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Brehm also noted that up to forty to fifty thousand elephants are killed every year in Africa. It is easy to calculate how many years the African elephant would have been completely exterminated, if not for the efforts of zoologists and enthusiasts. According to the results of the census, it turned out that about 540 African elephants remained. In the 000s, their numbers dwindled dangerously. In 1989, the ivory trade was banned. He proved effective. The elephant population has even increased. Knowledge is Power, Nature under the gun of numbers (znanie-sila.ru/) In Taiwan, there is a married couple who have been living in absolute harmony for 57 years. During this time, Lee Shin-Fa and Lee Yang-Yang gave birth to ten children and ... did not say a word, although they are quite happy in their marriage. They have good hearing and normal speech. And the spouses explain their half-century silence with shyness. Interestingly, the children of an incredibly modest couple somehow learned to talk. According to them, they do not get enough of the harmonious atmosphere in the parental home. One thing is not clear: how did these bashful people manage to meet and even more so get married Knowledge-Power, The Secret of a Happy Marriage (znanie-sila.ru/) Paul McCartney has been named the richest musician in the UK. He topped the Sunday Times list of millionaire musicians. This year, the former Beatles musician increased his fortune from 550 to 713 million pounds. Most of the funds - 138 million - he inherited from his ex-wife Linda. In addition, the success of the Beatles-1 album, which re-assembled the old hits of the group, and which raised 12 million pounds, contributed a lot to the increase in his fortune. Press Center.Ru (presscenter.ru/ ) The Florida Supreme Court ruled that Michael Schiavo could inject his wife Teresa, a resident of the city of St. Petersburg (USA), who has been in a coma since 1990, with substances that should lead to her death. This decision was made despite the opinion of the parents of Teresa Schiavo, who protested against euthanasia, despite the fact that a council of doctors determined that the 37-year-old woman would not come out of a coma. Days.Ru (dni.ru/) According to the studies of A. Chizhevsky, who collected information on all outbreaks of the plague from 430 to 1899, their relationship with the rhythm of solar activity is quite clear. That is, the Sun, which gives us warmth and light, sometimes brings black death. Our brain is completely insensitive to pain. It can be irritated with an electric current, cut - a person will not experience pain. Very rarely, but still, people are sometimes born on Earth who absolutely do not feel pain. Less than 100 such cases are known to science. However, this ability can hardly be called a successful acquisition. After all, pain warns us that something has happened in the body. Sometimes it's just a reaction to a prick or burn. But often pains signal the onset of the disease, serious disorders in the body. So a painless life is fraught with many dangers. For the 50th anniversary of Landau, a medal was cast with a beautiful chased profile of the hero of the day and a Latin inscription of his favorite expression. From a fool I hear. The rattlesnake has an amazing organ. It consists of two pits on the head, outwardly resembling a second pair of nostrils. With it, the rattlesnake sees infrared (thermal) rays. His vigilance is such that the snake catches a temperature difference of a thousandth of a degree. It is enough to appear at night a field mouse 200 meters from the snake, and its ultra-sensitive device will tell it about the presence of the animal. The design of the Eiffel Tower is borrowed from wildlife. Already after the construction, architects and biologists, looking closely at the openwork forms of the built tower, found that its design is nothing more than a copied tibia of a human leg. The first batch of cigars came to Europe in 1717: a merchant from Seville brought several cases of havanas to Spain. Then they were made only in Cuba. Unlike the mainland Indians, the locals were lazy and did not bother to make pipes - they simply rolled up a tobacco leaf. The successful businessman got rich very soon. Moreover, the Spaniards began to produce their own cigars (Sevillas), with which the soldiers of the Napoleonic army who fought in the Pyrenees stuffed their packs before heading home. Cigars (night.dp.ua/part2/smoking/cigar/index.html) In 1977, a thin book, Murphy's Laws, came out in Los Angeles. Author-writer Arthur Bloch. Now in the explanatory dictionary of Funk and Wagnals one can read: Murphy's Law (Amer., unofficial) The principle that if any trouble can happen, it happens (origin unknown). In colloquial Russian, this phenomenon is called the law of a sandwich, the law of meanness, etc. BitNET.RU (bitnet.ru/ murphy/) Roger Hook calculated that man in his entire history has managed to extract such a mass of earth from the bowels that if you put it in one place, you get a mountain 4000 meters high, 100 kilometers long, 40 kilometers wide. Knowledge is Power, Science News, 29.09.