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Origami was familiar to Nicholas II. Or rather, rather than to him, but to the little heir to the throne. In 1908, a young philologist, a graduate of Cambridge, Charles Sidney Gibbs, was invited to the court in St. Petersburg to polish the English pronunciation of young princesses, slightly spoiled by the former teacher's Scottish accent. In 1914, a very young prince also joined the lessons. In order to win the child's trust, Gibbs began to fold various figures out of paper in front of the boy's eyes. Young people became true friends, and language lessons turned from boring activities into a fun pastime. aha.ru/ ~origami/issue/issue_1996_4/html/king.htm The profession of Siv Gustavson from Stockholm is to bark in the streets. He barks in 20 frets corresponding to different breeds of dogs. This is due to the fact that dog owners do not want to pay tax on them. If a return bark is heard from any house, Siv writes down the address, and then the financial inspector comes there. Description of a knife used by women in Kolyma for cutting and sewing: the blade is somewhat curved and wider in the middle. The end of the blade, in the form of a rod, is set in a wooden handle or is itself trimmed in the form of a handle. Its name is palemka. This name is a diminutive of the word palm tree. In Crete, already three and a half thousand years ago, festivities were held, part of which was jumping over a bull. Starting from his horns, the young men and even the girls, having made a somersault over the head of the bull, had to fall on his back. At the end of the holiday, the bull was sacrificed to the gods. His blood was collected in a precious vessel in the form of a bull's head. dwelle.de /english/archiv_2/rm1810.html Alpha, a monkey from one of the research labs in the US, was an inspired draughtsman and asked visitors not for treats, but for paper and pencils to climb into a corner and draw. The finished drawings were immediately taken away from her, because, having painted both sides of the sheet, she put it in her mouth. dogfriend.ecologia.ru/texte/texte1/tierefuhlen/17.htm On the emblem of Louis, the sun illuminated the globe. This image had the meaning that the king has the right to extend his beneficent rule to other peoples. This is confirmed by the motto Nec pluribus impar (And equal to many). The king recalled that some courtiers advised him to include both the globe and this motto in the emblem: They meant - and this was pleasant for the ambition of the young king - that since I myself cope with so many things, then, of course, I could manage and other kingdoms, just as the sun would illuminate other lands if they were under its rays. Following the old tradition of the French monarchs, the Sun King annually on Holy Thursday washed the feet of 12 beggars, wiped them and kissed them. vivovoco.nns.ru/VV/PAPERS/HISTORY/LOUIQUAT.htm On May 1, 305, Emperor Diocletian relinquished power and left for his estate. The Romans, who loved Diocletian, asked him to return to the throne. To this, the retired August replied: If you could see the vegetables grown by my hands, you would say that I never need to return to power. tax-nalog.km.ru/view/a47515DF0B7054B07BC37FA416D7068A8 .htm In 1820, a small book with a long title was published in St. Petersburg. A short description of a new method invented by V. Koigrev to reduce the amount of coal burned by half when heating boilers and other factory uses, while eliminating smoke. kosmopoisk.sanskrit.ru/superideas/show1.html?id=19 Those animals are social in which everyone performs some single and common [for all] business, which does not happen with all herd animals. These are a man, a bee, a wasp, an ant, a crane. And some of the social animals are under the rule of the leader, <...> and the ants and countless others are without beginning. Aristotle. History of animals. M., 1997. Among the Brahmins of southern India there was a custom that forbade the younger brother to marry before the elder. If the elder brother had not yet chosen a bride for himself, then in order to allow the younger brother to take a wife and at the same time comply with the requirements of custom, the older brother was solemnly married to a tree (or to a spirit living inside a tree). sexrecord.narod.ru/ Records /348.html There was a custom: when the king of France felt close to death, his mistress was sent away from the court - the monarch had to appear before God pure from sin. If the king did recover, the favorite came back. vivovoco.nns.ru/VV/PAPERS/HISTORY/LOUIQUAT.htm Pliny the Elder believed that if you remove two small worms from the body of a certain type of spider, put them in a piece of deer skin and touch the body of a woman before sunrise, then she will not conceive. Other writers, both ancient and dark, believed that if a woman spit in a frog's mouth three times, she would not conceive for a year, and that a jasper stone held in her hand during intercourse also prevented conception. Saint Albert the Great, the mentor of Thomas Aquinas, advised women to eat bees, believing it to be an effective contraceptive. sexrecord.narod.ru/Records/329.html If Sivka (light), then why Burka (dark)? After all, it’s not a zebra, in which the strip is black, the strip is white. The whole point is that Burka's nickname originally sounded like Burka. And if you look at its origins, then clear traces of Boreas are found. Having turned into a dark-maned stallion, God - the patron of the North - impregnated twelve mares and became the father of twelve wonderful foals that could fly in the skies above the earth and seas. This is how Homer described them in the Iliad (XX, 220-230). In Russian folklore, they are called