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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.
Less than one percent of the blood donated by residents of the United States after the September 11 tragedy ended up in the vessels of the victims of the disaster. According to the latest data, a huge amount of donated blood was simply thrown away. The amount of donated blood exceeded all expected figures - more than 475 liters. And only 000 liters were used to transfuse blood to the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. No one began to store such a huge amount of blood for a long time - they simply threw it away. The American Red Cross will dispose of donated blood if it is not requested within 300 days. Naturally, it never occurred to anyone to use the blood for the victims of the terrorist attack for any other purpose - for example, to distribute it to hospitals in New York and transfuse it to ordinary patients. New England Journal of Medicine A clan in Scotland (Clan) is a group of families that share the same surname (for example, the Mac Donalds are the son of Donald, since Mac in Scots means son, Clan of) and have a common ancestor. Customs and traditions of Scotland (mh.narod.ru/raznoe/scotland.html) By the age of 60, the human eye has time to perceive such an amount of light as is formed in a nuclear explosion. Men's Health March 2002 In Pensacola, Florida, residents are required to carry at least ten dollars at all times. In Australian football, there are 18 players on the field from each side. Every 28 years the days of the week fall on the same day of the month. More films are made in India every year than in Hollywood. There are about 1 billion bicycles in the world. Of these, 400 million belong to the Chinese. GQ March 2002 More than a hundred years ago, P. Barnum, a well-known traveling circus owner in the United States, came up with an unusual way of advertising: when his circus arrived in another city, Barnum harnessed one of his elephants to a plow and, near the circus tents set up in the suburbs, began to plow the land. A crowd of onlookers gathered, people poured into the performances of the circus, however, many objected to the mockery of a noble animal. Since then, the laws of North Carolina have maintained a ban on plowing on elephants. Australia has twice as many kangaroos as people. The world's largest rose bush grows in the town of Tombstone (Arizona, USA). It grew from a cutting planted at the end of the 200th century, and now its trunk has a perimeter at the base of more than one and a half meters. More than XNUMX thousand roses bloom on this bush in a season. In the 16th century, tomatoes were used as an ornamental plant in Spain and Italy, and at first, when the Spaniards and Italians began to use tomatoes in cooking, they were considered poisonous. 10 dishes with tomatoes (kuking.net/ 13_39 .htm) Sausages were not always made from meat and they were completely unpredictable in shape. Fish sausages were popular in ancient times and in Glamorgan sausages were always made from cheese and leeks. In terms of shape, sausages are also very different - for example, in Scotland, Lorne sausages are square and without a casing. 10 sausage dishes (kuking.net/ 13_29 .htm) If the first spring days do not cause you joy, but apathy and irritation, then add citrus fruits to your diet, and grapefruit is best. Experts in the field of aromatherapy note that the fresh, slightly bitter aroma of grapefruit is just right for spring depression and apathy. It awakens interest in life, promotes a good mood, helps to cope with doubts, and also sharpens memory and attention. cooking-book.ru/ library/fruits/granat.shtml There is another name for the pomegranate - the Punic (aka Carthaginian) apple. In those lands, the plant was treated with great respect. This is confirmed by the image of the goddess of fertility on the island of Rhodes, who has a large number of nipples in appearance resembling juicy pomegranate seeds. cooking-book.ru/ library/fruits/peach.shtml In the old days in the East, it was believed that the best water for brewing tea is the one that is glassed from the petals of a peach flower when the belated spring snow melts on them. Perhaps this belief is largely determined by the extraordinary beauty of flowering peach trees. However, flowers, just like melt water from the petals, are not the main thing. The main thing is the fruit. cooking-book.ru/ library/fruits/figa.shtml Figs are one of the most ancient cultivated plants. