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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Phraseologism: Frankenstein.
Meaning: About a man who brought to life forces that he could not cope with, which turned against him, from which he himself suffered.
Origin: The protagonist of the story "Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus" (1818) by the English writer Mary Shelley (1797-1851). Victor Frankenstein is the name of a young Swiss scientist who, wishing to artificially create a living person in the laboratory, gave birth to a humanoid monster, which horrified its creator. And he was the first to suffer from his offspring - it killed the scientist's younger brother, and then his fiancee and only friend. Usually used incorrectly when referring to a monster, an artificially created creature that looks like a person, Frankenstein. But in Shelley's story, he did not have a personal name, and his creator himself - Victor Frankenstein - called him a "monster", "demon", "giant".
Random phraseology:
Experts are investigating.
Meaning:
It is used as a playfully ironic commentary on the work of investigators, detectives, etc.
Origin:
The name of a series of television films about police officers, popular in the USSR (1972-1989), directed by Vyacheslav Brovkin and written by Olga Lavrova and Alexander Lavrov. The collective nickname "experts" is made up of the first syllables of the names of the investigators - Znamensky, Tomin, Kibrit. |
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"A lightning flash over Oklahoma in 2007 covered a horizontal distance of 321 km (199,5 miles), and lightning over Southern France in 2012 lasted for 7,74 seconds, as determined by the WMO evaluation committee," she said in a statement. The WMO emphasizes that lightning "is for the first time included in the official archive of extreme weather and climate events maintained by the WMO Commission for Climatology." It records record values of heat, cold, wind speed, rain and other weather phenomena.
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