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Why are Americans called Pindos?

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a large number of Greek refugees arrived in the Odessa region, among which the poorest were those from the Pindus mountain system. Since that time, the contemptuous name "Pindos" has been attached to the Greeks of the Black Sea region. And in relation to the Americans, the word "pindos" or "pendos" began to be used only from the beginning of the 21st century. According to one theory, the reason for this was the joint presence of Russian and NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo. The Americans called "Pindos" black-haired and undersized Balkans, including Greeks, and our soldiers, hearing this, turned the term against the Americans themselves, who seemed to them too cowardly.

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The skeleton has two main jobs - it supports our body in an upright position and protects the internal organs. The skeleton is a frame made up mostly of bones. At birth, a baby's skeleton contains about 270 bones, some of which are quite small. An adult usually has 206 bones because some of them fuse together. In joints, the bones are held together by ligaments that resemble cords or twine. Some connections are very mobile.

For example, when you run, you move your legs at the knee and hip joints. When you throw the ball, your arm moves at the shoulder and elbow joints. Some joints, or joints, are generally immobile. At the base of the spine, the bones have fused, forming one bone plate that fits into another. None of them move. All joints of our skull are also motionless, with the exception of the jaw. The protection provided by the skeleton includes the hard bony covering of the skull that protects the brain.

The rib cage protects the heart and lungs. And the spine protects the spinal cord - the highway for nerve endings. The spine is a chain of smaller bones.

It's hard for us to imagine that bone is living matter, but that's the way it is. When a person is young, bones grow. For example, the hip can triple in size from birth to full height. Bones increase in length and thickness as they receive calcium and other minerals. And since bone is a living tissue, it must be nourished.

On the outside, the bone has a thin, hard coating that contains many tiny blood vessels that carry nutrients to the bone cells. Inside the bone is porous and filled with bone marrow. Part of the bone marrow contains stores of fat, while the other part produces red blood cells.

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