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What is the number of the Beast?

616.

For 2000 years, the symbol of the terrible Antichrist, who will come to rule the world before the Last Judgment, was considered the number 666. For many, this number is unlucky: even in the European Parliament, the place at number 666 always remains empty.

The number 666 comes to us from Revelation - the latest and strangest of all the books of the Bible. "Whoever has a mind, count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; his number is six hundred and sixty-six."

But this is the wrong number. In 2005, a translation was made of the earliest text of the Book of Revelation known to mankind, which makes it clear that we are talking about the number 616. The 1700-year-old papyrus was found in the dump of the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus and deciphered by a group of paleographers from the University of Birmingham led by Professor David Parker.

If the new number is indeed correct, the find is unlikely to please those who spent a fortune trying to avoid the old version. So, in 2003, the famous US Highway 666 - known as the "Devil's Highway" - was renamed Highway 491. The Department of Transportation of the City of Moscow will be even less pleased. In 1999, its officials assigned a new number to the "ominous" bus route 666. The bus was renamed 616.

Disputes over the number of the Beast have not stopped since the 616nd century. The version of the Bible referring to the number 130 was criticized by the Bishop of Lyons Irenaeus (200-1883) as "erroneous and false". Friedrich Engels analyzed the Bible in his On Religion (616). He also calculated the number of the Beast as 666, not XNUMX.

Revelation is the first book of the New Testament and is full of numerical riddles. Each of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a corresponding number, so any number can be read as a word.

Both Parker and Engels argue that the Book of Revelation is a political, anti-Roman treatise, numerically coded to obscure the main message. The number of the Beast (whatever it is) refers either to Caligula or Nero - the hated persecutors of the early Christians - and not to some imaginary evil spirit in human form.

The fear of the number 666 is known as Neha-kosioihexekontahexaphobia. The fear of the number 616 (you are the first to read this) is called Hexakosi-oidekahexaphobia.

The sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel is 666.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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It is difficult to imagine the amount of dust in the air. It is believed that annually over the territory of the United States is about 39 tons of dust! 000 tons of this mass is dust from natural sources, therefore, about 000 tons of dust is the result of human activity!

Naturally, most of the dust in industrial cities. For example, this is how much dust settles on every square kilometer in major US cities: Detroit - 65 tons, New York - 55 tons, Chicago - 55 tons, Pittsburgh - 42 tons, Los Angeles - 30 tons. In a city with a large number of industrial enterprises, up to 180 tons of dust can fall monthly.

This is a very serious problem for human health, so many cities are taking active measures to reduce air pollution. Equipment that emits a lot of dust is equipped with dust collectors. Ventilation systems and electrical appliances are also used. In some cases, wet drilling and water spraying are used. However, the problem of dangerous air pollution - the problem of smog - has not yet been solved.

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