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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.
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers performed the first successful test of a powered, manned, heavier-than-air vehicle. In addition to cinema, Hedy Lamarr was involved in science. In 1942, she patented a system that allowed torpedoes to be controlled remotely. The value of frequency hopping technology has only been appreciated over the years. Without Lamarr's invention, military satellites would not be flying today and GSM cell phones would not be working. kurierweb.com/ 8(108)kurier/rubriki/Star/star .htm British Museum of Natural History researcher Judith Marshall says: On average, for every cockroach you notice in your apartment, there are another 350 of its relatives hiding in secluded places. Men's Health January 2001 60% of the human brain consists of fat (lipids - unsaturated fatty acids). brain.ru One neuron has 5 - 000 direct connections with other neurons, creating a network with more than 10 trillion connections. brain.ru 70% of all neurons of the central nervous system are localized in the cerebral cortex. brain.ru The surface layer of each hemisphere (3-5 mm) is composed of neurons. brain.ru The Novosibirsk newspaper Youth of Siberia uses materials from our newsletter in its issues without any reference to the authors of the issues or to the newsletter itself. We also decided to place materials from this newspaper in our newsletter, although we still provide links to it. So, all the information below is taken from the newspaper Youth of Siberia. The world's largest Christmas tree is lit up with hundreds of lights in the Italian city of Gubbio. The length of the giant man-made spruce, colored with the help of 18 kilometers of electrical wires and 700 light bulbs, is 800 meters, and the width is 400 meters. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have found a way to legally use marijuana for medicinal purposes. They believe that it should be prescribed to patients in a soluble form. Within five years, soluble marijuana will be available as an injectable liquid or spray. Berlin authorities have equipped one of the bus stops on Potsdamer Platz with Internet access. Now, while passing the time while waiting for the bus, anyone can surf the Internet. In this way, the authorities want to increase the popularity of urban public transport. The management of the Donetsk Railway has found an unusual way to deal with ticketless passengers. At those stations where the largest number of hares boarded, commuter trains will no longer stop. US President-elect George W. Bush was named Person of the Year 2000 by Time magazine. Singing helps relieve chronic pain and depression. Australian doctors, with the help of music classes, have achieved a significant improvement in the condition of patients suffering from diseases of the spine and joints. The elephant, although it sleeps like all other animals, mostly stands up and does not lean against anything. During sleep, he puts the end of his trunk in his mouth so that no midge, which worries him extremely, will crawl into it. The elephant has an extreme affinity for those who feed him, an innate love for monkeys and a great aversion to chickens, tigers and crocodiles. A spectacle of nature and art with the addition of 490 engraved images. St. Petersburg, 1784-1813 Ernest Hemingway was not only a famous American writer, but also a great fan of sport fishing. His fishing trophies included tuna and mackerel, as well as huge sharks. The record-breaking mako shark he caught weighed 357 kg. [1]referats.glasnet.ru/ RP2000/Fishing/Fishingexot .html A cat lover, a doctor by profession, St. Petersburg resident Gennady Petrakov for a long time conducted scrupulous observations of the health of patients who keep cats. According to his data: the biological impact of cats is stronger than that of cats. Cats of short-haired and hairless breeds (Siamese, Oriental, Sphynx, etc.) treat diseases of the liver, kidneys, gastritis, colitis. The Siamese cat will also save you from colds; Siamese somehow kill pathogens in the house. N. Krylov Domestic cats The youngest winner of the modern Olympic Games was a little Frenchman. History has not even preserved his name. He was the helmsman of the Dutch team's boat at the 1990 Olympics, and he was almost 10 years old. At the very last moment, the adult coxswain, who was too heavy, was removed from this team and replaced by a small boy. [2]rednet.ru/ ~dronj/olimp .htm Even in the last century, only men had to sow bread in Rus', and, moreover, stripped naked, and the sowing grain was carried out in special bags made from old pants. M. Semenova. We are Slavs! St. Petersburg, 1998. In the Vatican State football championship, teams such as telemail, guards, bank, library, and museum team play. In different translations of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the line Everything is rotten in the Danish kingdom can sound like Know, something evil has happened here, or even I foresee disasters for the Fatherland. [3]ultraweb.boom.ru/ facts/facts1 .html In 1945, due to poor visibility, a plane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and damage amounted to one million dollars. [5]miracleatlas.virtualave.net/ namerica/empair_stait .html Since the beginning of 2000, Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves have more than doubled and amounted to $1 billion as of November 25 versus $88 billion as of January 12,456. At the headquarters of the French Communist Party, on Place Colonel Fabien in Paris, from October 25 to December 1, an exhibition was held on the theme: Jesus Christ in works of sculpture and painting. Figaro 13.10.