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Where did it come from

Nestor the Chronicler

Phraseologism: Where did it come from.

Meaning: About the history of something.

Origin: From the chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years" written by the Kyiv monk-chronicler Nestor (XII century), where he writes, in particular, about the origin of the ancient Rus, that is, "where the Russian land came from." "There went" is an obsolete past tense form of the verb "to go" (preserved in Serbo-Croatian).

Random phraseology:

Orestes and Pylades.

Meaning:

Loyal, inseparable friends.

Origin:

From ancient Greek mythology. Cousins who were bound by such a close and disinterested friendship that they were ready! sacrifice their lives for each other. The strength of this friendship already in ancient times became a household word and therefore was repeatedly mentioned in the writings of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero and others. The latter called true friendship: Pyladea omicitia - "Pilade's friendship".

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Having installed an antenna on the top, the expedition measured the height of the mountain with an accuracy of three centimeters. If we consider the height of the deviation of the top of the mountain from the geoid - the complex geometric figure that the Earth represents, then the height of Kilimanjaro is 5891 meters 76 centimeters. If we count from the sea level mark adopted in Tanzania, then the value is somewhat different - 5893 meters 45 centimeters. Europeans first climbed Kilimanjaro in 1848 and by eye determined the height of the mountain at 4500 meters. In 1898, the German expedition gave a figure of 6010 meters using a barometer (and this value appears in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1953 edition). The British, without climbing the mountain, measured its height in 1950 using trigonometry, pointing the theodolite several times from different points in the valley to the top of the mountain.

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