The self-styled Reverend Father Yod with his wives, 1970s.

His Los Angeles commune of the 70s turned sex, drugs and rock and roll into a brilliant religious formation.

Cats prepare for a space flight at the Space Research Laboratory, Paris, 1963.

Execution of civilians by Japanese soldiers in the city of Nanjing. The War for Shanghai, 1937.

The violence continued for six weeks, starting on the day the Japanese took over the city. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army killed, according to various estimates, from 40 thousand to more than 500 thousand Chinese civilians and soldiers, and committed many rapes and acts of looting.

Brigitte Bardot, 1952

Photo by Life Magazine from 1934.

The purpose of the picture is to fight censorship. The photo violates the maximum possible number of laws of that time.

Marilyn Monroe's reaction to winning at the casino

USA, 1960

Acapo warriors. This Papuan tribe has been wearing terrifying clay masks since ancient times, 1970.

Inoculation, New York, USA, 1947

An employee of the Department of Health is vaccinating against smallpox dancers of the Billy Rose Diamond Horseshoe nightclub.

Disabled activists left their wheelchairs and crawled up the 83 steps of the U.S. Capitol, demanding the adoption of the Disability Act, March 12, 1990.

The commandant is forced to stand among the victims of the Kaufering camp. Germany. April 27, 1945

Adolf Hitler delivers a speech during the election campaign, April 5, 1932

Barbara Boucher is an Italian actress, a star of the 60s and 80s.

Frozen Niagara Falls in the early twentieth century.

Joseph Goebbels' children poisoned with cyanide by their own parents.

Berlin 1945.

Checking the quality of a bulletproof vest, 1924.

Banbury Cross, 60s.

Salvador Dali and the tame Anteater, New York.

1969

Harold Wittles hears for the first time in his life after installing a hearing aid.

The photo shows Harold Wills at the age of 5. He was born deaf. And until 1962, I never heard a single sound, and certainly my own voice. The picture captures the indelible impression that the discovery of a new sense of hearing made on him. And it's hard to imagine what his brain experienced and what the boy experienced emotionally.

Mary Wellance — the first female bus driver in Chicago, 1974

The canons of female beauty in the 60s. USA

The world's first puzzles were invented by John Spilsbury in 1761. He was a member of the English Royal Geographical Society and taught students. Once an Englishman came up with the idea to improve the quality of education. He pasted a paper map on plywood and cut it along the borders of countries, and then offered to collect it.