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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.
Amok is a kind of so-called twilight state: an unexpected clouding of consciousness for some time (from several minutes to several hours) with a violation of orientation in the outside world, coordination of movements, detachment of the patient, with hallucinations, delirium. Amok really, as a rule, happens in the hot season of tropical summer. Doctors suggest that amok may be due to epilepsy, overheating in the sun, or suggestive influences. But still, the leading role in its manifestation is played by ethnographic and cultural features that provoke the emergence of experiences of fear. utro.ru/articles/life/2000/05/16/ 200005160406030557.shtml Over 700 British photographers are involved in the three-year project, which aims to capture every historical and architectural monument in the UK as it was at the beginning of the third millennium. The British call this project the New Book of Doomsday, hinting at the most detailed register of all castles and houses, which William the Conqueror ordered to be compiled after the conquest of England in 1066. This new Book should include all 360 thousand objects, protected by the state, or as they say in the UK, listed. These photographs should form a huge virtual photo repository, which by 2002, when it is fully assembled, will become one of the largest photo archives in the world. Website of the Images of England project (imagesofengland.org.uk/ ) Information source: ANOC MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE (future.museum.ru) The listing of animals in the Chinese horoscope corresponds to the order in which they appeared on the holiday (birthday?) to the Buddha. To get to that one, it was necessary to swim across the river - a cunning rat swam across, sitting on the head of a bull, and jumped to the ground first - that's why she is the first in the horoscope ... Alex In honor of Uziel Gal, not only the Uzi assault rifle is named, but also the Galil rifle (a kind of Israeli clone of the Kalashnikov assault rifle). A.B. Beetle Revolvers and pistols. The surface of the skin is covered with acidic fatty grease. It is this protective layer that, firstly, prevents microorganisms from multiplying on the surface of the skin, secondly, maintains the water balance and, thirdly, protects it from ultraviolet radiation. Healthy skin lubricant is acidic (pH 5,5-6,5). Our skin begins to age from the moment a person is born, because cells are born and die constantly. The destructive processes in the skin, leading to aging, begin at the age of 14-15. The first signs of aging can appear in your 20s, but the main ones begin after 30, when natural hormonal changes occur. January 28 according to the church calendar - Paul of Thebes. If the sun is visible on this day at noon, spring will be early. If the wind blows, the year will be wet. Starry night from this day to the next - to the flax harvest. Birthday: Pavel. Tatyana's Day was celebrated for the first time in Siberia in Tomsk. In 1880, the laying of the building of the first university in Siberia took place in the capital of the Tomsk province. Eight years after this event, Emperor Alexander III commanded the opening of Tomsk University. Since that time, Tatyana's Day has been widely celebrated not only in the European part of Russia, but also beyond the Urals. Cheese is considered one of the best snacks. It is rich in protein and methion, an amino acid that helps the liver deal with toxins. Sandwiches with butter, caviar, something fatty are also recommended, since fats, enveloping the walls of the digestive tract, slow down the absorption of alcohol. It is also desirable to eat lemons, oranges, which contain a lot of vitamin C, which protects cells from toxic damage. December 3, 1833 A.S. Pushkin wrote in his diary: Yesterday the sovereign returned from Moscow. He arrived in 38 hours. It was considered very fast at the time. After all, ordinary people traveled by postal troikas from the old capital to the new one and then to the old one for several days. And here the railway, however, is the first in Rus'. A modern train takes about 4 hours to do this (for reference, the distance between Moscow and St. Petersburg is 700 km). The main unhealthy factors when working at a computer are: stagnation of blood in the internal organs and capillaries, non-physiological position of various parts of the body, long-term repetitive monotonous movements, electromagnetic and other radiation (mainly the monitor). And, finally, a long stay in a closed, and often stuffy and smoky room. China is a country with the largest number of state borders in the world - 14 (with Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). In the XNUMXth century, glass coins were used in Eastern Slovakia, samples of which are preserved in the museums of Bratislava. The American magazine People, which regularly publishes a list of the 25 most intriguing characters of the year, in 2000 put Florida in first place, where the fate of the presidential chair was decided. The new president, George W. Bush, is in second place. The share of computers connected to the Network in the total fleet of home PCs in 2000 in Moscow was 33,2%, in Novosibirsk - 34,1%, St. Petersburg - 32,8%, Yekaterinburg - 22,2%. The Internet Penetrates Russia (pcweek.ru/news.asp?ID=5283) Microfiber production technology allows you to make one thread from 100 microfibers. Peach a single microfiber is 60 times thinner than a human hair. The length of the threads of one stocking reaches 5500 meters, which weighs only 6 grams