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The musical Nord-Ost, based on Veniamin Kaverin's novel Two Captains, which premiered recently at the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow, cost about $4 million. I would like all this not to be so reminiscent of amateur performances and that at least one of the musical numbers become a hit. Otherwise, it seems that all 4 million went to advertising. Money, 31.10.2001 After the recent terrorist attacks in the United States, the 80-year-old founder of a successful business enterprise - the school of Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, at a press conference in Washington, announced his project to raise $ 1 billion to support 40 flying yogis in armed conflicts. Flying, yogis will create a kind of field that will have a beneficial effect on solving all problems with global terrorism and will lead to world peace. Money, 31.10.2001 British professor Brian Fifield-Scheiler, who taught English at the Al-Taghr school in Jeddah in the late 60s, recalls his most diligent student named Osama bin Laden, who always answered the lesson accurately, was modest, even shy, distinguished by refined courtesy and showed little interest in matters of religion. Mond, 28.09.2001/XNUMX/XNUMX Plekhanov V., in response to Lenin's April theses, wrote an article in the newspaper Unity entitled On Lenin's theses and why nonsense is sometimes interesting. On July 3, 1924, noting the spread among young people of the foxtrot and other Western dances, a circular from Glavlit and the Main Committee for Controlling the Repertoire and Spectacles gave them the following assessment: Being the offspring of a Western European restaurant, these dances are aimed at the basest instincts. In their alleged stinginess and monotony of movements, they, in essence, are a salon imitation of sexual intercourse and all kinds of physiological perversions. In the working atmosphere of the Soviet Republic, which is rebuilding life and brushing aside the rotten philistine decadence, the dance should be different - cheerful, joyful, bright. In one of his reports, Lenin said: We have to hear a lot, especially for my position, sweet communist lies, lies, everyday life, and sickeningly from this it is sometimes deadly. In the article by Maxim Gorky From the enemies of society - to the heroes of labor there is the word Gotsliberdans. This word is made up of the names of the enemies of Soviet power: the Socialist-Revolutionary Gotz, the Bundist Lieber, and the Menshevik Dan. Nikolai Bukharin recalled that when Denikin was near Tula, the Bolsheviks were going to leave somewhere: Denikin was near Tula, we were packing our suitcases, there were already fake passports in our pockets, and I, a big lover of birds, was seriously going to Argentina to catch parrots. In Soviet Russia, the term CHSIR was widely known. It stands for Traitor Family Member. For the children of enemies of the people, Stalin created special orphanages, moreover, he introduced a law according to which it was possible to arrest and judge from the age of 12. Kirov wrote: The attitude towards us has changed not at all because we have changed. As we were bandits, we remained bandits: our firm decision - to rob all the exploiters of the working people - we carried out to the end. Korolenko writes in his diary on December 28, 1917: Poltava has been drinking for three days and destroying wine warehouses. They carry buckets, bottles, jugs of red wine. All ours, the soldiers shout. - Bourgeois drank enough. Now we. The carbamide, which is part of Dirol, is called urea in Russian. Denis Brilev In the Mariana Islands, an unfaithful wife is driven out of the house, her property is taken away, her lover is killed; and if a man is convicted of treason, all the women of the neighborhood attack him and torment him until he expires or becomes a cripple. Komsomolskaya Pravda, 7.03.2000/XNUMX/XNUMX The queen bee is able to lay 1500 eggs per day and about 250 for the entire season. All about everything, vol. 2, M., AST, 1995 The average cost of rescuing and rehabilitating one seal after the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska was about $80,000. When the last two, especially costly animals, were released into the sea, it was decided to hold a special ceremony to the joyful applause of the assembled spectators. A few seconds later, in full view of everyone, a huge orca that came from nowhere ate both heroes of the occasion. Two animal rights activists demonstrated against the cruelty to pigs, in particular against sending them to slaughter, breaking the fence of a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, a herd of pigs, numbering two thousand, rushed into the gap in the fence, trampling both demonstrators to death. A cappuccino is an Esspresso with milk foam on top. To get a cappuccino, you first need to get an Esspresso. Russia's population decreased by 4,9 million people. From January 1992 to September 1999, it fell from 148,3 million to 145,8 million. The birth rate dropped from 2,1 million children in 1989 to 1,3 million in 1998. UN experts believe that in 50 years the population of the Russian Federation will be reduced to 115 million people. According to these forecasts, only 50-55 million inhabitants may remain in Russia by the end of the next century. The idea of a kitchen factory was wonderfully promoted by Yuri Olesha in the novel Envy, a hymn to constructivism, written in 1927: It will be a giant house, the greatest dining room, the greatest kitchen. If you want it will be the industrialization of kitchens. The largest factory-kitchen in Leningrad was located opposite the Narvskaya metro station, in the constructivist building of the Kirov department store (1929-1931), charming in its wretchedness. Up to 15000 servings