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How close are we to the sun?

The earth revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit. Therefore, when we approach the luminary, we move away from it. We do not approach it closer than 147 km (in January) and we do not move further from it than 079 (in July).

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Did children have toys in ancient times?

What do toys mean to us? Are they just items to play with, such as two pieces of wood or a piece of cloth? Of course, sometimes you can play with them and use them as toys, but by the word "toy" we mean something more.

A toy is an object that pleases a child, copying the actions of adults. A machine gun, a car or a wagon, a doll or a small house are toys. Also balls and spinning tops. But children from ancient times loved to imitate adults, so we can conclude that toys have always existed, from the first years of the appearance of mankind.

Archaeologists have unearthed toys such as bells, rattles, tiny pots, animal figurines made of clay, bronze and lead in the ruins of ancient cities. Among the excavations of the ancient Persian city, they discovered a lion standing on wheels. At the base of the toy, they found a hole for a rope to pull a lion by, just like in the toys of our days. And this lion is 3000 years old. Among the ruins of Ancient Egypt were found balls, tops, dolls. We know that the children of the Greeks and Romans played with rattles and wagons. In Cyprus, toy wine carts were discovered that children played with, just like you play with cars now.

In the Middle Ages, children played with clay horses, armed knights, bows and arrows. During the Renaissance, toys were often made by skilled craftsmen. They were smaller copies of weapons or household items of the time. One of the reasons why we cannot find earlier toys is that they were usually made of wood. The tree quickly collapses in the ground, so the toys of the most ancient times have not reached us.

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It seems that the dispute about who invented pasta - Italians, Arabs or Chinese, is forever settled in favor of the latter.

The expedition of the Beijing Institute of Geology and Geophysics found in the floodplain of the Yangtze, in silty deposits at a depth of three meters, a clay bowl with petrified spaghetti-type noodles up to half a meter long. Apparently, the village of the ancient Chinese was covered by a mud landslide, which preserved a household dish with food.

The find is 4000 years old, almost two thousand years older than known evidence of pasta in China, and much older than the documented occurrence of such products in Europe or the Middle East.

The study of DNA preserved in the noodles showed that the basis was flour from two local types of millet.

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