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Who at the baptism of a child checked the temperature of the water in the font with a thermometer?

When the son of the archaeologist Schliemann, who found Troy, was born, his Orthodox wife insisted on the baptism of the child. During the baptism ceremony, Schliemann wanted to check the temperature of the water and plunged a thermometer into it, which caused great indignation of the priest. Only after much persuasion on the part of the wife, the water was replaced and the ceremony was completed.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is the most dangerous animal that has ever lived on our planet?

A good half of the people who have died in the history of mankind - something like 45 billion - were killed by female mosquitoes (males only bite plants).

The mosquito (or mosquito) carries over a hundred potentially deadly diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis, filariasis, and elephantiasis (elephantiasis). Even today, every twelve seconds, this insect kills one of us.

Amazingly, until the end of the 1877th century, no one could have thought that mosquitoes were so dangerous. It wasn't until XNUMX that Dr. Sir Patrick Manson - also known as "Mosquito" Manson - proved that elephantiasis was caused by mosquito bites.

Seventeen years later, in 1894, Manson had the idea that mosquitoes might also be the cause of malaria. He invites his student Ronaldo Ross - at that time still a young doctor practicing in India - to test this hypothesis.

Ross was the first to show how a female malaria mosquito transmits the Plasmodium parasite through her own saliva. He tested his theory on birds. Manson outdid the student. To demonstrate the work of the theory, he infected his own son - using malarial mosquitoes, which he brought from Rome in diplomatic luggage. (Fortunately, after an immediate dose of quinine, the boy recovered.)

In 1902, Ross received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Manson is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and knighted. He also becomes the founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine.

To date, 2500 species of mosquitoes are known, 400 of which are members of the Anopheles family, and 40 of them are capable of transmitting malaria.

Females lay their eggs in water and use the sucked blood to mature them. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae, or pupae. Unlike most insects, mosquito pupae, also known as "twitchers", are very active and can glide through the water quickly.

Male mosquitoes buzz in a higher tone than females and can be tempted by a common tuning fork that produces a si note.

Female mosquitoes are attracted to moisture, milk, carbon dioxide, body heat, and movement. Sweaty people and pregnant women are much more likely to be bitten.

In Spanish and Portuguese, the word mosquito means "small fly".

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