Each of them had several pistols tied to her legs, the cartridges were transported in pants, and the dynamite matched the corset best. Women in revolutionary times were more deadly than many men. A resident of the Kingdom of Poland, Mr. W. Kaliski, had the opportunity to spend August 15, 1906 in
The poverty prevailing in the imperial and royal Galicia is even proverbial. Everyone does what they can to survive. In the midst of this screeching poverty and hunger, there are women ready to take care of the problem of the ladies with the belly. With murderous effectiveness. One issue of the
There is not enough seats in the great hall of the Parisian court around noon. At 1 p.m., when the last day of the trial of Polish actress Stanisława Umińska begins, the room is filled to the brim with the audience. There are representatives of the Polish diaspora, ordinary French, there are also jo
In the last months of her life, she did everything to regain a little dignity and peace. Despite this, she left her scorned and misunderstood. A moment before her death, she begged for her body to be returned to Lithuania. She did not want to rest in Poland where she met only hatred. Barbara wal
Bags full of bloody childrens clothes, a butchers knife, bone fragments hidden behind a wall. Clay jars and bowls filled with fragments of bodies and organs - either preserved or still floating in clotted blood ... A find discovered in Barcelona in 1912 could outshine modern gore cinema. The list
Millions of subjects trembled before them. They were the occupiers worst nightmare. By their willpower and tenacity, they were able to change history. And they changed. This time, traveling through the ages, we have prepared for you a list of deadly women with whom it was better not to mess with
A bitter old maid, a devotee, the ugliest Polish queen. Anna Jagiellonka was not respected during her life and after her death. How much truth is in her black legend? And why did the daughter of the most powerful Polish ruler get married only at the age of 52? No one was interested in Anna. And
Italian fruit ripens faster! According to popular legend, this was what Bona was supposed to say in 1518, when her newly married husband noticed the first signs of pregnancy in her. Zygmunt easily counted that the child could not be his, and was conceived in Italy. And it was only the first in a ser
The hot summer of 1944. The crowds of French people take to the streets to greet their liberators. The celebration does not last long, however. Civilians feel the urgent need to take revenge on the collaborators. The great hunt begins, and the first victims of wild purges are women. For those who ma
Dracula in a skirt, Bloody Countess or Vampire from Csejte are just some of the nicknames given to Elizabeth Bathory. It turns out, however, that the bloodthirsty beast was made of it completely wrong. She was the victim of a conspiracy against her family. In pop culture, Elżbieta Batory functio
They worked beyond their strength and lived in conditions that were offensive to human dignity. Their mouths became overgrown with hunger, and if they could, they even ate carrion. They were played at cards, people tried to make them camp wives, and death was waiting for them at every turn. But they
He married a Hungarian woman, with whom he had a son Bezprym, but he also chased her away. This is all that the sources say about the second wife of Bolesław the Brave. Could the identity of the mysterious princess have just been discovered? The quoted account comes from the chronicle of Bishop
On May 1, 1908, a child of a Polish count and a bankers daughter was born, coming from a Polish-Jewish family. Krystyna Skarbek, because that was her name, in 1938 married a Polish writer, Jerzy Giżycki (she had been married once before). The young spouses went to East Africa, where they enjoyed the
A country without stacks? Not necessarily. Witches were hunted not only in Germany, France and England, but also further east - for example in Lithuania. Of course, the fashion for this kind of persecution and trials came from the West, but in the East it took a specific, local form. Witch hunt
During World War II, the Nazi Reich drafted 400,000 women, Great Britain 450,000, and the United States 266,000. These million volunteers from three completely different countries had one thing in common:they were forbidden to fight. Even in self-defense. Radio operator. A proper job for a woma
Various historians competed in emphasizing how much Jadwiga Andegaweńska was unhappy in the forced, political relationship with the bear from Lithuania. Lets try to figure out how it really was. It is difficult to say something certain about the marriage of a Hungarian princess with a neophyte fro
Her husband was pressured to brick her in the wall, or at least cut off his fingers, making it difficult to write. Luther initially encouraged her to continue creating, but soon realized that his female competition was growing. Who is it about? The most active woman in the German Reformation wa
Holy Duchess or a cruel murderer? The kniahini Olga, equal to the apostles, who brought Christianity to Rus, did not always wear a halo. This is her second face. The Orthodox Church honors Princess Olga as the holy precursor of Christianity in Kievan Rus. Few saints can boast the title equal to
History books have accustomed us to male succession and primogeniture (inheritance by the firstborn). This is the case in the oldest ruling dynasty - the Japanese imperial family - where only men inherit, and even in the Principality of Monaco, where primogeniture is mandatory. In the past, however,
We got used to the vision of the Middle Ages as an era in which only men mattered. Women - it would seem - remained in the background, excluded, oppressed and deprived of independence. Meanwhile, it was women who shook one of the main financial centers of Europe at that time ... In Dutch Bruges
In the context of the Führer Order For anti-aircraft protection, a civil protection bunker began to be built in 1940 next to the main train station in Hamburg. Construction began in 1941, lasting more than a year. The work required the employment of hundreds of forced prisoners. The structural wal
There were only forty-six of them, but even the men admitted:they were the greatest asset of the Polish army and achieved successes which they themselves were completely incapable of. Why are they so rarely mentioned? In the earliest days of World War I, hundreds of women supported the creation
He has tamed the mighty forces of nature. He was working on a lethal weapon that would bring ... peace. It (un) consciously caused the earthquake, and predicted the production of smartphones almost 100 years ago. Nikola Tesla is probably one of the most underrated inventors of our civilization. Why?
Breaking the wheel allowed to decide exactly how long the penalty will last. On top of that, it was extremely painful - and spectacular. Record holders died in torment even for several days. This sophisticated and extremely cruel torture was the specialty of the Germanic states of the Holy Roman