Which planet has an almost regular hexagon at the north pole? Detailed answer

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Which planet has an almost regular hexagon at the north pole?

At the north pole of Saturn, there is a whirlwind of clouds in the shape of an almost regular hexagon. There is no rigorous scientific explanation for this phenomenon, but Oxford University scientists were able to create similar vortices in a laboratory experiment. Small rings were lowered into a bottle of water, which stood on a rotating table, which rotated even faster. The resulting vortices created fluid flows of various shapes - not only hexagonal, but also square, triangular and oval.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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How did the double-headed eagle appear in the Russian coat of arms?

The double-headed eagle was the ancient coat of arms of the Byzantine Empire and was inherited by Russia after the marriage of Sophia Paleolog, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, with the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III in 1472. The lost great empire seemed to have passed the baton to another Orthodox country, which was gaining strength and power, forming its own statehood and nation.

In 1497, the double-headed eagle first appeared as a state emblem on the double-sided wax state seal of Russia: on its front side is the coat of arms of the Moscow Principality - a horseman slaying a dragon (in 1730 officially received the name of St. George), and on the back - a double-headed eagle.

Over the past 500 years, the image of the eagle on the coat of arms of Russia has repeatedly changed. On seals, the double-headed eagle existed until 1918. The eagles were removed from the Kremlin towers in 1935. On November 30, 1993, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the two-headed sovereign eagle of Russia was again returned to the Russian coat of arms.

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