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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.
The Academy is originally a sacred grove on the outskirts of Athens, where, according to the ancient Greeks, the Attic hero Akadem was buried, after whom the grove and the gymnasium located in it got their names. Ryazantsev V.D. Student's dictionaries. M., 1998. There are two body types - male and female, they are also called apple and pear. Divide your waist by your hips. The normal value for a woman is 0,85. If more - you are a pear, and you will need to lose weight in the hips, and if less - you are an apple, and you urgently need to get rid of the tummy Lose Weight Together No16, 2000 The ringal snake, which lives in India and South Africa, is capable of spitting blinding poison directly into the eyes of a person approaching it from a distance of five meters. Scientists at the University of California have discovered an interesting feature of the sense of smell: the smell is perceived differently - depending on which nostril it is drawn into. The left nostril is able to perceive aromas much more subtle than the right. Scientists discovered this curious feature during experiments on a group of volunteers who were asked to unravel the smell and determine its source by pinching one or the other nostril. Ironically, the scents inhaled through the right nostril seemed more pleasant to the participants in the experiments. Health No10, 2000 Adrian Major, a professor at Princeton University, put forward a hypothesis according to which the monsters of ancient Greek mythology were inspired by the inhabitants of Hellas from the remains of various types of dinosaurs that they discovered during excavations. During the Sydney Summer Olympics, participants ate 210000 steaks, 30 tons of pasta and over 250000 bananas. Sydney Herald, 3.10.2000 The parliamentary faction of Bangladesh's ruling party, the Awami League, demanded that the country's 4 million eunuchs be given the right to vote and receive education, which they have so far been deprived of. Taxis have existed since ancient Rome. A counter drive was attached to the axles of the carriages, and under it was a bronze basin, where after every thousand stages a pebble fell. The fee was charged according to the number of pebbles. Nickel can be turned into such thin sheets that it is possible to read freely through 5 sheets located a few millimeters apart from each other. A sheet of iron 0,001 mm thick is as transparent as glass. The first victim of the car was Mrs. B. Driscoll from the English city of Cridon. In 1896, she was hit by a car traveling at a speed of 6 kilometers per hour. Metal flint for lighters does not contain silicon. It consists of 70% cerium metal and 30% ordinary iron. Cerium gives sparks, which light the wick or gas. A sociological survey showed that 34 percent of Germans most often have dreams about working days. At the same time, even in bed, 27 percent dream about rest. In third place on the subject of dreams are visions of the dead. Money in large quantities appears in the dreams of 19 percent of the respondents, war is seen by only 3 percent. However, after the age of 65, 13 percent of Germans have dreams about war. In the charter of the Society for the Protection of Animals, which exists in the Belgian city of Bonvan, there is an interesting requirement. Each member of society is obliged once a month to harness himself to a plow and plow the land for at least three hours. According to the compilers of the charter, this will help a person to feel how bitter the fate of animals is, and will make him defend his four-legged friends with even greater fervor. In 1936, when Dmitri Shostakovich was being worked on, one of the accusations against his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district was that the music depicted the creaking of the bed in a naturalistic way. In religious painting there is a work called The Miracle of Lactation. The painting depicts the monk Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) kneeling before the Virgin Mary. She squeezes her breasts, from which milk squirts, symbolically moistening the saint's lips. On her knees is the Christ Child. On the scroll is the inscription: Monstra te esse matrem (Show that you are a mother). This is how the medieval doctrine was embodied, according to which the Virgin Mary was not only the mother of Christ, but of the entire human race. Attributes of Bernard - a beehive, (a hint at the sweetness of speeches): by general admission, Bernard was called the Honey Doctor [lat. - Doctor Mellifluus]; a chained dragon, symbolizing the heresy deposed by Bernard; three miters lying on the ground - his threefold refusal of the bishopric. The main Stalinist ideologist Andrey Zhdanov in 1946 spoke with contempt about Anna Akhmatova: either a nun or a harlot. The ancient Greek name for the plum is kokkumelon, which means cuckoo apple. In the old days, lawyers, in order to influence the decision of the client, filed the legs of the chairs: the front ones - so that the client would get out as soon as possible, or the back ones - so that, having sat down comfortably, the person lingered. Behind the wheel - without a driver's license were motorists until 1910, when they were first introduced in Germany, and then in other countries. And before that, it was enough to