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When did they start talking about vandalism?

In 455 AD, the king of the Vandals (a group of tribes of East Germans) Gaiseric, after conquering the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, attacked Italy from the sea and approached Rome. Emperor Petronius Maximus, not daring to resist the barbarians, was about to flee, but was killed by his own guards. Then Pope Leo I came out to meet the vandals and received a promise from Geiseric not to burn the city. On June 2, Geiseric entered Rome without hindrance and gave the city to his soldiers for 14 days to be plundered.

The devastating consequences of this vandal invasion of Rome were so great that since that time the word "vandalism" has been used to refer to the extremely cruel, senseless destruction of cultural property.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Sometimes you can hear from people that they don't want to live like parasites. They want to do everything themselves. Parasites live inside or outside other organisms - the so-called "hosts". All living beings live independently. But parasites live at the expense of other organisms. Parasites take everything from the "owner", but do not give him anything in return! Both plants and animals can be parasites. They can live either on plants or on animals. Sometimes parasites live with different kinds of "hosts", but usually they can coexist with one kind of "host".

Sometimes parasites suck out all the juices from the "master", secrete toxic substances and thereby kill him. Almost all forms of parasites are very prolific and hardy. If it were not so, they could be completely exterminated! Let's look at some parasites. The smallest of them are bacteria. Bacteria are known to cause disease in animals and plants, as well as in humans.

Next in development are fungal parasites. Ringworm in humans is caused by one of these plant parasites. Other types can cause rust, mold and plant wilt. There are a large number of parasites in the animal kingdom. Here also the smallest parasite is one of the most significant. There is such a microscopic single-celled animal - the protozoa. These parasites cause African sleeping sickness, malaria and other diseases in humans.

Some types of worms are the next group of parasitic animals. Roundworm - trichina - the cause of the disease of pigs and humans with trichinosis. Parasites are also worms and flatworms. The highest form of parasites that settle on the skin are fleas, ticks and lice.

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