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In the Chinese province of Guangdong, considered the most market and most liberal, a law has been passed according to which divorced wives can claim gifts made by their ex-husbands to their mistresses. For especially aged cognacs, their own designations are adopted: KV - aged cognac (6-7 years), KVVK - aged cognac of the highest quality (8-10 years), KS - old cognac (10 years), OS - very old (10-12 years ), VSOP - the best French cognac. Scorpions are arachnids, not crustaceans, as it seems at first glance. (Talk about animals) VSOP does not mean the best French cognac, it is an acronym for Very Special (Superior) Old Pale. Such a classification of aging can apply not only to cognacs, but to brandy in general. (Cognac - brandy produced in the French province of Cognac, high price and worldwide fame due to this uniqueness). In general, there are the following brandy varieties of non-Soviet aging classification: AC: 2-year aging VS: 3-year aging (three-star) VSOP: 5-year aging (five-star) XO: 6-year aging . Different factories may call the brandy of this exposure by their own special names: reserve, extra, paradis, etc. (wine.about.com) Beethoven's silent period includes five symphonies, as well as a wonderful sonata, the Appassionata. In the series of forms linking the ape-like creature and man, it is extremely difficult to fix a definite point at which the term man should be applied. (Charles Darwin, 1871) Metempsychosis is the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, according to which the soul of the deceased is reborn in another person, animal or even stone, depending on the spiritual qualities manifested by the deceased in a previous life. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras was a supporter of this doctrine. For the first time, the legend of Faust received a theatrical treatment in the tragedy of the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), the brightest and most talented of Shakespeare's predecessors. In the XII century, Castile, the Kingdom of Aragon, Navarre, Leon and Portugal were in the hands of Spanish Christians. In the south of Spain, there were up to a dozen semi-independent Mauritanian principalities - emirates, subordinate to the Almohad sultan, that is, the African sultan, who in 1147 conquered the Spanish Mauritanians. In 1717, Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille for two poems against the regent Philippe d'Orleans. Premiere of the opera Boris Godunov MP Mussorgsky ended in complete failure. Queen Elizabeth of Romania (1845-1916) wrote books under the pseudonym Carmen Silva. William Shakespeare and Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra died on the same day, April 25, 1616. Diego de Silva Velasquez 91599-1660) was a court painter of the Spanish King Philip IV, rose to the rank of chamberlain, and in 1659 was knighted and accepted into the aristocratic military order of Santiago. The builder of the Manezh building in Moscow, the Spanish civil engineer Augustine Betancourt (1758-1824) converted the Tula Arms Plant. Labnotation is a system for accurately recording dances, proposed in 1928 by Rudolf von Laban. The release of plastics began with the release of xylonite by A. Parkes in 1865. Asklepiad in the XNUMXst century BC first used diet to treat patients. The Library of Alexandria was burned down in 47 BC. during the siege of Alexandria by Julius Caesar. Concerto - from the Latin concertare - I compete. The expression Stone in the bosom has remained in circulation since the time when the Poles were in Moscow in 1610, although the latter feasted with the Muscovites, but, observing caution and hiding enmity, they literally kept cobblestones in the bosom of the kuntush just in case. This is evidenced by an eyewitness, the Polish chronicler Maciewicz. Be friends with the Muscovites, and keep a stone in your bosom from the example of the Poles, and the Little Russians began to say one of their sayings in their practical everyday guidance and in the assessment of the Great Russians. (Winged words kslova.al.ru/) About 20 pyramids have been erected on the territory of Russia. For example, in the nearest suburbs of Moscow, in the city of Ramenskoye, an 11-meter pyramid flaunts. 22-meter - near Lake Seliger, between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The 44-meter one is also being heavily built. (Technique of youth tmru.bizland.com/) According to the International Labor Organization, more than a third of the world's inhabitants are forced to live on less than one dollar a day, which is a miserable standard of living. American scientist Dan Wagner, who observed various animals in a special laboratory, found that they not only listen to music, but also show different tastes. Pigs, for example, love only rock, and classical music drives them to extreme annoyance. Women are significantly more likely to apologize than men. According to experts, men avoid the word sorry because by doing so they would admit they were wrong - which, from the point of view of men, is humiliating for them. Representatives of the stronger sex do not like to look vulnerable. Men's speech is driven by the desire for power, while women are driven by a sense of harmony. New Zealand's Ngati Toa have sued the country's national rugby team for $216924 for using the tribe's battle march as their national anthem without prior agreement. Between 1882 and 1891, Germany spent 37177500 decks of cards. Every adult German spent an average of 684 hours a year playing cards, or 8 days a year in terms of 86,5-hour workdays. Parisian researchers compared savings in banks in single men and single women. Bachelors had 24 times more savings. Of the seven million mail sent to the British every week, 957600 do not reach