On October 2, 1836, Charles Darwin returned from a five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. The collected information about animals and plants formed the basis of his theory of evolution. Often, one can find statements that his theory was full of racism and sexism. In reality, this is not the case. Rather, on the contrary, Darwin was the first to declare that every single person on the planet belongs to the same species. Although during the slave trade, many doubted this very much.

Bernie Sanders, the future US presidential candidate, is once again detained by the police, Chicago, 1963.

This is probably his hundredth arrest in the photo, and before that, the police tore down the leaflets he hung, freed him from the chains with which he chained himself to protesting blacks, also lay down in the path of Willis's vans and sat in the "detention" many times.

Democracy🤷‍♂

A girl protests against wearing bras, San Francisco, August 1, 1969.

There would be such protests now, but not this.

Only 66 years separate these two photos.

Almost two thousand years have passed from the invention of the engine to the first flight.

This day in history is the annexation of Texas.

On December 29, 1845, the U.S. Congress recognized Texas as the 28th state in the country. This quickly sparked a war with Mexico, whose territory the state had historically been. The Mexican-American War led to the fact that Mexico lost even more territories, right up to the Pacific coast.

Masonic prayer of the first third of the 19th century.

"Great Architect of the Universe, hear us!
We make mistakes in thought, word and deed, forgive us,
We are weak in heart, mind and soul, strengthen us,
Teach us prayer that merges with the Divine.,
Teach us the faith that works miracles.,
Teach us the love that embraces all things.,
Teach us a joyful sacrifice in Your name.,
Pour peace into the souls of all our brothers,
Enlighten all earthly beings with the illumination of Your love.
The sunbeam of the Deity ..., illuminate with a blessing
Everything that lives in all planes and spheres of the universe is yours,
Enlighten with Your blessing all the steps of the mystical ladder from the step of the fallen angels to the step of the Bright Teachers
Our leader... Thy will be done upon us."

Dear friends, I wish you a Happy New Year!
I wish there was always peace over your head. Your dreams have always come true. There was peace in your soul and joy in your heart.
It's been a difficult year for everyone. But I try not to get involved in politics.
I hope that I will have more time to give you more interesting historical facts than I have had recently.

This day in history is the tallest building in the world.

On January 4, 2010, the opening ceremony of the Burj Khalifa, the world's only 163-storey skyscraper, took place. The height of 828 meters helped the building become the tallest in the world. The surface area of Burj Khalifa is approximately 17 football fields.

Hello, friends.

I'm sorry for the long absence. I decided to take a short vacation. I hope you will understand me. Work, family, and no free time at all. I'll start publishing again in a couple of days. And today, by the way, in the country where I live (I wrote about it earlier) they celebrate Christmas.

The holidays are over, let's get back to work😁

This day in history is the release of iTunes.

On January 9, 2001, Apple changed the planet. The iTunes music service saw the light, which, along with the iPod, put the music industry on the rails it is moving on now.

Reconstruction of methods of repelling an attack with a long sword from illustrations of fencing manuals in 14th century Italy

Photographed a Boy with a Mickey Mouse sculpture, Pripyat, 1986. Shortly before....

The Titanic of the 21st century.

On January 13, 2012, one of the largest European motor ships, the Costa Concordia, hit the reefs and fell on its side.

The main blame was laid on the captain - it was revealed that he had disabled both the autopilot and the alarm system. Anyway, he was in the control room with strangers at the time of the disaster. And then, to make sure he got a prison sentence, he also left the ship while the passengers were on it. In general, I fully deserved my 16 years.

32 people out of 4,252 died. Basically, huge casualties were avoided thanks to the heroism of the rescue teams. The ship is listed as the largest damaged passenger ship in history.

‘Petty thieves support Marcus Cerrinius Vatia for the post of aedile!’

‘Elect Vatia as aedile, all drunkards support him!’

Pre-election graffiti in Roman Pompeii - politicians painted satirical appeals denigrating opponents. 2000 years have passed, nothing has changed in this regard🤷‍♂

In 1918, a team of coal miners made an incredible discovery - they found a petrified tree right in the mine at a great depth.

Coal, like oil, is a product of organic decomposition over a million years. Once upon a time, in the Carboniferous period, the existing forests and bushes turned into coal, which we extract now.

By some miracle, one of the trees has managed to survive since that time and confirmed this theory.