buy a car and pay a tax in order to freely, to the best of one's ability, drive a car. According to statisticians, the fingers of an average typist run 20 kilometers during a working day. An owl is the only bird that can look at an object of interest to it with both eyes at once. The beginning of the numbering of cars was laid by the Berlin merchant Rudolf Herzog, who in the summer of 1901 hung the sign IA1 on his car. IA meant the name of the wife of the Duke Johanna Anker, in which the husband, as they say, doted on, and the number 1 indicated that this woman was the only love in his life. In 1249, a soldier from Bologna fled to Modena, capturing an old oak tub from which he watered his horse. The authorities of Bologna demanded that they be given not a deserter, but a tub. Having been refused, Bologna began a war against Modena, which lasted 22 years and was accompanied by significant destruction. And the tub still remains in Modena and is stored in one of the towers of the city. In Finland, there is an Association for Bad Literature, which annually awards prizes to the worst writers. Only unpublished works are allowed to the competition. First prize - dung forks. The Honduran Parliament is considering a bill that will ban parents from giving their children offensive or extravagant names like Carburetor, Sheena, King Kong or Alien and will allow those who have already received such names to sue their parents for causing moral damage. One of the leading Japanese sumo wrestlers, Akebono, weighing 516 pounds (235 kg.), After learning that the American speed skater Tara Lipinski weighs 6 pounds (82 kg.), remarked: This is slightly less than the weight of my right calf. At the end of October, the hunchbacked Zaporozhets turned 40 years old. The serial production of this car began on October 25, 1960 at the Zaporizhia Kommunar plant. ZAZ-965 cost - 1200 rubles. In the word 'lowercase' (letter), it is orthographically correct to put the accent on the letter 'a'. In the phrase 'on Wednesdays', it is spellingly correct to stress 'a' if 'day of the week' is meant, and 'e' if 'environment' is meant. Some aquarium fish are afraid of depth. Aquarium plants are divided into underwater, floating and aerial. Some aquarium plants are carnivorous - they can swallow small crustaceans, cyclops, daphnia and even small fry with special buds. At the beginning of the century, tadpoles were successfully used to clean the walls of the aquarium from overgrown algae; they can completely clean the walls of even a fairly large aquarium in a short time. Moreover, large black tadpoles only clean the walls of the aquarium and plants from algae, and small brownish ones eat the plants themselves. Curarization is the poisoning of exhibits with curare poison to immobilize them in order to be able to examine them under a microscope. Paludarium (from the Latin palus - swamp) is a type of aquarium adapted for growing marsh plants. It differs from the usual large length, small width and the predominance of frogs and newts as inhabitants. In 62 nations of the world, women give birth in an upright position (sitting, kneeling, etc.). The length of the human intestine is approximately 3 meters. But after death, due to the relaxation of the muscles, it stretches up to 8,5 meters. The word vegetarian was coined in 1842 by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society. The Latin vegetus was taken as the basis, which means strong, healthy, fresh, vigorous. The phrase homo vegetus indicates a spiritually and physically developed person. The English peasant Thomas Parra lived to be 152 years old, eating only plant foods. He entered into a second marriage at 120 years old, had a son who died at 127 years old. Having learned about such a long-liver, Charles I invited the peasant to the court, where he immediately died from eating food and wine unusual for him. boris.stealth.ru/ facty.html Between 90 and 97 percent of heart disease, which accounts for more than half of US deaths, could be prevented by a vegetarian diet. Journal of the American Medical Association. long-term observance of an overly strict vegetarian diet was, according to French doctors, the cause of the loss of vision in a 33-year-old man. For almost 13 years, the young Parisian ate only plant products. The patient himself explains his so ascetic diet solely by concern for his own health. During the examination, experts found in the body of a fan of vegetables and fruits a pronounced lack of essential vitamins and microelements. According to doctors, the deficiency of precisely these substances led to a disease of the optic nerve in a man. lenta.ru/health/2000/03/24/blind/_Printed.htm. Meat dishes tend to excite in the body the desire to take a dose of strong drink. Conversely, it has been observed that a constant diet with restriction of animal products prevents the onset of intoxication. By the way, many narcologists begin the treatment of their exhausted patients with Narzan just by transferring them to a vegetarian diet. e1.ru/ section/digest/ 2000/05/06/4411 there is a legend about the origin of such a vegetarian product as kalach: a man asked the devil for wheat bread, the devil gave him kalach, saying: Kal-ach (in Tatar: do not eat up, be hungry). Indian chefs have perfected the art of using spices for centuries, which has enabled many followers of a vegetarian