Sivki-burki, Burushki-kosmatushki, which, ultimately, means Burki-Boreyki. bibl.ru/giperboreya-pramater-1.htm Assyrians, Jews, Arabs swore by this number, conjured evil spirits and called good ones. Atlas, who supported the vault of heaven with his shoulders, had exactly so many Pleiades daughters, Odysseus was captivated by the nymph Calypso for so many years, the underground river Styx flows around hell so many times. This number is 7. According to ancient signs, this will happen if: you accidentally extinguish a candle, if the samovar sings, the cat washes, the magpie jumps at the threshold. All this portends the arrival of unexpected guests. In Russian chronicles, this people was first mentioned in 1190. They wrote that they and their king, as holy martyrs, shed their blood for Christ, in the Sermon about Igor's Campaign they are listed among the first allies of the Russians. These people are Germans. Sergei Yesenin was born in the Ryazan region. But the word Yesenya, from which the poet's surname comes, means autumn there. In the North there is a word hardbread. So they call a person who drinks, but does not get drunk. Half a century ago, the Japanese language used 16 words for you and you. Today there are 9 words for the concept of father and daughter, 7 for the concept of son and husband, 11 words are used for the concept of wife. In ancient India, they believed that the soul is a boy-with-a-finger living in the pupil of a person. Shakhnovich M. I. Omens true and superstitious. L., 1984. Among the inhabitants of Sakhalin Island, a pregnant woman stopped spinning 2 months before giving birth. Otherwise, in a newborn, the intestines may become tangled like threads. In Romania, when sending a bride to the groom's house, three cloves of garlic were discreetly placed in her right shoe - so that she would have children. A couple of centuries ago in Germany it was believed that children should not be tickled. Children will stutter. When a clove tree blooms in the Moluccas, fire cannot be carried past it. Also, you can not approach him with a hat on his head. In Southeast Africa, at one time a woman who gave birth to twins was called Tilo - the sky. In ancient Italy, a woman could not appear in public with a spindle. The Russian expression to clean up a lamb means to shave. Girls in Athens in the fifth year of life were dedicated to the goddess Artemis. From that time on, they received the name she-bear and had to wear saffron-colored clothes. Seneca pointed out that Posidonius distinguished between two types of earthquakes: concussion and pitching. Seneca himself also called the third type of trembling - and considered it the most dangerous. Outcast - so in ancient Rus' they called a prince who did not have a hereditary right to the grand prince's throne. The name of the book by J. Boccaccio Decameron in Greek means Ten Days. In the 70s, the motto was inscribed on the coat of arms of the state of Botswana: Let it rain! Schoolchildren who did not get along with their studies were called cows in the Yelets classical gymnasium of the early 20th century. Pointing a finger at the moon is a sin - the finger dries, and if you do, you need to bite it. On the night of Ivan Kupala, the beekeeper fed the bees, giving honey with an admixture of adonis, bones from the head of a pike and a decoction of ants. Ants were needed so that the bee was angrier and would not succumb to someone else's bee. In Zhytomyr, they believed that the Earth is round, and therefore there is no end to it. At the end of the earth is a country where people are so rich that they cover the roofs of their houses with silver and gold. This country was called America. It was believed that if a pregnant woman eats on the go - the child will be whiny, if a pregnant woman eats secretly - the child will be a thief. In the presence of the child it was impossible to mention the hare, because then the child would suffer from insomnia. In the Sumy region, girls went to the barn to feel, or, as it was called, to paw the cows. Touching the butt of a cow promised wealth. They believed that the stork threw frogs into the chimney, which, penetrating the house through the chimney, turn into children. The children were told to put a plate of cheese on the window so that the stork would bring the baby. The children asked to bring them a brother or sister with these words: Buska, buska, bring me Maruska! If a mermaid catches up with a person, then she will move his eyes back and turn his head. Pregnant women were not advised to climb into the oven, as this would cause the child to have a weak chest. Bees - an old game for children in the Kuban. They play like this: two become motionless, depicting a beehive, others, holding hands, huddle near them. One is called the mother. This player suddenly runs away. Children imitating bees run after him and, having caught them, buzz in his ears. At the end of a ball organized in Washington on the occasion of the swearing in of President Kennedy, 15000 guests were found to have carried away as souvenirs 10900 cups, 130 waiters' jackets, 600 napkins, 200 tablecloths, 6000 ashtrays, a 72-cup coffee pot, and countless teaspoons. Tale of the Bissau people. Going to a wedding with a girl as beautiful as a snake, the goat remembered that he had forgotten his pipe at home. Deciding to return, he met a leopard and a hyena who wanted to eat him. He ran away from them, and got home to a man. Since then, the goat has been living in the village and is so afraid of the hyena and the leopard that he does not dare to run to his house for a pipe. In tropical forests, where there is no change of seasons, trees do not have annual rings. Dagestan men had a game Guess. Everyone in the room was counted. The tenth was to come to the center, lie