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve, having eaten this forbidden fruit, covered their nakedness and were expelled from paradise. The specific name <ficus> came to the Russian language in the 18th century and has already been somewhat changed - fig, hence the fig tree. There were other names for this plant in Rus' - fig tree, fig, wine berry, Smyrna berry. cooking-book.ru/species/brassica_1.shtml Sarepta mustard was introduced into the culture relatively recently. It received its Russian name from the settlement of Sarepta in the Volga region. The first mustard plant in Russia appeared here. The city was founded in 1765 by immigrants from Germany at the invitation of Catherine II. Sarepta mustard was considered the best in the world. cooking-book.ru/species/myristica_fragrans.shtml The use of nutmeg in large quantities is dangerous - nutmeg and nutmeg are poisonous. There is evidence that the use of 3-4 chopped nuts has a narcotic effect. cooking-book.ru/pogrebok/strong/national/mongol_archi.shtml Milk vodka is called Mongol archi or tricky water. Why cunning, and even water? Yes, because after the first distillation, a slightly cloudy liquid, to the taste of those Europeans who are accustomed to 40 or more degrees, has practically no strength. However, she has one peculiarity - this cunning water, which is necessarily drunk warmed up, hits her feet so that after several bowls one may not even get up. British geneticists have finally succeeded in extracting DNA from a tissue fragment belonging to an extinct dodo bird. Researchers are sure that experiments to return the legendary bird are doomed to success. The last evidence that the dodo existed in nature is found in 1681. The first to see the dodo (one of the varieties of the dodo is the Mauritian dodo) were the sailors who arrived on the island of Mauritius. Then the dodo looked like a large clumsy bird, the size of which was two to three times the size of an ordinary turkey. MEMBRANA. Dodo bird: after death and before (membrana.ru/ articles/global/ 2002/03/05/175800 .html) The Irish government is running a government campaign to encourage housewives to reuse disposable bags. From Monday, a special tax on free plastic bags has been introduced in the republic. Now in supermarkets, each package will cost 15 euro cents, according to the BBC Russian Service. According to the government, this is done for environmental reasons - according to statistics, every Irishman takes up to 300 bags from stores a year. 150 million hot dogs are eaten every year in the United States on July 4th. The abbreviation SAAB is translated as the Swedish Aviation Joint Stock Company. At the age of 18, commissioned from Her Majesty's Navy with a stomach ulcer and a certificate of disability, Tommy (Sean) Connery laid asphalt on the streets of Edinburgh, worked part-time as a concrete mixer operator and polisher of coffins, and devoted his free time to bodybuilding, which was gaining popularity at that time. In 1953, Connery represented Scotland at the Mr. Universe competition held in London and received bronze. Body No007, Men's Fitness, February 2002 Adidas made its debut as the official ball supplier for the World Cup in 1970 in Mexico. It was a Telstar ball - a classic black and white leather model. Since then, every World Cup has been played with Adidas balls. GQ March 2002 Flaubert, Gustave, French writer, one of the main representatives of the realistic novel (Madame Bovary, Salambo, etc.) The sports term feint - as a deceptive movement in boxing - came from English: feint. There was also a fencing term feint - also a deceptive attack. Well, the extended sports value of deceptive movement in martial arts probably developed on Russian soil in the late 20s and 30s. However, in the middle of the twentieth century, the word feint as a sports term was completely replaced by a longer expression of a deceptive movement, and then, from the end of the 50s, it reappears - first in the language of newspapers, and then in special sports literature. Sports are sports, and in the thieves' slang, the word feint is formed from a feint - that is, simply steal. Echo of Moscow, We speak Russian! February 25, 2002 (fro196.narod.ru/speak/speak_russian.htm) Remember the legend of the creation of the Korean people? According to this legend, the son of the heavenly ruler Hwang Un, having descended to earth, created the state of Joseon. A bear and a tiger came to him and asked him to turn them into people. Hwang Ung agreed, but on one condition: the bear and the tiger had to live in a cave for 100 days, eating only garlic and wormwood. Oh, how difficult it was! The tiger could not stand this test and ran away, and the bear came out after 100 days and turned into a beautiful girl. The ruler, seeing her, fell head over heels in love and immediately got married. From them came the entire Korean people, beautiful and white-faced, says the legend. Domovoy Magazine February 02, 2002 DEBON LEGENDS (domovoy.ru/ 0202/krasota/history.asp) Biedermeier (German Biedermeier - a play on words: the brave Mr. Mayer from Biedemiann - brave and Meier) - an artistic style of residential interior design, furniture, painting, graphics, which became widespread mainly in Germany and Austria in 1815-1848. Antique Center. Style Dictionary (antiques.nm.ru/sl-stil/index.htm) The world's largest collection of matchboxes was collected by pensioner Claudia Mukhina from the town of Bolshie Podstavy, who worked continuously for 48 years in the laboratory of biochemical analyzes of the local hospital. Nick shvarov@ (blackhumour.by.ru) More than 120 thousand women (10% of the personnel) wear shoulder straps in the Russian army and navy. The average age of fighters in skirts is from 30 to 40 years, the specialties of a radiotelegraph operator, telephone operator, tablet operator, staff member (secretaries, financiers), logistics and medical workers are especially popular among