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Running a forty-two-kilometer distance, a marathon runner burns as many calories as an ordinary person needs for 2 days. The amount of sweat produced is equivalent to 16 cans of Coca-Cola. By the finish line, the athlete's height decreases by 1 cm. My name is Bond. James Bond. In the FIRST 17 Bond films, the most famous spy on the planet says this phrase exactly 30 times. He has bad luck with hotels: of the eleven he has stayed in, only two haven't been bugged or given any trouble at all. His opponents are usually interested in marine biology, they all had either giant aquariums or shark pools. And if we see a shark, then we know for sure that James will fight with her (this happens 8 times). He is generally lucky with animals: he fights with three snakes, two groups of crocodiles, a tarantula, a tiger and a leech. Men's health February 2002 160 km / h - the maximum speed of air leaving the lungs during a sneeze. Men's health February 2002 Feline high altitude syndrome was first described in 1976 by Dr. Gordon Robinson, veterinarian at the New York ASPCA Hospital. Every year about 150 owners brought fallen cats to him. The next significant step was taken 11 years later by two veterinarians, Drs. Wayne Whitney and Cheryl Melhuff of the Manhattan Animal Medical Center. during just one five-month summer-autumn period, a data set was collected on 132 cats who were tempted by the sight of open windows, fell from a height of at least 2 floors and ended up in their hospital. Most of the cats fell from a height of 4 or more floors, on average - from a height of 5,5 plus or minus 0,3 floors. The maximum height was 32 floors (the famous Sabrina). Most of the victims hit the concrete pavement. Veterinarians had to exclude from the analysis 17 cats who were euthanized at the request of the owners - most often not because of a serious condition, but because the owners, according to them, could not pay for the treatment. Of the remaining 115 cats, only three died upon arrival at the hospital and eight died within the next 8 hours. All 104 cats that survived the first day survived. Thus, recovery occurred in 90 percent of cases, which confirms the belief about the nine lives of a cat. Igor Strizhakov. Source: ZOOCLUB. WHY DOES A CAT HAVE NINE LIVES? (zooclub.ru/cats/psih/16.shtml) US Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the draping of nude statues located in the main hall of the Department of Justice. The reason for this was a photograph of the prosecutor against the background of a naked female breast. Since 1930, anyone entering the main hall of the US Department of Justice has been greeted by two aluminum statues by Carl Paul Genevein. The female figure in a toga that did not cover her chest, according to the sculptor's intention, symbolized the spirit of justice, the male figure in a loincloth - greatness. The painting of the Sistine Chapel displeased Pope Paul IV Caraffa. He ordered Michelangelo to write clothes for many nude figures, but he refused. A devoted student of the master - Daniele Valterra carried out the order, trying, however, not to damage the painting. Looking at the vault of the Sistine Chapel, the medical eye can catch in the Creation of Adam (one of the main scenes) - an undoubted similarity between the outlines of God the Father, breathing the soul into Adam - with the outline of the human brain. In the Creation of Adam, to the great amazement of the researchers, they really stated that a group of angels surrounding the figure of God creates a contour that is incredibly similar to the outlines of the human brain. For the first time, such a similarity was discovered by neurologist Frank Mezberger, who published his article in the authoritative Journal of the American Medical Association. Guido Mangano, Ernesto de Bernardis and Giovanni Scapagnini. Michelangelo's God-Brain (orc.ru/ ~meotida/rus/doc/article10 .htm) Masonic lodges in Russia were closed in 1822. Despite the ban, they continued to operate in a number of places. In 1826 the ban was repeated, but this did not stop the activities of Masons in Moscow and the provinces. The slang word baroque was used by Portuguese sailors to refer to defective pearls of irregular shape, but already in the middle of the 001th century. it appeared in colloquial Italian as a synonym for everything rude, clumsy, false. In the professional environment of French art workshops, baroqucr meant to soften, dissolve the contour, make the form softer, more picturesque. As an aesthetic assessment, this word began to be used in the XNUMXth century. Antique Center. Reference Information. BAROQUE (antiques.nm.ru/ sl-stil/b-XNUMX .htm) The pope is the head of the Vatican and is elected for life. He does not receive any payment, since he is the complete master of the Vatican treasury. It is now ruled by Pope Giovanni Paolo II. He was born in May 1920 in Krakow, Poland (to a military family). His real name is Karol Wojtyla and he was an archbishop in his homeland. After 455 years of almost uninterrupted rule by Italian popes (before that there was only one Spanish Pope, Adriano Florence - Adriano VI, who died in 1523), the Polish Pope comes to power. It happened on October 16, 1978. He received 99 out of 108 votes. After the proclamation of Wojtyla, the Polish embassy in Rome was closed for three days to receive further instructions. The Pope (ciaocacao.it/vat_papa.htm) Absinthe is one of the strongest alcoholic drinks (70% alcohol). Although it is believed that the word absinthe comes from the Latin word for wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), from