Then a beach vacation was not so popular. Deauville in Normandy has been a favourite resort of the French nobility after the construction in the 1860-ies of the railroad that connected this piece of Paradise on the coast of the English channel to Paris. In addition to luxurious villas and …
Read More »The streets of Tashkent in the early twentieth century. Photo
Tashkent – “star of the East, capital of friendship and warmth”. Shash-Tepa, Chach-Tepa was the name of the capital of Uzbekistan in ancient times, and since the XI century, the city known as Tashkent. At the end of the XIX century the city became part of the Russian Empire as …
Read More »British slums the second half of the twentieth century. Photo
The real devastation and poverty. We used to think the UK is a role model, a kind of standard of wellbeing and a good life for any average citizen. However, it was not always so. In British history there were “black” page. In particular, very much everyone’s well-being deteriorated during …
Read More »Favourite cats of the great artists of the twentieth century. Photo
They also had their “muses.”Not only women can become the inspiration for great artists. So, some of them were also crazy about their cats. Suggest you learn what the members of the cat were Pets so famous and great people of the twentieth century. How did you find out the …
Read More »In the early twentieth century, Russia was the world leader in exports of petroleum products
The oil industry has played an important role in the economy of tsarist Russia, which came in the second half of the nineteenth century capitalist development. It grew rapidly and entered the global market, becoming a serious competitor to the American oil industry. Industrial domestic oil production was concentrated in …
Read More »Climatologists: the rise of Global sea level during the twentieth century proved to be a record
A group of scientists under the direction of Bob Kopp from Ratestogo University have discovered changes in sea levels over the three Millennium, and found that in the XX century the growth rate was higher than that at least 2,700 years. From 1901 to 2001, the global sea level has …
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