Hollywood star Shirley McLain in photographs from the middle of the last century

22 charming girls who won the title of "Beauty Queen" in the middle of the last century

In America in the middle of the last century, every self-respecting company considered it its duty to hold a beauty contest and choose its own beauty queen. This is how miss appeared with a wide variety of titles - Miss Blueberry, Miss Posture, Miss Sausage and others, others, others. In our review, the most charming girls of the last century with the most incredible titles

Medicine of the last century: 20 frightening photographs of medical instruments and methods of treatment of the last century

Bizarre medical tools, daunting procedures, and bizarre approaches to healing patients. We have collected all this in our review dedicated to the medicine of the last century. Looking at these photos, it remains to breathe a sigh of relief that today everything is different

20 unexpected retro photographs of the last century that did not make it into the history books

The world is constantly changing. And you can see these changes if you look at old photographs that allow you to understand how the world looked like 50-100 years ago. Retro photography is a unique opportunity to plunge into the past and see what the era of our grandparents was like

Retro photographs of Leningrad and Leningraders 1920-30s of the last century

The city of Petra bore the proud name of Petrograd until January 1924, until the time when the ideological inspirer of the October Revolution, V.I. Lenin. The proposal to rename the city to Leningrad came from the Petrograd Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies, supported by resolutions of the workers of all factories and plants in Petrograd. What the city looked like in the 1920s and 1930s, how the Leningraders of that time lived can be seen in the photographs collected in this review

Unique photographs taken in Afghanistan in the middle of the 20th century

In the 1950s, liberal reforms began in Afghanistan, thanks to which the country embarked on a development path similar to the European one. But everything was not easy - in a feudal and impoverished country, a confrontation arose between the left proletariat, which followed the intelligentsia, and dark radical Islamic conservatives. But it was at that time that the veil was removed from Afghan women for the first time