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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.
Foreign scientists note that the number of left-handers is increasing: in 1928, 3,3% of left-handed women and 4,7% of left-handed men were found among adults, in 1940 - 5,7% of women and 8,8% of men. In 1973, the number of left-handed women increased to 8,8%, and men to 10,4%. And in 1979-1988 it reached 12,4% among women and 13,9% among men. laser.ru/ru/recycle/hemispherology/01.htm In Arabic, kain means blacksmith. In Central Africa, when a woman divorces her husband and returns to her kin, she nevertheless considers it her duty, in the event of the death of her ex-husband, to mourn him in his village. To this end, she, having removed the bell from the cow, ties it from behind to her belt, calls her friends, and they all rush towards the village of the deceased, the bell sadly strumming all the way. Fraser J. Folklore in the Old Testament. M., 1990. In 1584, during his coronation, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich held a rod in which a meter-long unicorn horn was embedded. It was bought from Augsburg merchants for 7000 silver rubles. Nigel Suckling. A book about a unicorn. M., 1997. In Rwanda, women are not allowed to imitate the crowing of a cock. Jordan V. B. Animals, people, gods. M., 1991. From the notebooks of N. V. Gogol: Horses. Sharp-bones - the bones protruded on the ridge. Saddle - with a notch on the ridge. Pintail - with a small tail, liquid. Normans in the Teutonic language means water people. Kazakov V. All-God of the Slavs. M., 2000. When the first renewed Russian embassy headed by Peter the Great to England took place, the guests were greeted with appropriate pomp, they were taken to the chic mansion of an English nobleman. After the departure of the delegation, he turned to the queen with a letter, in which, in particular, it was reported that in a few weeks the dear guests had brought the family mansion into complete disrepair: all the walls, along with the most valuable paintings, were shelled, the dishes were broken, the upholstery of the furniture was burnt, and on Persian carpets not only hoof marks, but also other horse stuff ... Ph.D. A. Meshkin Trud 22.12.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX In the middle of the XNUMXth century, the Parisian culinary specialist Boulanger opened a simple tavern and set up small tables with marble tops in it. He not only cooked well, but was also a fairly educated person, moreover, not without imagination. Visitors were greeted by a sign made in Latin: Come to me, everyone who has a bad stomach (literally restoring) your strength. This is how the first restorer or in French pronunciation - a restaurant appeared. Recently, an international academy of catology has been established with a center in Venice. Harpies - predators - originally - spirits, ghosts that appeared to convey the souls of the dead to another world. In later legends - winged monsters, half-maidens - half-birds (birds with female faces and terrible hooked fingers on their paws), thieves of people or human food. In the Divine Comedy of Dante, they are placed in the seventh circle of Hell, where they are engaged in the fact that with strong beaks they punch holes in talking plants (the souls of suicides), through which the groans of languishing souls are heard. (magnet.ru/legend/) American Journal Yu.S. News and World Report made a sensational discovery: for several decades, since World War II, the US government withheld part of the proceeds from the publication of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf. This is money that was owed to the Führer as royalties, but was confiscated by the US authorities under the so-called Trade with the Enemy Act. According to the weekly, these amounts from pre-war editions of the book in the United States amounted to a total of 139 thousand dollars. Through a special fund, the money was distributed among the victims of fascism, including former American prisoners of war. Izvestia 28.10.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, is currently working on a new biblical musical set during the birth of Christ. Libretto by Ben Anton. Differences between a man and a woman The volume of blood circulating in the body in men is on average 5-6 liters, in women - 4-4,5 liters. Male blood is richer in erythrocytes and hemoglobin, so a woman needs 7 liters of blood to carry a liter of oxygen, and a man needs only 6 liters. This is one of the reasons why men are easier to tolerate physical activity. The weight of the brain in men is almost 14% more than in women. But the hemispheres of women are connected twice as well as those of men. Through many sections of the female brain, 15% more blood flows per unit of time than through the corresponding sections of the male. The fat content in the tissues of the body in women is usually much higher: in men, on average 12% of the weight, in women - 26% of the weight. Such a difference corresponds to an energy reserve of about 300000 kJ, which is approximately the amount spent on bearing a child. In women, the heart is smaller and beats faster. In men, it makes an average of 72 beats per minute, in women - 90 beats per minute. The skin of women is thinner and drier than that of men - due to the special structure of the connective tissue, as