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If you pick up a pack of Canadian cigarettes, you will immediately want to quit smoking. In the fight against smoking, Canada is ahead of the rest. For several years now, exactly half of the area of cigarette packages has been decorated with pictures borrowed from the life of smokers: the lungs of a cancer patient, brains mutilated by a stroke, a heart affected by a heart attack. On some Canadian cigarettes, you can see the following warning: Each year, as many people die from smoking as live in one small town. And in support of this, the following chart is given: 510 people die from murder in Canada every year, 1.9 thousand from alcohol, 2.9 thousand from car accidents, 3.9 thousand from suicide, and 45 thousand from smoking.

The authorities of the German city of Lohr claim that this particular settlement is the historical homeland of the famous Snow White, about whom the Grimm brothers wrote a fairy tale. And Snow White herself was a real woman who lived in the XNUMXth century.

Scientists from the Bavarian town of Lohr seriously believe that Maria Sophia von Erthal, born in 1729, is the prototype of Snow White. According to surviving documents, Maria was the daughter of a landowner, and she lived in the family castle, which is now the Snow White Museum. And the prototypes of the gnomes were mine workers who mined copper and silver in the nearby town of Bieber. The miners of those times often wore brightly colored hats that protected them from falling rocks. The Times

A liter of vodka at 40 degrees. should weigh not 1 kg, but exactly 953 grams. Provided that the weight of a liter of water at 15 degrees. C is equal to exactly 1000 g, and the weight of a liter is 100 deg. alcohol - 795 g.

Melanie Griffith's mother is the Hitchcock blonde Tippi Hedren, who played in the films The Birds and Marnie.

The first emblem of the city of St. Petersburg appeared in 1712 on the red banners of the St. Petersburg regiments. According to the drawing and description given in the book by A.V. Viskovatova Historical description of clothing and weapons of the Russian troops (St. Petersburg, 1841), it was a golden flaming heart, under a golden crown and a silver princely mantle and under them two palm branches. At the end of the twenties of the XVIII century, a new coat of arms of St. Petersburg was drawn up - a scepter and two crossed anchors. Herald master Francis Santi, invited to this position by Peter I, is considered its creator. The scepter indicated that the city was the capital of the Russian Empire, and the anchors characterized it as a sea and river port. Coats of arms of cities of the Russian Federation (heraldry.hobby.ru/)

The meaning of the emblem of the coat of arms of the city of Shlisselburg - the key over the fortress - is associated with its name: Shlisselburg in German means the key-city. This name was given to the city by Peter I immediately after its capture by Russian troops on October 11, 1702. Prior to that, since 1611, it was called Noteburg - a nut-city, from the ancient Russian name of this fortress, founded in 1323 - Oreshek. Such a coat of arms first appeared near the city in 1730. Prior to that, since 1712, Shlisselburg had a different emblem - a column decorated with anchors and crowned with the prows of ships - rostra (rostral column). Coats of arms of cities of the Russian Federation (heraldry.hobby.ru/)

Real names of Russian pop stars.

Aziza - Aziza Mukhamedova

Irina Allegrova - Inessa Klimuk

Alsou - Alsu Safina

Anastasia - Anastasia Mintskovskaya

Anka - Natalia Stupishina

Alena Apina - Elena Lyovochkina

Nadezhda Babkina - Nadezhda Zasedateleva

Valeria - Alla Perfilova

Anzhelika Varum - Maria Varum

Andrey Gubin - Andrey Klementiev

Mr. Daduda - Igor Kezlya

Diana - Irina Tereshina

Lada Dance - Lada Volkova

Larisa Dolina - Larisa Myachinskaya

Mikhail Zvezdinsky - Mikhail Deinekin

Chris Kelmi - Anatoly Kalinkin

Evgeny Kemerovsky - Evgeny Yakovlev

Kostya Kinchev - Konstantin Panfilov

Natasha Koroleva - Natalia Poryvay

Sergey Lemokh - Sergey Ogurtsov

Lev Leshchenko - Lev Leshchev

Linda - Svetlana Geiman

Alexander Malinin - Alexander Vyguzov

Stas Namin - Anastas Mikoyan

Natalie - Natalia Rudina

Nika - Irina Malgina

Organic Lady - Svetlana Kushnir

Andrey Razin - Vadim Krivorotov

Masha Rasputina - Alla Ageeva

Sofia Rotaru - Sofia Rotar

Vlad Stashevsky - Vyacheslav Tverdokhlebov

Ksyusha Strizh - Ksenia Volintseva

Bogdan Titomir - Oleg Titorenko

Nikolay Trubach - Nikolay Kharkovets

Vika Tsyganova - Victoria Zhukova

Victor Chaika - Victor Segal

Yura Shatunov - Yury Shatko

Shura - Alexander Medvedev

Julian - Julian Vasin

TV-EYE, No. 47, November 2001

The British Ministry of Health officially states: if a healthy man in his prime drinks a glass of red wine every day, the risk of cardiovascular disease is reduced by 30-70%. The amount of alcohol recommended by British doctors is 21 units per week. A pint (0,57 liter) of dark beer is 2 units - so count it. However, the more you drink, the more your body demands, as it over-produces enzymes to process the increased amount of alcohol, a vicious cycle ensues. Men's Fitness February 2002

Of the entire order of animals, birds have the most complex vision, and their visual analyzer is two orders of magnitude sharper than ours, the human one. So, for example, the eyes of eagles, condors and vultures, looking out for prey on the surface of the earth from a great flight altitude, have an amazing morphophysiological structure of the retina. They have a common field of view, like a person, which displays reality on a scale of 1: 1, but in the central beam of the field of view, everything perceived is increased by 2,5 times, i.e. the optical system of the eyes of feathered predators is double! An eagle from a height of flight sees the smallest details on the ground, like a telephoto camera lens.

