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Where and when did the most devastating earthquake in human history occur?

It is assumed that the most destructive of all earthquakes that took place in historical times occurred in Northern China (Gansu and Shaanxi provinces) in 1556.

The number of his victims is estimated to be about 830 thousand people.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Who lives in an igloo?

Probably no one else.

The Inuit word igloo (igloo or iglu) means "house". Most igloos are made from snow or animal skins.

Snow block igloos were part of the Thule culture - the forerunners of the Inuit - and were used in central and eastern Canada until relatively recently.

However, snow igloos are built exclusively by Canadian Eskimos. In Alaska, they are completely unknown, and out of 14 Eskimos living in Greenland (according to the census of the 000s), only 1920 saw the "snow hut" with their own eyes.

The first igloos ever seen by Europeans caught the eye of Martin Frobisher on Baffin Island in 1576, on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. At the same time, one of the Eskimos wounded the great traveler in the ass. In retaliation, Frobisher's men killed several Inuit, and one was captured alive and brought to London, where the poor fellow was put on display to the public, like an outlandish animal.

In the 1920s, a newspaper in Denver, Colorado, erected a snow igloo near the municipal buildings where reindeer were kept and hired an Alaskan Eskimo to explain to visitors that he and all the other Alaskan reindeer herders lived in such houses. when they arrive in their home country. In fact, the poor Eskimo had never seen strange snow houses before - well, except in the movies.

But in Tula, in northeast Greenland, the locals, on the contrary, were such great masters in building igloos that they erected entire halls of ice for dancing, singing and wrestling matches during the long dark winters. The community lived so secluded and far from other people that until the beginning of the XNUMXth century, its inhabitants sincerely considered themselves the only population of the world ...

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