well as the hormone progesterone, women's skin stretches faster. In men, it is more elastic. Alcohol causes more harm to women than to men. Partly because they are lighter, partly because they lack the characteristic digestive enzyme that neutralizes alcohol. As a result, the same amount of alcohol has an almost 30% stronger effect on women. The daily need for sleep is higher for women than for men. Women are balanced and calm when they sleep two hours more than men. Hair roots in women sit in the scalp on average 2 millimeters deeper than in men, and therefore fall out less intensively. When a man says to a woman: You are my gold, he does not suspect how true his statement is. In the body of a woman, the content of gold, on average, is 5-6 times higher than in a man's. Men experience failures in love more easily. It takes about 3 months for a man to get rid of painful memories, while for a woman it takes about 15 months. But women can resist some forms of infection much more successfully than men. The windows of the Tsar's Palace in the Summer Garden are glazed with the so-called moon glass. The glass is curved in such a way that through it the street looks like a lunar landscape. Hence the name. Sergey Danilov Lunar landscape outside the window (ozon.ru/bookvip/) The largest number of costumes (32) was used during the filming of the film Quo Vadis (Kamo come), filmed in 000. It is believed that bridge (the name came from the ancient Russian birich - herald) of Levantine origin, since a similar game was played there already in the 1870s, or was borrowed from India. According to French statistics, women are more likely to wear glasses than men. This is due to three reasons. First, women read more. Secondly, desktops are designed for male growth. Thirdly, for beauty. The Gospel of Thomas is not recognized by the official church, which is not surprising, since many of the thoughts contained in this document contradict Christian doctrines. For example, it says that women are not worthy to enter the kingdom of heaven. True, there is indicated one way by which a woman can still get there - she must become a man. The inhabitants of Tahiti called Paul Gauguin: a man who makes people. Isidore William Deitches presented evidence for the existence of gliders in ancient Egypt around 2500-1500 BC. BC. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) sketched a glider around 1714. The first glider to lift a man into the air was designed by Sir George Cayley (1773-1857). The Bible ranks #1 in the number of stolen copies in bookstores. The German engineer Wilheim Niemeyer loved books so much that he built himself a house from a super-original material - telephone directories from all over the world (65844 in total), fastened together with ordinary wood glue. The construction of this three-story house with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, an office, a garage for two cars took about six years. publishman.newmail.ru/ Articles/facts.htm In Siberia, in ancient times, a measure of distance was used - a beech. This is the distance at which a person stopped seeing separately the horns of a bull. In Spain, a measure of distance is known - a cigar: the distance that a person can walk while smoking a cigar. Shabalin S. A. Measurements for everyone. M., 1992. Amsterdammers have a peculiar sense of humor. This is manifested, for example, in the fact that they, smiling amiably, often send the lost guest in the opposite direction, so that he can thus get to know the city better. The word kartuz in its modern meaning is a historical linguistic error. In the 17th century cap - a bag for ammunition (German Kartuse - a bag). The hat at that time was called in the Dutch manner - karpuz. Due to the proximity of the pronunciation, the words merged into one. Mysteries of the fashion world. D., Stalker, 1998. The shots when the camera shows the world through the eyes of the Terminator are actually the system codes of the Apple 2+ computer, borrowed from Nibble magazine. Other visible codes are written in COBOL. mag.atnet.ru: 8101/obzor/films/terminator/index.htm In China, the Pekingese was called the pearl, the sun dog, the sweet lotus flower, the lion dog. tchunya.narod.ru/tch_is.htm After all, Octavius was a man of power, many people of art were looking for his friendship - for example, the famous Maecenas. He, as we would say, sponsored the writing of the Aeneid by Virgil, where the story of Cleopatra is presented as it should ... The historical Cleopatra, it seems, was neither beautiful - judging by the only image on the coin, nor voluptuous - yes, she gave birth to children from Roman military leaders, but these were primarily political unions. That's business and pragmatic - yes, it was. Cleopatra as an Argument (sovetnik.ru/news/PRclip_art.asp?idn=1599) In fact, Brother-2 began with a joke. When we once got together and argued, where does Danila go in the final of the previous Brother? We decided to go to America. And then it somehow turned out by itself that Danila really moved to the States. Brother 3 may appear, but it may happen that no one understands that this is a continuation. Sergei Bodrov: What is a dream, brother? (ozon.ru/ detail.cfm/ent=11&id=26205) Raymond Glendenning (1907-1974), BBC commentator, once spoke 176 words in 30 seconds while commenting on greyhound racing. Elba