the recipients. Postmen, not wanting to knead the dirt in rainy weather, fearing angry dogs and for other reasons, simply throw away letters. Kouprey is an artiodactyl animal of the bovid family; wild bull. Length up to 2,35 m. Horns in males and females. Lived in the forests of the Southeast. Asia, preserved in a number of places in Cambodia and possibly Laos and Thailand. Is under the threat of extinction. Listed in the Red Book of the International Council for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Radon is an inert gas that has accompanied man since ancient times; there was even more of it in caves than in modern housing. But only recently, scientists have found that radon is the most significant of all natural sources of radiation. (bagz.narod.ru/ work.htm) In 1810, a huge 1400 page Work on the Nature of Color was printed. Its author was Johann Wolfgang Goethe. That's right, the well-known German poet spoke about this as follows: I do not attach any importance to everything that I have achieved as a poet. He valued his doctrine of color more than Goetz or Iphigenia. Of particular interest is the part about the effects of colors on vision and the mind. (chat.ru/~fox_cub12/m20.html) In 1938, DuPont introduced to the market - Nylon (nylon - the trade name for polyamide fibers and threads) - the first truly synthetic fiber. In the advertisements of those years, they said about him that it has the strength of steel and the thinness of the web. Nylon stockings begin to be sold throughout the United States: 64 million pairs sold in the first year! (lycra.ru/ ) During the years of the civil war, imitation of banknotes was often made in order to undermine the confidence of the population in the issuance of class enemies. To undermine the confidence of the population in Soviet signs, the counterintelligence of General A.I. Denikin overprinted propaganda poems and drawings on the captured stocks of Soviet banknotes, and then began to distribute them on Soviet territory. Some of the drawings depicted the outline of a fig, inside of which it was written: Look at this fig, well, what will you buy with them ?, or: The commissars deceived, they slapped a lot of money, and now you can’t buy dogs with these signs. Or quite briefly: Money is for fools. The Soviet government, when batches of banknotes of alternative governments fell into it, also did not remain in debt. There was a war on the fronts, there was a war of currencies. (bonistika.agava.ru/) What Koreans call teas (cha), in addition to green and black, are, in fact, decoctions of fruits, roots, leaves, bark of plants. These decoctions of the most diverse taste are used not only to quench thirst, but also for treatment, because each of them, as traditional Korean medicine assures us, contains many useful substances. (sik.agava.ru/) Wonderbra is a specially designed bra, the purpose of which is to lift and round the chest, visually increasing it by one size. Thanks to the special cut, corrective pads and special fittings of these bras, a woman can afford the most daring neckline. (wonderbra.ru/) Although the Norwegian Forest Cat was wild, it still found its way to humans. People called him goblinkat. They said that this cat had huge claws that gnashed horribly when he sneaked up to their dwellings. (fishmarket.ru/oksana/cat/) Hyphen - a short dash used to connect parts of a compound word, two words, got its name from the Latin word divisio - separation. The Egyptian authorities have invented an original way to combat smoking. Now the passion for nicotine can serve as a sufficient reason for divorce. Not only is this a legal norm, but a corresponding religious instruction has also been issued. (St. Petersburg Vedomosti No. 143(95), 4.08.2000) The facial part of the skull consists of 15 bones, of which six bones form pairs: the upper jaw, nasal, zygomatic, lacrimal and palatine bones, as well as the inferior nasal concha. Three bones are unpaired: mandible, vomer and hyoid bone. All bones are connected by flat sutures and are almost immobile. The lower jaw is an exception, as it is connected to the skull by a joint; she actively participates in the process of chewing. Unlike continental Europe, cats have long been loved and protected in England. Here, in the early Middle Ages, laws were passed to protect cats. The general indignation of the British was caused by the Spanish king Philip II, the husband of Mary Tudor, who tortured cats with special devices for torture. The open discontent of the Londoners led to the expulsion of Philip II from England. The latest issue of BusinessAge magazine published the Top Ten Richest Models of 2000. First place went to 34-year-old Cindy Crawford (Cindy Crawford), who earned 23 million pounds; second - Elle MacPherson (Elle Macpherson) - in previous years ranked first - whose income amounted to 22,3 million, the third - Claudia Schiffer. (jam.ru/) When seating guests, they try, if possible, to seat men and women interspersed. They also adhere to the second basic rule: married couples are separated, with the exception of newlyweds and celebrating anniversaries of married life. The heroes of the occasion sit in a place of honor in the center. (mega.km.ru/) Lovesickness is dangerous to health, according to British stress specialist Malcolm Vanden Berg. From a broken heart, - he explains, - the pain goes to the brain, as a result of which the stressful state covers the entire body and disturbs the balance in it for up to 6 months. There is a cardiac arrhythmia. Pimples appear on the skin. Hair loss occurs. There is muscle tension, especially on the back of the head and on the back. Sleep is disturbed. Frequent headaches occur The new $1815 bills of Australia will feature Sir Henry Parkes (1896-1872) instead of Elizabeth II. He moved from