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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.
The famous Florentine sculpture David by Michelangelo, which for centuries was considered a model of male beauty, turns out to be defective. The fact is that David is cross-eyed. This conclusion was reached by American scientist Mark Levoy from Stanford University, who examined the statue using laser-computer technology. The visual defect of the more than five-meter sculpture is invisible, since it is placed on a high pedestal. According to experts, Michelangelo deliberately endowed his offspring with this flaw, because he wanted David's profile to look perfect from any angle. AZOV NEWS (azovnews.azov.net/arch/23/stst15.html) The Portuguese prince Don Enriques (1394-1460) was never a real sailor and never sailed further than the Strait of Gibraltar. However, his whole life was connected with the sea. As the head of the Order of Christ, he used the funds to spread the church cult to create an astronomical observatory, a nautical school and the largest maritime library. The prince turned out to be a talented organizer of distant sea voyages, the purpose of which was to find a way to India. Thanks to these voyages, the Portuguese made many important geographical discoveries in the Central Atlantic and off the coast of Africa. For his love of the sea and passion for marine sciences, the sailors dubbed Don Henriques the nickname Henry the Navigator. Under this name, he is mentioned in scientific works on geography and the history of navigation. A portrait of another master of the sea, William Dampier (1652-1715), hangs in a London art gallery. On the gilded frame is the inscription Pirate Naturalist. This colorful personality (even for that time) skillfully combined piracy and scientific activities. During three round-the-world voyages, in the intervals between robberies, Dampier conducted meteorological, ethnographic, botanical and zoological studies, collected a unique collection of herbariums. After becoming a member of the British Academy of Sciences, he wrote a number of interesting books about his travels and discoveries (but not about robberies!). N.A.Kalanov. Nickname by merit (kalanov.mcom.ru/ nickname .html) When about half a century ago, the American radio engineer Al Gross invented the pager, he intended this device to urgently call hospital doctors to patients. But it turned out that the doctors did not want to be called to intensive care at any time. One doctor bluntly said to the inventor: There is a golf course next to the hospital, do you really think that I would like to be constantly torn off the club? Now there are more than 300 million pagers in the world. Science and Life, No6, 2001 Brazilian skier Christian Blanco, in the absence of snow in his native country, is training to take the correct slalom stance, standing on the roof of a car that accelerates to 130 kilometers per hour. Science and Life, No6, 2001 The word doctor comes from the word lie. In Rus', healers often treated with conspiracies and spells. Mumbling, chatter until the beginning of the XNUMXth century was called a lie. In most parts of the world, drunk driving is severely punished. But in Uruguay, on the contrary, the state of intoxication can serve as a mitigating circumstance if the driver has violated the rules. The cat laps up water or milk, throwing the liquid into the mouth not with the upper, but with the lower surface of the tongue, bending the tip of the tongue not up, but down. The famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was also a major specialist in marine mollusks. Shortly before his death, he donated his collection of shells, numbering over 15 pieces, to the University of Santiago. An excerpt from the Book of Useless Facts, published in Germany: - Impossible to reach own elbow with tongue - A person is not able to break his rib, pressing his knees to his chest - The pig is unable to look at the sky - 25% percent of the population has never made a phone call - A cockroach without a head lives 6 hours - A person in 7 years emits as much gases as in a closed room leads to suffocation - Duck quacking has no echo - 10% of all broken printers fail because people sit on them to copy body parts - On average, a person accidentally eats 70 insects in a lifetime. - Tongue prints are as individual as fingerprints Famous horses in history and mythology: Bucephalus is the horse of Alexander the Great. It was so wild that no one but the great conqueror could ride it. Copenhagen is the favorite riding horse of the Duke of Wellington. The commander sat on it at the Battle of Waterloo. Iroquois is the first American horse to win an English derby. Marengo is Napoleon's favorite horse. He was with him at the Battle of Waterloo. Nelson is the white horse of General George Washington. This horse is depicted in all the portraits of the general. Mounted on Nelson, Washington commanded the battles of Valley Forge, Yorktown, and Mount Vernon. Pegasus - a winged horse from Greek mythology, delivered lightning to Zeus. Today, this name is the constellation of the Northern Hemisphere. Aristotle