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What is GBAS?

This is a Ground Based Augmentation System, which operates with the help of a global positioning satellite system.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Who founded the world's first library?

In the 1846th century, a young London lawyer, Austin Henry Layard, decided to visit Persia and Iraq to find traces of the mysterious, fabulous Nineveh, the capital of the ancient Assyrian kingdom. In XNUMX, he discovered powerful city walls, ruined houses and the remains of the royal palace. It looked like the enemies had captured the city after a fierce resistance, destroyed all the inhabitants without exception, and set fire to the looted houses and the palace. However, the fire did not destroy everything. Layard found many examples of ancient art, but the main treasure was the library.

This ancient library was founded by one of the most educated people of his time, the powerful king Ashurbanipal (668-626 BC). More than 30 thousand clay cuneiform tablets turned out to be in his "book depository"! In order to find the most important documents and literary works, which were already considered cultural monuments at that time, the tsar sent out a whole army of copyist scribes in search of clay "books".

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Children learn kindness from human stories 02.09.2017

In children's literature, children's films and cartoons, children's games, various little animals are teeming - brave bunnies, cunning foxes, hardworking ants, mice, sparrows, etc.

The stories that animals, birds and insects tell usually carry some kind of morality, that is, the animals must explain to the children what is good and what is bad. At the same time, no one is embarrassed that children watch, listen and read about characters who are not at all like them, and are unlikely to spread "animal" norms of behavior to the people around them.

Psychologists from the University of Toronto compared the reactions of children aged 4-6 to different stories that were supposed to teach them to share with others. In one story, people acted, in another - anthropomorphic animals that can speak and are dressed in human clothes; there was also a third story in which there was no altruistic morality at all. Before reading, the children were given a dozen stickers and told to share them with someone else; after they read the book, they again had a chance to benefit someone else with stickers.

The most generous of the children were those who read a book with human characters. On the contrary, those who read about anthropomorphic animals, and those who read history without altruistic morality, were not very inclined to share their "treasures".

In addition, the children were asked how similar the animals from the book are to people, and most of the children's answers boiled down to the fact that these animals are still not people, that they lack something human. As for the books themselves, according to the authors of the work, the children read them with equal pleasure, and they had no preferences in relation to this or that story.

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It is only worth remembering that children cannot always understand that this is an allegory, and adults need to explain in detail what the story with a mouse or a fox has to do with the real world surrounding the child.

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