London to Australia, then a British colony, and in 1891-1901. served as Premier of New South Wales. He was one of the most ardent supporters of secession from Great Britain and the creation of an Australian federation. This dream came true five years after his death, in XNUMX. A parcel is called not only a postal parcel, but also paper rings worn on cigars. These are the parcels that Hans-Jürgen Jende from Oschats (Germany) collects. He collected more than 40 thousand of them, and from his collection it can be judged that the first one, made of silk ribbon, appeared in 1850. At the end of the last century, silk parcels were replaced with paper ones, which depicted portraits of statesmen, writers, scientists, athletes. The Egyptians deified cats, seeing them as the embodiment of the goddess Bastet. This prompted the Persian king Cambyses, a cruel fanatic, a military trick. Before the Persian army came into contact with the army of the pharaoh, Cambyses released in front of his advancing ranks a myriad of cats, whose tails were set on fire. The God-fearing Egyptians were confused, thus allowing the bloodthirsty barbarians to take possession of a great country - the cradle of civilization. (zooclub.farpost.ru/wild/120.htm) 97% of people who are offered a new pen will write their name first. Experiments show that a cat thrown from the seventh floor is 30% less likely to survive than a cat thrown from the 20th floor. it is assumed that the cat needs to fly eight floors in order to understand what is happening, relax and regroup. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucous every two weeks or it will digest itself. To avoid the danger of being crushed in the mouth of a crocodile, experts advise piercing his eyes with your thumbs, and he will immediately release you. Men commit suicide three times more than women. However, women attempt suicide three times more often than men. The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II only killed an elephant in the Berlin Zoo. As you know, humans are animals too. However, we are the only ones who can copulate face to face. (All above published notes by Yura Shilin) The Spanish king Philip II, during his coronation voyage through the subject provinces, brought to Brussels an original musical instrument, called the cat's harpsichord. The essence of the invention is as follows: out of fifty cats, fourteen are selected with voices of different tones, after which they are placed in a certain order, according to the laws of harmony, in a long box, divided into the corresponding number of compartments. At the same time, the heads of the unfortunate sufferers turned out to be stuck out at the front wall of the harpsichord, and the tails were fixed in a fixed position under the keyboard. One had only to press the key, as the needle connected to it dug into the tail, and the animal uttered a cry of pain. It was on such strings that they played pretty cat melodies for the amusement of court ladies and gentlemen. (zooclub.farpost.ru/wild/120.htm) Each time you lick the back of a postage stamp, you get 1/10 of the calories. A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its own. Ants never sleep. The word Canada is translated from the Indian language as Big Village. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672. Until 1965, Sweden had left-hand traffic on the roads. The transition to right-hand traffic was carried out at 5 pm on a weekday. The time and day were not chosen by chance: if the change occurred, say, in the morning or on the weekend, not all drivers would be attentive enough to understand that this change was scheduled for today. Sherlock Holmes never uttered the phrase: It's elementary, Watson. On average, a person falls asleep within 7 minutes. Themistocles' son, with his whims, forced his mother to fulfill all his desires, and through her, his father. Themistocles, laughing at this, said that his son is the strongest man in Hellas, because the Greeks give their orders to the Athenians, to the Athenians - he himself, to himself - the mother of his son, and the mother - the son. [Plutarch, Comparative Lives, Themistocles, 18. In the book: Plutarch, Comparative biographies, M .: Nauka, 1994, vol. 1, p. 141 - 142] (Yevelev.NewMail.Ru) The German PR agency Hunzinger reported that its specialists are developing a new concept for Libya by order of the country's president (official title - Leader of the Libyan Revolution) Muammar Gaddafi. (sovetnik.ru/news.asp?id=863) The first Temple in Jerusalem built by King Shlomo (Solomon) existed for 410 years until it was destroyed by the king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadnezzar). The Talmud reveals the secret that Shlomo foresaw the possibility of the destruction of the Temple, and therefore, in the depths of the Temple Mount, he arranged a hiding place for the most sacred utensils of the Temple. And indeed, some time before the destruction of the Temple, such items were hidden in this cache, and among them the Ark of the Covenant with two Tablets received by Moshe from the Almighty on Mount Sinai. (moshiachinrussian.com/temple/itemple.htm) In the Estonian passport, the photo and data of the owner are located not on the first, but on the last page of the passport. (usacars.superbest.net) In humans, morning growth exceeds evening growth by 2-1 cm. Napoleon wrote novels. The only surviving novel of Emperor Clisson and Eugenie, written in 1795, contains elements of the autobiography of the great commander. Its beginning and end were found and published in Poland in 1928. Only in the 70s were the pages of the middle of the novel written by the hand of Napoleon himself discovered. At an auction in London, they were sold for 10 thousand pounds.
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