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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.
The youngest mother of twins was British citizen Nicola Dougherty, who gave birth to girls Courtney and Caitlin on April 20, 1997, when she was 14 years old. Her compatriot James Sutton became the father of twins Leah and Louise at the age of 13 (his mother was his 17-year-old girlfriend). It happened in 1999. The twins Iris Jones and Aro Campbell have not seen each other for the longest time. They were separated on January 13, 1914, and the meeting took place 75 years later, in 1989. The fertility record belongs to a Russian woman (There are women in Russian villages...!), the second wife of Fyodor Vasilyev from the city of Shuya, who between 1725 and 1765 gave birth to 69 children, 67 of whom survived infancy. All her pregnancies were multiple: twins were born 16 times, triplets 7 times, 4 children appeared four times at once. Interestingly, the name of this unique woman is not mentioned in Western sources. More precisely, they call her Mrs. Fedor Vasiliev. Leontina Espinoza was born in Argentina to triplets. She got into the Guinness Book as a super mom - she gave birth to 57 children (9 triplets, 11 twins, 8 singles), six of whom died during childbirth. Mrs. Mary Jonas, who died in 1899, gave birth to 15 pairs of twins, all pairs of opposite sexes: a boy and a girl. The world's first test-tube twins, Stephen and Amanda Mays, were born on June 5, 1981. Longest twin birth interval: Mrs. Peggy Lynn gave birth to daughter Hannah on November 11, 1995, and her brother Eric on February 2, 1996, 84 days later. June 30, 1908 at 7 pm local time in the Podkamennaya Tunguska river basin there was a deafening explosion, and this phenomenon resembled a meteorite fall, but was of enormous scale. The movement of the fireball was visible within a radius of 800 kilometers. Dust ice remained on its way, which persisted for several hours. After the light phenomena, an explosion was heard at a distance of more than 1000 kilometers. Seismographs in Irkutsk and in a number of places in Western Europe registered a seismic wave. The explosion released approximately 10.e23-10.e24 erg energy. The world press dubbed the incomprehensible phenomenon the Tunguska meteorite. The nature of this phenomenon is still not known for certain. But what kind of data do we still have? Let's list the facts. Hectares of fallen taiga. Radioactivity at the point of explosion, many times higher than the natural level. The biggest magnetic anomaly on Earth: in this place the compass needle will dance like crazy. Significant mutation of the plant world. Local insects are larger than their usual counterparts. One of the versions is the explosion of an unearthly spacecraft that exploded over the taiga. There are a lot of facts in favor of this version. 68 years after the explosion on the banks of the Vashka River, two workers found a piece of unusual metal. The unusual alloy contained about 67 percent cerium, 10 percent lanthanum, separated from all lanthanum metals, which is still not possible on Earth, and 8 percent neobide. The conclusion of the scientists was unequivocal: it is impossible to obtain such a rare earth alloy with the most modern earth technology. It remains to be added that the place of the find is located just on the continuation of the flight path of the fireball. In 1967, American astronomer John Bigby, who specializes in artificial Earth satellites, discovered 10 small moons with strange trajectories. Having calculated their trajectories retrospectively, he found out that on December 18, 1955, the satellites were one. Secular scientist Sergei Bozhych suggested that an alien starship had exploded in near-Earth orbit. Halley's Comet appears every 76 years near the Earth. The next meeting with her took place in 1985-1986. It moves in its orbit not alone, but accompanied by some other celestial formations dispersed over large spaces. They make up the shock wave of the comet, and some of them are ahead of it by 2 billion kilometers, others are distributed along the orbit of the comet, forming huge original spindles with a diameter of 20-40 and a length of 120-180 million kilometers. It is quite possible that the Tunguska meteorite was one of the satellites of this comet, attracted to the Earth. They have existed since the Stone Age. But they started their activity less than a thousand years ago. During this time, they destroyed more people than all the wars that have ever been. There is not a single word about them in the literature of Ancient Greece and Rome. Their bones have never been found during excavations. It is believed that they came from Arabia, their quick wit made them the heroes of many legends. It's about rats. Benjamin Franklin is a politician, scientist and inventor. He invented the lightning rod and also the rocking chair. Gustave Flaubert said that they are a perfect example for a spendthrift, and it was they who suggested the idea of savings banks. So