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After the death of Plato, Jewish astrology spread in Athens. This science, as everyone knows, claims that the fate of people depends on the alignment of the stars. An astrologer who had studied Timaeus not without benefit formulated such an impeccable argument: if planetary periods are cyclic, then world history is also cyclic; at the end of the Platonic year, the same individuals will be born and repeat the same fate. For centuries this hypothesis has been attributed to Plato. (H. L. Borges, Letters of God)

From 1917 to 1925, the magazine Dada was published in Zurich and Paris, the name of which was coined by the leader of the French avant-garde Tristan Tzara to denote illogical creativity, reminiscent of the babbling of a child; subsequently, the aesthetics of dada merges with surrealism.

We will not find the most famous tale of the Thousand and One Nights in the original. This is the story of Ala ad-din and the magic lamp. It is included in Galland's translation (1704); Burton searched in vain for its Arabic or Persian original. Some suspected Gallan of being a forgery. Why not assume that, translating a cycle of fairy tales, he set out to compose another one, and so he did. (H. L. Borges, lecture on the tales of the Thousand and One Nights)

The first American president, George Washington, was legendary for his honesty.

NASA experts studying Leonardo da Vinci's drawings recently discovered in Milan concluded that one of them, dating back to 1478, depicts a prototype robot. This is a two-tiered structure on four wheels, in which the starting handle raises the feathers that set it in motion. It is curious that initially experts took this image for a prototype car. (Corriere della Sera, Milan, 17.04.00)

In the US city of Portsmouth, Virginia, two veiled Muslim women were arraigned and sentenced to fines for violating a law prohibiting wearing masks in public places. (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 10.04.00)

Abacillary patients are non-contagious.

In the Hebrew text, the subject of the phrase In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1) is plural, that is, God is Gods.

On June 4, 1896, the first car built by Ford was tested. These tests were delayed for an hour because the car could not leave the assembly shop, as it was wider than the shop gate.

The person who joins Alcoholics Anonymous is told: You need to abstain from alcohol for just one day - today, because every day is today.

In June 1770, A. Suvorov issued an order on the training of soldiers and on the tactics of action against the Polish confederates.

A number of London department stores are successfully selling a lingerie collection called Microsoft. Linen is made from very thin, microscopic synthetic fibers, and it is exceptionally soft to the touch. (Science and Life, 12, 1997)

Vrubel - from Polish wrobel - sparrow.

Until 1917, in the Russian Guard, officer ranks were one class higher according to the Table of Ranks than army officers (for example: a lieutenant belonged to the 9th grade), and there was no lieutenant colonel rank.

Incurable patients are incurable. (deniska rules, magnum.jump.ru) Carl's Heart is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Hounds. The Latin name (Cor Caroli) recalls the execution in 1649 of King Charles I of England and is believed to have been given to the star by Charles Scarborough in 1660 (starx.web.ur.ru)

The word calendar came to us from ancient Rome, where the calendar was called the books in which creditors recorded interest. Later, dates, days of the week, months, religious holidays, birthdays of emperors and members of their families, days of the senate meeting began to be indicated in the calendars. The calendars included notes about historical events.

The Microsoft name was first registered by a underwear company. When the Bill Gates company became quite famous, underwear manufacturers began to put their demands on the name. In the end, the court decided that Gates's company would be called Microsoft, and Microsoft would be the underwear company. All logos of operating systems say exactly Microsoft, not microsoft.

Ford built his first car in 1893. He was a self-propelled carriage, similar to a box on wheels, which he subsequently constantly improved. The tests, carried out on June 4, 1896, refer to his first experimental car, the Quadricycle (got its name because it had bicycle wheels). Ford built his first cars in a shed (workshop) located in the backyard of the house he rented in Detroit at 58, Bagley

In the Arkhangelsk region on the island (I don’t know the name), opposite the island of Khabarka, there is the village of Khvosty.

Jerusalem - in Hebrew Yerushalayim, and Bulgakov's Yershalaim. Means ir shalem - a single city. Jerusalem is the single and indivisible capital of Israel. In Arabic, Al-Quds means Holy.

Tel Aviv is a spring hill.

The word Armageddon comes from ar Megiddo - Mount Megiddo is an Israeli geographical reality.

When the television image of the earth was first transmitted from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, one Mr. Samuel Sheraton, secretary of the one-of-a-kind British Flat-Earth Society, was forced to admit that, apparently, the time had come to reconsider some things. (Y. Golovanov. The truth about the APOLLO program. Battle for the Moon, M., 2000)

With the help of a laser reflector left by Neil Armstrong on the Moon, scientists at the McDonald Observatory in Texas managed to establish that from the Moon to the Earth 373+-787 meters. (Y. Golovanov. The truth about the APOLLO program. Battle for the Moon, M., 265)

In total, 9 manned spacecraft flew to the Moon. Apollo 8, 10 and 13 flew around the moon. Apollo modules 11,12,14,15,16, 17, 1969, 1972, 21 and 12 landed on the lunar surface. In total, 300 people flew to the Moon from July 80 to December 44, and 2000 people landed on the surface. The moon was inhabited for about XNUMX hours, the total time when astronauts walked and drove on the moon was XNUMX hours and XNUMX minutes. (Balashikha. Ya. Golovanov. The truth about the APOLLO program. Battle for the Moon, M., XNUMX)

Auditor - the rank of the military judicial (audit) department before its transformation in 1868 with the introduction of a new judicial charter of the Russian Empire.

