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Charlie Chaplin - English comedian, actor, director, composer, who gained fame in the era of silent movies. Fame to this man came after the movie "The Tramp", filmed in 1915. But even today it is considered to be a landmark for world cinema. In 1919...

“The city was built by a commander of Greek origin from the Middle Eastern state of the Fatimids named Jauhar al-Sakali. He decided to build a fortress in which, if there was a need, people could find shelter and withstand the attack of enemies. And so...

Something like Kiev looked like a few years before the outbreak of the First World War. Most of these photographs were taken at the studio “Gudshon and Gubchevsky,” which was located at Proreznaya 23. Gudshon is an active participant in the exhibition...

Film director Paul Ratner at one time was fond of studying old photographs of Indians. And he began to do it during the filming of "Moses on Mesa." The plot of the picture told about the love of a German Jew and an Indian woman. “Many of the...

These are archival images of one of the most closed countries in the world - North Korea. They were made from 1979 to 1987 by Japanese photojournalist Hiroji Kubota, a full member of the Magnum agency. The photographer traveled all over the Asian region...

These photos were taken from fashion magazines of the beginning of the 20th century. They depict European beauties that men admired and women envied. At the beginning of the 20th century, bright faces, dark eyebrows and delicate red lips were valued...

Podolie is a historical-geographical region of Ukraine covering the territory of modern Vinnitsa, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil and Odessa regions. Also, small adjacent parts of Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Kirovograd regions. In the XIX century, as part of the Podolsk...

The author of these pictures is Jules Gervais-Courtelmont, born in 1863 in a suburb of Paris. He grew up in Algeria and traveled almost the entire Middle East and North Africa. During his travels, Jules Gervais-Courtelmont photographed everything he saw...

In young people, they have always seen something unlike the rest of the age, something provocative, rebellious. If we take into account the mentality of different countries, then much becomes clear. Here are laid the features of education, worldview...

The construction of Obolon in Kiev took place in accordance with the 1967 Kyiv General Development Plan. Since 1970 - industrial zones, since 1972 - a residential area with the central highway Obolonsky Avenue. The main part of Obolon was built up in...