he talked about ants. It was made in Turkey, Afghanistan, Persia, Bulgaria, Greece. She got to Russia through Odessa. It comes in white, yellow, pink, walnut, almond and poppy. In Russia, poppy seeds were the cheapest. It's about halva. In the 80s, the demand for fish from the stingray family, the sea cat, grew in Tokyo. The price of this fish has doubled. It was bought to predict earthquakes. The purchased fish was kept in a bath and its behavior was observed. The people call these mushrooms - pig, pig, pig, croutons, decoctions, cabbage rolls, cyanosis, hollow. The more well-known name for these mushrooms is russula. Garshin considered the number 25 fatal for himself, Leo Tolstoy - 28, and Gumilyov believed that he would die at 53. The age at which he died is really added up from these figures, only in a different order - 35. A tochenka is a male cap with a long end hanging down on its side. The oldest mention of him is found in the Czech poem Groom and Pupil of the late 14th century. An old Russian riddle: It flies - it is silent, it sits down - it is silent, but if it dies and rots, it will roar. The answer to this riddle is snow. The single most common cause of a heart attack is chronic hostility in relationships. If you are near artificial flowers and you think they are real, it can trigger an asthma attack. Keeping a diary of impressions of important life events has a significant positive effect on the immune system. Those people who do charitable work at least once a week die half as often as others. Those painkillers that our body produces - endorphin and enkephalin - act 100 times stronger than morphine. Watching tropical fish swimming in an aquarium lowers blood pressure and pulse. It is known that people are divided into nearsighted, farsighted and people with normal vision, while in some the shape of the eyeball changes so quickly that the ophthalmologist often has to write prescriptions for various lenses. Lufthansa was the first airline in Europe to adopt the experience of the American United Airlines - stewards (usually retired military men, often disabled from the First World War) were replaced by pretty flight attendants. Earth - air, Pulse St. Petersburg, March 2001 The very first skyscraper, built in Chicago in 1885, had only 11 floors, but for that time was considered a miracle of building technology. It could be attributed to skyscrapers by two defining features: a steel frame and an elevator. The first real skyscraper, built in New York in 1913, already had 60 floors. The longest river in Malaysia has four names. From its source, for 32 kilometers, the locals call it Betis, then it flows for 44 kilometers under the name Nengiri, then the same as Tanas, and finally flows into the South China Sea as the Kepandan River. The latest measurements of the Great Wall of China have shown that its length is 7200 km - 500 km more than previously thought. There is an old Andex monastery in the foothills of the Alps. Since 1455, beer has been brewed here, which is credited with miraculous properties. Judging by the monastery chronicles, only from 1624 to 1657 from among the pilgrims and their relatives, 359 paralytics were put on their feet, 188 epileptics were cured, 237 deaf people received hearing, 860 blind people received their sight, 221 insane people gained reason, and all this thanks to beer. The oldest surviving brewery in the world, Weihenstephan, is located near the town of Freising in Germany. Beer has been brewed there since 1040. And it is there that the faculty of brewing at the Technical University of Munich is located. The legendary, almost fabulous King Gambrinus was actually named Jan Primus (or Jan I, Duke of Brabant and Antwerp) and lived in the XNUMXth century. Espresso is a coffee brewing method that extracts the very core of the coffee bean. It was invented in Italy at the beginning of the 13th century. Espresso is produced in special units by passing steam through ground coffee under a pressure of 88 atmospheres. The water vapor temperature is 18 degrees. Espresso preparation time - from 23 to XNUMX seconds. In 2000, 253 million bottles of champagne were sold worldwide - 23% less than in 1999. It is not difficult to evaluate the quality of French cognac. A share of this you need to pour a drink into a glass and perform two manipulations. A good cognac should be transparent, and therefore it is enough to touch a glass of amber liquid with your finger and look at the fingerprint from the other side. If cognac does not interfere with seeing the trace of a touch, then the drink belongs to the elite. The age of a native of France is determined using a stopwatch. A glass of cognac must be rotated around its axis and observe the legs of the liquid flowing down the inner surface. If these legs are visible for five seconds, then the cognac exposure does not exceed eight years. If - a quarter of a minute, then the drink was gaining strength for twenty years. If the legs are distinguishable for eighteen seconds, then