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Which band released a remake of an anti-war song with lyrics that glorify the military?

The Bolland brothers' song "In the Army Now" received worldwide fame performed by the group "Status Quo". Initially, it was an anti-war song, but in 2010 the musicians released a remake, making it military-patriotic and rewriting all the revealing fragments of the text. So, "Uncle Sam did his best" turned into "Now you need to do everything in your power." And after the line "Your finger is on the trigger" instead of "But it doesn't seem right" it became "Now is the time to fight." Proceeds from the sale of the single, according to the band, were to go to organizations that help the wounded and rehabilitate former soldiers.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Why do people have different skin colors?

People with the whitest skin can be seen in northern Europe, they are classified as the Nordic type. The people with the blackest skin live in West Africa. The skin of the inhabitants of Southeast Asia is yellowish in color. However, most people are not white, black or yellow, but represent hundreds of shades of light, swarthy or brown.

What is the reason for all these differences in people's skin color? The explanation is in the chemical processes that take place in the body and skin. Skin tissues contain color components called "chromogens" that are themselves colorless. When certain enzymes act on them, the corresponding skin color appears.

Imagine that a person does not have chromogens or his enzymes do not work properly on them. Such a person is called an "albino". It happens to people all over the world. There are albinos in Africa, and they are "whiter" than any white person!

Human skin itself, without any substance, is milky white. But to this is added a shade of yellow due to the presence of yellow pigment in the skin. The other color component of the skin is black, associated with the presence of tiny granules of melanin. This substance is brown in color, but in large quantities it appears black. Another shade is brought into the skin by the red color of the blood circulating through its tiny vessels. The color of the skin of each person depends on the ratio in which these four colors - white, yellow, black and red - are combined. All skin colors of the human race can be produced by various combinations of these color components that we all have.

Sunlight has the ability to form melanin, a black pigment, in the skin. Therefore, people living in the tropics have more of this pigment and darker skin. If you spend a few days in the sun, the sun's UV rays also produce more melanin in your skin, resulting in a suntan!

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We remind our readers that crystals are structures consisting of homogeneous components and possessing symmetry in one or more spatial coordinates. In other words, if we take any section of the crystal and shift it to a certain distance along the axis of symmetry, then the structure of the shifted section will completely coincide with the structure of the "unshifted" section. Quasicrystals do not have such a symmetry, their components are arranged in space in an ordered manner, but the structure of a quasicrystal does not repeat itself.

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