiety of investigations, because the Zemsky Prikaz knows how to collect a tax from any dead body , coming under his department. It’s a pity to see twelve frozen people being carried on a sleigh; Some have their hands eaten away by dogs, some have their faces, and others have only bare bones left. Two or three hundred people were transported in this way during the fast. From this you can see the harmful consequences of drunkenness, a disease (Epidemick) peculiar not only to Russia, but also to England.”
“The most surprising thing is that her death was not avenged by anyone, because in Russia there is no criminal law that would prosecute the murder of a wife or a slave if the murder is committed as punishment for an offense; but murder is a strange punishment: the purpose of punishment was never to end life, but always to correct it. Some husbands tie their wives by the hair and whip them completely naked. Such cruelties, however, are rare, and the only causes are infidelity or drunkenness. Now, it seems, husbands do not treat their wives so cruelly, at least parents try to warn them and, when giving their daughters in marriage, they enter into a condition. They demand from the son-in-law that he provide his wife with decent clothes, feed her good and healthy food, not beat her, treat her kindly, and offer many other conditions, somewhat similar to the rules prescribed in England by customs that have received the force of law.”
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THIRD HISTORICAL FACT: Emperor Peter the Third had two great people in his pedigree: Peter the Great and Charles 12. Irony of fate?
FOUR FUN FACT: Hitler and Lenin played chess with each other:
THE FIFTH FUNNY STORY ABOUT HOW EMPRESS ANNA IOANNOVNA BECAME SINGLE.
You all know very well that Peter the Great had a weak-minded brother, Ivan. By the way, you shouldn’t laugh at this, because in the old days you would have been considered weak-minded, all you had to do was not believe in God.
So, Peter’s weak-minded brother Ivan had a daughter, who was named Anna, who later became the Russian Empress during palace coups. She was married to the Duke of Courland. Well, we had a wedding there, everything was as it should be. On the way to Courland, the Duke died. The official version claims that he was old and died of heart... A more truth-like version says that his dear was distant, his wife was young..., well, the Duke could not stand it, he overdid it, so to speak... :)
This is how Anna Ioannovna became a widow... which did not stop her from becoming the Russian Empress.
SIXTH FUNNY STORY. VERA ZASULICH
Vera Zasulich is known for shooting the mayor of St. Petersburg, General Trepov. I shot twice, but didn’t hit, or I hit where I was aiming. As a result, Eral remained alive, and Vora was put on trial, which, as you remember, became the most advanced: with the bar, the prosecutor's office and the jury. So, at the trial, the lawyer presented the case in such a way that Vera Zasulich became a victim of terrorists and she was actually not to blame, he came himself :)
And what do you think? The jury acquitted the terrorist, who safely fled abroad after the trial. The authorities realized it, but it was already too late...
SEVENTH FUNNY STORY
What actually started the Russo-Japanese War. Otsu Incident=>>
EIGHTH FUNNY STORY: HIROO ONODA
Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese army officer who fought in World War II in the Philippines until 1974. Officially, the authorities declared him dead, but he did not die, but fought. He did not believe all the rumors that the war had ended back in 1945, and only when his immediate general, who gave him the task, came to the Philippines and gave the order to surrender his weapons - Onoda obeyed. Subsequently, Onoda left Japan for Brazil, hiding from unnecessary attention. After all, he simply followed the order and stood until the end. Since 1984, Hiroo Onoda has been writing his memoirs. As soon as I read it, I’ll be sure to write about it.
And now you ask why he didn’t commit seppuku (harahiri) for himself. In August 1945, the order was given not to commit seppuku, but to stand until the last.
I think we'll focus on these eight fun facts and stories. I hope they at least somehow entertained you. I'm planning a few more posts on this topic, so don't miss it! See you in touch!
History is a sphere of guesses, hypotheses and assumptions. However, if you know some facts from the past, you can avoid mistakes in the future!
1. In Napoleon’s army, soldiers could address generals as “you.”
2. In Rus', grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
3. Punishment with rods was abolished in Russia only in 1903.
4. The “Hundred Years' War” lasted 116 years.
5. What we call the Caribbean crisis, Americans call the Cuban crisis, and the Cubans themselves call the October crisis.
6. The shortest war in history was the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted exactly 38 minutes.
7. The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan was on a plane called the Enola Gay. The second is on a Bock’s Car plane
8. Under Peter I in Russia, a special department was created to receive petitions and complaints, which was called ... racketeering.
