The Birmingham "Peakey Blinders" gang of the 1910s.
Marble Lace
That's a sculptural portrait of Maria Duglioli Barberini from 1621. How such details were made in the 17th century remains a mystery.
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Pocahontas is the only Disney princess with a real prototype
At birth, the chieftain's daughter was named Amonut, but was known to those closest to her as Matoaka.
Pocahontas was a nickname given to her by her father. In the language of her people it meant something like "prankster" or "naughty child.
The largest gold nugget ever mined, weighing over 200 kg, and the weight of pure gold-93 kg. 1872
Color photo with the Statue of Liberty in Paris in 1886 (before transportation to America).
The world's most gorgeous suicide
On May 1, 1947, 24-year-old Evelyn McHale jumped off the Empire State Building observation deck, flying 86 floors and hitting the roof of a parked UN limousine.
A Sikh woman effortlessly carrying a basket of British merchants on her back, West Bengal, 1903.
School group photo. Austria, 1899.
The center in the back row is ten-year-old Adolf Hitler.
Eavesdropping device in a wooden panel
Back in 1945, Soviet schoolchildren gifted an American ambassador a precious wood piece with an image of the U.S. coat of arms on it.
The "bug" device was so hidden that the American secret services did not notice anything, while the Soviet ones listened to the ambassador's conversations for another 8 years. After the discovery, the device was presented to the UN as evidence of Soviet intelligence activities.
