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Which poet was brought up as a girl until the age of five?

The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was born into a family where a daughter had died at the age of a week. Two of his six names, René and Maria, were female. Until the age of five, his mother dressed Rilke in girlish dresses and played with him as with a girl.

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Who Invented Rubber Boots?

It is known that from time immemorial, the Amazonian Indians knew how to make "fast" boots: they went knee-deep into liquid latex and stood until it dries.

The boots, made especially for the Duke of Wellington in 1817 and named after him, were made of leather. The first rubber boots appeared only in 1851, a year before the death of the Duke.

At first, rubber was a real disaster for light industry: in the heat, the fabric impregnated with it melted right on the person, and in winter it became hard as a stone. The breakthrough came in 1839 when Charles Goodyear, while heating a mixture of rubber and sulfur, accidentally spilled a few drops on the stove.

Goodyear's life story is inspiring and tragic at the same time. All his life he had to fight with terrible poverty - six of his twelve children died of malnutrition - but Goodyear was simply obsessed with rubber and stubbornly did not stop trying to improve the qualities of what the inventor himself called "vegetable skin".

An accidentally discovered process solved a long-standing problem of rubber - giving it a stable consistency. Goodyear shared samples of the resulting material with Thomas Hancock and Charles Mackintosh, well-known rubber traders.

After analyzing the submitted samples, Hancock and Mackintosh were able to independently reproduce the entire process and patented it in 1843, calling it "vulcanization" - in honor of the ancient Roman god of fire. Goodyear tried to sue, but to no avail - and not for the first time went to debtor's prison, or "my hotel", as he affectionately called it.

Goodyear died without being able to get out of debt, although he earned wide recognition for his tenacity and insight. Goodyear once wrote: “Life cannot be measured only in dollars and cents. I do not intend to complain that I have sown the seeds and others reap the fruits. A person has reason to regret only when he has sown and there is no one to harvest.”

Forty years after Goodyear's death, his immortality was assured by the founders of the Goodyear Rubber Company, today's largest manufacturer of tires and other rubber products, who named their company after him. In 2005, their turnover amounted to 19,7 billion US dollars.

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