How did puppet shows start? Detailed answer

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How did puppet shows start?

There are many types of dolls, as you know. Here are some of them: glove, cane, shadow theater puppets, puppets. These are small figures controlled by ropes or wires from above, canes or hands from below. The puppets are as old as the theater itself. The first dolls were probably made in India or Egypt. A thousand-year-old puppet theater has been discovered in both of these countries. Puppets, that is, puppets controlled by ropes from above, got their name in Italy.

For the early Christian holidays, small figures were created, united by the plot of the Nativity of Christ, including the Christ child, the Virgin Mary, and they were set in motion with ropes. This type of puppet was called "puppets", that is, little Mary. In China, Japan, and Java, figurines were created for puppet shows to represent heroes, gods, animals from legends and fairy tales.

Shadow theater originated in Java, Thailand and Greece. It operated on the principle of placing carved flat figures against a vertical screen, backlit. Did you know that great composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Gluck wrote operas specifically for puppet theaters?

One of the most beloved children's stories tells about the adventures of Pinocchio - a doll that came into life. In many countries there is a similar well-known character. He is known in England under the name "Punch", "Pulcinello" - in Italy, "Policinel" - in France.

Dolls can be any size you need. There are puppets only 15 cm high, and some reach 9-12 meters. It is also possible to make puppet animals that will be no less good actors.

Author: Likum A.

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Either six or eight. The answer to the question why the sloth in question was called "two-toed" is known to some taxonomists. Interestingly, both two-toed and three-toed sloths have three toes on each "leg". "Two-toed" sloths differ from "three-toed" sloths in that the former have two fingers on each "hand", while the latter have three. Despite the obvious similarities between both species, three-toed sloths and two-toed sloths are not related. Two-toed is a little faster. Three-toeds have nine bones in their necks, while two-toeds have six. Three-toed sloths are caring parents, two-toed sloths are the embodiment of evil and vice. Three-toed sloths whistle through their nostrils. The two-toeds hiss with excitement.

Sloths are the slowest of all mammals. The maximum speed of their movement is just over 1,6 km / h, but, as a rule, the sloth crawls no faster than two meters per minute.

Sloths sleep for fourteen to nineteen hours and spend their whole lives hanging on trees with their backs down. They eat, sleep, mate, give birth and die upside down. Some move so little that two species of algae take root on them, which gives the sloth's coat a greenish tinge that also plays the role of protective camouflage. Some of the moths and beetles are perfectly equipped in the skin of a sloth.

The metabolism of sloths is also slow. It takes them more than a month to digest food, and large and small sloths go only once a week. They do this right under the trees they live in, and such reprehensible piles have their own romantic name: "dating places."

Like reptiles, sloths practice thermoregulation: they crawl out into the sun to warm up and crawl into the shade when they need to cool down.

All this slows down their already complicated lethargic process of digestion. During the rainy season, when sloths hang motionless in the foliage so as not to get wet, some of them perform a truly amazing feat: they starve to death with a full stomach.

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