There are more species of flies in France alone than there are species of all mammals that inhabit the globe, and flies of different species differ from one another to a greater extent than a mouse from an elephant. (R. Chauvan, De L'abelle au gorille, Paris, 1963)

At least 80% of animal species are insects. (R. Chauvan, De L'abelle au gorille, Paris, 1963)

Between the colonel and the general, Peter I introduced the rank of brigadier, which, according to the table of ranks, corresponded to the civil rank of state councilor.

The client - in ancient Rome - is a free, but poor or humble person who has given himself under the protection of a rich or well-born patron. The patron and the client could not complain against each other in court and testify against each other. The relationship between client and patron was hereditary and passed down from generation to generation.

Henry Ford named his first car Quadricycle not for bicycle wheels (previous three-wheeled models also rode or stood on such), but for its four-wheeledness.

The famous aerobatics master Alfred Fronval completed 3 dead loops in a row in 52 hours and 962 minutes. (Serge Popov. Markusha A. M. Flying man, M .: Transport, 1988, p. 77)

D. Mendeleev is the creator of vodka, which is now called Moscow Special

The first poster with the name of Edith Piaf appeared on February 17.02.1936, XNUMX in the Merano Circus between the names of the cyclist Pelissier and the American dancer Golly Pilser

After his marriage to Louise de Vademont in 1575, Henry III, the most handsome king of the Valois, lost all interest in women and surrounded himself with a group of young nobles. For the fact that they were powdered and painted beyond measure and defiantly shook their backsides, the people called them minions (cuties). They arranged numerous orgies and fights with the king. (S. V. Vivatenko, Love of Henry III)

In French, the word syphilis is translated as smallpox.

Elizabeth Taylor founded the Five Rings Club, which is open to women who have been married five times.

Not only in the Middle Ages, lepers warned of their appearance. This was also in biblical times. They were driven out, and they could only eat from garbage dumps, and so that in the dark someone would not run into them, they had to shout Unclean, unclean.

An ordinary bicycle pump can pump up pressure up to 2 atm.

Hemp contains more than 60 chemical compounds necessary for a person for medicinal purposes.

Hemp produces high quality paper.

Scientists suggest that women over time will become smaller and smaller in stature.

In 1722, the population of Russia was only 6,4 million people, of which 2% were townspeople.

Approximate Alexander the Great, who died in the hot climate of Babylonia, carried his body to his homeland in a barrel of honey. The famous Admiral Nelson, who died during the Battle of Trafalgar, was brought to England in a barrel of cognac. The admiral was buried in Westminster Abbey, and, unfortunately, historians do not report what happened to the cognac. (A. Lavrin, Chronicles of Charon)

Moscow coordinates: 55 gr 45 min N 37 gr. 36 min east (Kirill K. Afisha magazine)

One Chinese emperor did not really like the attention of his many wives, and they, languishing from idleness in a stuffy harem, came up with a game for which they used pictures with drawings. This is how playing cards were born in the 10th century.

Nobel's life was almost a clinical case of deep mental depression (a few years before his death, he wrote the play Nemesis, about which one of his biographers noted that the only bright and cheerful place in the play was its title!). (chg.ru/create/Newspaper/287/article1.html)

The first person to explore the sky with an optical instrument (spyglass) was Galileo. The spyglass was discovered before Galileo, but remained in obscurity for more than 20 years. Having been in the hands of the great scientist for only 10 months, the spyglass has become the main protagonist of modern science. Galileo could well call her his brainchild. The first work of Sidereus nuncius'' (The Starry Herald''), dedicated to his exploration of the starry sky with a new instrument, was published on March 12, 1610. (inp.nsk.su/~baldin/Encyclopedia-4/Astronomy/node1.html)

Three weeks before his death, in January 1725, Peter I personally wrote instructions for the expedition of Vitus Bering, called the First Kamchatka. This expedition lasted about five years (1725-1730). Bering's assistants were lieutenants A.I. Chirikov and M.P. Spanberg. On the boat St. Gabriel, built in Nizhne-Kamchatsk, researchers rounded the Chukchi nose to a latitude of 67 degrees 18', making sure that there was a strait between Asia and America and confirming once again the fact of the discovery of the strait by Semyon Dezhnev in 1648 (navy.ru/science/ios2 .htm)

