A walk through Los Angeles in 1940.

Would you agree to live in that era?

Do you know where the word decimation came from? We will fix it now.

If in Rome legions or cohorts were found to be cowardly, mutinous, or deserting, they drew lots.

Every tenth legionnaire was executed as punishment for crimes. And the remaining nine did it - often his friends and comrades. Well, the highlight is the lack of weapons for execution. They had to be beaten with sticks or stones so that what happened would leave an indelible mark on everyone.

✍How cartoons were created

When there was no computer graphics.

Jean Libber is a Man with two bodies. Photos are not for the faint of heart

Under this pseudonym, Jean performed in the circus with his twin brother Jacques.


Jacques had two small arms, two legs, and a partially formed head embedded in Jean's torso. Despite Jacques' unusual condition, he managed to live a fairly normal life, get married and have four healthy children before he died at the age of about 50.

Footage of the Normandy Landings in the first person, 1944.

The "jumping bomb" is a popular World War II concept of bombs for destroying dams.

They were mainly used during the British raids on German territory.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri is a man who has lived at the airport for 18 years.

On August 26, 1988, after losing a suitcase with documents, Mehran got stuck at the Paris airport. There was nothing they could do with him - legally there was no country where he could be sent. So he lived for 18 years, periodically arguing with law enforcement agencies and demanding asylum in Britain by birthright. It was his story that Tom Hanks artistically adapted into the film "The terminal".

The Nazis committed many crimes and mistreated people.

During the occupation of cities, they mercilessly killed people and raped young girls in front of their husbands, children and parents.

The twins were especially hurt, because the German doctor Mengele was just eager to create Siamese twins, for this he sewed prisoners. As a result, out of 1,500 experimental people, only 200 survived .

In ancient Rome, there was an interesting way for people to fight for their rights – secession.

All the commoners took supplies with them for a few days and left the city. They left the patricians alone. And life in the city stopped completely.

Shops and shops did not work, and food was not sold in the markets. This massively paralyzed the city's economy, and the elite was forced to agree to their
terms.

In particular, after the first secession, the plebs were forgiven part of their debts and the commoners were allowed to govern the state — the People's Tribune was established.

No politics, just a fun fact🙃

In the entire history of the United States, the country has had 47 presidents (45 unique). For all of them, they have collected 91 criminal charges.

And the list of charges is distributed as follows:

Several people asked who I support in the US presidential election.
I will answer here, as there will be more such people)
I only support peace, we live in a wonderful time and spending it on wars for money is stupid.
Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are cursed to repeat them.
And anyway, I live in another hemisphere, I'll even tell you where if you get 50 likes😁

Until recently, steel used for scientific and medical purposes had to be obtained from sunken battleships of the First World War.

The fact is that after 1945, several thousand nuclear tests took place on the planet - the radiation background has grown tremendously everywhere.

It becomes more difficult to find metal that is not contaminated with radioactive particles - and warships sunk before 1945 lie untouched by radiation and relatively clean.

So they are raised for remelting to obtain "pure" steel.

Colorized footage of the Hindenburg airship disaster, 1937.

The airship was the size of two football fields - it first flew into the air to demonstrate Nazi propaganda at the 1936 Olympics. Anyway, it was originally planned to name the airship after Hitler and not Hindenburg.

In the list of the deadliest airship disasters, Hindenburg ranks only third - 62 out of 97 people on board survived. Much more than in 1930, when the British R101 claimed the lives of 48 people. Or in 1933, when 73 people died in the United States.

It's just that the disaster of this particular airship was very viral and eventually finished off the industry competing with airplanes.

A walk through London, 1926.

The sharp visors still didn't lie to us.

Annie Edson Taylor

The first to survive, having overcome Niagara Falls in a barrel, in 1901. The first person to "win" the waterfall was not some daredevil, but 63-year-old teacher Annie Edson Taylor. After losing her husband and son, the woman decided to start a new life. In search of earnings, Taylor came across a newspaper article telling how local extreme athletes arrange dangerous shows near Niagara Falls and get good money for it.
The adventure that was born in Taylor's head promised to become a real sensation: the woman decided to conquer a 53-meter waterfall by descending from it in a wooden barrel.
The barrel was tested on a cat. During the fall, the animal survived, suffering minor head injuries.
The woman was placed in an oak barrel measuring 1.4 x 1 m. There were cushions and fabric inside to cushion the impact.
Hundreds of people watched the fall. Less than twenty minutes later, she was fished out of the water. The woman severely scratched her head until it bled, but otherwise unharmed.

David Blaine, 22, returned home after delivering newspapers on the morning of June 20, 1994, to find that all his family members had been shot dead at their family home in Dunedin, New Zealand.

It was David who became the main suspect - a rifle was found at the crime scene where only his fingerprints were found. The man was accused of trying to take the inheritance and sentenced to life in prison.

David insisted on his innocence and achieved it, but only in 2009 - it turned out that his father killed the whole family, who shot himself there. He just wore gloves and did everything professionally.

The government paid the man $1 million in compensation. But it didn't help much considering the horror David had been through. In 2023, on July 12, he died at the age of 51.

The construction of prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Oranienburg. The Third Reich. February 1941.

The inscriptions "truthfulness" and "self—sacrifice" are visible on the walls of the buildings - this is part of a quote from Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler: "There is only one path to freedom. And his milestones are humility, diligence, honesty, discipline, purity, sobriety, truthfulness, self-sacrifice and love for the motherland."

Where did the name "Who does not take risks, does not drink champagne" come from?

Previously, in France, wine had the property of exploding.

So going down to the cellar for a bottle of champagne was still a risk. They went to the basements in special protective suits against shrapnel. Sommeliers of that time were often without fingers or without an eye.

The last photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe, Santa Monica, July 15, 1962. The actress died 3 weeks after this shooting.