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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.
Under Catherine de Medici, women could not grow or paint their nails - they could be accused of witchcraft. Therefore, the ladies cut their hair short and polished it to a shine with a board tightly covered with suede. Perhaps this is where modern French manicure originates. At first it came down to only care and polishing. Nails became colored only in 1932, when the first red nail polish was invented. As stated in a published report by Italian scientists, women are contraindicated from approaching stoves, electric kettles, washing machines, dishwashers, coffee makers and toasters. In addition, they should not sit too long in front of the TV or work on the computer for a long time. According to researchers, the female body, which is exposed to electromagnetic fields for a long time, decreases its ability to reproduce. Simply put, a woman can become infertile. Fun and amazing science (nauka.nm.ru/ index .htm) According to a study by British psychologist Dr. David Lewis, who conducted a survey among 1000 men, the greatest emotions, and most often positive ones, are caused by a car (36 percent). In second place is football: for 30 percent of men, this sport evokes unbridled delight, tenderness or rage. In third place is money, no matter how much or how little it is and how it was earned (almost 30 percent). And in last place are women. (s-info.ru/General/) According to the old style, Christmastide in Russia began on December 25 and lasted until January 5. These days they last from January 8th to January 17th. (cofe.ru/Apple/article.asp?AID=1285) The crowbar consists of a metal rod and two ends (Fig. 1). End 1 (Fig. 1, item 2) is a pointed tetrahedron, end 2 (Fig. 1, item 3) is a pointed, flat one. An original feature of the design is that both ends 1 and 2 and the middle part can be used as a working surface (Fig. 1, item 1) (author's certificates N14578764, N46468646). SCRAP METAL (smexxx.nm.ru/ ins/ins7 .htm) Venice was the only city where prostitutes had official status - from penny port whores to rich odalisques who maintained their own palazzos using some kind of ament fund. The merchant, who is also the father of the city, who is also the venerable donor of the Cathedral of San Marco, considered it normal to visit the red-haired beauty. And, in order not to invent a worthy excuse every time, the Venetians once and for all invented a mask. GEO (geo-on-line.newmail.ru/) In the Records of Ancient Deeds (Kojiki, XNUMXth century), this kind of Shinto scripture, it is narrated that rice seedlings were born in both eyes of the slain Goddess of Great Food, millet was born in both ears, beans were born in the nose, wheat was born in a secret place was born, in the back place soybeans were born. And all the cereals that appeared in such an unconventional way became firmly established in people’s daily lives. The Japanese also have a special Deity of rice - Inari-sama. According to one legend, it was she who brought this plant to the country from distant travels, hiding several grains in a cane staff so that no one would know that it had stolen them. JAPAN from A to Z (japantoday.ru/japanaz/) French sociologists believe that in the 30th century, 1903 inventions radically changed the daily life of mankind, RIA Novosti reports. The list opens with an airplane invented by the Wright brothers in 1908. It is followed by the Ford car, launched into mass production in XNUMX. The most significant inventions include Coca-Cola, chewing gum, mass production of cigarettes, and the Kalashnikov assault rifle. The most important inventions include baby diapers and plastic money cards. In the time of Dmitry Donskoy, mattresses were called guns or cannons. The word mattress, or tüfeng (gun in Turkish), is of Eastern origin. Maybe firearms and gunpowder came to us, bypassing Europe, directly from the East, from the Arabs through the Turks and Tatars? al777.8m.com/explode2.html The Fur tribe, living in Central Africa, believes that the seat of the soul is the liver and by eating the liver of an animal, a person can expand his soul. Women of the tribe were not allowed to eat liver on the grounds that they had no soul. It was divided into melancholic, fiery, gentle, lively, shepherd and military. A literary newspaper wrote in 1841: He is independent and, like a whim, does not obey the rules. We are talking about a waltz. One day, the Society of Animal Lovers in the German city of Frankfurt am Main paid for a plane ticket for a swallow, the only feathered passenger on a flight to Mallorca. The swallow, which failed to fly south with its fellows, was thus given the opportunity to join a flock discovered off the Spanish coast. Previously, when electing a Koshevoy, the Cossacks smeared the head of the chosen one with mud and considered this a good omen, since moistened soil promised abundance, wealth and happiness. The Roman Emperor Tiberius issued a decree in which he ordered to say when a person sneezes: May this serve you well. The ancient Greeks believed that eating nightingale meat deprived a person of sleep. US Senator John Mangefele believes that wearing it is absolutely immoral. In his opinion, those who wear this should