9. On June 4, 1888, the New York State Congress passed a bill to abolish hanging execution. The reason for this “humane” act was the introduction of a new method of death penalty - the electric chair.
10. According to an agreement concluded between engineer Gustave Eiffel and the city authorities of Paris, in 1909 the Eiffel Tower was to be dismantled (!) and sold for scrap (!)
11. The Spanish Inquisition persecuted many groups of the population, but most of all the Cathars, Marranos and Moriscos. The Cathars are followers of the Albigensian heresy, the Marranos are baptized Jews, and the Moriscos are baptized Muslims.
12. The first Japanese to come to Russia was Denbei, the son of a merchant from Osaka. His ship washed up on the shores of Kamchatka in 1695. In 1701 he reached Moscow. Peter I assigned him to teach Japanese to several teenagers.
13. Only in 1947 in England was the position of the person who was supposed to fire a cannon upon entering England was abolished.
14. Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Gounod, Lecomte de Lisle and many other cultural figures signed the famous protest against ... “the deformation of Paris by the Eiffel Tower.”
15. When the famous German physicist Albert Einstein died, his last words went with him. The nurse next to him did not understand a word of German.
16. In the Middle Ages, students were forbidden to carry knives, swords and pistols and to appear on the street after 21 o’clock, because ... this posed a great danger to the townspeople.
17. On the gravestone of the monument to Suvorov it is simply written: “Here lies Suvorov.”
18. Between the two world wars, France underwent more than 40 different governments.
19. For the last 13 centuries, the imperial throne in Japan has been occupied by the same dynasty.
20. One of the American planes in Vietnam hit itself with a missile fired.
21. The mad Roman emperor Caligula once decided to declare war on the God of the Seas - Poseidon, after which he ordered his soldiers to randomly throw their spears into the water. By the way, from Roman “Caligula” means “little shoe.”
22. Abdul Kassim Ismail - the great vizier of Persia (10th century) was always near his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by four hundred camels. Moreover, the books (i.e. camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
23. Nothing is impossible now. If you want to buy a car in Guryevsk, please, if you want, in another city. But the fact remains that it needs to be registered and license plates obtained. So, the very first license plate was attached to his car by the Berlin businessman Rudolf Herzog. This happened in 1901. There were only three characters on his license plate - IA1 (IA are the initials of his young wife Johanna Anker, and the one means that she is his first and only).
24. At the end of the evening prayer on the ships of the Russian Imperial Fleet, the commander of the watch commanded “Cover yourself!”, which meant putting on hats, and at the same time the all-clear signal for prayer was given. This prayer usually lasted 15 minutes.
25. In 1914, the German colonies were inhabited by 12 million people, and the British colonies - almost 400 million.
26. In the entire history of temperature recording in Russia, the coldest winter was the winter of 1740.
27. In the modern army, the rank of cornet corresponds to an ensign, and the rank of lieutenant corresponds to a lieutenant. 28. The Thai national anthem was written in 1902 by Russian (!) composer Pyotr Shchurovsky.
29. Until 1703, Chistye Prudy in Moscow was called... Nasty Ponds.
30. The first book published in England was dedicated to... chess.
31. World population in 5000 BC. was 5 million people.
32. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
33. A list of gifts to Stalin in honor of his seventieth birthday was published in Soviet newspapers from December 1949 to March 1953.
34. Nicholas I gave his officers a choice between a guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas as punishment.
35. Above the entrance to Aristotle’s Lyceum there was an inscription: “Entrance here is open to anyone who wishes to dispel Plato’s misconceptions.”
36. The third decree after the “Decree on Peace” and the “Decree on Land” issued by the Bolsheviks was the “Decree on Spelling”.
37. During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, in addition to the well-known city of Pompeii, the cities of Herculaneum and Stabiae also perished.
38. Fascist Germany - “third Reich”, Hohenzoller Empire (1870-1918) - “second Reich”, Holy Roman Empire - “first Reich”.
39. In the Roman army, soldiers lived in tents of 10 people. At the head of each tent was a senior person, who was called... the dean.
40. A tightly tightened corset and a large number of bracelets on the arms in England during the Tudor reign were considered a sign of virginity.
41. FBI agents did not gain the right to bear arms until 1934, 26 years after the FBI was founded.
42. Until the Second World War, in Japan any touch of the emperor was considered blasphemy.
43. On February 16, 1568, the Spanish Inquisition imposed a death sentence on all (!) residents of the Netherlands. 44. In 1911, in China, braids were recognized as a sign of feudalism and therefore wearing them was prohibited.
