A family from the village of Razvilka near Moscow established a correspondence with a resident of Great Britain in a very interesting way: 14 months ago, they threw a bottle with a letter sealed in it into the sea, and not so long ago an e-mail was answered. As Svetlana Bogza said, mother ...
A special company will appear in the Russian army to combat the falsification of history. It will be formed from historians and sociologists on the basis of the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense in 2016. In total, it is planned to deploy two scientific companies in addition to the eight already existing. ...
On October 9, the world’s largest video service “Netflix” released the premiere of a documentary film about the Ukrainian Maidan “Winter on Fire” directed by Evgeniy Afineevsky. About the tragic events of the winter of 2013 - 2014, when Ukrainians overthrew President Viktor Yanukovych at the cost of bloodshed and enormous human casualties,...
A section of an underground aqueduct that distributed water throughout the city over 2000 years ago was discovered in East Jerusalem. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the discovery was made in the Umm Tuba quarter near Har Homa during the construction of a modern sewer line. By…
In 1940, nylon stockings made from synthetic fibers invented a year earlier by the chemical company DuPont first appeared in stores in the United States of America. According to various sources, on some days in the first months of sales, the novelty was bought in quantities from one to ...
Over the past year, Ukraine has been plunged into chaos. Mass protests against pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 led to his overthrow. This became the reason for the growing crisis: the new interim government in Kiev watched as Russia first seized, and ...
“Operation Michaelberg” (or Operation “Wing”) is how Mossad representatives called a daring action in 1947, in which about 46 Jewish repatriates were secretly transported from Iraq to Palestine on American Curtiss C-100 Commando aircraft. British authorities fiercely resisted repatriation. Despite…
Mrs. Cobbs's Nail Salon (engraved on the right), which opened in New York, became the first not only in the city, but also in the country. Since then, the art of nail care has come a long way: from luxury to accessibility to almost everyone and from painstaking ...