and consists of 1500000 loops. If a resident of the Philippines types the web address of Playboy magazine into a browser, then with a high degree of probability, instead of pictures of a well-known variety, a message will appear on the screen: Praise the Lord, you did not manage to get into this bad place. CBCPNet encourages you to visit more useful sites. God bless you. E-vangelization (atrus.ru/mpl/face?id=3412) Jacob Freud was almost twice the age of his wife. Sigmund loved and feared him, and at the same time longed for his positive assessment. Once, after some violation of the rules established in the family, the father said: Nothing good will come of a boy who behaves in this way! Subsequently, Freud recalled that every time another recognition of his merits happened, he repeated to himself: And you said that nothing good would come of this boy! peterlink.ru/~charlie/psycho/read1.cgi?2.2 The Museum of Dreams of Sigmund Freud opened in St. Petersburg on November 4, 1999 - on the centenary of the 1st edition of his book Interpretation of Dreams. The Museum of Dreams has two halls, introductory and dreaming, light and dark, conscious-preconscious and preconscious-unconscious. peterlink.ru/~charlie/psycho/read1.cgi?2.2 Once the famous fabulist Krylov was going to a court masquerade and asked Olenina and her daughters for advice on how to dress so that they would not recognize him. Since Krylov was always unkemptly dressed, the advice was this: Wash and comb your hair, and no one will recognize you. I. A. Krylov in the memoirs of contemporaries. M., 1982. There is a Potato Museum in Brussels. In it, the visitor can find out that in Europe it was called the fruit of the devil, in addition, in the Museum you can listen to a play by Johann Sebastian Bach, written by the great composer in honor of the potato. 100 great museums in the world. M., 1999. In Romania, the material of the spoon and its design have a symbolic meaning. For example, a yew wood spoon is a symbol of friendship. If a guest is given a spoon with a snail on it, it means that the guest is asked to keep quiet and eat slowly. The French dictionary of Mounin says that this is a syntactic function of a segment of a speech chain that actualizes the predicate and together with it constitutes a minimal statement. This is how the subject is interpreted in the dictionary. The English expression for the old restless ghost to settle as soon as possible at the bottom of the Red Sea is equivalent to the Russian one: go to hell in the middle of nowhere. Wilhelm Winkler called such figures: 3390 billion, 4350 billion, 5260 billion. American scientists call smaller numbers - about 77 billion. Nathan Kheifits is confident in the figure of 69 billion, and the scientist Deway put the figure at 110 billion. All these are calculations of the number of people living since the appearance of man. Yan Island had men's and women's money. For women, these were bracelets made of shells, and for men, stone millstones two human heights high. Crocodiles are the only carnivores on earth that do not have a tongue. At the meeting of presidents of the regional billiard sports federations of Russia, it was decided to strictly follow the rules of the competition. And they say that participants in official tournaments must be in light shirts, dark trousers and boots, and it is recommended to wear a bow tie for the final matches. Violators of this paragraph of the rules, as well as latecomers to the competition will be punished, up to removal from the tournament. In 1759, Arthur Guinness opened a brewery in Dublin at St. James Gate. In 1833, it was already the largest in Ireland, and by 1930, the Guinness family owned two breweries in the UK, producing branded strong porter. Beer fantasies (aktivist.ru/ shownews.asp?lang=ru&style=index&newsID=2334) Dawson Personnel Systems (Ohio), having recently increased the production rates for its employees by 20%, announced that all employees who will cope with the daily norm ahead of schedule can leave work at 14.00 pm every day. The result exceeded all expectations: a month-long task was completed in two weeks - plus a 40% savings on lighting, heating and water after 14.00 pm. Due to the sharp rise in prices for the main raw material for tequila - blue agave, tequila producers decided to change its recipe. From now on, even the most expensive varieties of this drink will consist of only 51% cactus vodka. In 1906, the Canadian Code of Rules for the Use of Cars on the Roads of the Country required car owners to repaint their vehicles four times a year so that their colors match the season and do not irritate the draft horses of oncoming horse-drawn vehicles. According to the same code, in the event of a meeting with a horse-drawn carriage on a narrow suburban road, the motorist was obliged to immediately stop his car, taking it to the side of the road, turn off the engine and cover his mechanical vehicle with a tarpaulin, the color of which would correspond to the color of the surrounding vegetation. Approaching the turn and not being able to see what was happening behind this turn, the motorist was obliged, not reaching about a hundred meters before such a turn, to start giving sound signals by all means at his disposal: turn on the siren, ring the bell, shoot from a revolver , shout hello, undermine squibs (at least three strictly with five-minute intervals from explosion to explosion). One of the first mass-produced Ford T cars, like modern cars, had a foot-operated gearbox: three pedals, but not brake-gas-clutch, as it is now, but in a completely different way. You press the left