45. The first party card of the CPSU belonged to Lenin, the second to Brezhnev (the third to Suslov, and the fourth to Kosygin).
46. The American Physical Education League, the first nudist organization in the United States, was founded on December 4, 1929.
47. In 213 BC. Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi gave the order to burn all the books in the country.
48. In Madagascar in 1610, King Ralambo created the state of Imerin, which means “as far as the eye can see.”
49. The first Russian saints were Boris and Gleb, canonized in 1072.
50. One of the punishments for criminals in Ancient India was... mutilation of the ears.
51. Of the 266 people who occupied the papal throne, 33 died a violent death.
52. In Rus', a stick was used to beat a witness to achieve the truth.
53. In normal weather, the Romans wore a tunic, and when cold weather set in, they wore several tunics.
54. In ancient Rome, a group of slaves belonging to one person was called ... a surname.
55. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Scorus.
56. Until 1361, legal proceedings in England were conducted exclusively in French.
57. Having accepted the surrender, the Soviet Union did not sign peace with Germany, that is, it remained at war with Germany. The war with Germany ended on January 21, 1955 with the adoption of a corresponding decision by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. However, May 9 is considered Victory Day - the day the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany was signed.
58. The eruption of the Mexican volcano Paricutin lasted 9 years (from 1943 to 1952). During this time, the volcano's cone rose 2,774 meters.
59. To date, archaeologists have discovered traces of nine fortress settlements that existed in different eras in the territory associated with ancient Troy.
Historical events and facts are very educational and interesting. They give us a unique opportunity to understand what is happening in a given period of development of human society, nations and countries. Almost all nations have interesting historical facts. Russia has especially many of them. This is easily explained by the rich, centuries-old past of our country. Widespread legends about rulers, about scientific and technological progress, about art and culture have always attracted and continue to attract citizens of other states. Below are examples of such historical facts.
About rulers
Since the beginning in 1825, rulers in our country have alternated according to the “bald - hairy” principle. This pattern has persisted to this day.
About television
In 1992, the chimes on television on New Year's Eve were delayed by one minute.
About money
The double-headed eagle on coins is not the country’s coat of arms, but the emblem of the Bank of Russia.
Scientific and historical fact
The only person in the world who lives in Russia is Sergei Krikalev. He spent more than 800 hours in space, moving at high speed. According to the theory of relativity, time slows down at high speeds. It was calculated that the astronaut returned to Earth 0.02 seconds younger.
About laws
In 1994, the government passed a law prohibiting dogs from barking from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. This law is still valid, but only in Moscow. It is also noteworthy that the legislative act does not stipulate what punishment the violator will suffer.
Geography facts
The Russian Federation is almost twice the size of the United States. The St. Petersburg metro is the deepest in the world. connects the capital and the city of Vladivostok and is the longest railway line in the world. Siberian taiga - 8% of the earth's land.
Technique
There are many more Kalashnikov assault rifles in the world than all other types of weapons combined.
About the rulers and laws of Tsarist Russia
Interesting historical facts about Russia are not always accurate and scientifically verified. For example, according to some historians, Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son.
In Russia, equality between men and women was proclaimed 2 years earlier than in the United States.
Peter the Great had his own way of combating drunkenness in the country. He ordered medals, which weighed more than 7 kg, to be given to all offenders. They were obliged not to remove it for seven days.
Racketeering is the department in charge of receiving petitions under Peter the Great.
The interesting story is rich in facts from the life of the tsarist army: Nicholas the First, as a punishment, gave the offending officers a choice between keeping a watch out of turn and listening to an opera.
Denbei is the first Japanese to come to Russia. In 1695 he arrived in Kamchatka, and in 1701 he reached Moscow. Peter the Great ordered him to teach Japanese to Russian children in schools.
“Here lies Suvorov” - the inscription on the slab near the monument to the commander.
Boris and Gleb are the first Russians to be canonized (1072).
Interesting historical facts in pre-revolutionary Russia
About the Army and Navy
In the Russian Imperial Navy the command "Cover up!" meant that you had to wear a hat.
In the army of imperial times there was the rank of cornet, and in modern times - ensign; in the army of imperial times - the rank of lieutenant, and in modern times - lieutenant.
Geography facts
1740 - the coldest winter in Russia.
After 1703, Poganye Ponds in Moscow began to be called... Chistye Ponds!
About science
M.V. Lomonosov is the founder of Moscow State University, but he himself never visited this university.