be declared insane and sentenced to lifelong wearing of Japanese coins - which are stone circles two meters in diameter, weighing up to several tons. According to the senator, people who wear ties deserve such punishment. Of the 25.500 words found in the Standard English Dictionary, 93% are used as website names in the com domain. Due to the overpopulation of the Japanese islands, the dogs living there have a hard time. Not only are they prohibited from having them, but those unfortunate people who miraculously exist have their vocal cords cut. The Japanese have such a place - homesickness. It is located at the northernmost point of their northernmost island - Hokkaido. From there you can view our Kuril Islands. A Japanese woman should always smile when talking to a man - even if she is telling tragic things. So don’t take this smile for spiritual callousness. According to experts, there are more than a thousand different varieties of coffee in the world. They are classified according to two criteria: geographical and botanical. newsletter Magazine for men and women The botanical character is represented by various types of these plants, such as Arabica, Robusta, Liberica, Excels. On the plantations of equatorial countries, the most common type is Arabian or Arabica. newsletter Magazine for men and women Robusta coffee trees were initially considered wild. They were discovered in the Belgian Congo at the end of the last century. Soon, however, this type of coffee began to be cultivated and today the best varieties are grown in Madagascar and Guinea. The Robusta species received its name for its resistance to coffee rust, which destroyed almost all coffee plantations in Ceylon in the 70s of the 19th century. newsletter Magazine for men and women In Nigeria, today the Yoruba people are called Noli, that is, people from the kingdom of death. zavtra.ru/ cgi/veil/data/zavtra/99/ 292/72 .html Nechesa is the nickname of Field Marshal Potemkin, under which in 1772, for political reasons, he enlisted in the Zaporozhye kosh. Shevchenko T. G. Kobzar. K., 1983. The identity of a criminal was considered inviolable in Persia as long as he remained in the stable or held the horse's head. Archaeol. Bulletin, 1867, vol. 2, p. 58. The Inca leader Huayna Capac, having killed the last representative of the Karanga Pinto Indians, made a ceremonial drum from his skin. Stingl M. Inca State. Glory and death of the sons of the sun. M., 1986. In 1812, the Radziwill archive in Vilno, with rich sources on the history of Russia, Poland, and Lithuania, was severely damaged by soldiers. The soldiers cut parchment documents and filed them on their suspenders. Kozlov V.P. Columbuses of Russian antiquities. M., 1981. According to the UN, every minute on average 380 women on our planet become pregnant. A good half of them - against their wishes. Tribune de Geneve 21.12.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX Australians are offended by the Guinness World Records Organization for not recognizing a 78-meter eucalyptus from Australia's Styx Valley as the world's tallest Christmas tree. During the holidays, this tree is decorated with a four-meter star and 3 thousand light bulbs, however, British record experts believe that only a spruce can be the correct New Year's tree. But many Australians are sure that it is enough for a holiday tree to be decorated with an evergreen tree. American director Steven Spielberg was knighted by the British Queen. As a foreigner, Spielberg will not be able to use the honorific title Sir, which is exclusively the privilege of Her Majesty's subjects. However, from now on he has the letters KBE after his last name, which means Knight of the British Empire. St. Petersburg Gazette 4.01.2001/XNUMX/XNUMX The Venetian Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-1694), fearing assassination attempts, did not part with weapons even when visiting church. One of his pistols was embedded in a prayer book. A bookmark protruding from the book was connected to the trigger. Nowadays the Doge’s secret weapon is kept in one of the museums in Venice. The smallest dog breed is the Mexican Chihuahua. The weight of representatives of this breed is 400 grams, and the height does not exceed three matchboxes stacked on top of each other. The most outstanding polyglot in human history was probably the professor at the University of Copenhagen, Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832). He spoke 230 languages and compiled dictionaries and grammars of several dozen of them. According to the zodiac horoscope, each sign has its own talismans, namely: ARIES - the golden fleece; TAURUS - golden calf; GEMINI - mask; CANCER - pink heart; LION - lion, eagle; VIRGO - aster; LIBRA - book; SCORPIO - scorpio and the sign of death; SAGITTARIUS - salamander; CAPRICORN - devil; AQUARIUS - icon; PISCES - narcissist. And the chronology in the Eastern (Chinese) horoscope is in the following order - Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat. To enhance the power of love, ancient doctors recommended the following recipe: 200 grams of onion of the Black cucumber variety and 75 grams of honey in 3/4 liter of good white wine. Also included in the list of plants that serve love, or otherwise aphrodisiac plants, are artichoke, garlic, dill, morel, truffle, chervil, horseradish, celery, anise, coriander, ginger, mint. