The Middle Ages did not know divorce. On the other hand, it knew about marital infidelity and criminal desires. This is the story of castellan Jakub Boglewski, his wife Dorota and chaplain Jan Pieniążek. There is great love in it, betrayal and gut pulling. - My name is Jakub Boglewski, I am a h
Acute pornography in Egyptian mythology. An outstanding painter exposed as a disgusting pedophile. And the dark secrets of British obstetricians. We present ten stories so drastic, vulgar, or so erotic that we decided to mark them as materials [18+] before publication. As always, all TOP10 items
What can I say - the Polish Peoples Republic was not a country of great opportunities. It was possible to make a career in the party, of course, but only if you had a strong enough back. However, there was an even more profitable path to success, which did not require a PZPR ID card at all. It was e
Stories of broken hearts are often tragic and intriguing at the same time. They attract the attention of their fate, but also magic, which means that the fate of suicides is never indifferent to them. They force you to stop even for a moment and think about the reasons for such dramatic steps. One o
A gigantic hall filled to the brim. The lectern was raised, and in the background a huge banner with a swastika. The crowd is undulating, Adolf Hitler is gesturing lively speaking with passion, and somewhere between the brown uniforms sparkle with hundreds of adored female eyes. Yes, it is they ...
Two servicemen tried to favors the beautiful Weapon from Krzeszowice:the military police chief, Jaśko and the cavalry sergeant Steiner. There would be absolutely nothing strange in this competition for the heart of a good lady, if not for the fact that Bronia already had a husband. And that one of t
What to do with your fiancé if he doesnt live up to expectations? According to pre-war examples, it can be cooked, for example. Or cut up. Or - finally - pour hydrochloric acid. The headline of one of the February 1936 issues of Dziennik Poranny screamed: Sensational process to cook a fiance in
It seems easy to make sure you only have one husband or one wife. Nevertheless, hundreds of people became bigamists before the war. Completely unintentionally! One of the high-profile cases of this kind took place in Krakow in 1921. The weekly magazine Nowości Illustrowane announced on the front
Homer wrote about it, apparently Pericles dabbled in it. Love magic took many shapes. Today about the most radical, that is, strongly erotic spells cast by men against women, women against men, women against women and men against men. Adults only. Lets start with Hermejas, son of Hermiones. Thi
The office of the father of psychoanalysis. Comfortable couch. Ancient figurines on the desk. Dr. Freud is reclining in an armchair and a patient on a couch. Full of obsessions, fears, terrified of bizarre dreams. We invite you to the gallery of peculiarities, that is the most interesting docto pati
Amateurs often do the restoration of works of art. Effect? Sometimes he goes beyond his wildest expectations. We present the worst renovations ever. The aim of the conservation and restoration of monuments is to keep the object in the best technical condition. Intervention should be as minimal as
World-famous concerns - automobile, pharmaceutical and other - worked for the Nazis. The list of companies that got rich thanks to Hitler is long. The war machine of the Third Reich could not function efficiently without technical thought, engineers and manufacturers ready to put into production t
Torture, re-education in camps, forced sterilization ... Dozens of countries condemned Chinas conduct against the Uighurs as a crime against humanity. The first Turkish prime minister and now president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was the first, in 2008, to describe the Chinese policy towards the Uighu
The War of the Worlds broadcast caused mass panic among Americans. Truth or myth? What do we know about Orson Welles most famous radio play? The history of the world is full of distortions and understatements. Sometimes things considered facts have little to do with reality. On the other hand, ev
The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most famous battles of antiquity. 300 defenders stood up against the mighty Persian army. But are you sure 300? The history of the world is full of distortions and understatements. Sometimes things considered facts have little to do with reality. On the oth
How did contemporaries describe the Mieszko family? It was definitely not Poland. Among the names of the tribes inhabiting the lands of later Poland, the lack of Polans is striking. When one looks in the sources for the names of tribes inhabiting the lands of later Poland, the striking thing is th
Stefan Witkowskis musketeers were one of the most effective and mysterious Polish underground organizations during World War II. The last fights in the 1939 war campaign took place under the command of General Franciszek Kleeberg in the Kock region. This excellent commander, realizing that Poland
It is customary to consider that the capital of the Roman Empire was Rome. But in reality it was completely different! How many ancient cities had this honorable status? “Never until today has any country achieved such size and durability. Compared to them, the splendor of the Greek states seems t
A certain German Dominican tried to convince the whole of Christian Europe that Poles are a pagan nation who should be slaughtered ... Wacław Potocki wrote in his Moralia that as long as the world is around the world, Germany will never be a Poles brother . Relations between the two nations ha
After the war, thousands of Nazi criminals escaped justice by escaping to South America, the so-called on the trail of the rats. The Vatican helped them. Of the approximately 13 million former Nazis identified by the Allies after World War II in West Germany, by 1949 ... three hundred were impriso
A powerful explosion is tearing the air. Pieces of glass and furniture torn to pieces are flying everywhere, hurting the guests of the confectionery. There are four dead men on the ground and a dozen wounded writhing in pain. No, this is not another attack in Baghdad or Kabul, but the aftermath of t
Americans and South Vietnamese soldiers felt quite safe in Hue. The sudden attack of the communists shattered this illusion ... and changed their thinking about the whole war. You can read how the battle unfolded in Mark Bowdens book Huế 1968. Vietnam in Blood, which you can win in our competition.
A reconstruction of the face of St. Peter What do we know about Pietro, the fisherman who was the first apostle of Jesus and who later became one of the most important and loved saints in the history of the Church? Who really was this man who left everything to follow his Master contributi
The exercise of military, political and economic influence is always dependent on the mechanisms of culture [1]:a given distribution of power can in fact always be legitimized through cultural texts. Edward Saids classical model of Orientalism based on the ideology of difference - that is, the con