Who gave the name to the city of Los Angeles? Detailed answer

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Who gave the name to the city of Los Angeles?

Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States and the largest in area - 454,90 square meters. miles. When it was founded, who would have thought that it would become such a big city as it is now. The first white settlers in this place were Captain Gaspar de Portola, Spanish explorers and missionaries. On August 2, 1769, they camped on a river that bore the name "El Rio de Noistra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porcencula" (River of the Great Lady, Queen of the Angels Porcencula).

Two years later, 14 kilometers north of the camp, the French formed the settlement of San Gabriel. And in 1781, Los Angeles was formally founded by the Spanish governor of California, Felipe de Neve. With the help of priests from San Gabriel, Governor de Neve organized a settlement of 11 men, 11 women and 22 children, called this settlement El Pueblo de Noistra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles (City of the Great Lady, Queen of the Angels).

The city was not large, but when in 1848, after the war with Mexico, California became part of the United States, its population increased to 1500 inhabitants. Farms sprang up around the city, growing oranges, grapefruits, lemons, walnuts, avocados, and grapes. In 1876, the Southern Pacific Railroad reached Los Angeles. In 1890, oil was discovered in this area, and the city began to grow rapidly.

Author: Likum A.

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Our country failed to acquire a patent for the production of ballpoint pens, so scientists had to look for the composition of the paste again. The production of tiny balls has long been established, but everyone could not make pasta. Flies helped, or rather, a means of dealing with them. In those days, a mixture of castor oil and rosin was used to fight flies in everyday life. And then one engineer of the Moscow factory of art paints suggested making a paste out of it. And what do you think? The pens stopped leaking and began to write!

The first Soviet ballpoint pen was made at the Soyuz plant in Leningrad in 1949, and mass production began in the 1960s. In 1969, special ballpoint pens were developed for astronauts. Having tested them in weightlessness, the cosmonauts of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 crews were very pleased with them. After all, ordinary ballpoint pens refuse to write, even if you attach a sheet to the wall, not to mention the ceiling. Under normal terrestrial conditions, the paste is fed to the writing ball under the action of gravity. In space, weightlessness. What did our designers come up with? A very simple and very reliable device is a cylindrical spring, with the help of which the paste is fed to the ball. She performed the role of earth's gravity in space. And so that the handle did not fly around the cabin, a special nylon thread was attached to it, twisted into a spring. At the end of the spring is a hook. They can attach the handle to the pile upholstery of the ship wherever you want.

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