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What moment of the ringing of the clock on the Spasskaya Tower corresponds to the onset of the New Year?

An indispensable attribute of television broadcasting on New Year's Eve is the ringing of the clock on the Spasskaya Tower. Many people think that the moment of the New Year is associated with the first or last chime of the bell. In fact, the first second of the year corresponds to the beginning of the chime, by the 20th second the bell begins to ring, and its last twelfth strike falls at the end of the first minute.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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If there is a place on earth that you would not even think of calling green, it is Greenland! Most of Greenland is covered by an ice shell, reaching more than 3000 meters thick in some places. Only the most resilient plants and animals can survive in such a climate on the edge of the ice sheet. Winters are very cold here, and summers are short and cool. Only small patches of land are covered with grass, heather and low flowering plants. Most of the ice-free surface is barren rocks covered with mosses and lichens.

Why then was this place called Greenland? Yes, for the same reason that an entrepreneur, wishing to attract buyers, gives the name "Pleasant Hill" or the like to a place that is really completely unattractive. In 982, an Icelander named Eric Thorvaldson ended up in southwestern Greenland. This stern man, better known as Red Eric, was exiled from Iceland for three years for killing a man. Erik spent three years in exile, exploring the western lands described by Icelandic sailors.

Three years later he returned to Iceland and told people about his research. He really wanted the settlers to rush to this country, so he gave it such an attractive name - Greenland! Today, less than 55 people live in Greenland, which is very small for such a large area. Most of the population lives on ice-free areas of the island on the southwest coast. Only 3260 people live in eastern Greenland and fewer than 800 live in the north.

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