diet to maintain a balance of nutrients. In addition, it was believed that fennel has a calming effect on the mind, increases the brightness of the perception of the world. Cinnamon - amuses, eliminates depressive conditions. Saffron - informs the human heart of spiritual qualities, the energy of love, devotion and compassion. Striving for abstinence, a person will inevitably follow one well-known order, and in this order the first subject will be abstinence in food, there will be fasting. When fasting, if he seriously and sincerely seeks a good life, the first thing a person will refrain from will always be the use of animal food, because, apart from the excitement of passions produced by this food, its use is directly immoral, since it requires the opposite of moral the feeling of an act - murder, and is caused only by greed, the desire for goodies. L.N. Tolstoy First step. The knife is at least 50 years older than the fork. The primitive people still had a knife, though not iron, but stone, and they began to use a fork only 000 years ago. Each of us spends about 40 buckets of water a day. And in the old days, in the XV-XVI centuries, a resident of a city like Paris spent only one bucket. Three hundred years ago, every morning the French king was served a wet towel with which he wiped his face and hands. And everyone found that this is quite enough. The handkerchief appeared quite recently. He is only two or three hundred years old. At first, only a few people used a headscarf. Among the most noble and important people there were many who considered a handkerchief an unnecessary luxury. Matches were also invented quite recently. In 1933, the first match factory turned exactly one hundred years old. Until that time, people made fire in a different way. Instead of a box of matches, people who lived a century and a half ago carried in their pocket a small box with three strange objects: a piece of steel, a small stone, and a piece of something like a sponge. If you asked what it is, you would be told that steel is flint, a pebble is flint, and a piece of sponge is tinder. A whole bunch of things instead of one match! Translated into Russian: On December 3, 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town (South Africa). True, the 55-year-old patient lived only 18 days after the operation, but, nevertheless, this operation gave hope to all people suffering from heart diseases. The French Foreign Legion, created in 1831 and known for its iron discipline and its brutal demands on personnel, began to admit women to its ranks for the first time. Corriere della Sera Milan 13.10.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX If the economic sanctions imposed by the US Senate on various countries for political reasons are implemented, two aunts of humanity will suffer. Claims that there is something in the world that can miraculously remove wrinkles is a scandalous lie. Nothing can hide the consequences of a 30-year-old divorce and 40 years of living in a polluted city. Anita Rodik, owner of Body Shop cosmetic stores One tawny owl, a bird that is common in Europe, Asia, North Africa and America, exterminates such a number of mice, voles and ground squirrels in one summer that they can destroy a ton of grain. Eagles, vultures and condors can climb up to 6000-7000 meters. The flight speed of a falcon during an attack on prey develops up to 360 km / h. A sparrow has twice as many vertebrae in its neck as a giraffe. The lanternfish has a phosphorescent head that illuminates its path, but no eyes. Fish with legs - bentosaurus - lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Long processes, which are a continuation of the two lower fins and tail, serve as legs for the fish. The most frost-resistant among animals are ducks and geese. They endure temperatures up to 110 degrees below zero. An ordinary standard format book of 500 pages cannot be crushed even if 15 wagons loaded with coal are placed on it. The word bug (beetle) began to denote a mistake in computer jargon back in the days of first-generation computers, when insects that climbed inside a huge VM often caused a short circuit. [1]catalog.aport.ru/rus/calendar/9/ 20001101all.asp#day28 In the 19th century, the hostess's apology that a tea leaf got into the cup was usually answered as follows: No one choked on tea in Rus'. In ancient Greece, it was believed that a horse that stepped on the trail of a wolf would no longer be able to neigh. John Kachala, a resident of Sumbawang (Tanzania), got a one-year-old mongrel and gave his pet a very unusual nickname. The consequences of this: John ended up in the dock and was sentenced to 1,5 years in prison. In addition, the court decided that the dog deserved capital punishment. The mongrel was killed. The local authorities felt that by naming the dog Immigration, Kachala had inflicted a serious and well-intentional insult on a highly respected institution - the State Department of Immigration. [2]karelia.ru/~kurier/23314/23314_22.html The ancient Mexicans called the sun Ipalnemohuani, which means the one thanks to which people live. On June 12, 1902, near the Bazarnaya station of the Syzran branch of the Moscow-Kazan railway, employees of the line and the nearest residents noticed an unusual number of earthworms heading across the path, which was covered with them for about 300 fathoms. The