history
The history of the rainbow flag
After the tragic events in Orlando, one image has symbolised solidarity. Kelly Grovier looks at an emblem “torn from the soul of the people”. Suddenly, they are everywhere: stretched across balconies, flapping from car antennas, and pinned to coat lapels the world over in a moving display of solidarity with the...
5 the most terrible secrets of the Soviet Union, which was concealed from us all
Communist Russia was an exemplar of openness and accountability in government. That’s not a sentence you’ll read these days—at least not outside of North Korea. (Although I suppose you’re reading it now, which makes my statement a little void. Unless you’re actually in North Korea, in which case...
US election 2016: Six reasons it will make history
Donald Trump is now close to being assured the Republican nomination in the US presidential race, something few would have predicted 12 months ago. The Democratic race is still going, but it looks increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, despite Vermont senator Bernie Sanders' win in Indiana on Tuesday....
HISTORY REPEATING? Fears of ANOTHER financial crisis as borrowing reaches 11-year high
BRITISH households racked up debts at the fastest rate since March 2005 — the run up to the financial crisis — sparking fears of a borrowing bubble inflated by low interest rates. Consumer credit, including credit cards and personal loans, grew by 9.7 per cent to reach £1.9billion in March. The last time...
The photo that changed history
A NEW book about the life of Jack Ma has revealed a little-known story of how an Australian family helped set the Chinese billionaire on the path to founding e-commerce giant Alibaba. In Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built, which goes on sale tomorrow, author Duncan Clark reveals how in 1980, electrical engineer and Communist...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...
10 most cruel punishment of women in history (18+)
For women there were punishments designed to humiliate as well as to hurt. The scold’s bridle took many appearances but in essence each was the same – a metal cage to clamp around the head with a built-in gag. Included in the design of some was a bell which rang when the ‘scold’ was paraded around...
Andes plane crash: ‘I ate my friends to survive’
In 1972, Roberto Canessa was one of 45 people aboard a plane that crashed high in the Andes mountains. Twelve were killed in the crash, six died in the next few days, and 11 more perished due to the lack of food and harsh conditions they faced. Those who were left ate the bodies of the dead in order to have any chance of living...
The torture of the Gestapo (25 photos)
It is a small neat house in Kristiansade next to the road in the port of Stavanger, and during the war was the most horrible place throughout the south of Norway. «Skrekkens hus» — «House of terror" — so named it in the city. Since January 1942, the city archives building was the...
How Hungary Struggled With The Wave Of Suicides After World War І
The First World War was one of the "modern" wars and had such a scale and destruction, which any other war could not boast. People who lived at that time suffered from depression. Some people believed that the wave of suicides was caused by popular Hungarian song in 1933 called "Gloomy Sunday". To...
20 Rare Photos That Takes a Fresh Look at The Histoty
It's history you can touch! Competition for the best figure looks scary. Do you have a hard life? Participants of temperance societies I wonder what they represent? Brutal women's boxing. Strange photoshoot This is Mexican jerboa! A crocodile like a living!...
Crimea in World War II (Photos)
In 1944, Russian forces led by Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin attack the German army in an attempt to win back Crimea, in the southern Ukraine, occupied by the Axis power. The attack would result in the breaking of German defensive lines in just four days, eventually sending the Germans retreating. Crimea was the territorial plaything...