1967. The last official duel in France. Marseille Mayor Gaston Deffer (facing us) and Socialist Party presidential candidate Rene Ribier met on swords. The reason for the duel was Deffer's remark during Ribiera's speech: Taisez-vous, abruti! (Shut up, you fool!) Deffer refused to apologize and then Ribier challenged him to a duel.

The next day, the presidential candidate was to have a wedding and the mayor of Marseille promised to spoil his wedding night. And so it happened. 57-year-old Deffer wounded Riviera twice with a sword, after which the duel was stopped.

Korean refugees leave North Korea, overcoming a bridge mangled as a result of an air strike, 1950.

During the Second World War, the ladies showed their best side.

They stood behind the machines, worked in three shifts and replaced the men who went to war. This photo shows female firefighters in Britain who saved many buildings during the bombing. But this is just one example.

Berlin residents are looking for food in the ruins, 1945

Chevrolet Corvette 1959.

The Hindenburg airship flies over Berlin during the Olympic Games, 1936

Horses as barricades. The Spanish Civil War. Barcelona, 1936

Vikki Dugan is an American model and Playboy star, born in 1957.

On December 24, 1865, the ultra-right organization Ku Klux Klan was created in the United States.

The Boeing 737 crash in Chicago. 45 people were killed — this is the very first Boeing 737 disaster.

December 8, 1972

Clothes made of money, hyperinflation in Germany, 1923.

Donna Michelle is an American model, actress and photographer, born in 1993.

Darwin, before the wedding, compiled lists of "pros" and "cons" of marriage.

The "for" list included "permanent companion" and "better than a dog." The list of "cons" included "I will have to visit relatives" and "less money to buy books."

Chaste advertising of the Victoria's Secret underwear brand in 1979

In 1976, the joker edited the famous inscription on the hill in honor of the fact that California allowed the relaxation of the law on marijuana, the new meaning of the inscription "Holy Grass".

Monica Bellucci for the Victoria's Secret catalog 1991.

Found each other

Back in 1895, when the automobile industry was still in its infancy, there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio.

And so it was until these two cars somehow found each other on an area of 88,000 square miles and collided, thus reducing the total number of cars in Ohio to zero.

Armenians burned alive by Turkish troops in the village of Sheikhalan, 1915.

Escape of an elephant from a monorail car. Germany. onethousandninehundredfifty The elephant lived after this event for another 40 years.

The era of mini: dresses and cars, the 1970s.

Cemetery of 7,000 aircraft left after World War II, Arizona, 1946.