which it is prepared, some researchers believe that this word actually comes from the Greek apsinthion, which means undrinkable (probably due to a very bitter taste). ). Absinthe contains a substance called thujone (alpha-thujone), which has a negative effect on the brain. This substance blocks receptors, which under normal conditions also play the role of blockers, although partially - they regulate the flow of ions passing through the brain cells, and thus prevent them from being excited for no reason. Blocking blockers disinhibits the cells, and they are excited. Absinthe can officially be tasted in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain and the UK; Absinthe is banned in other countries. On January 27, 1924, the leader of the proletarian revolution V.I. was buried on Red Square. Lenin. The first (temporary) wooden Mausoleum was built according to the project of the architect A.V. Shchusev in just three days. On the same day, the first guard of honor was placed at post No1, which existed until 1993. Baldwin Street in the New Zealand city of Dunedin is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest street in the world: its angle of inclination is 38 degrees. Leonide Zorych There are 19 sobering-up stations in Moscow. The two largest sobering-up stations in the capital, Dzerdzhinsky and Tagansky, are designed for 30 people. A night in a Moscow sobering-up station costs 100 rubles. There is no official specification for naming Salmonella. Everyone who discovered a new species (type, serovar) gave it a name at its own discretion, as a result of which the names of Salmonella have the most diverse origin. Many of the serovars received the name of a country (S. brasil, S. Canada, S. congo, S. texas), city (S. aberdeen, S. hamburg, S. moscow, S. dar-es-salaam) or city quarter ( S. amager, S. friedrichsfelde), in which they were isolated, or the street where the institute was located, where the strain (S. kuessel, S. sterrenbos) was identified. Some of the serovars are given the name of the street where the patient lived (S. irenea, S. union), the hospital where the strain was isolated (S. blegdam, S. blockley, S. virchow), or the name of the person who isolated or identified the serovar (S. arechavaeeta, S. morehead, S. saphra). Enterobacteria: A Guide for Physicians. Ed. IN AND. Pokrovsky. - M.: Medicine, 1985. Barq's Root beer contains caffeine. It has 12.78mg of caffeine per 170g. The manufacturer explains that they add it as a flavor component for a sharp bitterness. The darkest beer is Farson's Lacto Milk Stout (Malta) with 450 EBC (57+SRM). MJBCp188. In comparison, Guinness Draft is 130 EBC and Mackeson's is 225 EBC in the UK and 300 EBC for export varieties. Source: Fun facts about beer (scalpnet.tomsk.ru/ beer/other/facts .html) Your stomach produces a new layer of mucous every two weeks or it will digest itself. Everyone knows that English is a very poor language. It is especially hard for poets. It turns out that not a single word rhymes with the words: month (month), orange (orange, orange), silver (silver, silver), and purple (purple). Men commit suicide three times more than women. However, women attempt suicide three times more often than men. There were 22 Hitlers in the New York phone book before World War II... and not a single one since. The Norwegian Ministry of Defense has published an official announcement of the promotion to the rank of meritorious service to the homeland of Major Niels Olaf. There would be nothing unusual in this message, but the fact is that Major Olaf is not a man at all, but ... a penguin. In 1970 it was donated by the Norwegian Defense Ministry to the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. Being on a business trip abroad, the bird made a good military career, and now, after more than 30 years of impeccable service, the penguin has received another star for shoulder straps. And the Scots hosts arranged a rich feast of fresh fish for the newly minted lieutenant colonel. Russian newspaper, No1, 2002 Norwegian researchers suggest storing fresh fish not in the refrigerator, but in peat or sphagnum - the moss from which peat arises. The antibacterial substances of the moss allow the fish to be kept at room temperature without decomposing for up to 4 weeks. Science and Life, No11, 2001 The structure of the female brain is 15% denser than the male. That is, in those parts of the brain that control memory, planning and self-awareness, women contain 15% more cells than men. Versts No133, 2001 Gene therapy will soon make it possible to finally defeat hemophilia. American researchers from the University of Minnesota have successfully tested on mice a method of treating hemophilia type A, which affects one in five thousand men. They hope to test it on humans soon. Lenta.ru (lenta.ru/ health/ 2002/01/22/haemof/) In far from wealthy Pakistan, according to independent sources, up to 70 percent of the budget is spent on military needs. India spends the most on defense in South Asia. While several thousand people in both countries die every day from hunger and disease. Weekly magazine. Cashmir is expensive today (ej.ru/002/life/04cashmir/index.html) The British company JOPEJO has developed a special device that will warn a pregnant woman about the onset of labor within 48 hours. It is arranged like a traffic light - a green light will inform about the imminent appearance of the child. Weekly magazine (ej.ru/002/btw/science/02/index.html) The Swedish inventor Sven Gustafson suggested combining the gas and brake pedals so that the driver presses the entire surface of the pedal when braking, and only the lower part