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When were jousting tournaments banned?

Knightly tournaments were banned after the French King Henry II was mortally wounded during the tournament on July 10, 1559. The death of the king was accidental: the broken spear of his opponent, sliding along the shield, hit the golden visor and, piercing it, pierced Henry's eye. By the way, this was the first of the fulfilled prophecies of Nostradamus (1503-1566), published in his "Book of Prophecies" in 1555.

In 1556, the French Queen Catherine de Medici was shown a quatrain in which her husband, Henry II, was predicted to die during a jousting tournament, and she immediately summoned Nostradamus to Paris. The meeting was quite peaceful, Nostradamus even became a secret occult friend of the Queen.

On the night of the king's death, a crowd of angry people gathered in front of the building of the Holy Inquisition in Paris and demanded a trial of the soothsayer, who was saved only by the intercession of the king's widow.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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The sun, as observations show, not only moves along with all the stars during the day, rising in the east and setting in the west, but also slowly moves among the stars in the opposite direction, i.e. from west to east, moving from constellation to constellation . We cannot observe the constellation in which the Sun is currently located, since it rises with the Sun and moves across the sky during the day, when the stars are not visible. The path along which the Sun moves among the stars throughout the year is called the ecliptic. It passes through twelve so-called zodiac constellations, each of which the Sun visits for approximately one month each year.

The annual motion of the Sun among the stars is apparent. In fact, the observer himself moves along with the Earth around the Sun, which is why it seems that the Sun moves from one constellation to another.

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