pedal - the car goes forward, you press the middle pedal - back, but the right pedal is just the brake. The specific features of the same Ford T model were not limited to the pedal assembly. For example, such a car could not be forced to overcome steep climbs: gasoline was supplied to the engine by gravity in it, the fuel tank was located under the front seat, and as soon as the car lifted its nose, the gasoline supply stopped and the engine stalled. Therefore, the cars of this model were driven uphill exclusively backwards: they turned stern to the ascent, pressed the middle of the three pedals and full back. The main idea underlying the whole doctrine of Henry Ford was as follows: it is much more profitable and convenient for the manufacturer to make and sell ten inexpensive cars to ten buyers than to make one single car in the same time and sell it for fabulous money to one buyer. Mayan sore throat was called tomato throat. Among the Maya, fried pumpkin flowers were a delicacy. Kinzhalov R. V. The culture of the ancient Maya. L., 1971. Hummingbirds make 90 strokes per second, storks - 2 strokes, crows - 5, pelicans - 1, sparrows and swifts - 12 each. Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 14, 2000. Arabs believe that if you hold an emerald in front of a snake, water will pour out of it and it will go blind. The name of the herb clematis comes from the fact that if you twist a leaf and put it in your nose, you will bleed from your nose. Ancient high magic. Theory and practical formulas. Kirovograd, 1991. Diamonds come in seven colors: candy, olive, pistachio, crystal, yellow, red, black. The most expensive are diamonds of candy and crystal colors. Patkanyan K. P. Precious stones according to the concepts of Armenians. Yerevan, 1979. As stated in the published report of Italian scientists, women are contraindicated to approach the stove, electric kettles, washing machines and dishwashers, coffee makers and toasters. In addition, they should not sit up in front of the TV and 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 the ability to reproduce. Simply put, a woman can become infertile. Fun and amazing science (nauka.nm.ru/ news/nov/02-11-00 .htm) In 2000, in Estonia (a country with a population of 1.400.000 people) only new mobile phones were sold in the amount of 400.000.000 kroons (~667.000.000 rubles). Max Rudash. American Auto Agency (usacars.nm.ru/ ) The smallest officially registered owner of a mobile phone in Estonia is a 6-year-old boy living in Tallinn. Max Rudash. American Auto Agency (usacars.nm.ru/ ) The enemy of the unicorn has long been considered an elephant. They always got into a fight, and usually ended with the unicorn tearing the elephant's belly. The unicorn also had a difficult relationship with the lion. But the lion could lure the unicorn into a trap: fleeing the chase, he rushed to the tree and at the very last moment jumped to the side, while the unicorn stuck his horn into the tree, and the lion could easily deal with him. The lion is called the king of beasts, but the unicorn can also claim this title. tinc.newmail.ru/zoo/z_edinorog.htm A very ferocious animal that has only one horn is called a unicorn. To catch him, a virgin is left in the field; then the animal comes up to her and gets caught, because it fits into her bosom. This animal represents Christ, while the horn represents his invincible power. He, lying on the bosom of the Virgin, was caught by hunters - that is, he was found in a human form by those who loved him. Honorius Otensky Mirror of the Sacraments of the Church. There is a legend that once St. Patrick spent forty days on the mountain, which is now called Croagh Patrick. He was attacked by demons in the form of large black birds, of which there were so many that the sky darkened, but Patrick continued to pray and then an angel appeared to him, saying that the Irish would keep their faith until Judgment Day. The adoption of the shamrock as the emblem of the Holy Trinity and the symbol of Ireland is also attributed to him. virtualireland.ru/history/stpatrick.shtm One of the radio stations in Ohio announced a competition, the main prize of which is a free plastic surgery, as a result of which the winner will acquire an external resemblance to Britney Spears. In order to participate in the competition, you must meet several conditions. First, be a US citizen. Secondly, to be of legal age (according to the laws of America - 21 years old). Thirdly, to have at least a minimal resemblance to Britney Spears. gazeta.ru/brittn.shtml Johannes Kepler believed that each of the seven planets (including the Sun and Moon) has its own musical tone, and when they move together they give a musical scale, with the Moon giving the highest note and Saturn the lowest. Chemistry and Life, No 10, 1981. According to one legend, King Arthur, the legendary king of the Britons, sleeps in the valley of Avalon. And the name of this valley in translation from the Celtic means the Island of apples. Oh brave new world. English dystopia. Novels. Moscow, 1990. The secret wisdom of the other world, according to the Celts, is carried by bees. Russian folk sign: A pig itches - to warmth, squeals - to bad weather, drags straw - to a storm. Bashkirs on the 3rd or 7th day organized celebrations in honor of the first showing of the child to society. These celebrations were called thread tea. In Europe during the early Middle Ages, this was considered a breath of the wings of Satan. The ancient Jews believed that this means approaching the gates of death. It's about the chick.
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