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How did the names of different types of clouds come about?

In 1803, the London pharmacist L. Howard classified clouds, dividing them into three types: he called small spiral clouds cirrus (cirrus, in Latin curls), large cumulus clouds - cumulus (citylus, in Latin heap), and layered - stratus ( stratus, latin for stratification).

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On November 9-10 (Brumaire 18-19), 1799, General Napoleon Bonaparte carried out a coup d'etat that established the consulate regime in France, and in fact received, although not immediately, full power in the country. The first consul Napoleon Bonaparte instructed the members of the legislative commission working on the text of the new French constitution: "Write in such a way that it is brief and unclear."

With these words, he set forth his general principle: when it comes to constitutional limits on supreme power, one must write shorter and more vaguely so that these limits never become real.

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