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What year in Europe was characterized by the absence of summer?

In 1816, unusually cold weather reigned in Europe and North America, and it went down in history as "the year without summer." The reason was the eruption a year earlier of the Tambora volcano on the other side of the globe - the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. That same summer, the writer Mary Shelley was vacationing with friends in a villa. Due to bad weather, they often stayed at home and arranged a competition to write creepy stories - this is how Shelley's famous novel "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" was born.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Soviet basketball player Janis Krumins, a native of Latvia, started playing basketball only at the age of 23. Two years later he became the champion of the USSR, and a year later he won the silver of the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.

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A decrease in body temperature protects the heart in case of a heart attack.

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You can slow down the process by lowering your body temperature. But how to do that? Scientists from Lund University, led by Professor David Erlinge, have developed the following technique. As soon as possible after a heart attack, a person is injected with saline cooled to 35°C. Rapidly spreading through the blood vessels, it enters the heart and cools it. After cooling, the operation is performed with a cold catheter.

As a result, the survival of patients with a heart attack increased by a third. Both cooling and angioplasty are performed without anesthesia, and the person does not feel much discomfort. Delighted by the success of the Swedish cardiologists are going to start extensive testing of their method.

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