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What do Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit and the Easter Bunny have in common? Detailed answer
Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? What do Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit and the Easter Bunny have in common? The fact that they are not rabbits, but hares. Bugs Bunny and Brer Rabbit are both derived from North American hares - long-eared and big-footed. Bugs Bunny, who won an Oscar in 1958 for The Noble Knight, made his screen debut in 1938's Porky's Hare Hunt. Mel Blanc - the voice of Bugs Bunny - couldn't stand carrots, yet the actor was forced to chew carrots during the dubbing, as no other vegetable gave the desired crunch. The origin of Brer Rabbit goes back to the oral folklore of African-American slaves: stories of a hare that has always been more cunning than a fox. Robert Roosevelt, uncle of President Theodore and friend of Oscar Wilde, was the first to write down these stories, but it wasn't until 1879 that Joel Chandler Harris' rewrite of Uncle Remus' Tales became a national American classic. The insufferably cute Easter bunny is another invention of modern Americans, the commercial sanitation of the hare as a symbol of fertility/rebirth/moon. In Saxon culture, the hare was considered a sacred animal associated with Estra, the goddess of spring, hence the English word Easter. Few animals have so many mythological associations. From Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to India, Africa, China and Western Europe, hares have been portrayed as sacred, vicious, wise, mischievous, quick-witted and, almost always, sexy. Perhaps this is due to the hare's nimbleness: the hare is able to run at a speed of 77 km / h and jump up to 2,5 m. Or maybe it's all about the amazing fertility of these animals, because one hare can give birth to up to 42 rabbits per year . Pliny the Elder believed that if you eat a hare, you can become sexually attractive for at least nine days. Hares and rabbits are not rodents, but lagomorphs (the word comes from the Greek lagomorph, which means "hare-shaped"). One of the features of lagomorphs is that they can close their nostrils and willingly eat their own feces. They do this for the same reason that cows chew their cud - to get the most nutrition and energy out of their food. However, unlike cows, hares do not need to stand in one place for hours, monotonously working their jaws. The well-known ritual of "hare boxing" is not a competition between males for dominant status, but a female hare fighting off unwanted suitors. Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Who first explored the North Pole? The two polar regions surround the Earth's geographic poles. They are called the North Pole and the South Pole. The northern polar region - the Arctic was of interest to people since ancient Greece, and maybe even earlier. It is believed that the famous Greek explorer Pitis was the person who discovered the Arctic. In the IV century BC. e. he set sail from the Mediterranean north to the border of the Arctic region. Perhaps northern peoples (for example, those who lived in Norway and Britain) sailed to the northern seas before, but written evidence proving this has not been preserved. In the 1903th century the great exploration of the North and the Northeast began. Many researchers reached the Arctic region and explored it. These studies continued until the beginning of the XNUMXth century, and in XNUMX an expedition headed by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set off to the pole. Scientists intended to explore directly the North Pole. American Admiral Robert Edwin Peary led an expedition across the ice of the polar sea from a base located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. On April 6, 1909, he became the first person to reach the North Pole. The first flight over the North Pole, started from Svalbard, was made by the American explorer Richard E. Beard on May 9, 1926.
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