down on the floor and raise his leg, closing his eyes. Someone was hitting him on the leg with a stick, and the one lying down, opening his eyes, had to guess who was beating him. In Buckingham (England), the mayor and the city councilor were weighed before entering the service and at the end of it. Weight loss was considered a sign of hard work for the benefit of the people. The name of the Swiss mountain Jungfrau is translated as a girl, the African mountain Rwenzori is the king of the clouds, and the Mexican Popokatepel is the mountain of the one who smokes. In the early days of the existence of the Nikolaev railway, the mail was especially vigilantly guarded along the entire route. To this end, mail trains were sent under the escort of mounted gendarmes, galloping at full speed along the railway. September 4, 1975 premiered the program What? Where? When? On August 24, 2001 at 14:10 in the Gagarinsky Intermunicipal Court, a court hearing was held on the claim of N.I. Stetsenko against Vladimir Belkin and Elena Orlova. The plaintiff's representative, A. Kozlov, accused the defendants of borrowing the original script for the ChGK television game, reworking it, taking it outside the Russian Federation, and staging it in Donetsk during the CIS Championship. For this, the plaintiff intends to receive XNUMX million rubles from the defendants. Only this can compensate for the moral damage caused to her. In the Indian state of Assam, moustachioed police officers earn better than moustacheless ones. This is not an accident, but the result of a deliberate effort by the leadership of the police authorities, which in this way is trying to make law enforcement officers look more courageous, according to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph. The name of the worker of one of the Cuban tobacco factories, Jose Castelar Cairo, is included in the Guinness Book of Records: he managed to create a cigar 11 meters 40 centimeters long and 120 millimeters in diameter. The product of H. Castelara Cairo is exhibited in the museum of the Cuban capital and is not subject to sale, although some foreign tourists offer a lot of money for a cigar. Interfax (interfax.ru) The lady depicted in the picture has nothing to do with the real Luisa del Gioconda. The mistake was made by George Vasari when he compiled an encyclopedic work on the masters of the Renaissance. Note that the woman is depicted in mourning attire. And 25-year-old Lisa (that's how much she was when Leonardo painted the famous painting at the age of 61) there was no one to mourn for. She was happily married to the wealthy Florentine magnate Francesco del Gioconde. Yes, and her other portraits differ from the image of da Vinci, who was an excellent draftsman and meticulous documentary filmmaker. prospekt.souz.sebastopol.ua/ rio-leonardo.htm Plato is credited with the invention of the alarm clock: he marked the beginning of the day with a whistle. teo.newmail.ru/zap/zap21.html Emperor Pavel Petrovich made it into the Russian state emblem. The emperor began to favor his emblem instead of the Order of St. George. This emblem became the decoration of palace halls, banners, standards and helmets. This is a Maltese octagonal cross. In England, there is a legend that lilies of the valley grow on the spot where the fairy-tale hero Leonard defeated the dragon that tore him with claws and fangs. The ancient Germans were decorated with it on the spring holiday of Ostern. The ancient Indians called the Milky Way the way of the Pit, the Bulgarians called it the fibrous bridge, the Poles called it the way of St. Jacob. In the language of French typographers of the 18th century, bears are printers, and typesetters were called monkeys. Voltaire ended almost all letters to his friends with the phrase: Crush the reptile!, referring to the church. Previously, these were large barrels with a lid on top. Inside the barrel was a cross with blades that rotated with a lever. This is what the prototype of the washing machine looked like. It is easiest to intrigue a lady with the statement that you are a millionaire in Turkey. To own a million Turkish liras, you need only 24 rubles. GQ N5 September 2001 The largest dwelling belongs to the Sultan of Brunei: in his house there are 1788 chambers, 257 bathrooms and a dining room with 5000 seats. GQ N5 September 2001 In 1979, on Tokyo public transport, passengers left aquariums with goldfish seventeen times. GQ N5 September 2001 All sturgeon caught in British waters are legally the property of the Queen. GQ N5 September 2001 The largest number of mobile phone owners is recorded in China. Today, 120,6 million Chinese use mobile phones. Thus, China overtook the United States, where 120,1 million people use cellular communications. The most unusual church opened in Vermont, USA. Artist Stefan Hanek built a church for dogs as a token of his gratitude to his five dogs, which helped him recover from a serious illness three years ago. At the entrance to the temple hangs a sign: All religions, all breeds, and no dogmas. More than 15 four-legged parishioners attended the first service. In the building of the church, lined with white stone, the pews and windows are decorated with images of black Labradors with a halo over their heads. The construction of the dog temple took 140 thousand dollars. Komersant - Client N 31 American skydiver Cheryl Stearns holds the record for the number of jumps: she managed to take off and land 352 times in a day! In April 2002, she plans to set another record - to jump from a height of 40 km. Every year, mankind eats 5 million tons of mushrooms. Of these, only 600 thousand tons are collected in forests. The rest are grown artificially.
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