Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff plays for his granddaughter Sophia, USA, 1927.

When the cough became the reason for the accusation and the court verdict

In 2001, Charles Ingram won the British TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire?", winning a million pounds (~ $ 1,300,000). However, the payment was postponed when he, as well as his wife and accomplice Tekven Vitka, who were present at the shooting, were suspected of cheating. It turned out that the Coil coughed every time the presenter, listing the answers, pronounced the correct one. All three denied malicious intent, but were found guilty by the court and fined, and also received suspended sentences from 12 to 18 months.

You can remove a person from Rome. But Rome cannot be removed from a person.😁

Have a good working week, friends.

Wyoming Ski Lift Safety Standards, 1965.

The body of Evelyn McHale, who jumped from the Empire State Building, New York, USA, 1947.

Thanks to this famous photo, Evelyn's death was called "the most beautiful suicide".

There is no historical evidence that Vikings fought in horned helmets. They wore such headdresses only for ritual purposes or as decorations for special merits. In battle, the horned helmet is impractical, since it does not allow the opponent's sword to slip. Despite this, the knights of the Teutonic Order did not stop these inconveniences. There are images of them in horned helmets both at jousting tournaments and in real battles — such equipment served the knights to intimidate the enemy.

A message to the motherland about the most important, Afghanistan, 2000.

Charlize Theron in the cheeks of Marilyn Monroe for Madame Figaro magazine, 1993.

The advance of German infantry during urban battles in the Crimea, 1942

In India, for more than a thousand years, there has been a sati ritual – the burning of a widow together with her deceased spouse on a funeral pyre. The brahmins praised sati as the duty of an honest woman and qualified it not as suicide, but as an act of sacred reverence, which, according to them, should cleanse the couple from accumulated sin, guarantee their salvation and ensure reunification. 🤯

One day, the British commander-in-chief, Sir Charles James Napier, was approached by Hindu priests with a complaint that the British authorities were preventing the conduct of a sacred ritual that has been performed for thousands of years and which is a national tradition.

Nepier replied to this:
"You say that burning widows is your tradition. Fine. We also have a tradition: when men burn a woman alive, we take a rope, make a noose and throw it around their necks. Erect your funeral pyres — and nearby our carpenters will erect gallows for you. You can follow your traditions — and we will follow ours."

The Rolling Stones in London, 1967.

The oldest operating car in the world is De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos–A-Dos Steam Runabout, 1884.

On October 18, 1963, France decided to send Felicette the cat into orbit. The cat was in the capsule for exactly 13 minutes and 13 seconds. Since then, cats have not been launched into space anymore.

May 15 is McDonald's birthday!

On May 15, 1940, brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald opened the first drive-in restaurant. Which gave birth to a real monster of fast food.

South Korea. An orphan girl with her younger brother in the middle of the ruins of the city during the Korean War, 1950.

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Linda Christian, the first "Bond girl", 1945