of the pedal when accelerating. Thus, the length of the braking distance (at a speed of 90 km / h) will decrease by five meters. Weekly magazine (ej.ru/002/btw/science/02/index.html) The inhabitants of Luxembourg speak a language close to German - letzemburgesh, but the culture of the country has always been closer to French. Television programs in the country are conducted in three languages. I know the world. Countries and peoples: Europe, AST, 1998 Monegasques are inhabitants of the Principality of Monaco. I know the world. Countries and peoples: Europe, AST, 1998 There are 78 names on the map of the Vatican. There is even a Sports Street - in fact, a path leading to the only sports facility in the state - a tennis court. I know the world. Countries and peoples: Europe, AST, 1998 In the first tower clock in Russia, installed in the Kremlin in 1404 by the monk Lazar Serbin, each of the weights weighed 110 kilograms, and 35 impressive bells served for the fight. Mobile reminder of the eternal. Twinkle, December 3, 2001 In perfumery, a certain variety of rose is used, which is called the centifolia rose (Rosa centifolia). Eugene Rimmel, Encyclopedia of Perfume, 1864 1802. They changed the military uniform. Pavlovsk caftans were replaced by a dark green tailcoat cut with a very high stand-up collar, narrow white pantaloons tucked into boots. For officers, shoulder straps were introduced, sheathed along the edge with gold galloon and a waist scarf with tassels. 1802. According to the states of the infantry regiments, a lieutenant colonel receives 558-690 rubles a year, a major - 434-530, a captain and staff captain - 340-400, a lieutenant - 237-285, a second lieutenant and ensign - 200-236 rubles a year. 1802. In October Moscow was hit by a light earthquake of two strikes, which lasted about twenty seconds, went from east to west and was stronger in some parts of the city than in others. It did not the slightest harm and left no traces, except that there were cracks in the wall of one cellar (in the City part), and in the other a hole in the ground, a arshin in circumference. The blows were more sensitive in tall buildings; Chandeliers swayed in almost all of them, tables and chairs in others. Many people. not believing their eyes, they imagined that they were dizzy. Most of the residents learned about the event only the next day. History experience. 1802 (generesis.boom.ru/a802.htm) The very first ever photograph is up for auction at Sotheby's in Paris: a boy leading a horse was snapped by the Frenchman Joseph Niepce in 1825. Now this grainy photographic plate is expected to fetch at least half a million pounds sterling. In addition, it allows you to lengthen the history of photography: it was previously believed that the first successful experience of light painting (Niepce himself called it heliography) dates back to 1826. Lenta.Ru (lenta.ru/ culture/ 2002/01/17/first_foto/) A businessman from India and China bought some of the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York to recycle the scrap and then make kitchen utensils from it. The entrepreneur who paid for the order in India wished to remain anonymous. He bought New York scrap metal for $120 a ton delivered. Once delivered, he plans to sell the shipment piece by piece to local companies that will melt the scrap into bars. This material will then be supplied to small and medium sized household goods manufacturers such as pots, pans, lids, bowls and cutlery. The conclusions of Professor Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: over the next 100 billion years, acceleration will expand the horizons of space so much that the number of visible galaxies will be reduced to about 1000, most of which will be in the constellation Virgo and the space surrounding it. As soon as the galaxies cross the horizon, their image will freeze. The light they emit will never reach us. This process is extremely similar to what happens when an object enters a black hole, when, approaching it at a sufficiently close distance, it becomes dimmer and, eventually, disappears from the field of view. proua.com/ ?do=rub&cat=news&subcat=&id=665 In one of the issues of the Moscow Provincial Gazette for 1848, one can read the following: The tradesman Nikifor Nikitin was exiled to the remote settlement of Baikonur for seditious speeches about flying to the moon. If No 11, 1999. Lithuanian peasant woman Maria Onushkene from the village of Yusyavichi, who came to the pasture on June 16, 1997 to water a cow, saw several hundred frogs surrounding her cow from all sides. When the woman tried to drive the greens into the nearby pond, the frogs not only were not afraid of her, but, on the contrary, began to attack her, even trying to get under her skirt. The situation was corrected by the police, who killed all the frogs. An examination of their remains showed that the frogs were drunk. According to the decision of the Lithuanian government, smuggled alcoholic beverages are subject to destruction. A few days before the events described, 22.000 bottles of alcoholic beverages were poured into the pond. anekdot.ru/story-98-display.html?from=843 Letter of Louis of Bavaria from 1328: A heavy fine awaits the one who catches the titmouse, a diligent insect catcher. The offender must pay the royal tribute of 60 shillings, as well as a beautiful red hen and 12 chickens, as compensation for the captured titmouse. On the tomb of Charles II it is written: Here lies the king, whose word no one believed and who never said stupid things and never did anything smart. Science and Life, 1966, No 9.
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