Why are Barcelona fans called assholes? Detailed answer

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Why are Barcelona fans called assholes?

In the 1910s, the stadium where the Barcelona football club played its matches could not accommodate everyone, and some of the fans sat right on the fence. Passers-by on the street saw a dense row of their fifth points, so they called the fans "kules", which literally translates as "ass". This nickname has stuck with Barça fans to this day.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Thousands of years ago, astronomers must have used the Egyptian pyramids and the towers and temples of Babylon to study the sun, moon, and stars. There were no telescopes then. Over time, astronomical instruments appeared, and as their size and number increased, observatories began to be built to accommodate them. Some observatories were built over a thousand years ago. The place for the construction of the observatory must be correctly chosen. There should be favorable weather conditions, moderate temperatures here, there should be many sunny days and cloudless nights, as little as possible fogs, rains and snowfalls. This place should be away from city lights and neon advertisements, which illuminate the sky too much and interfere with observations.

There are buildings in which, in addition to telescopes, there are living quarters. The instruments are housed in steel and concrete structures. Buildings for the installation of telescopes consist of two parts. The lower part is fixed, while the upper, or roof, is shaped like a dome that can rotate. There is a "slit" in the dome that opens up to allow the telescope to look up into the sky. Due to the rotation of the dome, the slit can be opened in the direction of any part of the sky. Both the dome and the telescope are moved by electric motors. In a modern observatory, an astronomer only needs to press a few buttons to move the equipment.

Of course, in order to see, the astronomer must always be at the eyepiece, or a camera must be fixed there. Therefore, in some observatories, the floor can be raised or lowered, or there is an adjustable platform. Astronomers rely on more than just their eyes to observe the sky. They have many sophisticated instruments and accessories for the telescope, such as cameras, spectroscopes, spectrographs and spectroheliographs. All these devices provide scientists with important information.

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