worms crawled in such a dense mass that the wheels slipped and stopped moving, as a result of which 6 trains traveling in both directions were stopped, which stood for about five hours until all the worms passed through the rails. Previously, in order to cure a patient with jaundice, the Czechs advised to suddenly spit in the patient's face. After the publication of the note: If the economic sanctions imposed by the US Senate on various countries for political reasons are implemented, two aunts of humanity will suffer, we received a letter from Oleg, who asks: I would like to know more about the two aunts of humanity mentioned in the newsletter . We answer: Oleg, do not worry, our aunts will not suffer, but two-thirds of humanity may suffer. They say that in one financial company they kept a person who did everything wrong. He was not specifically fired in order to know exactly how NOT to do it. Museum of anti-advertising antyad.virtualave.net/ The shrew and elephant live <2 and about 60 years, respectively. However, the heart of each animal during its life makes approximately the same number of strokes - about 800.000.000. Nikolay Proskurin. Discovery channel In the word apostrophe, the emphasis should be placed on the second o (Ozhegov's spelling dictionary). And in the word provision for the second e. You can buy the new BMW Streetcarver for just $440. This is a skateboard. The name translates as street cutter. It's not just a board on wheels. The BMW Skateboard is made from the same materials as all XNUMX Series vehicles. And over the development of BMW design worked for three years. Hanami - cherry blossom viewing Hypnos (Hypn) - a deity, the personification of sleep, the son of Nikta (Night), the brother of Thanatos (Death). Even the gods obeyed hypnos. Depicted as a winged young man (he was also depicted as a sleeping boy). The attributes of Hypnos are a poppy head and a small horn. The word hypnosis comes from the name of Hypnos. Morpheus is the god of dreams, the son of the god Hypnos. In ancient art, he was depicted as an old man with wings. Allegorically: Morpheus is a sweet dream. Expressions are also used: in the arms of Morpheus - during sleep, the priest of Morpheus is a lover of sleep. From the name of Morpheus comes the name of the sleeping pill Morphine. Venus, the Italian goddess of love, was often identified with the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. She was also often identified with the eastern goddesses of sensual love - Isis and Astarte. The cult of Venus entered Greece from Asia along with the cult of Adonis, and since. the Greeks obviously lacked these two deities, they began to multiply them so unreasonably that as a result it turned out that they had almost as many Venus as temples and sculptures dedicated to her. Both poets and priests, speaking of Venus, developed a single theme - the theme of sensual pleasure. Bacchantes were disheveled women with burning eyes who made lustful body movements and emitted wild cries to the accompaniment of loud music. Such festivities were held in honor of the god Dionysus. They took place at night, somewhere in a forest clearing, and were accompanied by rollicking fun. Bacchus and his retinue - Silenus, satyrs, Pan - were characters who had horns, hooves, tails and pointed ears, but at the same time possessed human features. They were dressed in both clothes and animal skins. Pan had goat legs and horns. In the VI century BC. in Greece, members of the Pythagorean sect forbade women to participate in the processions of Bacchus (bacchanalia). Bacchantes were gradually replaced by well-behaved young girls who sang in chorus. The Titans are the oldest gods who ruled the Earth before the Olympians. Their leader was Kronos, who was later overthrown by his son Zeus. Many titans fought alongside Kronos against Zeus, but were defeated and overthrown to Tartarus. The Titans include: Gaia, Uranus, Kronos, Rhea, Oceanus, Tet, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Iapetus, Phoebus, Prometheus, etc. Uranus is the god of light and the most ancient supreme deity. He was the son of Gaia, who gave birth to him without a father. Subsequently, he marries Gaia, their offspring in particular are the Titans. He was castrated and overthrown by his son Kronos at the instigation of Gaia. Giants, nymphs, and also Aphrodite were born from his blood. Hyperion is a titan of light, an early god of the sun. He was the son of Gaia and Uranus. He was married to his sister Feya. His children are Helios (sun), Selene (moon), Eos. The battle between the Titans and the Olympians was called the Titanomachy. On the side of the Olympians and Zeus, the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires also fought. The battlefield was Mount Ophis and Mount Olympus. The defeated Titans were overthrown in Tartarus. Tartar is the deepest bowels of the Earth. Tartarus is located at the same distance from the earth as the Earth is from the sky, it is surrounded by a triple layer of darkness and an iron wall (or three copper walls); the iron gates of Tartarus are the creation of Poseidon. Kronos and the defeated Titans are imprisoned in Tartarus. Whirlwinds are always raging around Tartarus. Tartarus is the lower part of the underworld - Hades. In Tartarus is the dwelling of Nikta (Night).
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