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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.
In the XNUMXth century, military life in Egypt was so difficult that many Egyptians of military age blinded themselves in one eye to avoid military service. Then Mohamed Ali, the ruler of Egypt, recruited two infantry regiments exclusively from one-eyed soldiers. A candidate for the leadership of one of the tribes in Brazil himself determines the day of his own death. The elders of the tribe lead him to the seashore, blindfold him, after which he must take a handful of coarse sea pebbles with one hand. The number of pebbles a person can capture is how much a person will have to reign. When the time comes to an end, the servants present their leader with a cup of poison. At the moment of burial of the remains of the former leader, the elders lead the new candidate to the sea. According to the International GSM Association, the number of short messages (SMS) transmitted over networks of this standard monthly has now reached 13 billion. Just two years ago, their number was 1 billion per month, and by the end of this year, according to Reuters analysts, 25 billion SMS messages will be sent worldwide every month. 1658 - In the Census Book of the Business Treasury of Patriarch Nikon of 1658, the word abacus is found; abacuses were already made for sale in Russia. The Zimbabwean government has launched a program to combat the spread of the AIDS epidemic. The first point of the new program was the ban on touching a woman’s arm above the wrist, which is now equivalent in this African country to attempted rape. As the authorities explain their decision, preserving virginity and marital fidelity for men and women is the only way to save the health of the nation, since the AIDS virus has currently affected one quarter of the entire adult population of the country. MIGnews Jet News (mignews.com/news/health/world/aids2712.html) On average, Muscovites consume more food than the average Russian. Thus, annually, on average, each Muscovite consumes 66 kilograms of meat and meat products, and the average Russian consumes only 45 kilograms. However, this relatively high figure is still 30 percent lower than what experts recommend. Lenta.ru (lenta.ru/economy/2001/12/27/percapita/) The national emblem of Japan is an image of a chrysanthemum flower with 16 petals. The chrysanthemum flower is the national flower of the Japanese, and on the coat of arms it symbolizes the rising sun. According to Japanese beliefs, the number 16, equal to the number of petals on a chrysanthemum flower, has a magical meaning. Library on COUNTRIES.ru (Japan) (countries.ru/ library/japspr .html) Canadian scientists, who examined 13 people over the course of 8000 years, found that the mortality rate among people with very weak abdominal muscles is more than two times higher compared to those who have developed abdominal muscles. Men's Health, January 2002 The writer O. Henry became famous precisely because of Christmas. Then he bore the name William Sidney Porter, or rather, he did not have a name then, but had the number 34 627 and was a prisoner in one of the American prisons. He still had a daughter at large, to whom he really wanted to give something for Christmas. Naturally, the prisoner had no money, and he decided to try his luck. He wrote a story and sent it to one of the magazines. And the Miracle did not take long to arrive - the story was published in the Christmas issue, and the person who wrote it and signed O. Henry (this is the first name that came to his mind) received a fee, and subsequently fame. Well, the little daughter, of course, was not left without a gift that Christmas. In Great Britain, Christmas cake is a table decoration. According to an old recipe, it should be filled with the following items that supposedly predict fate for the coming year: a ring - for a wedding, a coin - for wealth, a small horseshoe - for good luck. christmas.ru/ info_christm .htm In Ancient Rus' there was a whole system of considerations, based mainly on what day the feast of the Nativity of Christ falls. If the Nativity of Christ happens in a week, winter will be dissolved, spring will be wet, summer will be dry, autumn will be windy, joy will howl, fruit will be abundant, four-legged animals will be plentiful, honey will be plentiful - destruction will befall the young. An old Russian superstition: if people sew on Christmas Day, a mole rat will be born in the house. In Bulgaria, this is an indispensable part of the ritual meal on the eve of Christmas. Part of this is saved for a year after the meal. In case of a sore throat, they rub the sore spot. We are talking about nuts. The most important accessory of the Russian table on Christmas Eve was kutia and vzvar. And the table on which the food is located was covered with hay or straw. They resemble the manger in which the Savior was laid. In the old days they said about pigs: They were ordered to be eaten at Christmas, as a punishment! She didn’t let the Baby sleep, she kept grunting. That's why it's called a pig! He wanted to stroke her, but she pricked his hands with the bristles! According to Russian beliefs, you should not drink during Christmas dinner. If a person does not drink, then he will not want water in the field or in the forest when there is nowhere to get water. In England they believe that bees sing in their hives on Christmas Eve. In Scotland, the last handful of bread harvested in the summer is saved and distributed on Christmas morning to horses and cows to protect them from illness for the year. Spanish inventors Eduardo Segura and Andris Diaz decided three years ago that their dogs deserve the same comfort as people who have the opportunity to splash around in a jacuzzi, take a shower or go to a sauna. Using this principle, Segura and Diaz came up with a washing machine that washes, rinses and dries pets (dogs and cats) in less than thirty minutes. The inventors created the company Lavakan, which translates as dog wash. The car has the same name. Spanish inventors developed a beast washer (membrana.ru/ articles/inventions/ 2001/12/17/020500 .html) Vice President of AOL Time Warner Ted Turner, the largest bison breeder in America, collected 14/1 of the entire American bison population on his 10 ranches, according to various estimates from 17 to 30 animals. The heyday of Kuznetsky Most as a center for trade in foreign goods, however, was the twenties. In 1821, the panorama of Paris was a huge