Despite the fact that many of us are actively interested in technologies and trends that shape the future, humanity does not forget about the past either. Throughout 2020, despite the difficult situation in the world, archaeologists continued to conduct a number of expeditions and excavations, hoping to find answers to unsolved questions
When America and the Soviet Union consistently tested a nuclear bomb in the 1940s, both superpowers decided that the future belonged to the atom. Various large-scale projects using the half-life of uranium isotopes and other elements with similar properties have been developed by almost dozens
On January 4, 1869, "Zemledelcheskaya Gazeta" reported … The Department of Agriculture and Rural Industry … announces that on December 18, 1868, a request was received from the learned manager of the Bezhetsk district of the Tver province, Andrei Romanovich Vlasenko, to issue him a 10-year privilege for a machine he had invented for the name "Equestrian harvesting at the root". Vlasenko invented a machine that immediately performs the work of two machines - reapers and threshers
In India, there are many ancient temples with interesting architecture. The Shravanabelagola complex in the city of the same name is one of them. Historians date this building to the 10th century AD
The Sumerians are one of the oldest civilizations in the world. They left behind cities, most of which were found in the 19th - 20th centuries
Our release of "what's wrong with childbirth" was a shock to some. And some began to write comments in the style of "before the grass was greener"
This week, information was received that the IAEA is discussing, Rosatom comments - information that radionucleides of reactor origin have been found in the air of Scandinavia. What happened, where did they come from, how dangerous is it?
The Soviet Union was great for large-scale projects. Among them are reservoirs that have swallowed up previously inhabited territories, hydroelectric power plants that have blocked great rivers, giant coal mines, the size of a city, etc. Today, they are all taken for granted. People no longer think of other pictures of the world around them
What role did Pushkin play in the history of Russia? Who was he really - a freemason, chamberlain, sexot or just a poet?
The invention of vaccination against smallpox, a deadly infectious disease, is usually viewed from only one side - as a blessing
It could be an administrative unit - land inhabited by people, and a ship. According to Plato, a built and equipped ship is just a thing, but a ship with a crew is already "hibernation", which must be controlled by a specialist - "cybernet". Helmsman, if in Russian
In 1924, Lenin died after a long illness, and in 2017, Doctor Valery Novosyolov got access to the diaries of his doctors. He became their first and only researcher: the diaries were closed for 75 years, and when this period expired in 1999, the archive extended it for another 25 years. After examining the diaries of doctors, Novosyolov came to the conclusion that all these years the official cause of Lenin's death was indicated incorrectly
Many people think that Vikings are a nationality. In fact, the Vikings were something of a military alliance, which at one time significantly expanded their possessions. We are told that the Vikings were at the peak of their power, approximately, in the 9th - 11th centuries, but these dates still need to be proven somehow
Did you know that the Pskov chroniclers, it turns out, were alternativeists? And this is many centuries before YouTube appeared! Can't believe it? Let's get a look. So, 7 alternative views on Russian history from the Pskov chroniclers
Friends, of course, in 11 minutes it is impossible to present all the evidence in detail, look for them in the book "Games pleasing to the gods"
Now, in the age of the Internet, when everyone can check the information, probably only primary school students, and of course the historians themselves believe in the official history and do not doubt its veracity
There is no unequivocal legal evidence that Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. Stalin in Potsdam on July 17, 1945 insisted that Hitler managed to escape, and Zhukov on August 6 said: "We did not find the identified Hitler's corpse." DNA examination of a fragment of "Hitler's skull" showed that in reality it belonged to a woman of 30-40 years old; it is proved that the "corpse of Eva Braun" had nothing to do with Eva Braun herself
“This is Victory Day for those who won this victory. He survived, suffered, tortured. For those who have lost loved ones here and now. They are almost gone. Few of them have been able to provide a decent old age. And specifically for us, it seems to me, there is nothing to celebrate, "- wrote the actor
What super heroes usually pop up in our head? Marvel Comics Characters? Captain America, Superman, Batman, Spiderman? Maybe the avengers?
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An attempt to explain the manufacture and installation of the Atlantean statues in the portico of the New Hermitage
Two years ago, the public was excited by the news of the columns found in the Gulf of Finland. So we went to study them
In the treatise Vimanika Shastra, and many other ancient sources, it is said that highly developed civilizations existed on our earth, which used aircraft of various types to move both in all the elements of the Earth and in interstellar space
In the official history there are many mysteries, one of them is who the Scythians are, where they came from, where and why they disappeared, these are the questions that this video article is designed to answer
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The base of the palace and the doors are below the level of the Neva. Houses are not built in water
This unique piece of gold jewelry caused a scandal in France. At the same time, it shocked the entire scientific and museum community in Europe. Russia was also dragged into the unexpectedly outbreak of showdowns, since it was here that one of the loudest scams at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries was conceived and brilliantly cranked up
Today we will talk about the Tsaritsino palace complex, located in the south of Moscow. According to the official version of history, this palace and park ensemble was founded at the behest of Empress Catherine II in 1776 and was built by two architects with subsequent partial reconstruction until 1796
I doubt very much that from all of the above it will be possible to find something, but these items will always remain in history and in the lists of treasure hunters
Since ancient times, the rulers of states have actively used what in ancient Rome was called damnatio memoriae - "the curse of memory." In Ancient Egypt, the names of the pharaohs were chopped off the steles, in Rome they smashed the statues of the unwanted, in Europe they deleted the names from the chronicles. Russia is no exception
Famous ruinist painters such as Piranesi, Hubert Robert, Panini are officially considered visionaries. Explaining their ruins in the paintings by a mixture of real architectural objects and invented by themselves. But in order to better understand this, you can compare paintings and engravings with real ruins that you can touch with your hands
Pseudohistory was created by folklorists, scientists and archaeologists outside the scientific community. She tells what "really" happened in the past of our Earth. These people believe that the truth is either forgotten, or misunderstood, or deliberately hidden from everyone
Where did the detail from the tractor come from in the parking lot of the Stone Age, what unique artifact can be exchanged for a glass of beer, was there a global flood in the 19th century, is it true that monkeys descended from humans, - Alexander Sokolov, the author of the book, told the Gazeta.Ru science department "Myths about human evolution", finalist of the "Enlightener" award, editor-in-chief of the portal "Antropogenesis.Ru"
End of the 11th century. The Russian land is drowning in blood due to the endless raids of the Polovtsians. But instead of fighting the nomads, the rulers of Russia, fragmented into many independent principalities, slaughter each other in continuous internecine wars. The state needs a hero capable of reconciling warring princes, rallying them into a single force and repelling foreign hordes. Such a hero was Vladimir, the son of the Grand Duke of Kiev Vsevolod. Many have heard the famous nickname of Vladimir - Monomakh, but ma