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX There is a feeling that we all know how to play well and are all wonderfully equipped, but there was no rhythm as such in the Russian language. Boris Grebenshchikov, ozon.ru/ detail.cfm/ent=11&id=24746 In the USA, a country that is not only the most powerful, but also considered exemplary in all respects, the head of state is today elected, in football terms, by penalties. Humanite, 4.11.2000 The largest university in the world is considered to be the University of Calcutta (India), with more than 300000 students. Rivedavia Street in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires is considered the longest in the world. Its length is 14,16 kilometers, and the number of houses located on it is 11800. According to a Men's Health survey, 31% of men would go bald for the right to spend the night with a real top model. Men's Health, January 2001 19 million Americans experience permanent hearing loss or hearing loss each year as a result of noise exposure. Light of a certain wavelength (of a certain color) causes resonant excitation of energy points (acupuncture points, chakra meridians, energy zones) located on the surface of the skin. Moreover, different colors affect us in completely different ways: RED - activating, life-giving, dynamic, intense. ORANGE - restoring, revitalizing, warming, stimulating. YELLOW - strengthening, toning, revitalizing, opening a person to external positive influences. GREEN - compensates for energy losses, relieves tension, calms. BLUE - calming, restraining, concentrating, cooling emotions. PURPLE - inspiring, calming, relieving tension. Kerning is the process of adjusting the letter spacing depending on a specific combination of characters. Every year, 2 tons of various salts enter the earth's atmosphere from the ocean? When water evaporates, it turns into water vapor, and the chemical compounds contained in the droplets remain in the air. Milk contains a special type of sugar called lactose (milk sugar). It does not taste as sweet as sugar obtained from cane or sugar beets, but it is easier than all others that are absorbed by the human body. The Cro-Magnons had the largest brain volume among our anthropoid ancestors - its volume reached 1880 cubic centimeters. With the further development of mankind, the size of the brain began to decline. Excavations in ancient Egyptian pyramids provide an opportunity to compare the size of the skulls of pharaohs over several millennia. For some 2-3 thousand years from the reign of the first dynasty of pharaohs to the 18th dynasty, the capacity of the skull fell from 1414 to 1379 cubic centimeters, approximately by a cubic centimeter every 200 years. And Europeans' brains have shrunk significantly over the past 10 - 20 thousand years. Its volume for a modern European is on average 1446 cubic centimeters. Most people speak at an average speed of 120 words per minute, while the average ability to comprehend information is approximately 480 words per minute, i.e. four times more. On August 29, 1970, in an open letter to all the Beatlemaniacs of the world, published in the pages of the English weekly Melody Maker, Paul wrote: Helping a lame dog climb over a fence - what else can you call the annoying stories that have been sadly traveling through the pages of your newspaper for a whole year now? My answer to the question: Do The Beatles want to get back together? - No. Paul McCartney. Attached to the letter was a drawing of Paul showing a smile. The interview that finished off The Beatles, ozon.ru/detail.cfm/ent=11&id=21764 Charlie Chaplin received an Oscar only at the age of 83 in the category For Special Services to Cinema. Probably, flying in spite of everything is simply characteristic of Russian nature. They told me about one village, somewhere in the Smolensk region. There, the entire male population builds flying machines from whatever they can find from morning to evening. They constantly crash, the police raid them, their planes are taken away - they say they are not supposed to fly, so already half the village is widowed. But men go into the forests, secretly build new devices there - and still fly. TV journalist Veera Salonen, cl.spb.ru/ na_dne/numbers/new_numb/flymen .html Men usually perceive sound information using only one half of the brain, and women - two at once. According to Brockhaus and Efron, until 1917 Russia ranked first in the world in the consumption of French wines. The country drank 700 thousand bottles of Louis Rederer champagne alone per year - which is 150 thousand more than all of America today, which advocates a healthy lifestyle. Everyman No7 2000 At the Cannes festival in 1976, a loud scandal broke out. The Directors' Week program featured Nagisa Oshima's film Corrida of Love (shown in the West under the title Empire of Feelings). Previously, at a festival in West Berlin, the film was confiscated as pornographic after the first viewing. But already at the Locarno festival in August of the same year, Oshima’s film was shown in the same program with Salo or Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom and Sebastian Jarman, and at the Chicago festival it even received the Grand Prize. However, censorship restrictions plagued the film in most Western countries, and even in Japan itself. It was shown in a significantly shortened version. 