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that all the trees around us were divided into healers and vampires. The former increase the strength of the human biofield, the latter - vice versa. How to distinguish them? This is done using a frame. If the frame deviates towards the person standing by the tree, there is a healer in front of you. If in the opposite direction, it means a vampire. Dnepropetrovsk scientist A.V. Tkachenko discovered the following pattern: the likelihood of the birth of a genius increases when their fathers are 30 or more years old at the time of conception. By studying a large number of documents, he found that in the period from 28 to 55 years (this is the age of the parents), the probability of the birth of a genius increases tenfold. Each person gives preference to one color, at least no more than two or three (depending on where these colors are used - in clothing, furnishings, car color, etc.). Psychologists say that so-called cold colors (blue, green and their derivatives) speak of calm, tenderness, apathy, sadness, while warm colors convey signals of strength, authority and activity. In addition to the SOS signal, a ship in distress and in need of assistance may give the following signals - during the day, the release of puffs of orange smoke or a signal consisting of a square flag with a ball above or below it; at night - red rockets and grenades, as well as red rockets with a parachute or flames on a ship (for example, from a burning tar barrel). Depending on the type of construction, ship anchors are divided into several types - Admiralty, Hall, boat, etc. But the anchor itself consists of 2 parts - a spindle and claws. Curious journalists once asked Maryolyn Monroe: What do you wear when you go to bed? The star replied: Just a few drops of Chanel number five. The first lawn mowing machine appeared in England. It was accidentally invented in 1830 by engineer Budding from Gloucestershire. Actually, he intended to create a device for removing lint from woolen fabric, but he realized in time that this invention would be much more useful in the fresh air. On a green lawn. Echo of the Planet No. 41, 2000 In Japan, a man by law has the right to demand a divorce if his wife is constantly sullen, unsmiling, or sleeps ugly. Peasant woman, October, 2000 According to the Texas Department of Justice, death row inmates prefer steak and chips and cheeseburgers as their last meal; The most popular drinks are Coca-Cola and iced tea. There are 2038 daily newspapers in China with a total circulation of 25 billion copies. They employ 550000 journalists. Xinhua 29.11.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX Psychologists from the University of Cologne claim that 36% of drivers of black cars are in a state of constant stress, and one in five of them is prone to sudden outbursts of aggression. Ozzie was born on December 1948, 11, into a poor, large family; his father and mother worked at the factory from morning to evening. It was at school that John got his nickname. He himself later claimed that Ozzy was derived from his favorite Frank Baum fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz, but there is a version that this school nickname is simply a shortening of his last name; it was also called Oz-brain. Andrey Legostaev Black Sabbath: The Beginning (ozon.ru/detail.cfm/ent=25594&id=XNUMX) The @ sign is a so-called ligature - a connection, a fusion of two letters. Moreover, as reputable dictionaries indicate, this is not a combination of the letters a and t, as the Anglo-Saxons believe. This ligature is of Latin origin, it is the Latin preposition ad, which means, however, approximately the same as the English at - on, at, about, at, in, by, to. Therefore, most likely, the icon originated, if not in Ancient Rome, then no later than the Middle Ages, when Latin was the common language for contacts, including commercial ones, between countries. Science and Life No7, 1999 There is every reason to believe that the ancestor of ancient balms was suriya - a drink of our ancestors, infused with many herbs. Mentions of him were brought to us by the pages of the Book of Veles - the Book of Genesis of the Ukrainian people of the 00st millennium BC and later. We drink suritsa as a sign of goodness and well-being with the gods who are in the sky, so we sing for our happiness - we read in it. Balm for wounds (drinks.com.ua/ 7-XNUMX/balz .htm) The largest flower in the world is Rafflesia arnoldii. It grows in the jungles of Southeast Africa. The flower itself is 91 cm in diameter, 1,9 cm thick, weight - 7 kg. But you have to pay for such beauty; the miracle flower has a terrible smell. In Tajik fairy tales, a goat usually introduces itself to a wolf like this: I am a goat with a porcelain nose, I have two horns and two noses. Both my horns are wormy. Both my noses are full of boogers. Kostyukhin E. A. Types and forms of animal epic. M., 1987. The Yoruba tribe calls the left hand ovo osi - unfit, and in many areas where representatives of this nationality live, left-handers are generally considered abnormal people.
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