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What religious organization enrolled Homer and Bart Simpson into their ranks?

The official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano called Homer and Bart Simpson true Catholics, although Homer tries his best to hide this. The publication supports this conclusion by the fact that the Simpsons pray before meals and believe, albeit in their own way, in the afterlife, and also by the fact that Homer Simpson constantly snores at Reverend Lovejoy's Sunday sermons, which take place in the Presbyterian church.

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Why do some people have nice voices?

Did you know that when you speak, you act like a musical virtuoso? You play the most difficult and complex musical instrument known to man. You learned this at an early age.

It is believed that the vocal cords are the only part of the instrument that reproduces our voice, and the control of the cords is of great importance. The sixteen most delicate muscles in our body control our vocal cords. They can take about 170 different positions! Moreover, only a certain amount of air entering the ligaments makes them vibrate in a strictly defined way.

If the vocal cords are stretched (tensed) so that they vibrate 80 times per second, then the vibration of the air, which we perceive as sound, has a low tone. And if they vibrate about 1000 times per second, then a high-pitched sound is heard. The height of our voice is determined by the length of our vocal cords.

The vocal apparatus is a very complex mechanism. It is an instrument whose walls are made up of bones, muscles, mucous membranes and resonating cavities that can be compared to the soundboard of a violin. These resonating cavities include the windpipe, lungs, nasal and speech cavities, nasal sinuses, and chest. The range and quality of the voice depends on their shape and size.

In people with beautiful voices, the resonators have such shapes that, perhaps, they can only be compared with perfect musical instruments. But that's not all. You also need to know how to control these resonating cavities. The singer, while singing, uses his entire complex vocal apparatus - from the diaphragm to the frontal sinuses.

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