111 characters, ozon.ru/detail.cfm/ent=11&id=23988 In German-speaking countries, St. Nicholas comes along with the scary Krampus, hung with rattling chains, who asks how the children behaved during the year, how they studied, checks whether they know the prayers and the content of the Holy Scripture. He rewards those who answer the questions correctly with nuts, apples and sweets. The Germans have celebrated the first of January as the beginning of the year since 1691. The series of New Year's holidays ends on January 6 - Three Kings Day. In the German edition of biblical events, these are the same wise men who, at the call of the Star of Bethlehem, came to the infant Christ with gifts. On Three Kings Day, the first letters of their names are written on doors and gates: K+M+B (Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar) and crosses are drawn. Valentin Kolesnikov. (germanyclub.ru/christmas/chr_inde.htm) In Korea they believe that if you sleep on New Year's Eve, that person's eyebrows will turn gray in the coming year. Katerina Donokhina.[2]kat_d@e-mail.ru Nikolai the Wonderworker, aka Nikolai Ugodnik, aka Nikolai Mirlikiysky, is considered the prototype of Santa Claus. Legends tell of Nicholas's miraculous ability to stand immediately after birth. Moreover, he abstained from his mother's breast on Wednesdays and Fridays until dusk. The Japanese idolized this tree. It was believed that it brings good luck and happiness. Chopsticks were made from it, which were used only on New Year's Day. This tree is a weeping willow. On New Year's Day, early in the morning among Bulgarians, boys go from house to house and, hitting their owners with branches, express good wishes to them. Then the owners take these branches and hit the boys on the back, also with good wishes. The branches should be dogwood. Hitting the owners, the boys say: New Year is a merry time, red apples in the garden, clusters of grapes on the vines, a young girl in the house, well done youngsters at the fire! When the owners beat the boys, they said: New Year, honeymoon! Give them health and goodness, may they grow like willows over a river. On January 1, Russian housewives cooked porridge and, taking the pot out of the oven, said: You are welcome to come into our yard - with your goods! and looked at the porridge. If the porridge was white or came out of the pot, then this foreshadowed hunger. Red porridge, made flush with the edges of the pot, foreshadowed abundance and happiness. In Rostov in the last century, a Christmas tree decorated with multi-colored ribbons and pieces of paper was called beauty. In Nepal, when celebrating the New Year, a baby goat is sacrificed, water is first poured on its ears, and then its head is cut off. They pour water on the kid's ears and ask if he agrees to be sacrificed. He shakes his head, which is interpreted as agreement. Among the New Year's accessories at Japanese New Year's fairs, rakes are the most popular. Just as a person rakes grains with a rake during agricultural work, the same rake will help rake in happiness in the coming year. In China, you can't sweep houses on New Year's Day. In Russia at the end of the XNUMXth century, female servants, entering service, usually stipulated a coffee allowance. The maids and cooks not only drank coffee from their owners, but also tried to receive a pound of grain in kind. In David Fincher's film Seven, Kevin Spacey's name was not indicated in the opening credits so that audiences would not guess ahead of time who was playing the killer. As compensation, Spacey's name appears first in the end credits, before Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Mulled wine (from the German gluhender Wein) is literally flaming wine. Maurice Green is the fastest runner on the planet, running up to 38,2 km/h. In swimming, the speed record of 8,64 km/h belongs to T. Jagger. There are interesting statistics - who, when and what swallowed the inedible, and how it ended. The record holders for eating all kinds of necessary things are white sharks and children. There are known cases where the former swallowed car bumpers, rubber raincoats and plastic buoys, and the latter swallowed plugs, large sums of money and forks. However, intelligent adult men also please gastroenterologists. According to the same data, most often men accidentally swallow pen caps. Men's Health January 2001. Uma is the bright hypostasis of the wife of Shiva Devi. magnet.ru/ legend/index3 .html
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