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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.
Chekhov never got more than a C for school essays. Paradoxical and insulting as this fact is, mathematicians, knights of the queen of sciences, will never become laureates of the most prestigious Nobel Prizes awarded annually by the Swedish Academy for outstanding scientific achievements. And all because the outstanding Swedish mathematician Mittag-Leffler persistently and unsuccessfully courted Nobel's wife. Having learned about this, the founder of the awards decided to take revenge on the offender and his science in such a peculiar way. Irina StarUh. nt.org/nl/m85.html The Kremlin chimes used to chime the melody Ah, my dear Augustine. On July 29, 1904, a tornado roamed Moscow, making cows fly, lifting a policeman into the air and spitting him out, stripped and beaten by hail, exposing the bottom of the Moscow River and killing more than a hundred people. V. Tarasov Crazy Hertha, MK on Sunday, 4.02.01 86% of Japanese housewives under the age of fifty have never heard from their husband the words: I love you. Spock focuses on the model of the American family of the 40s and 50s. In a family, children are born one after another, there may be five, six, or seven, so strict discipline and strict fulfillment of their duties by children are necessary, which is the guarantor of the father. If this family model is close to you, Dr. Spock's system is for you. Just don't forget that it was Dr. Spock who brought up the generation of flower children in America. Elena Pervushina Books for Good Parents (ozon.ru/detail.cfm/ent=11&id=26211) The concept of artificial vision, until recently only a science fiction topic, will soon become a reality. The Japanese government puzzled three universities with this and allocated $22 million for research. Researchers are currently developing new photodiodes and semiconductors that can convert light into electrical signals, which in turn stimulate the retina. Japanese scientists are confident that the vision restored by the new method will make it possible to distinguish colors and read large letters. MIGnews.com Japanese society is aging very rapidly as a result of declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy, and around 16.000 people lose their eyesight every year. The number of depressions and even suicides associated with vision loss is on the rise. Thus, this discovery will come in handy for the Japanese. MIGnews.com Soon, Internet users and professional computer scientists will have their own saint. At the moment, the Catholic Church is deciding who will patronize them. ntv.ru Boots-walkers have been developed at one of the Russian military-industrial complex enterprises. The standard settings of this device allow even an unprepared person, after a little training, to fly 2-4 meters in one step, move effortlessly (saving up to 70 percent of muscle effort) at a speed of 14-17 kilometers per hour over rough terrain and spend less than 100 kilometers per XNUMX kilometers. half a liter of gasoline. Boots operate on the principle of a pile hammer. In a single-cylinder engine, compression occurs due to the weight of a person; when the fuel mixture ignites and explodes in a device attached to the leg, it pushes the person forward several meters. When hitting the ground, the mixture is compressed in the second boot, and then the process goes in a circle. Theoretical calculations show that a trained person is able to reach speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour in walking boots and overcome very significant distances. This device could solve such a military task as supporting tanks by infantry during an attack to a great depth behind enemy lines. Or, when used for peaceful purposes, to help people with reduced mobility. Modified boots could enable some disabled people to not only walk normally, but even play volleyball and basketball. Until now, scientists cannot accurately determine the nature and purpose of human sleep. There are many theories and studies on this topic, but the picture remains unclear to the end to this day. Meanwhile, there are many interesting facts related to vision. It is known, for example, that Bekhterev, Goethe and Schiller slept 5 hours a day, and Edison only 2-3 hours. We all view our dreams differently. Out of a dozen dreams, on average 6 are accompanied by various sounds. And only 5 percent of dreams are related to smell and taste. During sleep, a person not only closes his eyes but also turns off his ears. The muscles that control our hearing are relaxed during sleep, and the ear does not pick up many soft sounds. Hypnosis is also a kind of sleep. Under hypnosis, a person can, for example, be suggested that he weighs three kilograms. At the same time, in people under hypnosis, already in the first day, the gait changes dramatically, breathing and pulse become more frequent, gas exchange and blood pressure change. A period of addiction passes, and everything is again in a relative form. The