The collection was compiled with the aim of popularizing the historical scientific discipline. It includes stories and anecdotes collected from books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. The book in fb2 format is made based on materials from the site “Historic.Ru: World History.”The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.