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX (znanie-sila.ru/ ) A young resident of the English town of Ringwood, Liz Wilson, was banned by local authorities from visiting the zoo. The fact is that the perfumes she used drove monkeys and felines into a frenzy: the animals almost fell into a rage when this visitor passed by their cage, and the attendants managed to calm them down only at the cost of hard work. It is curious that these Cypriot spirits are called Bestia. Liz is upset for two reasons. Firstly, because, having perfumed as she likes, she cannot go to the zoo, and secondly, because her favorite perfumes do not drive men into a frenzy. Knowledge is Power No4 / 2001 (znanie-sila.ru/) Origin - short, but full of observation, full of meaning and ingenuity, one-line phrases and expressions. These are nonsense filled with humor, parodies and puns, puns and wise sayings. BitNET.RU (bitnet.ru/origin/) The start of operation of the first section of the Tokyo Metro is attributed to December 1927, when a 2,2-kilometer tunnel connected Ueno and Asakusa stations. Today, Tokyo has 12 subway lines with a total length of more than 230 km. The metro, in addition to the capital, operates in Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Sapporo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sendai. In 1991, there were 34 metro lines in the country with a total length of 523 km. ENCYCLOPEDIA JAPAN FROM A TO Z (japantoday.ru/japanaz/) Stockings were in short supply during World War II, with four-figure dollar bills for one pair. Yes, and in the first time after the end of the war for women in Europe, nylon stockings were almost inaccessible. Fashionistas got out of the difficulty as follows: they painted their legs light brown with a decoction of walnut peel and drew a seam and a heel. Daughters-mothers, 1997, No 9. Magpies in most cases do not take unfriendly actions against foundlings. Why does this lively bird, able to stand up for itself, prefer to patiently carry the cuckoo cross? Ornithologists Manuel Soler (Spain) and Anders Moller (Denmark), studying the behavior of these birds in Spain, came to the conclusion that cuckoos warn possible rash acts on the part of magpies, intimidating them. If a magpie family gets rid of a freeloader, this nest is subjected to a barbaric attack. Moreover, the rioters leave a lot of evidence: the shells of magpie eggs or the corpses of chicks. As is customary in the world of racketeers, there are no witnesses to a robbery lib.cango.net.kg/smi/eco/eco6 .html An adult whale inhales 2 liters of air in 2400 seconds. The staff of the Amsterdam Zoo decided to calculate how many gifts an elephant receives from visitors every day. A day with a rather high number of visitors was chosen for the calculation. The ministers counted 1706 bags of peanuts, 198 sandwiches, 902 slices of bread and butter, 516 sour candies, 814 mints, 811 pieces of cake, 2 servings of ice cream, 17 apples, 189 oranges, 2 branches with leaves, one glove, and one belt. tuttifrutti.newmail.ru/animalfacts.htm The expression Besi water and bubble up means the successful completion of some not entirely clean business. The Dhammapada says: Just as rain does not seep into a well-roofed house, so lust does not seep into a well-developed mind. The Scandinavians called Kyiv Kanugard, the English medieval sources called it Khio, Kleva and Riona. Estonian sailors say that there are three more pipes to the shore, that is, the distance is equal to the time it took to smoke pipes full of tobacco. Arriving in Israel, you can easily communicate with the local population even if you do not know Hebrew, and all because at least every 6th resident of Israel speaks Russian to some extent. Over the last 10 years of the twentieth century, more than a million repatriates from Russia and its neighboring countries came to the country If you forgot your bag in a public place, then do not worry, no one will appropriate it for themselves. Most likely, that your bag will be blown up by the sappers called to the place in the next half an hour. In Israel, they are very sensitive to suspicious items that are unattended for more than 5 minutes, suspecting that this item is a bomb planted by Palestinian terrorists. For the same reason, at the entrance to any public building (large store, etc.), each visitor is subject to a thorough check of his personal bag. In the Israeli army, both boys and girls serve on an equal footing. But intimate relationships within the framework of military service are prohibited by the army charter. And you can be punished for this offense. Jewish holidays do not have fixed dates. Rather, there is, but in the Jewish calendar, which does not coincide with the European one at all. Therefore, living according to the European calendar, the Israelis learn the date of this or that holiday only at the beginning of the coming year, when a new calendar comes out. The beginning of the holiday always comes in the evening with the appearance of the stars and lasts until the evening of the next day. Revisionist historiography is a purely Russian invention. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mikhail Pokrovsky published four volumes of Russian history, which, as he immediately warned, were intended for people whose brains had not yet been dislocated by official textbooks. Pokrovsky called into question the generally accepted ideas about the role of the Orthodox Church in the development of the country, about the Tatar yoke, about the campaign against Kazan and the oprichnina. He did not try to expose the Russian tsars, but only brought up important documents that testified to how decisions were actually made, what guided the characters. During the 30s, Pokrovsky's views were accepted by revolutionary Russia almost as an official historical doctrine. But in the XNUMXs the situation changed. It turned out that the story according to Pokrovsky literally leaves no stone unturned from the imperial myth... Publishing House Province. How they put things in order in Rus' (province.ru/) When the Orenburg travelers reached Istanbul on a boat without a motor, the Turkish citizen Hussein exclaimed: I have been serving in the port for 