About the people
In Ancient Rus', grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
In Rus', the “original” is a stick that was used to beat a witness to a crime.
An interesting historical fact is that the Thai anthem was written in 1902 by a Russian composer.
Interesting about the politics of the USSR. Historical truth
What was called the Cuban Missile Crisis in the USSR began to be called the Cuban Crisis in the USA, and the October Crisis in Cuba itself.
An interesting historical fact is that legally the war between Germany and the USSR ended on January 21, 1955. The decision was made by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
In 1931, the Red Army and White Guards fought on the same side; at the request of the Governor-General of the Chinese province Sheng Shicai, they suppressed the uprising of the Turkic population.
Unusual historical facts of the USSR
In World War II, machine gunner Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler fought in the Red Army.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the USSR used tractors in battles due to a shortage of combat vehicles.
During the entire period of the Cold War, the world was twice on the verge of a nuclear disaster due to failures in computer systems in the USSR and the USA. Nuclear war was averted only thanks to the experienced military leaders of both superpowers.
During the Great Patriotic War, mines were cleared by dogs specially trained for this purpose; they were the main assistants of sappers.
In the USSR, the main opponent of the fascists, according to Hitler, was the announcer Yuri Levitan, and not Stalin, as many believe.
Interesting science and technology in the USSR
In the village of Baikonur, in the Kazakhstan SSR, a wooden cosmodrome was built in the 1950s. This was done in order to mislead enemy states. The real cosmodrome is located more than 350 km from this village.
During World War II, the USSR designed a flying tank based on the design of the A-40 tank, but the project was closed due to a lack of powerful towing vehicles.
The laser pistol was invented in the Soviet Union in 1984.
The Americans suggested that the USSR be the first to launch into space not dogs but black children.
GAZ-21 has a wide range of models, including a model with right-hand drive and an automatic transmission.
The T-28 tank could overcome “lunar landscapes”. This was the name of the territory that was seriously damaged by the fighting.
Scientific and historical fact: the space device that the Soviet Union wanted to launch into space to explore Mars, during tests showed that there is no life on Earth. After this incident, it was sent for revision.
About famous personalities
The list of gifts for Stalin's seventieth birthday was published in newspapers for more than three years.
Rokossovsky is a marshal of both the USSR and Poland.
Khrushchev ridiculed and sharply criticized paintings painted by artists in the avant-garde direction. At the same time, he often used obscene language.
Vladimir Putin, when he served in the KGB, had the call sign “Mol”.
About laws
In the Soviet Union there was a tax on childlessness.
About sport
Lev Yashin is a famous football goalkeeper who took bronze at the USSR Ice Hockey Championship in 1953.
The main prize in Sportloto has been won only twice in the entire history of this game.
Music and television
Evgeny Leonov voiced such a character as Winnie the Pooh in cartoons.
The group "Aria" has a song called "Will and Reason", few people know that this is the motto of the Nazis in fascist Italy.
Geography facts
In the early 1920s, the city of Novosibirsk had two time zones. On the left bank of the Ob River the difference from the capital was 3 hours, and on the right bank it was 4 hours.
In the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century, Vladikavkaz was the center of both the Ingush and North Ossetian republics.
About the meaning of words
The word "zek" means "prisoned Red Army soldier."
"Unknown" world history
This or that historical fact does not always sound plausible and understandable to a contemporary. Examples are given below.
During the time of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, anyone who dared to urinate in any body of water was executed. Because water in the desert was more valuable than gold.
In England in 1665-1666, the plague devastated entire villages. It was then that medicine recognized smoking as beneficial, which supposedly destroyed the deadly infection. Children and teenagers were punished if they refused to smoke.
Ancient Egyptian beauties evenly distributed pieces of fat throughout their hair. In the sun they melted and evenly covered the hair with a greasy shiny layer, which was considered very fashionable.
The famous inventor of the sewing machine, Isaac Singer, was simultaneously married to five women. In total, he had 15 children from all the women. He called all his daughters Mary. Probably so as not to make a mistake...
Interesting historical facts on the funeral theme: the English admiral Nelson, who lived from 1758 to 1805, slept in his cabin in a coffin that was cut out of the mast of an enemy French ship. His “feat” was repeated by a French actress who learned her lyrics while lying in a coffin. She often took this prop on tour, which made those around her very nervous. In the Middle Ages, sailors deliberately inserted at least one gold tooth, even sacrificing a healthy one. For what? It turns out that it was for a rainy day, so that in case of death he could be buried with honor far from home.
Approximately half of New Yorkers speak several languages other than their native American English by age 5.