success here, delighting Muscovites and attracting so many visitors that entrepreneurs collected 2 thousand a week. In the first half of the last century, on the Kuznetsky Bridge in the morning hours one could observe the most extraordinary sight: a line of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen sweeping the street under the supervision of the police. These street sweepers were forced to violate police rules and were required to sweep the streets as a punitive measure. To make the punishment more sensitive, the police forced fashionistas to take revenge on Moscow fashion street. Around the high-society janitors, their gentlemen usually hung around with sweets and flowers. Old Moscow. KUZNETSKY BRIDGE (telegraph.ru/ misc/moskow/msk38.htm) All insignia of the Order of Victory awarded to Soviet military leaders, as well as the insignia of the order awarded to Marshal Rolya-Zhimierski (commander-in-chief of the Polish Army on the territory of the USSR), are in the Diamond Fund of Russia. Eisenhower's award is on display at his memorial museum in Abilene, Kansas. Marshal Tito's award is on display at the museum on May 25 in Belgrade. Field Marshal Montgomery's award is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London. Only one Order of Victory, which previously belonged to King Michael I, is in a private collection. According to some reports, it was sold at auction by one of the relatives of dictator Ceausescu. Order of Victory (mondvor.iptelecom.net.ua/OPobeda.html) The first award of the honorary title Mother Heroine was made by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 27, 1944. Among the fourteen women awarded the title of Mother Heroine by this Decree, the Order of Mother Heroine No. 1 was awarded to Anna Savelyevna Aleksakhina, a resident of the village of Mamontovka, Moscow Region, who raised 12 children. During the war, eight of her sons went to the front, four of them died. Order No. 1 was awarded to her in the Kremlin on November 1, 1944. According to some unverified data, they wanted to give the first number of the Mother Heroine Order to a communist woman. However, no members of the CPSU were found among the candidates for the high rank. I had to present Order No. 1 to the non-party Aleksakhina. She lived in some kind of barracks. When the authorities came from Moscow to meet with the mother of many children, the day before furniture was delivered from the district committee to her barracks. After the commission left, the furniture was taken back to the district committee. In total, about 500.000 women were awarded the Order of Mother Heroine. Order of Mother Heroine (mondvor.iptelecom.net.ua/ HMother .html) The official title of the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II:
Any of us knows very well that one snowflake is practically weightless: it is enough to place your palm under the falling snowball. Indeed, an ordinary snowflake weighs about a milligram (very rarely you come across individuals weighing 2-3 milligrams). But billions of weightless snowflakes can even affect the speed of the Earth's rotation. In August alone, during the period of least snow on the Earth, when 8,7% of the entire surface of the planet is covered with snow, the snow cover weighs 7400 billion tons. And by the end of winter in the northern hemisphere, the mass of seasonal snow reaches 13.500 billion tons. But snow affects the Earth not only by its weight. Snow cover reflects almost 90% of the sun's radiant energy into space. Snow-free land reflects only 10, maximum 20%. A blanket of snow on an entire Earth scale significantly contributes to the cooling of the planet, as it isolates vast areas from the sun's rays for a long time.
From 1971 to 1989, Experts investigated 22 cases:
Two American fans of the epic Star Wars lined up at the cinema box office four and a half months before the release of the second part of the film and set up a tent camp. In order not to miss the moment, the heroes set up tents at the Cinerama Film Center in Seattle, Washington. Thus, Jeff Twiten and John Gyu plan to set a world record for the longest standing in line. World premiere of Star Wars. Episode 2: Attack of the Clones will take place on May 16, 2002. nochi.ru / In line for Star Wars (nochi.ru/ news/kino/ 2002/1/4/ 219 .html) The world's first mass-produced household robot vacuum cleaner, Trilobite, cleans your home independently and charges its batteries. It took the Swedes from Electrolux exactly 100 years to turn the world's first vacuum cleaner into an autonomous robot. The robot vacuum cleaner navigates in space just like a bat - using ultrasound: an acoustic locator covered with a thin gold plate with a large number of microphones picks up vibrations at a frequency of 60 thousand Hz, and the semicircular shape gives the robot a viewing angle of 180 degrees.
Kalashnikov assault rifles and machine guns are in service in 55 countries around the world. Moreover, the Kalashnikov assault rifle itself is depicted in the national emblems of 6 powers. Currently, 70 million units of these weapons have been produced. How much money do they receive in the Latvian Army? general - 270-340 lats, colonel - 240-260, lieutenant-colonel - 202-230, captain - 168-181, lieutenant - 153-163, warrant officer - 153-210, art. sergeant - 140-165, corporal - 126, soldier - 110 (1 lat is approximately equal to 40 rubles) You may be surprised, but quite recently the Russian IRP (individual food ration) was recognized as the best dry soldier ration in the world at an exhibition in Switzerland. It cost 152 rubles. The course for a young soldier in the US Army lasts thirteen weeks. During this time, the soldier is prohibited from smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages, as well as reading newspapers, listening to the radio and watching TV, so as not to be distracted from combat and physical training. In the Israeli army, the minimum soldier's salary exceeds 500 shekels per month (more than $125), married conscript soldiers receive 3000 shekels monthly, and a starting warrant officer - a long-term conscript - 5 thousand. Of course, all military personnel are on full government pay and are guaranteed free travel to anywhere in the country. In Germany, home garden owners who grow strawberries periodically, as the berries ripen, display a basket of fresh strawberries in a prominent place. This is done to prevent this berry from being trampled by vitamin lovers.
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