Together through the years: Top officials of different countries with their spouses at the beginning of family life and today (20 photos)

How they hunted witches in different countries and at different periods of history

The witch hunt and subsequent trials against them (whether for political or religious reasons) have always been truly scary. Throughout world history, innocent people (in the overwhelming majority of cases they were women) were interrogated, punished, tortured, raped and even killed, provided that they did at least something related to the occult or witchcraft. Perverse and strange punishments for these people were often excruciatingly slow and certainly

How women who took the life of their husbands were dealt with in different countries

For centuries, murder of a wife was punished far less severely than murder of a husband - or remained without punishment at all. But the manicide ended in a terrible execution. Most often, a woman was simply beaten to death by her husband's family, without reporting to anyone and not looking at the circumstances. But in some countries, the state took on the punishment

Time and people: famous TV presenters at the beginning of their careers and today

Time passes, fashion, tastes, music, newspapers and people change. And even if it seems that time has no power over those whom we see every day, including on the TV screen, this is not so. Collected photographs of famous TV presenters in this review - a unique opportunity to see what media people were like at the beginning of their careers in the 1990s

How the leaders of the socialist countries and prominent party officials rested, were treated and passed away in the USSR

The cooperation of the Soviet Union with friendly powers was not limited to the political, economic and cultural spheres. The USSR government closely monitored the health of the leaders of the socialist countries and leaders of the communist parties, invited them to rest and treatment. However, the results of fraternal medical care were not always positive, which often caused rumors about the hand of the Soviet special services

The World of Officials and the Officials of the World in Ian Benning's Photo Project

"Culturology" has already written about such international endeavors as the documentary photo project "Where Children Sleep" and a series of photographs "Girls and Their Rooms". This time, we propose to look where you usually really do not want to go - to state institutions. Photographer Ian Benning will skip the line to take us to the offices of minor officials, whom we have all encountered more than once, and will show us what public places look like in different countries