In fur seals, 1/6 of all males fertilize 5/6 of all females, the remaining 4 are forced to pretend that it is not really necessary. An even sharper disproportion is observed in sea lions, where 4% of males provide 88% of matings! This picture is typical for all herd animals. Among female animals living in pairs, especially among birds, there is a common habit of being fertilized before the formation of a pair (family), and it happens that after, but from another male, and often in full view of the legal husband. That is, a pair is formed, as it were, for housekeeping, and fertilization often occurs according to completely herd laws. (jarmoluk.hotmail.ru/news/june/08-00-2.htm)

V. I. Dahl was born on November 10, 1801 in Lugansk in the family of a doctor Johann Dahl, a native of Denmark; on the side of his mother, Maria Freitag, he had German and French ancestors. In 1814 - 1819. V. I. Dal studied in St. Petersburg in the Naval Cadet Corps, and then served as an officer, first in the Black and then in the Baltic Seas. In 1826, having decided to change his profession and become a doctor, he entered the Dorpat University. (ibmh.msk.su/vivovoco/VV/JOURNAL/VIET/DAHL.htm)

Around the 444th century BC e. Greek philosophers began in their theories to touch on the true mode of propagation of light. Pythagoras, with amazing insight, believed that objects become visible due to the tiny particles fired by them that enter the human eye (later his idea was resurrected twice in the 2th and in the XNUMXth century). In XNUMX BC The Greek philosopher Empedocles proposed an alternative theory to Pythagoras' idea that objects become visible through the use of an elusive tentacle extending from the eye and grasping the visible object. Aristotle considered light to be a manifestation of a certain rarefied medium, called pellucid, which fills all space. In his opinion, a certain kind of influence is transmitted from the object to the eye through this medium. (phdep.ifmo.ru/ optiki/indexXNUMX.htm)

The military, doctors, geologists have a certain belief - the law of paired cases. The bottom line is that if some rather extraordinary event occurs (catastrophe, rare disease, etc.), then on the same day (or very soon) a similar event will repeat again completely independently. (md.uniyar.ac.ru/gsh/docs/mathist/index.html)

In 1971, after the publication of his article Race, Intelligence and Education, Eysenck (the author of the intelligence test) was pelted with rotten eggs at one of his public speeches. For what he wrote in black and white: blacks have an IQ 15 points lower than whites, and this is due to the peculiarities of the genetic code. Europe and the United States, rapidly falling into the funnel of political correctness, such undisguised racism was clearly not to their liking. Eysenck was called the great provocateur, enfant terrible of the 70s, despite the fact that he was already an elderly man. (peoples.ru/science/psychology/aizenk/

The ancient Greek geographer and historian Strabo (Geography, XVII, I, 8) writes that Ptolemy stole Alexander's body and brought it to Alexandria. Ptolemy, the future ruler of Egypt, according to the stories of Elian (Claudius Elian, Motley Tales, XII, 64), stole the body (of Alexander the Great) and with great haste moved it to Alexandria of Egypt (Shofman A.S., The collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great, Kazan: Publishing House of Kazan University, 1984, p. 3). In the same place, at Shofman, on p. 199 cites Pausanias (Description of Hellas, I, 6,3; 7,1), who claimed that Ptolemy persuaded the Macedonians, who were appointed to transfer the remains of Alexander to Aegi (the capital of Macedonia), to transfer the body to him. He buried the king according to the Macedonian rite in Memphis (in Egypt). Subsequently, already under Ptolemy II, the tomb of Alexander was transported from Memphis and was located in Alexandria. In general, reading all this, how can you not remember the immortal words of the Prince of Denmark: What prevents you from imagining the fate of Alexander's ashes step by step until the last one, when he goes to plug a beer barrel. (W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V, scene 1).

Vidocq's Notes mentions that the rum (not cognac) from the barrel with the body of Admiral Nelson disappeared on the way to England. The investigation showed that the sailors of the ship drank it. They punched a hole in the barrel and extracted the rum through a hose. I even made a question on this fact a couple of years ago. (Igor Malsky aka Stepanych. Notes of Vidocq, head of the Parisian secret police: in 3 vols. - Kyiv, Publishing House of SP Svenas, 1991)

The smallest envelope was issued in Russia in 1845 for the city mail of St. Petersburg. Its dimensions are 86x48 mm. It contained business cards. (I. Ya. Levitas, Both seriously and curiously, M .: Radio and communication, 1991)

Asteroid number 9007 is named after James Bond.

Roman L.N. Tolstoy War and Peace was originally called All's well that ends well.

In the course of a mass survey conducted by a British men's magazine among married women in Germany, every fourth respondent aged 20 to 40 admitted to having cheated on her husband at least once. One of them described marital fidelity as an outrage on human nature. (Gentlemen's Quarterly, London)

Former US President Jimmy Carter in an interview: I recently found out by chance that Elvis Presley was my seventh cousin. It is a pity that it is so late - in 1980, such a discovery could have helped me win the election campaign. (United States News and World Report, Washington)

Tuz is a lake in Asia, the maximum depth of which is 2 meters. (Geographic Atlas) Llyulyaillaco - the highest volcano in South America (Geographic Atlas) Titicaca - a lake in South America, translated from Japanese means mom-dad.

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