Scientists have found that all birds, without exception, have well-developed color vision due to the presence of living bubble lenses in the retina. These droplets of transparent fat work as magnifying lenses. So, for example, in sea tern gulls, fatty lenses in the eyes are filled with red pigment. It turned out that the red light filters are an anti-fog device. This species of gulls is perfectly oriented in haze and fog; they have, as it were, an infrared thermal imager that helps to search for food. .A.Andreev, L.N.Khromov Learn to be Attentive (magazine.km.ru)

Using paper napkins in a restaurant to decorate a table is bad manners: they must be linen. Usually made from pure cotton or linen. Mixed materials with artificial fibers are also used. However, professional waiters prefer white cotton napkins because they look smart and hold their shape well.

As for the sizes, there are certain standards. They exist mainly for square napkins, since the others - triangular and rectangular - are used less frequently.

If breakfast or tea is planned in the restaurant, then there should be napkins with a side of 32 centimeters on the table. When it comes to dinner, they can be large - 40-60 centimeters. European restaurateurs like to fold complex shapes from white square cotton napkins with a side of 50 centimeters. In domestic restaurants with a long history, white samples of Soviet production with a side of 46 centimeters and an openwork edge or 35x50 centimeters (colored) are in use. Retail store equipment. We set the table according to all the rules (torg.spb.ru/ 2002/arch02/nakriv.htm)

Utah is a Mormon state. The official name of the Mormon church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Men's Fitness February 2002

Types of phobias from 400 to 500. Conventionally, they can be divided into Nosophobia, Spatial phobias, Social phobias, Others. Here are some of them:

Nosophobia (obsessive fear of disease with severe consequences):

Cardiophobia - fear of heart disease;

Carcinophobia - fear of cancer;

AIDS phobia - fear of getting AIDS;

Lyssophobia is the fear of contracting rabies.

Spatial:

Claustrophobia - fear of closed spaces;

Agoraphobia - fear of open spaces;

Kenophobia - fear of empty spaces;

Gefirophobia - fear of walking on a bridge;

Amaxophobia is the fear of wheeled vehicles.

Social phobias:

Lalophobia - fear of public speaking;

Anthropophobia - fear of communicating with people;

Gynecophobia - fear of communicating with women;

Ereitophobia - fear of blushing;

Sitophobia - fear of choking;

Mixephobia is the fear of failing in intimacy.

Other:

Arachnophobia - fear of spiders;

Ailorophobia - fear of cats;

Ophidiophobia - fear of snakes;

Taphophobia is the fear of being buried alive.

In general, phobias are a kind of psychological phenomenon of obsession. Obsessions are otherwise called obsessions. Phobias differ from all other varieties of obsessions (for example, endless double-checks: whether the gas is turned off, whether the doors of the house are closed) by the fear of a special power and the impossibility of overcoming it on one's own. At the same time, a person is clearly aware of the absurdity of his fear and is critical of it himself. Therefore, some people try their best to hide it. Source: newspaper Trud-7, No. 27 (23985) dated February 14.02.2002, XNUMX.

Founded in 1884 by Karl Elzenr, Victorinox has been the official supplier of knives to the Swiss Army since 1891. Men's Fitness February 2002

The famous French agronomist Antoine Parmentier, being a prisoner in Germany, ate potatoes. Returning to his homeland, he set out to introduce it in the French fields. However, for a long time he could not convince anyone - compatriots did not recognize potatoes. Then Parmentier went to the trick. In 1787, he obtained permission from the king to plant potatoes on land known for its poor fertility. At his request, the field was guarded by an armed detachment of royal soldiers in full dress. But only during the day, and at night the guards were removed. And then the people, attracted by the forbidden fruit, began to dig up potatoes at night and plant them in their gardens. And this was achieved by a cunning agronomist. People's History (peoples.ru/ )

Scottish brewers will soon have to add vitamins to beer to help fight alcohol brain damage. The new rules are now under discussion by the government of this part of the UK. The Scottish authorities are likely to pass a law requiring the addition of vitamin B1 to alcohol. Lenta.ru (lenta.ru/ health/ 2002/02/18/beer/)

The first Winter Olympic Games were held only in 1924 in Chamonix (France), and before that, some traditional winter sports were periodically included in the program of those games that we now call summer. Sports encyclopedia (esport.com.ua/ )

Snowboarding is the most extreme and youngest of the Olympic sports. He was born in the USA in 1960 and made his Olympic debut in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Four sets of medals are played in two disciplines: half-pipe and parallel giant slalom. The only Russian snowboarder who has received the right to start at the Games in Salt Lake City was Maria Tikhvinskaya, in the recent past - a high-class skier. IZVESTIA.RU (izvestia.ru)

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Researchers from the National University of Kapodistrias of Athens equipped a special room in which it was possible to control the composition of the air, and filled it with air with combustion products of diesel fuel - in the amount that can be found in the center of a densely populated city (burned diesel accounts for about 50% of all pollution urban air). For comparison, the same room was filled with clean air. The participants in the experiment, forty people without any cardiovascular problems, were divided into two parts: one two hours they breathed smoky air, the other - clean air. A month later, both of them returned to the laboratory, but now they changed roles: those who used to breathe clean air now breathed diesel exhaust, and vice versa.

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