In the twentieth century, due to technological progress in industrial sectors, diamonds began to be used more and more often. Prior to this period, the diamond was associated with expensive jewelry. In fact, it was so. But in the process of carrying out various studies, scientists and specialists came to the conclusion that this gem is indispensable in other spheres of human activity
In 1989, in exchange for a concentrate for the production of the Pepsi-Cola carbonated drink, the Soviet Union handed over a whole fleet of 17 decommissioned submarines and several ships to the owner of the famous brand. This gave rise to PepsiCo CEO Donald McIntosh Kendall jokingly saying that he is disarming the USSR faster than the government of George W. Bush
Back in the early 1920s, the young state of the USSR was in dire need of technology upgrades, especially in the context of unfolding industrialization. However, exhausted by the First World War and the Civil War, the power simply could not provide itself with such developments on its own
How in the Middle Ages, warriors withstood the siege of fortresses so as not to give up to the enemy
From time immemorial, people not only worked for survival, but sometimes took a cudgel in their hand in order to hit the worker in the neighborhood on the head and take away everything he had. It was this “beautiful” part of human consciousness that pushed people to the idea that something needs to be done to protect the fruits of their labor and their lives
The junior lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Army, Hiroo Onoda, waged a guerrilla war for almost 30 years against the Philippine authorities and the American military on Lubang Island in the South China Sea. All this time, he did not believe the reports that Japan was defeated, and regarded the Korean and Vietnamese wars as the next battles of World War II. The scout surrendered only on March 10, 1974
On the morning of August 6, 1945, an American Enola Gay bomber, a specialized version of the B-29 Superfortress, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. It is customary to say that at this moment “the whole world has changed forever,” but this knowledge did not become generally known instantly. The article describes how scientists in Hiroshima studied the "new world", what they learned about it - and what still remains unknown
The importance of Port Arthur in Russian military history, and in general in the history of Russia, is very great. Books and films are devoted to this episode, and in general, the epic with the defense of Port Arthur became one of the central events in the Russo-Japanese War
In a number of photographs from the Second World War, you can see that on some T-34 tanks
This article will focus on the legendary city of Kitezh, which took refuge from enemies at the bottom of Lake Svetloyar
Previously inexplicable braking and shaking of fully operational ships in the so-called dead water finally received a scientific explanation
Sometimes the hardest questions have the simplest answers. It is not easy to admit that the cause of this or that tragedy was not the intervention of aliens or the actions of the special services, but mistakes, lack of will, lack of discipline among specific people, including those who themselves ended up among the victims
If a person is obsessed with the idea of managing the planet, then he behaves like a master on it. Adolf Hitler's manic globalism manifested itself not only in military operations, but also in how he was going to hold the conquered positions, as well as preserve his own life and the necessary entourage. Massive top-secret underground complex known as the Riese Project
The last reliable of the crumbling Nazi state was the people's militia - the Volkssturm, whose activities are primarily associated in the mass consciousness with teenagers from the Hitler Youth and, of course, the faust patrons
In war, each fortification and combat zone is unique in its own way. But the bridgehead on Malaya Zemlya can even be called specific. In such difficult conditions, it was extremely difficult to fight. And sometimes inventive Soviet soldiers enlisted the help and support of the local fauna
The Soviet government did not know how to deal with the chastisers from the SS brigade "Druzhina" who had gone over to their side when the war was over. The problem suddenly resolved by itself
Every "Kolya from Urengoy" these days is well aware that almost all Wehrmacht tanks were fully equipped with standard heaters, while the defenders of the "totalitarian socialist" Motherland were forced to freeze on long winter nights! But if you read the memoirs of Soviet and German tankers, then the situation looks completely different
Two very interesting videos about the fictitious sale of Alaska. The recent report of Ivan Borisovich Mironov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, read at the conference "Questions of falsification of Russian history" in the Russian State Library and video cutting on the same topic
History is a strange word. But I’m not about the meaning of this word, now it can be easily found on the Internet, I’m about history, as a science, which, like a corrupt girl, every time adjusts to the powerful. The one who pays the most gets the brightest and most colorful option
The Chinese have a saying: "If you have visited the five sacred mountains of China, then you can not go to other mountains." We are talking about Mount Huashan - the center of Taoist religious practices and a place for practicing alchemy. It is said that Lao Tzu himself lived here. Not so long ago, a complex of mysterious caves was discovered in the depths of the Blooming Mountain