of food were produced there a day - the Kirov workers did not starve, their wives could no longer stand at the stove for days, but boldly go to work at the factory. In 1854, during the Crimean War, an Anglo-French squadron approached the walls of the Solovetsky Monastery, which bombarded it from all guns for nine hours, firing more than 2 thousand cores. Not a single person was even injured. Only the icon of the Mother of God was seriously damaged... D. Nerzhannikov, Oddities of the Solovetsky Archipelago, Aktivist, No7-8, 2001 Only in two regions of France that produce strong alcoholic beverages, producers can boast of a quality certificate. Cognac received its own in 1905. The second belongs to Armagnac (it is produced south of Bordeaux). Mikko Montonen. Cognac. Activist, No7-8, 2001 One vine produces one bottle of wine per year. Mikko Montonen. Cognac. Activist, No7-8, 2001 The tie was brought to Russia by Peter the Great from Germany (translated from German hals - neck, tuch - handkerchief). They tied everyone up, Career, November, 2001 Here are some interesting meanings of words given in the dictionary of V.I.Dal: Sabbath - rest, end of work, free time from business, time to rest. Morning, evening sabbath. Work for one sabbath, more in winter, all daylight hours. Give the coven, fired from work. OBABIT - marry, marry; make a woman, trashy, lethargic, cowardly, whiny, talking about a man; - to charm a girl, to make a woman, to marry; remove the girl's beauty (ribbon), talking about the girl. PLUMP - lift the skin, wrap. Bury the birch. Screw up the floors. They also said - Crack in all the shoulder blades, start running. WIDE - a cloth, a piece of solid fabric, in its entire width, a towel; sometimes instead of a handkerchief. They said: The bride gives as gifts the fly of her work, sewn or with lace. Fly and girdled, instead of a sash; embroidered fly give in the butt, hanging them with a tent on the image. The fly is trimmed with pearls. Evgenia Kupreichik Seminarians begin to master church practice during their studies. The service begins with the rank of subdeacon - the lowest in the church hierarchy (a subdeacon is called to help the bishop during divine services). Then you have to decide which ministry to choose - white (married) or black (monasticism). The highest position for the white clergy is the rector of a temple or cathedral. The highest title is archpriest. Career, November, 2001 On November 1, 1851, the official opening of traffic on the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway took place. At 11:15 a.m., a passenger train departed from St. Petersburg and arrived in Moscow the next day at 9:21 a.m., having been on the road for 45:19 hours. A trip on a passenger train in a first-class carriage cost 13 rubles, in a second-class carriage - 7 rubles, in a third-class carriage - 48 rubles, in a freight train that was on the way for 3 hours - 19 rubles. For comparison: the daily wage of a digger on the construction of the road was 35 and a half kopecks per day, or XNUMX rubles for six months ... Admiral Nelson's orders during the Battle of Trafalgar were sold at the Bonhams auction in London for £41000. Days.ru (dni.ru/) As researchers from the University of Warwick (Great Britain) have established, the development of technology leads to an increase in the role of the thumb on the human hand compared to the rest. Indeed, over the past ten years, people have begun to use mobile phones and remote controls in everyday life, the buttons on which they prefer to press with their thumbs. Results, 6.11.2001 Early in her career, when things were going really badly, Marilyn Monroe posed nude for a series of calendars. This job was paid $50 an hour. But after a while, a scandal erupted when someone saw the similarity between the girl from the calendar and the famous actress. And already in December 1953, Hugh Hefner bought a picture from this calendar for $ 500, he decorated the first issue of his new magazine for men, Playboy, with it. Monroe occupied the dressing room at the studio, which once belonged to Marlene Dietrich. marilyn-monro.chat.ru/10.htm In Slovakia, until recently, it was believed that a woman who kicked a beggar out of the house would give birth to twins, and the birth of twins was perceived as a shame. Russian physiognomy believes that whoever has big eyes and crawled out of their sockets is envious and lazy, whose eyes seem to be cut through by a sedge - that deceiver. And the one who has dots near his eyes is secretive and knows a lot. In 1474, a trial took place in Basel over a rooster, which was accused of laying an egg. The rooster was sentenced to death and beheaded. Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children. Under Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, smokers' noses were cut off. The word jungle (Dschungel) in German can be used in both masculine and feminine and neuter genders. A camel can go without water for two weeks. During this time, he loses up to 50% of his weight, but then he can drink 140 liters of water in 10 minutes. A tarantula can live without food for 2,5 years. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its own body. The length of a newborn kangaroo is 2,5 cm, and an adult - up to 2,5 m! An albatross can soar over the ocean for 6 days without making a single flap of its wings. An ant weighing only 0 g can carry a caterpillar 0035 times its own weight and 5 times its length. If a person had the same comparative strength, then on average he could carry an object weighing about 15 kg and about 370 m long! The strongest poison is emitted by a small toad in the jungles of Colombia. The poison of one toad can kill 8 jaguars. The Indians do not know the antidote. Izot Litenetsky claimed that the goose cry Ga-ha-ha! has a very definite meaning: Hurry up, hurry up! And the longer Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! means: There is something to profit from here, we will linger here. Erich Bäumer established that all birds belonging to the chicken family use one language, consisting of 30 sounds that express a certain mood or desire, for example: I want to eat, Leave me alone, etc. Professor Wenzel proves that animals are able to distinguish individual letters and syllables. The speech of a goat consists of the following letters and syllables: E, K, M, R, Mek, Mayor. The sound composition of the horse language is poorer: X, I, Hee, Hee. And the goose is richer: A, I, H, C, T, Aa, Si, Snat. In a cow: A, M, O, U, E, Ua, Mu, Oe. Cat speech is rich: A, B, C, F, X, I, M, N, O, R, C, U, C, Miau, Fiau, Ss, Br, Mr, Ba, Oau, Ya. Dog speech: A, B, F, X, I, K, N, R, U, Paf, Leaf, Baf, Bau, Knur and Au. Piercan de Gembloux singled out several words of the South American clawed monkeys: Ghriii, Genokaki, Iruahkhi, Iruah-gyo, Krrreooo, Keh, Quick, Okoko, Wick, Kih, Kueei, etc. A unique museum has opened in the village of Meranges, in the Catalan province of Gerona. It is the only one in Europe dedicated to the wooden shoe. This museum tells about the history of the appearance of unusual shoes, the process of their production. It presents various examples of shoes made from special species of black pine that grows in this region. It is not by chance that the museum appeared in Meranges. It is this village, lost in the Pyrenees, which now has a population of only sixty, until the 1950s was the center of production of these original products. archive.kultura-portal.ru/archive/2000/15/rub11/7.asp The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine held a review of the commanders of the military units of the garrison of the city of Nikolaev two days before the crash of the Russian Tu-154. Senior officers were ordered to take off their shoes and socks, after which the deputy minister personally, accompanied by the head of the garrison, arranged an inspection of the length of nails and the quality of foot washing. The piquancy of the situation is given by the fact that this action took place in the dark, and the inspection was carried out by the light of a flashlight. Donetsk Ridge, No420, November 8-14, 2001 Boyarin Nikita Moiseevich Zotov was renamed by Peter I into Leagnus Naklevangi. The Romans called the elephant the Lucanian bull. More than 150 years ago, in Germany, the expression of a frebelian gardener appeared, and we say a kindergarten teacher. Friedrich Febel is a German teacher who considered the world to be one, developing according to the laws that govern the growth of a flower, the growth and development of a child. Therefore, he compared children with flowers, seeds, and the work of an educator with the work of a gardener. All of North Africa, except for Egypt, the ancient historian Herodotus called Libya. Blondin Jean Francois was nicknamed the hero of Niagara, because being an acrobat, he amazed his contemporaries by repeatedly crossing Niagara on a tightrope, including in a thick bag, with a burden, on a dark night. Previously, in Ukraine, midwives were put a stick in the coffin and tied a scarf with poppies to their belts. In the next world, they say, they are attacked by children because they helped them to be born for the sorrows of earthly life. The poppy was laid so that if she did not have time to fight off the children with a stick, she would scatter the poppy, the children would rush to pick up the poppy, and the grandmother would have time to move away from them. In Egypt, during the celebration of the pharaoh's thirtieth birthday, an oxtail was tied to his clothes. The oldest Internet user is Englishwoman Janet Thorpe. Recently, a 107-year-old resident of South Yorkshire began attending computer courses where she quickly learns the basics of working on the network. The most restless groom is 70-year-old Egyptian Mustafa Eid Samida. In total, he survived 203 weddings and exactly the same number of divorces. The first time Mustafa married at the age of 15, his longest marriage lasted 10 years, the shortest less than a day. Mustafa himself explains this inconstancy by the search for the ideal woman. The Ministry of Railways plans to start selling railway tickets at post offices and open an additional 350 ticket offices. A real revolution in the production of smoking pipes occurred after the first pipe was made from heather root (first half of the XNUMXth century). Heather root (Erica Arborea) is also called briar. It has a lot of silicon, so it is very strong and resistant to high temperatures and at the same time quite porous. Tobacco seeds are like the smallest dust: there are at least a thousand of them in one gram. The most common tobacco variety in the world is Virginia, today more than half of all tobacco products in the world are made from it. According to legend, with the help of a three-leaf clover, or shamrock (shamrok), St. Patrick explained to people the essence of one of the main Christian dogmas - the Holy Trinity: Just as three leaves of a clover can grow from one stem, so God can be one in three persons. At one of the latest Oktoberfest beer festivals, savvy Munichers saved 3 million liters of water by using leftover water from washing beer mugs in urinals. The popular MP3 audio recording format owes its name to the American concern Motion Picture Expert Group, abbreviated as MPEG. It was this company that was the first to develop new formats for compressing audio and video recordings. The first MPEG-1 format was created in 1993. From 1410 to the present day, Moscow has experienced more than 40 powerful hurricanes, the last of which swept through the city in 1998.
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