It feels like your subjects talk about you Kupa ... Or Swineherd. Or a Soft Sword. Not all rulers were recorded in the annals as Beautiful, Great or Wise. Here are ten particularly embarrassing nicknames. In the pages of history they appear along with the names of leaders, kings and tsars. Somet
It was not the soldiers of the Empire, but the rebels who built the Death Star. She was ready to destroy the invading Empire and any other enemy. But before it was used, it exploded and its creator died. It was 1820. When the slaves in Haiti, rebelling against France, chased Napoleons army away,
Holy dog and bear pick up. Bird droppings at enemy fire and a cackling paratrooper. When animals enter the human world, you never know where it will end. And when Big History takes place in the background, you can expect epic events. As always, all TOP10 items are based on the articles we publ
There were only two streets in one Abkhazian town. One got the name:Stalin. The second - Dzhugashvili. The tyrant was demonstratively modest in the face of the cults manifestations, but in fact he wanted to be considered the Messiah of the communist revolution. One veteran of the Patriotic War r
Bullying of people and animals. Deadly games and bizarre sports. Pleasing the lowest instincts. Above all, the ubiquitous lust for blood. Until recently, this was how successful fun was imagined. As always, all TOP10 items are based on the articles we publish. This time we decided to show how mu
Baby heads on stalks and Stalin catching butterflies? Soviet propaganda posters abound in pictures that are beyond your mind. So we also decided to show them with a serious grain of salt ... Thank you Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood in 1936. Stalin had great pleasure in the armbands of
Attention! The Ministry of Public Security announces a competition for the best political joke. The following prizes were awarded:I - five years of the labor camp; II - three years. Several consolation prizes will also be awarded. One to six months of forced labor. Shortly after the Red Army ent
Praying holy women, scenes of knightly duels, dignified portraits of kings ... Or maybe rabbits with axes, naked bishops and arrows aimed at the buttocks? We will prove to you that the imaginations of medieval miniaturists knew no bounds! Writing and decorating books in the Middle Ages required
To get behind bars, it was enough to take a few pieces of candy or a piece of lard from the workplace. If someone was tempted by a more luxurious commodity, such as meat, that was the way to say goodbye to life. The absurdity of sentences in the times of the Polish Peoples Republic not only amuses b
Alcohol was free, so even the news of an approaching enemy did not discourage the guards. Everyone drank so willingly that it was necessary to send for additional barrels of wine. You have never heard of this triumph of cunning. Władysław Biały was a veteran in initiating revolts. A close relati
He wanted to get the biggest African island first for France, then for the United States, and finally - just for himself. He has managed to do what others have been unable to do. The locals themselves proclaimed him emperor. How did it come about? Madagascar still has many secrets. The island of
Maria Kwaśniewska was not an ordinary woman. She was multi-talented, practiced seven sports - and was successful in all of them. But it was not the bronze medal at the Olympics in Berlin that brought her the greatest fame, but the brazen comment she threw in the Führers face. One day, one of the
Amounts of several dozen million euros per season on the accounts of football stars probably no longer surprise anyone. But not always the players were luxurious. Before the football madness hit the world, their salaries were mediocre at best. And some were paid for the game ... in onions and potato
Good intentions are not enough. Rudolf Hess, who decided to shorten World War II on his own, found out about it. His secret mission to Great Britain turned out to be a spectacular flop. Not only did he end up in a psychiatric hospital, but also British spies took his ... underpants. Rudolf Hess
If James Bond really knew the spy profession, he would know that ... dresses are more useful than funny gadgets. Learn the history of great agents who achieved success in womens disguise. And what kind! Probably everyone has heard the anecdote about King Henryk Walezy, who was supposed to escape
The mystery of breaking the Enigma code raises emotions to this day. To defeat the German cryptologists, the British, French and Poles worked together. When it turned out that there was a breakthrough on the Vistula River, one of the British started accusing us of cheating! In the face of the wa
For three centuries, they shook the Republic of Poland. They were chancellors, hetmans, voivodes and cardinals. They built their power, increased their fortune, even thought about the royal crown. However, among the many truly outstanding representatives of the Radziwiłł family, there were also weir
On that day, the eyes of the whole world turned to Poland. In the small town of Karlino in Pomerania, a pillar of oil fire soared into the sky. The flames raged, while the media hailed the Peoples Republic of Poland as the new Kuwait. However, the interest in Polish oil faded as quickly as the fire
In the Third Reich, everything was militarized. Teenage boys in the Hitler Youth were getting ready for military service, and workers from the Reich Labor Service marched with shovels on their shoulders instead of rifles. Even the wombs of German women have become a political battlefield. The re
A man to a man a wolf? Of course - without it there would be no history of wars and battles. They fought for everything, the pretexts were trivial and the results were meager. Sometimes the opponent turned out to be cleverer too, even though he was not human at all. It is known that animals are
It was he who was to start the dynasty that created the Polish state. However, did the legendary son of Piast and Rzepicha really exist, or was he just a figment of the chroniclers imagination? To this day, historians have been puzzled over this, and writers have created new visions of the fate of S
According to St. In Luke, Jesus was born at the end of the Holy Familys journey to Bethlehem, where Joseph was to take part in ... a census. How much in the story of Christmas according to St. Luke is historical truth? Researchers admit that the Quirinius census did take place. The problem is, Je
In the execution of Anwar Sadat one finds all the right reasons needed to make a political assassination stand out from all the others that have occurred since the beginning of history - and which it is doubtful will ever stop. Its not just who you kill, after all if history has taught us anything i
Simonetta Vespucci portrayed by Sandro Botticelli (detail Simonetta Vespucci , born Cattaneo, (1453-1476) was one of the most beautiful and admired noblewomen of Renaissance Florence. Almost certainly originally from Genoa, the girl married very young with Marco di Piero Vespucci , a relat