Mysterious stones in Gornaya Shoria have knocked scientists and ordinary people together. In the mountains in the south of the Kemerovo region, geologists have discovered a "wall" of rectangular stones piled on top of each other. The find has already been dubbed "Russian Stonehenge". According to one version, the structure appeared during the time of ancient civilization
The human race has long indulged in various mysticism, promising to give the lucky one power or enlightenment. Some texts are devoted to this practice, where complex and mysterious rituals are set out - supposedly the key to long and fruitful communication with otherworldly forces
While modern parents are testing the most progressive technologies for raising children on their children, let's remember Russian folk pedagogical traditions
The participation of the Vatican and secret societies in the total falsification of history covers not only Europe, but also Asia, where the Jesuits essentially wrote a new history of China, inventing its antiquity and trying to destroy all references to the civilization of "white gods" from which the Chinese received all their unique " achievements "and" inventions "
Even if the story is falsified, as the myth of the Holocaust of the Jewish people has shown, with due impudence, such fakes often bring a good deal. Kiev is actively engaged in monetizing fake history
The author under the nickname kadykchanskiy gives some reconstruction of the times of Great Tartary. The amazing and numerous traces of this Great Empire are in front of everyone's eyes, but our blinkeredness and malicious intent of forgers does not allow us to see the obvious
Students are still taught that Russia was defeated in the Crimean War, and not a word is said about the siege of St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg war of England against Russia. In practice, the Russian Empire in the 19th century won two then world wars of the West against its state
Two years after the publication of his article in the magazine "Vokrug Sveta" about the unique malachite tiles, A.A. Malakhov replied with another article to the letters of readers. "Malachite cryptography" was also found on another piece of art - a malachite egg
There are many beautiful, wise rituals and traditions of our people. It would be unwise to simply copy the life of ancestors living in harmony with nature. But learning about our heritage, and on the basis of this knowledge, to change the surrounding reality is important for all of us
The article provides a brief reconstruction according to the "New Chronology" in relation to the Great Tartary, the Pugachev uprising and the role of the Romanovs in these events. The second part is a study of Russian toponymy in the territory of modern China and Tibet
Of course, the veneration of Lada left a deep mark on Slavic culture. This includes the controversial interpretations of V. Chudinov, where the inscriptions "temple of Lada" are very often found, and the cult-inversion of the Mother of God in Christianity, which replaced Vedic Slavic concepts and culture
The world's oldest Ural Mountains keep many secrets of the ancient history of our Earth and civilizations that preceded today's. And only recently the Urals began to reveal their secrets to us. The morning of Svarog is flaring up brighter and brighter, little by little highlighting the amazing life of our ancestors
The author draws attention to several interesting evidences in favor of the recent planetary catastrophe, which led to the formation of deserts, the destruction of forest cover on the territory of Russia, and, possibly, to such an anomalous "cultural" layer, into which old buildings plunged
We continue to publish articles by the author under the nickname RareMan, the first two parts of which were published under the title "Vedic knowledge in the lines of Pushkin". In the third part, we will talk about Tartary, or the Horde, as it was also called. And it is no coincidence that the word order
The bath came to Europe only in the 18th century, when Peter I, who visited Amsterdam and Paris, ordered to build baths there for the soldiers accompanying him. And after 1812, the Russian army built baths in all countries liberated from Napoleon
Currently, we use the dating of the years from the birth of Christ and the Gregorian calendar. Not forgotten and the Julian calendar, and even the Chinese, Japanese, Thai and others. But who has heard about the most ancient tradition of chronology of the Slavic peoples - the Daarius Circle of Chislobog?
Polish scientists from the Copernicus University, in Bydgoszcz, proved on DNA analysis that the first Slavs inhabited the territory of Central-Eastern Europe four thousand years ago
Film by Mikhail Zadornov “Rurik. Lost Bye”caused quite a violent reaction in many quarters. Let's try to make a small review of the criticism of Zadornov's film, which can be found on the Internet. This film caused a great resonance in society, and not only among scholars, in whose sphere of activity the satirist intervened, but also among an audience well acquainted with both the Russian and Jewish issues
Even the official Western scientific world creakily admits that the Celts, who were a Slavic people, were not savages, but had a highly developed culture. Here are their words: "You will have to part with the image of the Celts as dumb barbarians from the comic" Asterix and Obelix "once and for all"
Medical and archaeologist Vera Tiesler explores how the human body was woven into religion, tradition, and politics in Mayan culture
Closely connected with the subconscious, with the depths of the human psyche, mysticism sometimes brings such surprises that the hairs on the head stand on end