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To help the erudite. Database on the history, geography, biology, science, technology, sport, culture, traditions of the peoples of the world. According to the materials of the press and the Internet.
According to the Japan Power Federation, more than 9 electricians are involved in freeing power lines from kites in just one year. Carrying out such work costs electric companies a round sum - about 1 million dollars. The Roman emperor Vitellius did not spare a quarter of a million gold pieces and obtained the consent of the chief priest of the province of Gaul, who determined the beginning and end of spring, to extend the spring of 68 AD by one minute. This deal allowed Vitellius to claim that he bought what is not sold or bought - time. The people of Fiji prefer to taste their money. For a long time, the islanders have had a habit of putting metal cash in their mouths when they go shopping. The coins there were traditionally bronze. In Fiji, coins from other compositions did not take root. So, coins made of brass and aluminum alloys were rejected. The reason is that they taste bad. The French king Charles IX (1550-1574) had a peculiar sense of humor. He amused himself by inviting the most skillful pickpockets to balls. The king amused himself by watching the thieves take off the jewelry and pull out the purses of the guests invited to the ball. The king allowed swindlers to keep everything they earned. The oldest bound book in the world has been found in a tomb in Egypt and is a collection of religious hymns. Her age is 1610 years. European travelers describing their travels in Persia in the late XNUMXth and early XNUMXth centuries often mentioned the word radar. So in Persia the road guards were called, who also collected a toll from those passing by. 2000 years ago, the largest cities in the world were Rome and Alexandria, each with over a million inhabitants, and Corinth, with over 500000 inhabitants. (Viestnik Zagreb, 21.08.2000) The first tube line was opened in London in 1863. Cuban leader Fidel Castro, speaking at a meeting of the State Council on the development of the fishing industry, expressed the opinion that Jesus Christ was a communist and that is why he began his agitation and propaganda activities among ordinary fishermen in Galilee. Raul Castro, who took the floor after his brother, clarified: Jesus Christ was crucified precisely because he expressed communist views. (Figaro, 18.08.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX) In the US state of Florida, one in six prison guards sooner or later ends up behind bars for their illegal actions. 14% of UK general practitioners are suicidal and 10% suffer from severe depression. (Press Medical Paris, 18.08.2000) According to Eurostat (EU Statistics Office), 376 million people currently live in the countries of the European Union. (Figaro, 12.08.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX) An interesting story is how left-hand traffic originated in Japan. So, in the 1920s, the emperor bought a British Rolls-Royce. And as the emperor rides, so do his subjects. So the land of the rising sun from the first years of the era of motoring has become left-handed. (pravo.ruz.net/uk.htm) 35-year-old Korean climber Kim Hong Bin, who lost his hands while trying to climb Mount McKinley in Alaska in 1991, is preparing to conquer the greatest peak in the world, Everest. This should happen in September. Kim Hong Bin says he plans to take down safety ropes with his teeth. Thus, he has already made several successful ascents. ([niarb] of toxic kru. news port.ru 18.09.2000) Along with bombs, knives and firearms, Pepsi cans were included in the category of dangerous items at the 2000 Olympics. When entering stadiums, fans are asked if they are carrying knives, guns, or a can of Pepsi. If the guest of the Olympics does not want to part with his favorite drink, then he is simply not allowed into the competition halls. This policy of the organizers is explained very simply: the official sponsor of the 2000 Olympics is a competitor of Pepsi - Coca-Cola, which bought dct the rights to advertise and sell drinks at the Olympic venues. In addition to Coca-Cola, two other companies dominate the Olympics - IBM and Panasonic. Therefore, on computers and televisions not manufactured by these companies, the names of the manufacturers are sealed with black tape. ([niarb] of toxic kru. news port.ru 18.09.2000) The wealth of 275000 American families is estimated at more than $10 million. 41000 of them live in New York's Manhattan borough. The farther to the south of Europe, the more people are prone to hyperbole. So, if a German says that he is wet to the skin, this seems not enough to the Frenchman, and he claims that he is wet to the bone, and the Spaniard goes even further and makes him wet to the marrow. The Austrian army has 270 generals and only 110 tanks, and all available aircraft are of obsolete designs. Fandango is a Spanish (Castilian and Andalusian) folk dance, accompanied by singing, performed by couples to the accompaniment of a guitar and castanets. Helmet from the Spanish word casco skull, helmet. Employees of the American Foundation for the best leaders argue that the best managers are women. They conducted a survey of several thousand employees of various firms, finding out the opinion of the staff about 915 senior managers, including 645 men. the average score for women was 3,64 on a five-point scale, and for men it was 3. In Spain, the player of the football club Atlético (Madrid) Manolo Garnis, the most popular football player of the 30s, who died during the Civil War, was canonized. Initially, the movement was exactly left-hand everywhere (and in Russia too). This is quite natural - the weapon was held with the right hand, therefore, when two men met on the road, they diverged on the side that was convenient to repel a possible attack. Then, after the French Revolution, when even the names of the months were renamed and the movement was made right-handed, not like everyone else. And as Napoleon captured the countries of