the age of cognac spirits clearly exceeds half a century. Kent Collins Cognac surname, Pulse St. Petersburg, March 2001 Even the very name of Japan is mistakenly interpreted by almost all Europeans as the land of the rising sun, although the exact translation of the two hieroglyphs that make it up - Nippon - is nothing more than the roots of the sun. It is curious that among the first foreigners who corrected this misunderstanding was the writer Boris Pilnyak, who left interesting notes after visiting Japan in 1926, which he called the Roots of the Japanese Sun. The great Charlie Chaplin once said about Japan that there is too much Coca-Cola and everything connected with it. factor-online.com/content.asp?pageid=144 Nightingales only sing at night. Your wrong! These small birds from the thrush family of the passerine order sing during the day in the same way as at night. But at night they have fewer competitors. And then the quality of singing must be taken into account! That is why we single out nightingale singing from all night sounds, because it is magical, and at night, when most other birds do bye-bye, when all daytime noises are silent, few people and little interfere with it. vestnik.com/issues/2001/0116/koi/skuratovski.htm By the end of the XIV century. alcohol in Europe was quite well known, but was still perceived exclusively as a medicine, produced in limited quantities in the laboratories of alchemists (mainly in monasteries), sold in pharmacies and valued literally worth its weight in gold. So, in the will of a Venetian merchant, along with jewelry, gold and Russian furs, a large vessel with aqua vitae is mentioned. russianvodka.ru/2history.htm According to the theory of the writer S. di Giacomo, published by him in the Diary of a Neapolitan inhabitant (XVII century), the prehistory of April 1 is as follows. It was on this day that the Neapolitan viceroy of Monterey arranged a holiday to mark the end of the earthquake. The local fisherman, in joy, presented the ruler with a huge fish - mackerel. And Monterey liked it so much that exactly a year later he wanted to get the same one. The same was not found, but the cook prepared another, very reminiscent of mackerel. The viceroy recognized the substitution, but did not get angry, but even amused. Since then, April Fools' pranks have become a custom. Astrid Lindgren, sending the manuscript of Pippi Longstocking's story to the publisher, made the following postscript: I hope you don't raise the alarm at the Child Welfare Office. It was called the apostle stone, and was considered a stone dedicated to the Evangelist Matthew. It was believed that it protects against drunkenness, and its very name comes from the Greek word for non-drunk. This stone is an amethyst. Persons of the highest aristocracy of the Tatar-Mongolian army had a certain number of arrows in their quiver. The more noble - the less arrows. Only ordinary warriors were required to have a full quiver. Until today, scientists do not know exactly why migratory birds make their flights? This cannot be explained only by the desire to fly away for the winter to warmer climes. For example, swallows fly over all of Africa during their flights, although they can find warmer climes and closer. Or petrels flying from Antarctica to the North Pole. There is an opinion that the decisive role here is played not by cold, but by starvation. But then the question arises, why do birds return to the cold north every spring, instead of staying in the south and breeding there? In addition to birds, many other living creatures also have the ability to return to their native lands. For example, bembex wasps always find their native mink and unmistakably land at its entrance when approaching. And who among us has not heard about the amazing ability of horses to find their way home in the steppe during a snowstorm. And cats that can get home for many hundreds and even thousands of kilometers. In the Swedish city of Uppsala there is an amazing clock - this clock is a large flower bed on which a variety of flowers are planted. Every hour, only one type of flower blooms regularly in the flower bed. The first at three hours of the tour are the petals of the goatbeard, and the last, already at midnight, the cacti of the Queen of the Night. Daily biorhythms obey not only flowers, but also a person. Relatively recently, it became known about one and a half hour periods during sleep. During these periods, a person does not see dreams, his sleep is calm, even. Apparently, the body receives a complete rest precisely in these one and a half hour phases of sleep. And between them, every normal person has a fast sleep, or, as it is also called, paradoxical. The paradox lies in the fact that REM sleep, although it is far from calm (this is a dream with dreams), is necessary for the body. The paradoxical phase of sleep is attributed to such functions as, for example, the restoration of brain tone, the development of binocular vision, and the strengthening of