is the largest island in the Tuscan archipelago. For the harmonious development of both hemispheres of the brain, Japanese students are taught to write with both hands. Tommy Jones of Brisbane, Australia, who died in April 1988 of a brain tumor at the age of 66, was arrested nearly 30000 times for drunk driving and disorderly conduct in his lifetime. It is said that British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) drank 574 bottles of claret, 854 bottles of Madeira and 2410 bottles of port in a year! Nazi fokkers - heavy fighters and attack aircraft of the Luftwaffe during World War II are called fokkers by pure chance. With equal success, they could be called tanks, since the Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker had nothing to do with them at all. However, like the founding fathers of the German company Focke-Wulf, Georg Wulff and Heinrich Focke also hardly deserved such dubious fame. Wulf died in 1927, and Heinrich Focke became more famous as the creators of helicopters. The infamous FW-190s, condors and other Luftwaffe aircraft were designed by a man named Kurt Tank. Igor Elkov Samuel Colt also did not take part in the creation of the most famous revolver of all time - the Colt Paterson. Mr. Colt bought a patent for symbolic money, organized production and carried out a successful advertising campaign. A certain John Pearson designed the revolver, and Colt, in modern terms, was just an excellent manager. Igor Elkov The Uzi submachine gun was created by 30-year-old Israeli officer Uziel Gal. The zest is in the approach to the name of the weapon: not the surname, but the name of the designer is immortalized in it. Uzi is just a diminutive version of Uziel. Igor Elkov Maglev is a system in which a train moves over the rails using electromagnetic forces between superconducting magnets mounted on the train and on a coil located on the tracks. When the train passes at high speed over the coil, an electric current is generated in it, subsequently working temporarily as an electromagnet. The repulsive and attractive forces generated between the magnets push the Maglev forward with great speed. didyouknow.com/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_ru .htm In April 1999, a Japanese Maglev with 5 wagons set a world speed record - 552 km. didyouknow.com/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_ru .htm The first mirrors were made of bronze covered with gold or silver. In the XNUMXth century, the mirror was a convex circle of glass covered with metal foil. From the XNUMXth century, instead of foil, glass began to be poured with a combination of solutions of tin and mercury - amalgam. Statistics say that girls from six to ten years old spend seven minutes every day in front of a mirror. From the age of ten, a little woman's interest in her appearance increases. For the next five years, she sits in front of a mirror for 16 minutes a day. From 15 to 20 years, the time spent in front of the mirror increases by another four minutes. From 20 to 25 a woman spends 22 minutes looking at the mirror. This admiration of oneself reaches a maximum - 28 minutes a day - at the age of 25 to 30 years. In the next five years, 24 minutes are devoted to the mirror. A 35-40-year-old lady devotes even less time to her reflection: only 18 minutes. A woman after 45 looks in the mirror 12 minutes a day, a 50-60-year-old woman - seven minutes, a 60-70-year-old six. In her entire life, a woman spends 349575 minutes looking at herself, which equals 5826 hours, or 242 days. From the age of eight, Anton Chekhov had to work in his father's shop with a sign: TEA, SUGAR, COFFEE, SOAP, SAUSAGE AND OTHER COLONIAL PRODUCTS. It opened at five in the morning, even in winter. Anton worked as an errand boy. alpha.vision.krg.kz/books/readit.htm?2871 In 1828, the young Victor Hugo wrote a chaotic fifteen-strophe poem by Jinnah about the gatherings of these creatures. With each stanza, as a new genie joins in, the lines get longer and longer, until the eighth stanza, when they are all there. From this point until the end of the poem, the lines decrease until finally all the genies disappear. Jorge Luis Borges. The Book of Fictional Creatures. Part 3 The pickers of the mandrake draw three circles around it with a sword and must face the west; the smell of its leaves is so strong that people become dumb from it. For digging, a dog was used, which then died in agony. Jorge Luis Borges. The Book of Fictional Creatures. Part 3 The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder recorded a case in which a dolphin carried a young man across the bay near Naples to school and back, receiving bread dipped in wine in return. paco.net/odessa/media/porto-fr/1999/50/50-60.htm The popularity of Quiet Don Sholokhov in the West was so great that John Lennon himself wrote a song to the words of a Cossack lullaby from this novel. The shooting of the film Titanic for Cuban fishermen turned out to be a real tragedy. After the Hollywood filmmakers flooded the giant scenery of the ship in the Caribbean Sea, the number of crabs, the main source of income for the local population, sharply decreased off the coast of Cuba. catalog.aport.ru/ rus/calendar/9/ 20010101all.asp#day24 Among people who can move their ears, only one third can move one ear.
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