most striking thing about these experiments is that, after suggestion, a person does not receive some kind of weightlessness illusion. No, often he sleeps with his arms and legs up, not feeling their weight! The most important rules for eating with chopsticks: Try not to fill your mouth with food, and even more so do not tamp it there with chopsticks. Don't clench two sticks in your fist. The Japanese perceive this gesture as threatening. When not using chopsticks, place them with the sharp ends to the left. sushi.ru/etiket.html In the entire 114-year history of the Statue of Liberty, not a single fire has occurred on it. mignews.ru/news/events/world/liberty0211.html In Yekaterinburg in the spring of 1920. erected a home-grown statue of Liberty, sculpted by Stepan Erzey. Freedom was symbolized not so much by the male marble figure itself, but by its absolute nakedness. The apolitical Yekaterinburg townsfolk did not accept the abstract symbolism and irreverently called the statue of Vanka naked. Traditions have been preserved that the townspeople, brought up in strict morality, were so indignant that they specially came from distant streets to spit on this indecency. e-reliz.ru/xxage/ru/text/tpage08.htm Sometimes the balls took on a bizarre, unexpected shape. One of the European travelers who visited Greenland testifies that the native Eskimos there used nothing more than a stuffed seal as a ball. vprok.ru: 81/1999/05/thing/01.html Some bottles, especially large ones, have their own names (names) depending on the multiplicity of their volume (the standard one holds 1/6 gallon, which ranges from 0.63 to 0.76 liters in different countries). Biblical names are given to them: Magnum (holds 1/3 gallon, that is, two standard bottles), followed by Trignum (3 bottles), Jerobom (4), Rechavam (6), Methuselah (8), Shalmaneser (12), Belshazzar ( 16) and Nebuchadnezzar (20 standard bottles). cooking.ru/interesting/world_wine/wine_history/bottle/ Before the revolution, this name was eighth in terms of the frequency of naming boys, in the 20-30s. passed into the category of rare, in 40-60 years. took 3rd place, and in the 90s became the leader. This name is Sergei. The Ukrainian expression "Sit down hayduk" is translated into Russian as Squat dance. The ancient Indians used to pierce their ears to prevent hernia. In the 70s of the 19th century. Miklukho-Maclay undertook an expedition to the islands of Micronesia and Melanesia. The local population, mistaking the traveler for an Englishman, greeted him with the words: How are you?. The scientist took the greeting for the name of the islands and named them Hawaii. Omar Khayyam (real name Giyasaddin Abul-Faht Omar ibn Ibrahim), a Persian poet, philosopher and scientist who lived at the end of the 1074th - beginning of the 92th centuries, is known in the West as the author of philosophical quatrains (rubai), but he is famous in his homeland, primarily as an astronomer and mathematician. In XNUMX-XNUMX. he headed the astronomical observatory in Isfahan, and his mathematical treatises (Problems of Arithmetic and Problems of Algebra) did not lose their significance in the XNUMXth century. There is such a profession as an exorcist - a professional caster who exorcises a demon. A decade and a half ago, there were 20 exorcists in Italy, today there are more than 300. Demons Prefer Women Rossiyskaya Gazeta 5.01.2001 In one of the Old Irish manuscripts, containing a peculiar schedule of classes for the king, it says: The law establishes seven worthy occupations for the king. On Sundays, the king must drink ale, for every law-abiding Irishman drinks ale on Sundays. On Mondays, the king should deal with the affairs of state administration, on Tuesdays - to talk with wise men, on Wednesdays - to hunt with hounds, on Thursdays - to indulge in love pleasures, on Fridays - to participate in horse races, on Saturdays - to do justice and reprisal. fierce resistance, entered Addis Ababa, the Emperor of Abyssinia Haile Selassie, not having achieved decisive international action against the aggressor, uttered prophetic words in the League of Nations: Now it’s my turn, next time it will be yours. Gods Are Buried Twice Echo of the Planet #47, 2000 The words of the popular song Dubinushka were written by the St. Petersburg doctor Vasily Bogdanov. Dubinushka was first published in the Alarm Clock magazine in 1865. Text processing was carried out by A. Olkhin. And Dubinushka received the greatest fame thanks to her performance by Fedor Chaliapin. Parliamentary newspaper 12.01.2001 According to GOST Dairy products. Terms and definitions Only cow butter with a fat content of at least 62,3% is considered real butter. The shortest river in Europe is the Aril River in Italy, which is only 84 meters long. Greek king Mithridates in 88 BC. e., having defeated the Roman commander Aquilius in the battle of Prototachia, he ordered to fill his throat with molten gold. xx.lipetsk.ru/win/txt/koi/txt/win/txt/win/txt/xx_09_23.shtml Sour, Fat, Kissel, Wear, Swollen, Failure, Blockhead, Dislike, Cucumber, Spider, Stocking, Magpie, Sugar, Bristle. All