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Where can you see giant rice paintings that change every year?

In 1993, residents of the Japanese village of Inakadate thought about how to attract tourists, and they came up with the idea of decorating rice fields.

Every spring, farmers come up with the plot of the picture and embody the idea using rice varieties of different colors. In addition to traditional Japanese plots, images more familiar to the whole world appear on the margins - for example, Napoleon or Mona Lisa. Rice paintings are also interesting because over the course of summer, seedlings change in shades.

The village is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists, and in autumn the farmers harvest and sell this rice at regular prices.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is a rainbow?

The rainbow is one of the most beautiful natural phenomena, and people have long thought about its nature. Even Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, tried to explain the cause of the rainbow.

A sunbeam or ordinary beam of white light is actually a combination of all colors. You have probably noticed what happens when a beam of light hits the bevelled edge of a mirror or the surface of a soap bubble. The white beam splits into different colors. We will see red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

An object that can decompose a beam of light into its components is called a "prism". The formed colors create a strip of colored matching lines, which is called the "spectrum".

A rainbow is a large curved spectrum, or a band of colored lines, formed as a result of the decomposition of a beam of light passing through raindrops. In this case, raindrops act as a prism.

A rainbow appears only during a downpour, when it rains and the sun shines at the same time. It is necessary to be strictly between the sun (it should be behind) and the rain (it should be in front of you). Otherwise, you won't see the rainbow! The sun sends out its rays, which, falling on the raindrops, create a spectrum. The sun, your eyes and the center of the rainbow must be in line!

If the sun is high in the sky, it is impossible to draw such a straight line. That is why rainbows can only be observed in the early morning or late afternoon. The morning rainbow means the sun is in the east and the rain is in the west. In an afternoon rainbow, the sun is in the west and the rain is in the east.

Superstitious people believed that the rainbow is a bad omen. They believed that the souls of the dead pass into the other world along the rainbow, and if a rainbow appeared, this means someone's imminent death.

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