In 2007, New York was visited by approximately 46 million tourists, who spent more than $28 billion in the city!
The entire story lasted only 38 minutes. Zanzibar and England “fought” so much in 1896. England won.
A few more myths. Or is it true?
Historians claim that on Cocos Island, located 300 miles south of Costa Rica, pirates hid treasure worth two billion dollars. Archaeologists are searching.
The most incomprehensible mystery of humanity is death. What happens to a person after he dies? Modern scientists are conducting large-scale and multimillion-dollar research in this area. So far there is only 100% conclusion that human consciousness continues to exist after physical death.
Official data from the British Admiralty states that as a result of shipwrecks, an eighth of all gold and silver mined on earth rests on the seabed. Today, you can buy an old map with treasure coordinates on the black market. Is this true or a scam? In 1985, using such a map, Mel Fisher found the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora off the coast of Florida, which sank back in 1622. From the bottom of the ship he managed to lift 450(!) million dollars worth of valuables.
In some countries, every movement of citizens is monitored by intelligence services using Internet tracking programs. Sensors are built into modern phones, TVs, and computers. World espionage is thriving. Is it true? Who knows...
I wonder what the sex life of our ancestors was like? What were the poses? What were the morals like? Or maybe intimacy was something vicious and sinful? This can be judged from ancient writings and folklore. And here are the conclusions the researchers made.
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Who came up with the idea that women are fragile and weak creatures who cannot protect themselves? Let him stand up and be stoned. Several arguments that can change your opinion about the women's world and women's existence. A fascinating journey through time will reveal many interesting secrets and facts to you.
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In the bustle of vanities, we forgot a little about the 125th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov, and when we remembered, in order not to be trivial, we decided to talk not about the writer himself, but about an equally amazing person who became the prototype of Professor Preobrazhensky - surgeon Sergei Abramovich Voronov, who was also considered a genius , and Frankenstein at the same time.
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Art is eternal. From cave paintings to digital art: our entire stay on this planet is permeated with threads of paints, canvases, pencils and pastels. This is a kind of time funnel, with the help of which you can find yourself anywhere at any second. But which of all this is truly worthy of being considered great?
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Great scientists and historians began to conduct in-depth research to prove or disprove the existence of some famous people. I propose to familiarize yourself with six historical figures whose existence is most controversial.
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Nowadays, a phone means every minute access to the Internet, games, applications, and even two cameras to make it more convenient to take selfies. The telephone has become an indicator of a person’s social status in society. Now it serves not for voice communication, but more for text communication, via social networks and text messages. But once upon a time everything was different...
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Amazing architectural monuments, man-made masterpieces and archaeological finds that go beyond our understanding, dating back centuries and millennia BC, present the history of human civilization in a completely different light. Read on to know more.
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Are your new designer jeans so tight that you can't take a breath? Do shoes make a date hell? Well, put your heels aside and check out the real “instruments of torture” that were once on the must-have list of any self-respecting fashionista. We present to your attention the five most unhealthy fashion delights.
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What does it mean if a person “begs the belly” in order to avoid being “hanged” as punishment for a “petty betrayal”, in the hope of simply being sentenced to “relocation”? These are terms that were used daily in courtrooms throughout the 16th to 19th centuries, each representing a fascinating and often disturbing piece of our history. I propose 15 historical crimes and punishments.
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When we talk about cruelty and evil, we often think of murderers, maniacs and rapists. But have you ever thought that in 100% of cases male names come to mind? How could it be otherwise? After all, a woman is a mother, she is tenderness and love. But history shows that indescribable, unimaginable cruelty sometimes settled in a fragile woman’s heart.
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We are surrounded by many things without which we simply cannot imagine our lives, they are so “for granted” for us. It's hard to believe that once upon a time there were no matches, pillows or forks for eating. But all these objects have gone through a long path of modification to come to us in the form in which we know them. I propose to learn the complex history of simple things. Part 2.
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We are surrounded by many things without which we simply cannot imagine our lives, they are so “for granted” for us. It's hard to believe that there was once no comb, tea bag or buttons. But all these objects have gone through a long path of modification to come to us in the form in which we know them. I propose to learn the complex history of simple things.
/ Historical facts
“Our” habits are the habits of post-Soviet people. We were brought up and grew up in approximately equal conditions, with the same opportunities. And our customs and traditions have made us recognizable almost all over the world. And even if we get lost in a foreign country, we can still recognize each other, even if we don’t talk. One word: “ours”!