memory. Even more noticeable in human life is the daily cycle. It includes, first of all, of course, sleep and wakefulness, when many physiological indicators change dramatically in a person. At the same time, the peak of life activity falls at 16-18 hours, and the decline - for a period of 2 to 5 aces. In the morning, the human liver secretes a lot of bile, accumulates fats and releases water. And at night, all these processes occur in the opposite direction. Most of the sugar in our blood at 9 o'clock in the morning, and less - at 18 o'clock. The kidneys are more active in the early evening and less active in the early morning. Now more than a hundred physiological systems have been identified in humans that function according to the laws of daily periodicity. Lomonosov said this about the Church Slavonic language: From there we multiply the contentment of the Russian word, which is great in its own prosperity and is akin to the acceptance of Greek beauties through Slavonic. In England, sea buckthorn juice is sold under the name Siberian pineapple juice. A lizard cannot run and breathe at the same time. This word appeared in the 19th century in the American language. Then they called a person with a bullish dose of strength. And today we are talking about a bulldozer. This word consists of the following parts: Bull (bull) + doz (dose) + suffix er. Hesiod spoke of it this way: In the perishable abode of cold Hades. So he talked about the afterlife. In France, oranges were called orange, so the premises for their cultivation were called greenhouses. The Arabic Tuareg means rejected, the Tuareg themselves call themselves imphag, which means free. Scandinavian mythology tells of the god Loki hiding in the form of a salmon in a waterfall. Despite this, the other gods caught Loki and bound him with the intestines of their own son. Tsedilka - with this word Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy called tsarist censorship. They are: Radunitsky, Trinity, All Saints, Petrovsky, Pyatnitsky, Nikolsky, Ivanovo, Ilyinsky, Uspensky, Kapustinsky and Pokrovskaya. They are round dances. The word back in Rus' meant a toilet. First found in documents from the 16th century. Emperor Nero took such baths: they let fish into the tub, which emitted electrical discharges. So the emperor was treated for rheumatism. A pig's orange in French thieves' jargon is called a potato. A mourning cuff is a decoration of a woman's hat of the early 20th century. from tied ostrich feathers. Seven-thousander mountains in the Pamirs: Pobeda Peak, Lenin Peak, Communism Peak. The latter, the locals call Uztergi, which means: Turns the head. False Dmitry dressed like Poles, could not stand baths. I did not want to be baptized in front of the icons, I did not sit down to dinner with prayers. With all this, he cooled the people's love. Moreover, he ate meat, which was considered forbidden food by Russians. That meat was veal. Simultaneously with False Dmitry, another impostor named Ileika appeared. This Ileyka pretended to be the son of Fyodor Ioannovich. Rabbit panties were called in the south of Russia. In the Tula province they were called arctic foxes. A washing cat portends guests. If she does this in the evening and even smoothes her mustache, a friend will soon come to the house. When the murka lies down in front of the stove or hearth and stretches out its paws in their direction, it means that a stranger will appear. Well, if it lies curled up in a ball - it's in trouble. When a cat does its big deeds shortly before the arrival of guests, most likely, these people treat their owners badly, although they hide their hostility. Many signs associated with cats relate to marriage. For example, in America, when choosing a groom, girls are advised to take into account the opinion of a murka or a cat, only necessarily uncastrated. It is necessary to arrange an accidental meeting of the candidate for husbands with them and see how they will react: if they run away and hide, then this person is unreliable and marriage with him will not bring happiness. Well, if the cat suddenly urinates on his shoes, it is better to stay away from such a person altogether. In Egypt, in such cases, they look at the cat's pupils: in the presence of a promising groom and just a kind man, they narrow. In Thailand, there is another mariage sign. The newlyweds should let a cat into the bedroom on their wedding night - preferably a large, hardened one, with a long mustache. If he sleeps peacefully all night, the marriage will be happy and have many children. ID Province. Four-legged oracles (province.ru/) On Mactan Island, an obelisk in honor of Magellan, who discovered the Philippine archipelago in 1521, and a monument to the leader Lapa-Lapu, who killed this Magellan, peacefully coexist. Expert No14, 9.04.2001/XNUMX/XNUMX Alex Cavagnaro of New York became the YOUNGEST bowling player to reach 300 points at age 11. Bowling - Club 300.RU (club300.ru/ )
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