believed that women have fewer teeth than men. Although he was married twice, it does not seem to have occurred to him once to verify this assertion empirically. On April 1875, 1, the London Times became the first newspaper in the world to publish a weather forecast. (Isn't this where the tradition of celebrating April XNUMXst as the day of pranks came from?). It is commonly believed that Americans are a bit obsessed with cleanliness and hygiene. However, a survey by the American Society for Microbiology found that while 95% of Americans believe they should wash their hands after using a public restroom, only 67% actually do so. Science and Life (nauka.relis.ru/ ) At the initiative of the Swiss film director Bernard Weber, a survey is being conducted on the Internet about which human creations, unknown to the ancient Greeks, should be considered the seven wonders of the world. The New 7 Wonders website (new7wonders.com) received two million visitors to give their opinion. While the first place in popularity is occupied by the Mayan pyramids in Chechen Itza (Mexico). The survey will run until June 30th. After graduation, Weber intends to make a documentary panoramic film about new wonders. Russian version of the site: new7wonders.com/r/index.html The Arabs traditionally use not alcohol-based perfumes, but aromatic oils. They are called attar (attars) from the Arabic itr - aroma. They are obtained by distillation exclusively from natural ingredients. Masters of Oman, Arab Emirates or Egypt keep many secrets of mixtures (blend) from attars. They are distinguished by a very high concentration of odor. Of course, among consumers accustomed to alcohol cologne or eau de toilette, they cannot be in wide demand. Among Arabic perfumes, you should pay attention to Amouage. Prestigious brand by the most snobbish estimates. Amouage Original gold Flask (women's and men's versions) cost $1500 and $1600 for 50 ml. The seemingly mega-French name actually means waves in Arabic. In 1983, the Sultan of Oman decided to create a very exclusive perfume. It is not for nothing that incense from southern Arabia was sung by Arab poets and even the Bible. The order was placed with Guy Robert, an eminent perfumer who had worked for top haute couture houses such as Christian Dior and Chanel since the 50s. When creating the formula, up to a hundred components were used, including: incense, lily of the valley, rose in the head; myrrh, patchouli and jasmine in the heart; incense, amber, civet, musk, sandalwood and cedar in the base. The bottles were made by British jewelers Aspreys of Bond Street from 24 carat gold. Male - in the form of an Arabian dagger handle, female - the dome of a minaret or an ancient aroma. Amouage (amouage.com) Back in the days of Tsar Peter the Great, every dandy dreamed of being told about her: Like pink morocco, the color of your rouge lips. To achieve a ruddy color, hot bread crust was applied to the lips. Krasota Inventive Americans came up with a new use for carrier pigeons. A Boston doctor takes a carrier pigeon basket with him on every distant visit. The doctor attaches a prescription to his leg. The dovecote is located in the pharmacy. As soon as the carrier pigeon arrives, medicine is prepared, which the cyclist quickly delivers to the patient. The French, however, ascribe to themselves the primacy in this use of carrier pigeons. La Nature claims that someone Dr. Kaplan in Janville has been leaving pigeons with his patients since 1898, who use these pigeons to notify the doctor about their state of health or send prescriptions to the pharmacy. Scientific Review, 1902 Science and Life No2, 2002 Nalistniki is a special name for pancakes with apples. Actually, this is a way of baking apples on an iron sheet. So that finely chopped apples do not spread, do not dry and do not burn, they are wrapped in a pancake. Today, pancakes are fried in a pan, although you can, of course, try a baking sheet. Svyatoslav Loginov. THEY WERE BAKE PANCAKES... (rusf.ru/ loginov/books/story07 .htm) Volcanic tuff - a rock consisting of sintered hot products of a volcanic eruption of various sizes - ash, sand, etc. (the so-called scorching clouds). According to the complex of physical and chemical properties - light weight, sawing ability, frost resistance, etc. - they are widely known as a wonderful building material (Artik tuff). One of the first-born Soviet administrative buildings, built in 39-1929, is located on Myasnitskaya Street (30). designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier. The huge surfaces of the glass walls alternate with planes lined with pink-violet tuff from Armenia (the northwestern slope of Mount Aragats, near the village of Artik). Walks in Moscow (sgm.ru/ moscow/rus/p5/index.html) Hawaiian has twenty-four vowels and only three consonants. A scientific dispute between two American physicians will be resolved in 2150. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois claims that among babies born in 2000, someone will live to be 150 years old. And Steven Ostad of the University of Idaho believes that no advances in science in the next century and a half will allow life to be extended beyond 130 years. The dispute is about money, and very large ones: the heirs of the one who guessed correctly will receive $ 2150 million in 500. For this purpose, a fund was founded, in which both disputers put at decent interest on 150 dollars and pledged that they would put annually not less than this amount, and after their death, their descendants would make a contribution. Science and Life, No5, 2001 To get married means to be behind a man's back. The groom is the one who brings a man to a woman's house, hence one root in these words. Bride - who knows who and who knows where... Table tennis was invented by the English engineer James Gibb, who in the 80s invented this game to warm up at home on rainy days. Instead of a ball, a cork from champagne was used, and cigar box lids served as rackets. About a hundred years ago, celluloid balls and plywood rackets appeared, the game began to be sold in sporting goods stores under the name gossima. But the real success came only in 1901, when the game set manufacturer came up with the onomatopoeic name ping-pong. The famous French writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) created 220 works in his lifetime. Recently, French literary scholars published a list of characters in his novels and short stories with brief information about each character. The result was a book containing more than 600 pages, it contains about ten thousand names. Many still remember the effective method of setting up Soviet TVs: with a fist on the lid. However, in the manual for one of the latest computer monitor models released in Japan, in the section Troubleshooting and troubleshooting, there is the following recommendation: Due to some features of the kinescope device, in rare cases, due to shock or shaking during transportation, the aperture grille may be displaced. If a black vertical line appears on the screen after turning it on, lightly tap the side of the monitor with your hand. Some American companies have begun to give their employees a special memo before going on vacation with a strong recommendation not to take a laptop, pager, cell phone and other devices on vacation that allow them to continue working while lying on the beach. To protect themselves from evil spirits, the people of the Akha tribe living in northern Laos nail wooden models of a Kalashnikov assault rifle to the gate posts. Hand grenades carved from wood are also used. Not a single evil spirit will dare to pass through such a gate. Two English physicists published an article in a reputable physics journal Signs of the interaction of cold dark matter with itself observed in outer space. The article ends like this: The authors thank the Western English Railway for the constant delays of their trains, which gave us enough time to discuss this problem in advance. After interviewing more than 1000 American adults, psychologists claim to have found a link between a person's personality and preferred soup. Chicken soup lovers go to church regularly, love animals, are stubborn. Noodle soup is preferred by those who care about their physical form. Vegetable soup is chosen by homebodies. Lovers of tomato soup are sociable and adventurous. Science and Life No4, 2001 The tallest monument The stainless steel rounded arch of the Gateway to the West in St. Louis, Missouri, USA is both 192m high and 1803m wide. Monument symbolizing the conquest of the West, after the purchase of Louisiana from France in 1965, completed in XNUMX. The highest building The height of the CN Tower in Toronto (Canada) is 553,34 m. Construction took place from 1973 to 1975. The largest cathedral The volume of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist of the New York Diocese Cathedral (USA) is 456 m350, the total area is 3 m11. Construction went on from 240 to 2. The largest mosque The total area of the Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad (Pakistan) is 18,97 hectares. The prayer hall with an area of 0,48 hectares, together with the courtyard, can accommodate 100 worshipers, and an additional 000 people can be accommodated in the adjacent area. The largest temple Angkor Wat (Temple City) in Cambodia is the largest religious building ever built. It covers an area of 162,6 hectares. Size - 24x6 km. Construction began in 900 AD. The biggest palace The largest in the world is the palace of Chinese emperors, located in the center of Beijing. It was built in the shape of a rectangle with sides of 960 and 750 meters and covers an area of 72 hectares. Today the palace looks the same as six hundred years ago. Until 1924, the last empress of China lived in one of the premises of the palace. Darmidon (jalita.com). Information source: website Chronicle of disasters (chronicl.chat.ru/) The Rh factor is an antigen (protein) found on the surface of erythrocytes, red blood cells. About 85% of people have this very Rh factor and, accordingly, are Rh-positive. The remaining 15%, who do not have it, are Rh-negative. The Rh factor was first discovered in 1940 by the Austrian scientists K. Landsteiner and A. Wiener.
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