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Where is the restaurant, whose tables are placed between the graves of the old cemetery?

In the Indian city of Ahmedabad, there is a New Lucky restaurant built on the site of an old Muslim cemetery.

True, the graves have not gone away - the tables are placed right between them. The owner of the cafe says that this does not bother customers at all, and the business itself is flourishing.

Waiters every day, in addition to serving customers, pay tribute to the deceased - they wipe the graves and sometimes put flowers on them.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Why did American sailors cross the Atlantic faster than English sailors in the middle of the XNUMXth century?

It is said that at a time when the flag of the British Empire still flew proudly over North America, the Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain invited the then postmaster of the colonies, Benjamin Franklin, to London. Lord wondered why the American ships crossed the Atlantic so much faster, sometimes by as much as two weeks, than the British. After all, almost all of them were built in England and English captains and sailors are no worse than American ones.

Franklin did not know the answer to this question, but soon found out from his relative, Captain Folfier: a powerful current crosses the Atlantic from west to east, and American sailors use it or, conversely, avoid it, depending on which direction they sail. For a long time they managed to hide this from their rivals, the English sailors.

This current is called the Gulf Stream, and it originates from the accumulation of waters of the equatorial trade wind currents in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The Gulf Stream is a powerful river in the ocean that has no equal. Every hour between Cuba and Florida, 100 billion tons of sea water passes, breaking out into the vastness of the Atlantic.

If you combine the waters of the major rivers of all continents - the Yenisei, the Ob, the Yangtze, the Volga, the Danube, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Nile - with the waters of all rivers and streams, all together they will not outweigh the water mass of the Gulf Stream, which has a width of 80 kilometers and a depth of 250 meters. The warming effect of this current is felt even on the northern islands of Svalbard.

As for Europe, without the Gulf Stream, European civilization simply would not exist, since the European continent would be similar in natural conditions to Alaska.

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