25 years, but for the first time I see someone cross the sea in a cot. Either you Russians are very brave, or you are insane. Publishing House Province. By sea on a folding bed. (province.ru/) The name of Walpurgis Night is associated with the name of Saint Walpurga, a Wimburn nun (England), who came to Germany in 748 to found a monastery. She died on 25 February 777 at Heidenheim. She was extremely popular, and very soon they began to venerate her as a saint. In the Roman list of saints, her day is May 1. Encyclopedia of magic and sorcery (aboutmagic.narod.ru/ 194/ 219 .htm) Chain armor was very expensive, and gunsmiths, both in Europe and in Rus', were one of the wealthiest segments of the population. In the 45th-XNUMXth centuries, the cost of a full knightly armament was XNUMX cows. A whole herd was given for all the equipment: for chain mail, chain mail stockings, a hood, gloves or mittens, a steel helmet, spear, sword, mace, dagger, belt, shield and warhorse. Publishing House Province. Knights without fear and reproach (province.ru/) The great-granddaughter of King Henry VII, Jane Gray, who occupied the English throne from July 10 to 19, 1553, went down in history under the nickname of the Nine-Day Queen. Her father-in-law the Duke of Northumberland managed to convince King Edward VI (son of Henry VIII) to deny his sisters Mary and Elizabeth their claims to the throne, and after the death of Edward VI, which followed on July 6, 1553, Jane Gray inherited the crown. However, already on July 19, the Lord Mayor of London declared the eldest daughter of Henry VIII Mary (Bloody Mary) queen, and 17-year-old Jane Gray was executed. Historama Paris, March, 20001 The most accurate clock in the world is designed by the American company Hewlett-Packard. The clock can go ahead or lag by one second not earlier than in 1,6 million years. The great philosopher and encyclopedic scientist of antiquity, Aristotle, was deeply convinced that a woman has fewer teeth than a man. Considering that Aristotle was married twice, nothing seemed to prevent him from testing this hypothesis of his empirically, but he apparently did not find time for this. The Latin name for asparagus is asparagus, meaning medicinal. The largest tobacco company RHCP-Tobasco has been involved in the production of a new type of cigarettes under the trademark of the Ministry of Health. Cigarettes are available in solid packs. Initially, two varieties will be introduced to the market: Light and Bronchi. Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church only in 1917. Abbott Henderson Tayler, studying protective colors in nature, formulated the theoretical foundations of mimicry, establishing that the parts of the bodies of animals that are more often facing the light are usually darker, and the parts hidden from the sun are lighter. This principle was later called Tayler's law and formed the basis of the system of principles of military camouflage. Alphabet, Spotted People No5, 2001 Currently, in France, Muslims make up 8,6% of the country's population; in the UK - 4,4%; in Germany - 3,1%. In the 19th century, it was not easy to deliver sea fish to Moscow and St. Petersburg, so all kinds of ways were invented to keep it fresh. Here is one of them: Having caught a fish, pin it, dip it in water and roll in the snow until everything is completely iced over, and put it in a cart. Then the fish, if you cook it, will taste exactly the same as alive. Covered with several layers of ice, the fish kept so well that, as one old magazine wrote, you need to have a very delicate and familiar taste to distinguish such fish from live ones. They called such a fish a makan. Usov N.S. Fish on your table In the confectionery industry, marshmallow is a kind of marshmallow, and marshmallow is a product made from fruit puree, sugar and egg white. The progenitor of the modern marshmallow was the Belevsky marshmallow. About 100 years ago in the Tula region, in the city of Belev, for the first time in Russia, they began the production of rolls and pies from apple-protein mass combined with molasses. The purity commandment of 1516, introduced by the Duke of Bavaria Wilhelm IV, prescribed that only barley, hops and water be used for making beer. And before that, anything was thrown into vats with a fermenting drink for a fortress: from oak bark to calf bile. Formally, the commandment no longer exists. in 1987, the unification of the legal framework of the EU, in fact, abolished this law. But even today, German brewers, as well as their counterparts from the Czech Republic and Denmark, exporting beer to Germany, consider it their duty to put a mark on a beer can or bottle: Gebraut nach dem deutschen Reinheitsgebot fon 1516 (Brewed according to the German Purity Commandment of 1516). Trade equipment No4, April, 2001 The first mention of coffee in Russia dates back to 1665, when the tsar's doctor Samuel Kolins prescribed the following recipe to Alexei Mikhailovich: Boiled coffee, known by Persians and Turks, and usually after dinner, is pretty much a cure for arrogance, runny nose and headaches. Writer Vladimir Nabokov devoted all his novels to his wife. Mayakovsky's play, known as Vladimir Mayakovsky, was originally not called at all. The fact is that the author, without coming up with a suitable name, simply left his name on the title page, which the editors (publishing house) regarded as a title. Famous rock singer Nick Cave wrote a novel in 1989 called And the Ass Saw the Angel. The novel was recently translated into Russian by Ilya Kormiltsev, and is called in the translation And in the sight of the donkey of the Angel of God.
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