Breaking

The capture of the Reichstag by the red army and hoisting the flag is a symbol of Victory. The famous photograph was captured of this process spread around the world and still makes an impression, reminding us of the heroism of our ancestors.

In the autumn of 1933 in the territory of the Principality of Andorra came a strange Russian. The foreigner struck the local his manners, wealth and ability to win over people. His name was Boris Skosyrev. A year later the General Council of the valleys will vote for the appointment of a foreigner as king of Andorra under the estate of Boris I.

For the first time in Russia heard about the whips during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. Really about them knew nothing, only noting that it is a religious sect with a strange secret rituals, and whose followers call themselves "people of God".

Almost every Soviet provincial city had its own "skeleton in the closet" - the story that the townspeople were whispering in the kitchen, and the nonresident had no idea. In 1946 the people of the Siberian Omsk shocking crime gang, which killed two dozen children.

That the Egyptian pharaohs built the great pyramids, they were not buried, was well known to the ancients. Curious how they explained it. So Diodorus Siculus, who lived in the 1st century BC, reported that the Pharaoh Chephren (khafra) the Egyptians hated so much in his life that he was disposed to bury himself in another place, fearing that his burial was not polluted.