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How did you start wearing gloves?

Wearing gloves is a very old custom. They were invented by ancient people who lived in cold regions. Gloves are known to have been worn by the ancient Persians and Romans. The Odyssey says that one of the heroes of this poem used gloves while working in the garden.

In the old days, gloves were made only of leather and were worn mainly during war and hunting to protect hands. But in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, almost every inhabitant of Germany and the Scandinavian countries wore gloves in winter. Women began to wear gloves as decoration from the XNUMXth century. They were usually made of linen and were long, up to the elbows.

Years later, Queen Elizabeth brought jeweled and embroidered gloves into fashion. Kid gloves first appeared in France during the reign of Louis XIV. French women in those days wore gloves knitted from silk thread.

Author: Likum A.

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Where are camels from?

From North America.

The symbols of the deserts of Arabia and Africa by origin are Americans.

Like horses and dogs, camels evolved on the steppes of America 20 million years ago. True, then they looked more like giraffes or gazelles than like the humpbacked pack giants that we know and love so well. Only 4 million years ago camels decided to cross Beringia - the isthmus that once connected Alaska with Eurasia.

Camels left North America during the last ice age and, unlike horses and dogs, never returned to their historical homeland.

No one knows why North American camels became extinct. Of course, climate change is to blame, first of all. More precisely, the disappearance of camels could be due to changes in the percentage of silicon in pasture grass. As the climate of the North American continent became cooler and drier, the silicon content of grasses tripled. Because of such super-hard food, even the longest-toothed herbivores wore out their incisors, and horses and camels, no longer able to chew food, gradually died of hunger.

There are also a number of indications that these already weakened individuals - the path to Asia for which was now closed forever due to the disappearance of Beringia 10 thousand years ago - were simply finished off by human hunters.

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