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Why did King Henry VI of England ban golf?

In 1457, King Henry VI of England banned golf as a useless game that distracted the nobility from the noble military sport of archery.

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How many sheep were on Noah's ark?

Seven. Or fourteen.

The corresponding passage from the King James Bible appears in the Book of Genesis, chapter 7, verse 2, where the Lord tells Noah: "... and take seven of every clean cattle, male and female, and of unclean cattle, two, male and female ".

"Unclean" livestock includes a fairly wide range of animals whose meat is forbidden (then and now) to be eaten by Jews - pigs, camels, badgers, chameleons, eels, snails, ferrets, lizards, moles, vultures, swans, owls, pelicans , storks, herons, lapwings, bats, crows, eagles and cuckoos.

"Clean" (edible) animals include sheep, cattle, goats, antelopes and locusts.

Thus, there were at least seven sheep aboard Noah's Ark - and not a couple, as taught in Sunday schools. However, in our opinion, the above passage still allows for a double interpretation: does this mean seven males and seven females, or were there only seven? Connoisseurs will certainly say that seven of each sex is a pure disaster: the rams would absolutely fight each other. From a practical point of view, it is much better to take one ram and six sheep.

However, in another Bible, the Rheims-Duay, the official Catholic translation of the Latin Vulgate, published in 1609, the answer is formulated very clearly: "... and take seven and seven of every clean cattle, male and female." So there must have been fourteen sheep on the ark.

Medieval Talmudists spent a lot of time debating what happened to the fish during the Great Flood: either they were left to the mercy of fate (they say that the salvation of drowning people is a matter of the fins of the drowning people themselves), or the executive Noah nevertheless took them with him in a special aquarium. In the middle of the 350th century, Johann Buteo calculated that the useful space of the ark should have been 140 cubits, of which XNUMX would have been occupied by hay.

But there really was a flood. There are more than 500 great flood myths in various world cultures.

Human evolution took place during the last ice age. Toward its end, as the temperature rose, the active melting of glaciers began, causing a widespread catastrophic rise in sea levels. There is an opinion that the story of Noah describes the disappearance of the Mesopotamia of the Tigris and Euphrates under the Persian Gulf.

On the suddenly reduced land, it was impossible to live by hunting and gathering, and for the first time mankind was forced to take up agriculture.

Aboriginal peoples whose culture and oral folklore date back to the last ice age can name and point to places where mountains rose 8000 years ago, today hidden by the waters of the seas formed from melted glaciers.

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