them (among female officers, doctors are the most doctors - 66 percent, engineers - 10 percent). Recently, psychologists, lawyers with knowledge of foreign languages and referents-translators have appeared. Izvestia.Ru (izvestia.ru/community/article15400) Over the past five years, the world has experienced three large-scale trade wars - the beef war, the banana war and the steel war. beef war According to the US Department of Agriculture\Depertment of Agriculture, 90% of American beef producers use hormones to make animals gain weight faster. In 1989, the US pledged to export to Europe only hormone-free beef. The European Community began fighting in May 1999, accusing American beef producers of violating this agreement. The war ended in August 1999 when, after lengthy negotiations brokered by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Europeans acknowledged that the quality of American beef had improved. The damage caused by this war to US manufacturers is estimated at $ 500 million, European companies suffered about the same losses. banana war In April 1999, the US won the Banana War over the European Union. For the first time in its history, the WTO took the side of one member against another and recognized that the EU countries violated the rules of free trade and therefore the US sanctions imposed on them are justified and just. The essence of the conflict was as follows: when importing bananas, European countries (especially England and France) preferred supplier companies from countries that had previously been their colonies. steel war The Steel War has not yet ended and there are no prospects for its end yet. The US Administration's decision to impose import duties on steel supplies from most exporting countries was another act of hostilities in this war. The steel war began after the economic crisis of 1998, which affected many Asian states. These countries devalued their national currencies, and their goods turned out to be cheaper than similar American ones. This particularly hit US steelmakers, who faced, in particular, the fact that Japanese steel exports rose by 1999% in 400. The presence of European, Latin American, Russian and Ukrainian steel on the American market also increased. Maslenitsa is not only Maslenitsa week, but also the entire period of preparation for Great Lent, which includes omnivorous and pockmarked weeks. During the first, fasting days are absent, and during the second, fasting and fasting days of the week alternate. After the pockmarked week comes the Maslenitsa or cheese week, during which they no longer eat meat, but still eat dairy products. Each day of Shrove Tuesday has its own name: Monday - Meeting Tuesday - Games Wednesday - Lakomka Thursday - Revelry Friday - Mother-in-law Vespers Saturday - Zolov's gatherings Sunday - Forgiveness day. Maslenitsa (maslenitsa.com/ ) According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish population of the planet is about 14 million people. 4 million 420 thousand Jews live in Israel. In the USA - 5 million 800 thousand people. In Russia - about 600 thousand people. So much in France. There are 250 thousand people in Argentina. In Canada and England - more than 300 thousand Jews in each state. In Japan - about a thousand. In South Africa - 114 thousand people. ECHO - Jews (eho.priboy.ru/eho_evre.php) Since water in wooden barrels quickly deteriorated on ships, sailors almost always preferred to drink something else. Maritime custom and written contracts guaranteed a daily ration of liquor on both military and merchant ships. On English ships, sailors received rum. Dutch sailors received beer until the XNUMXth century (then it was replaced by gin), and the French are still given wine, believing that it protects against scurvy. The Spaniards also drank wine, often snacking on lemons and other citrus fruits. Rum is a Caribbean drink from the XNUMXth century to the present day. The sugar by-product molasses fermented naturally along with the scum and was then distilled. After long storage in wooden barrels, the drink acquired a dark color. The French called the rum taffia, and the British at first called it bait or rhombouillon, soon shortening the names to rum. Since the XNUMXth century, Caribbean rum has become more common than rapidly sour beer. Sea robbers consumed a huge amount of rum because of its cheapness. Rum was mixed with other drinks in cold and hot water, depending on taste and availability. Mixed with fruit drinks, it protected against scurvy. To check the quality of rum, water and a few grains of gunpowder were added to it. The mixture was heated through a magnifying glass. Gunpowder did not explode if too much water was added to the rum. caribbean sea. Pirates. Buccaneer ration (pirates.rolemancer.ru/ food_of_buccaneer .htm) Brigantine (from the French briganol - robber) - a 2-masted sailing ship of the 6th-8th centuries. with straight sails on the forward mast and oblique (triangular) on the rear mast. Armament: 1-XNUMX guns. It was used for reconnaissance and messenger service, as well as for the transport of troops and cargo in coastal areas. Brief Marine Dictionary (parus.hobby.ru/ slovarXNUMX .html)
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