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The world’s first concentration camps. The word “camp” usually associated with the Nazis, but the camps of the Third Reich was not the first in history. During the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) African Boer republics against the British Empire, the Turks built a huge “concentration camp” – it was then and …

English photographer showed what lived and breathed Liverpool in the early 80s. In the early 80-ies of the last century, Liverpool reached the bottom: it was the most difficult for the city since the end of World war II. In the 70s the whole of Britain has faced economic difficulties …

Unusual video from the fans of the legendary series. “Game of thrones” is parodied in the Network. The events of the original series translated into the XXI century. On the Youtube channel of Westeros, The Series has released a trailer for a parody series. The slogan of the project – …

The photographer has used the old technology of photographing and got pictures. Photographer from new York, Victoria will (Victoria Will) has created a series of portraits of our famous contemporaries, who literally breathe history, as paradoxical as it may sound. The pictures were taken at Sundance Film Festival 2015 in …

Century at the bottom of the Atlantic. The British liner “Justice” (SS Justicia), torpedoed by the German submarine UB-64 during the First world war, sank in the Atlantic off the coast of Ireland in 1918. Recently, the British chemist Darragh Norton volunteered to see “Justice” at the bottom of the …

Some of the predictions came true. Very often, reviewing fiction movies about the future, the audience wonder whether the fictional story to become a reality. In the late nineteenth century people have asked the same question, imagining what life would be like in 100 years. In 1900, the French artist …

Forbes has published the list of hundred most influential Russians for 100 years.Forbes has published the list of hundred most influential Russians in the last 100 years. Persons were selected by experts, readers and members of the Russian edition. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the vote of …

Some of these predictions almost came trueA series of illustrations called “France in 2000-m to year” was created by Jean-Marc côté and other French artists in the period from 1899 to 1910 Each illustration reflects how the artists imagine the future and, indeed, many people of that time — how …

Any journey to Kiev, for a person caught for the first time in our city starts with downtown. And without Khreshchatyk Bessarabian market can not be present. The market building was built in 1910-1912 by the architect Henry guy for money famous Kyiv sugar magnate Jew Lazar Brodsky, bequeathed after …

Daily life of London. The photos were taken in 1876 by photographer John Thomson. He kept a kind of journal and published pictures. These frames are one of the first examples of photojournalism.