these are the usual names of ordinary people who lived in Russia in the 14th-16th centuries. Here is how, for example, the name of the famous Chapaev was formed. Grandfather Vasily Ivanovich, working as a senior at a logging site, loved to shout at the slow artel workers: Chepay! - i.e. hook the log with a hook. So he got the nickname Chepai, or Chapai; his children and grandchildren became Chapaevs. archive.1september.ru/rus/1999/rus47-1.htm Once Stanislavsky asked his interlocutor: How do you think, where does the flight of a bird begin? The interlocutor replied that the bird first spreads its wings. Nothing of the kind, Stanislavsky said, for a bird to fly, first of all, free breathing is necessary, the bird takes air into the chest, becomes proud and begins to fly. Ogonyok, No 15, 1990. Miyako Island proverb: A hurrying crab does not enter the hole. Corresponds to Russian: Hurry - you will make people laugh. Nevsky N. A. Folklore of the Miyako Islands. M., 1978. In Africa they use with food a kind of vegetable oil, which I do not know what they are made of. But this oil has three properties, namely, the smell of violets, a taste almost like our olive oil, and a color that colors food like saffron, but a color more pure than saffron. So da Mosto, a Venetian traveler, described peanut butter. Notes of Mr. Alvise da Ca da Mosto. In one of the episodes of the novels, when Juliet's parents talk about her upcoming marriage, it is mentioned that on the day of St. Euphemia the girl will turn 18 years old. Another starting point of the study was the mention of Easter in May, which, according to astronomical calculations, falls on the year 1302. From here, the year of the birth of the heroine was determined - the 1284th and the day that falls on September 16th. The tragic events that ended Juliet's life also fall on days close to this date, since her wedding to Count Paris di Lodrone was scheduled for mid-September. Juliet's date of birth. Romeo and Juliet (romeo-juliet.newmail.ru/ birthday .html) Katerina comes from the confluence of Kat and Irina, that is, the Cat and the Rainbow. The syllable Kat means rolling (not to be confused with rotation), that is, action. It's a thundering, sparkling, rolling rainbow. The rainbow is a phenomenal phenomenon, the symbolism of which is clear to every sane person. Catherine. Description of the Russian name (nagual.pp.ru/ ~brand/MZN/0/Aquaterrina .html) Warriors of the past grew mustaches. After all, when a samurai was killed in battle, his ears and nome were cut off and carried to the enemy camp. To avoid suspicion that the victim was a woman, the mustache was cut off along with the nose. If there was no mustache on the head, sometimes it was thrown away, mistakenly mistaking for a woman. Therefore, samurai grew mustaches so that enemies would not throw their heads out on the battlefield. Yamamoto Tsunetomo Hagakure (literally Hidden in the leaves) It is said that among the languages that exist today, the most ancient is the language of the Mahouts - professional elephant mahouts in India. Referring to the elephant, the Mahuts use the language of primitive people, which they spoke many thousands of years ago when they were taming wild elephants. The drovers are sure that only such a language is understood by elephants. The ostrich does not hide its head in the sand at all, but puts its head to the ground to listen if the enemy is approaching. Yermanets. Brock-Haus directory Pregnancy enhances mental abilities. This idea was expressed by American scientists from the University of Richmond. The brain of a woman, according to scientists, during pregnancy has great neuroplasticity, that is, greater flexibility and adaptability to the environment and conditions. 55% of Saudis are married to their relatives. The largest recorded soap bubble reached 32 meters. The world's largest park - Disney World, located near the city of Orlando (Florida, USA), its area is 11 hectares, the construction cost 322 million dollars. The largest administrative building is the Pentagon (built for the US Department of Defense), its construction cost $ 83 million, each of the five outer sides is 281 meters long, the total area of five floors is 60,3 hectares, the length of the corridors is 27 kilometers, the total the number of windows is 7748, the building employs 29 people, 000 telephones are installed in it, with a total cable length of 44 kilometers. The most valuable painting in the world is Mona Lisa (Gioconda) by Leonardo da Vinci, exhibited in the Louvre. In the early 60s, before being sent to an exhibition in the United States, the canvas was valued at $ 1 billion. However, the insurance contract was never concluded - the amount was recognized as insufficient. The largest art gallery is the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. To see each of its 322 galleries, which house 3 million pieces of art and antiquities, one has to walk 24 kilometers.
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