Europe, right-hand traffic spread there as well. In Japan, I think, the traffic was always on the left, as in other independent island states. (Alexey Varlamov) Vsevolod Ovchinnikov (a Soviet journalist who lived in Japan for about 10 years) in his book Cherry Branch wrote about the rule introduced by the Emperor, which stated that those who move along the threshold towards the capital must keep to the left side of the road, and those who is directed from it - respectively, the right one. The emperor, introducing this rule, looked at the road, naturally, from the capital. This was introduced for the convenience of the samurai, since if an enemy was encountered on the road, it is much more convenient for the equestrian to move along the left edge and wield the sword in his right hand. This week, a 28-year-old hacker hacked into the system of one of the two leading Estonian banks, Hansapank, and copied 61000 pin codes to customers' debit cards. The damage amounted to 300.000 Estonian kroons ($16.400). (achtungpanzer.nm.ru) In military campaigns, the Roman armies were followed by convoys not only with marketers (merchants) and prostitutes, but also with goats and sheep - for the most unpretentious soldiers. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) The Gauls wore long hair, for which reason their country itself was called Gallia comata, that is, the country of the long-haired Gauls. Musk is called a secret located in certain organs, the so-called pouches under the belly of the musk deer (Muschus moshatus or moschiferus), which lives in the highlands of China, Tibet and Tonkin. Chalice - a bowl for the Holy Gifts. Geisha's earnings are traditionally calculated in chopsticks (meaning the time for which one incense stick burns out). So a banquet from 18.00 to 19.30 is estimated by the time of three sticks. One stick costs 1220 yen (in 1975). The record earnings for a hard-working geisha were two hundred sticks a month - about $800. (L. Dalby, Geisha) In Morocco, using radar and computers, they calculated how much a swarm of locusts weighs. It turns out that on average - 60 thousand tons. By comparing the data stored in the computer, it was found that in 1946 an especially large flock of 500 tons flew in these parts, the shadow of which covered several tens of kilometers. In the town of San Blas (Panama), all girls at the age of 12 from the local Indian tribe receive the name Titi (Flower) and only after 12 they are given individual names. At the Sapienza University of Rome, a special course is given on the famous football coach, 61-year-old Giovanni Trapattoni, under whose leadership such famous football clubs as Turin's Juventus, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich won league titles 18 times. In August, all men's baths were closed in Afghanistan. The ruling Taliban movement considered that it was unsuitable for a devout Muslim to flaunt his nakedness to others (even if these others are the same devout Muslim men). The baths were closed, despite the fact that the Afghans bathed, remaining in the local version of shorts. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) International passports must comply with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) standards of the United Nations icao.org/. The best music disc of all time is the 1966 Beatles album Revolver. This is clear from a public opinion poll published in Hamburg. It was attended by about 200 music lovers. The average life expectancy in Japan is 74,5 years and in Sierra Leone it is 25,9 years. Oman has become the second Arab state to allow women to work as taxi drivers. However, they can only take women as passengers. In 1999, Americans spent a total of $57,8 billion on their vacations. This is more than representatives of any other country. Women's baths in Afghanistan were closed last year. Jeans, chewing gum, television and other vices of civilization are also prohibited in this country. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) Last summer, the identification mark (and at the same time the banner) of many nudist beaches in Russia were huge family shorts of cheerful colors (with polka dots, etc.) on a flagpole stuck in the sand. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) The first information about the appearance of karate, or tode, as it was then called, was recorded at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century (Shoshin Nagamine in the book Fundamentals of Okinawan Karate-do gives the exact date - 1761). It was then that a Chinese named Kusanku demonstrated to the delighted spectators in Okinawa his skill in Chinese boxing and grappling techniques. (Mark Bishop Okinawan Karate) It should be noted that until 1879 the circle of people who studied martial arts was limited exclusively to families of the upper classes of society, and even after this period, a very small number of ordinary people could or wanted to practice them. Among the historical facts I studied, I did not find the slightest hint that the unarmed Okinawan peasants created self-defense combat systems in order to overthrow the Satsuma clan, although this is a fairly common view. On the contrary, there is much evidence that after 1609 the martial art of chi was practiced as a means of self-defense among the nobility (Mark Bishop Okinawan Karate) From a historical point of view, there is no evidence that before 1879 weapons were regularly or ever used by the rural population of Okinawa for personal defense or in the course of an organized resistance movement against Japanese rule. Kobudo - these katas and dances were intended to be shown at village festivals. It should be noted that members of village youth organizations (Okinawa) rarely make an analytical analysis of techniques when teaching weapon dances. (Sergey Alexandrov. Mark Bishop Okinawan Karate) the first space traveler - the dog Laika on Sputnik - 2. Unfortunately, the air supply ran out after a week and she died. (hammer Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe) Condensed milk was invented by American Gail Borden in 1850. Genius - among the ancient Romans, the god of male power, the personification of all the best male qualities. He was considered the progenitor of every kind. The Archbishop of Trier Theodoric II, who ruled in 1212-1242, wrote in his Forest Charter: Whoever catches a bird called a tit, let him be anathematized. In Islam, the left hand is considered unclean - and for good reason, because. according to tradition, it is with this hand that Muslims wash themselves after going to the toilet. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) A new portal has been opened - Linux Center (linuxcenter.ru), whose main task is to promote the Linux operating system in Russia. The Linux Center contains all noteworthy distributions of Linux, FreeBSD, as well as related software, educational literature, and news. One Australian bureau of statistics has compiled an unusual ranking, in which the number of medals of the Sydney Olympics per capita of different countries is calculated. Here, the Russians occupy only 37th place, but they are ahead of both America (43rd place) and China (47th). And on the first line of this kind of rating are the Bahamas (1 medal falls on 153 thousand people). They are followed by Barbados (1 in 270) and Iceland (000 in 1). (sport.list.ru/olimp307/) Kazanovitsa is not Kazanova's girlfriend, but the name of one of the variants of computer transcription of Kazakh words (there are 33 Russian letters and 9 additional letters in the alphabet of this language) in Cyrillic + one Latin letter. (Echidny Commentator, subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno, ORT, Together program, 28.10.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX) According to French sociologists, unmarried women are often ahead of bachelors in the career ladder. Shy people are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and may even die from it, according to Australian scientists. Shy people worry a lot about what others think of them. As a result, the poor develop hypertension. China ranks second in the world (after the US) in terms of the number of mobile phones, of which there are more than 60 million. Every month, two million people in China purchase mobile phones. This year, opera as an art form turned 400 years old. The first opera was written in 1600 by the Italian composer Jacopo Peri. It was Eurydice, a performance during which the singers were accompanied by an ensemble of four musicians. The very first known strike took place in ancient Rome in 309 BC. The city orchestra was on strike under the direction of Aristos. The reason is dissatisfaction with food. The smallest banknote was issued by the Romanian Ministry of Finance in 1917. A ticket for 10 baths measured 27,5 by 38 millimeters. The ancient Greeks and Romans always mixed wine with water (one part wine to two parts water). Drinking undiluted wine was considered a sign of drunkenness and immoderation. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) The ancients kept wine in earthenware bottles with narrow necks. The mouth of such a bottle was sealed with plaster and opened with an axe. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) In St. Petersburg, being attacked by a tipsy savras is just as easy on Panteleymonovskaya as on Bolshoi Sampsonevsky. Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich, for example, was beaten and his hat was taken away right at the bars of the Mariinsky hospital, a stone's throw from Nevsky. (L. Lurie Real Petersburg) Thomas Torquemada (1420 - 1498) became the first Grand Inquisitor, and in some ways the Spaniards even revere him, for, despite the cruel treatment of those who did not share his beliefs, he was not a bore and did his job with taste. (Drew Lonay These Strange Spaniards) The ancient Romans named the country they conquered Spain because of the abundance of rabbits (rabbit in Phoenician spani). The Russian word rabbit comes from Polish and literally means little king. In the southern regions, the rabbit is called panty. From one rabbit there can be up to 60 rabbits per year. A rabbit doubles its original body weight already on the 6th day of life, a piglet - on the 15th, a lamb - on the 18th, and a calf - on the 47th day. Versailles became the residence of the French king in 1682. Serfdom was extended to Ukraine in 1764. In fact, the first strike, information about which has come down to us from written sources, occurred in ancient Egypt in the period from 1540 to 1070. BC. The builders of the pyramid from the village of Der el-Medina were on strike. The reason is the delay in the payment of salaries. As payment for labor, workers were given bread and barley, as well as fish, vegetables, animal and vegetable oil and cloth. (kemet.ru/biblio/012/005.htm) In Japan, married women traditionally had to shave their eyebrows, instead applying two strips of mascara high on their foreheads. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) The Japanese believed that to the west of them (i.e., on the territory of present-day Russia) is the Abode of the Hundred Delights. (subscribe.ru/archive/rest.love.neporno) Film director Martin Scorsese has suspended 25-year-old Hollywood celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio from participating in his new film Gangsters of New York, deeming him too obese for the role assigned to him. The British management company Desk-Dimon, based on a survey of 200 people, came to the conclusion that secretaries are smarter than their bosses. In 60% of cases, secretaries found a higher IQ than their bosses. In people who have lost their sight, the brain works faster than in sighted people. Those nerve cells that usually process visual information are rebuilt and begin to work for the auditory analyzer. Thanks to this, the blind understand the speech addressed to them twice as fast. (lenta.ru/health/2000/10/13/blind/) Linguists have calculated that there are 6800 languages in the world. However, half of them are likely to disappear within two generations. This means that every ten days one language will disappear from the face of the Earth. (Echo of the Planet #35, 2000)
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