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The first successful parachute jumps recorded in the annals were performed in 1306 in China during the celebrations dedicated to the ascension to the throne of Emperor Fo-King. The first documented successful parachute jump outside of China was performed in 1687 by a traveling circus performer in Siam. According to the testimony of de la Lubere, who traveled through Siam, the circus performer jumped with two umbrellas, the handles of which were attached to his belt.

The first round-the-world helicopter flight (of 29 stages) was made on September 1-30, 1982 by Americans Ross Perot, Jr. and Jay W. Coburn in a Bell 206L Longrainlzher 2 helicopter, called Spirit of Texas.

Scientists can reconstruct the appearance of a deceased person from their preserved skull or even parts of the skull. However, when reconstructing from the skull, it is almost impossible to determine the size and shape of the ears. (Komsomolskaya Pravda, 2 - 9.02.96, p.2)

The Roman architect Vetruvius first wrote about the elevator, referring to Archimedes, who built it back in 236 BC. Later references to it date back to the middle of the 1880th century. (Sinai Monastery in Egypt), the first quarter of the XIII century. (France), XVII century (Windsor Castle in England). In the XVIII century. the elevator also appeared in Russia (Tsarskoye Selo, Kuskovo, Peterhof), and in its modern form it was built in 16.02.96 in Germany by engineer Siemens. (Komsomolskaya Pravda in St. Petersburg, February XNUMX, XNUMX)

The oldest tunnel in Europe is located near the French city of Toulon. Its length is 157 meters, width - 7, height - 8. It was dug in 1681 and continues to be used to this day. despite the fact that throughout history it has never been repaired, unlike those built in our century. (Knowledge is Power, 8,1995, p.57)

Vitruvius (Vitruvius), Roman architect and engineer 2nd floor. XNUMXst century BC e. Author of the treatise Ten Books on Architecture - the only ancient work on architecture that has completely come down to us, in which urban planning, engineering, technical and artistic issues are considered, the experience of Greek and Roman architecture is summarized. I’ll add on my own that his full name was MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO, i.e. Mark Vitruvius Pollio. By the way, he is the author of the statement that the main thing in architecture is utility, strength, beauty. (Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius)

According to the UN, India's population is increasing by 1,3 million every week. Every two seconds, a new resident of the country is born.

John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) - English military leader and statesman who commanded English troops in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

Marquis de Spinola (1569-1630) - a Spanish commander who successfully operated in the Netherlands, was known as the inventor of all kinds of ingenious plans for the destruction of enemy forces, in particular the conquest of England. In those days, there were rumors that a whale found near Woolich (a district of London) was sent by Spinola to exterminate the English fleet.

According to legend, the wife of Brutus the Younger Portia, having learned about the death of her husband, committed suicide by eating burning coal.

The first fork was brought to England as a rarity from Italy in the early XNUMXth century.

The Bethlehem Royal Psychiatric Hospital (Bedlam) was founded in 1247 in London.

The British system of units of measure was officially retired at midnight on December 31, 1999. This event was practically not covered by the media and did not receive wide publicity. Just imagine, Britain has become metric! (nt.org/tp/iz/bm.htm)

The Hunting Act, enacted in England in 1723, is usually called the Black Act because of one article which states that anyone armed with a sword or other harmful weapon and blackening his face, or otherwise changing his appearance and appearing in any a protected place where hares or rabbits were kept or will be kept, and properly caught in this, is punishable by death, as in a criminal offense.

An apostrophe is one of the methods of rhetoric (a rhetorical figure) - an appeal to an absent person or an inanimate object.

President Lincoln told Harriette Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, that she was the one who made him start the civil war.

Russia - Great Russia, Ukraine - Little Russia, White Rus' - Belarus, Manchuria - Yellow Russia.

Roman terms (baths) consisted of: locker rooms (apodytherium), cold water baths (frigidarium), warm water baths (tepidarium), hot water baths (coldarium), steam room (laconicum) and a gym (palestra).

The Vatican, as a state, was created in 1929 after the conclusion of the so-called Lutheran agreement between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini's government.

Alexander the Great, so that the governors could not plot against him, divided his empire into many small areas that did not obey each other and did not depend on each other.

When plastic bags appeared in the USSR in the seventies, they usually had a warning inscription on them: Do not wear on your head.

In Syria there is a temple of the First Blood. This is where Cain killed Abel.

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- Mark Annius Catilius Severus, who went down in history under the name of Marcus Aurelius, was born in Rome on April 26, 121; in 139 he was adopted by Emperor Anthony Pius;

- in 178, Marcus Aurelius, together with his son Commodus, led a campaign against the Germans, and he managed to achieve great success, but a plague began in the Roman troops. On March 17, 180, Marcus Aurelius died of the plague on the Danube in Vindobon (modern Vienna). In the film, he was strangled by his son;

- two days before his death, Marcus Aurelius told his friends that he was upset not at all by the fact that he was dying, but by the fact that he left behind such a son: Commodus had already shown himself dissolute and cruel; the father believed that the son would be like Tiberius, Caligula and Domitian;

- on Capitoline Square there is a monument to Marcus Aurelius - the only surviving antique bronze equestrian statue. The statue survived only because it was considered an image of Emperor Constantine the Great, who patronized Christians and was always deeply revered by them;

- Commodus had a beautiful appearance, a slender figure, great physical strength and amazing dexterity. This was the extent of his merit. It was said of him that he was more of a gladiator than an emperor;

- under Commodus in Rome, everything was sold for money: court decisions, death sentences, pardons, positions and even provinces;

- Commodus was the first emperor who entered the arena of the amphitheater as a fighter with wild animals and as a gladiator. According to the biographer Commodus, he performed in the arena as a gladiator 735 times;

- Commodus, embarking on the path of mind-blowing debauchery, himself proclaimed himself the Roman Hercules, ordered that statues depicting him in the form of Hercules in the skin of a lion be erected in Rome, and sacrificed to him as a god, and the city of Rome decided to rename the city of Commodus;

- he reached such madness that he no longer wanted to live in the imperial palace, but wished to move to the barracks of gladiators;

- December 31, 192, Commodus was killed as a result of a conspiracy organized by his mistress Marcia and the head of his guard Quintus Aemilius Summer. In the film, he is killed by the protagonist, a gladiator;

- before Commodus in the II century, 5 emperors reigned, and after him and in the III century, 57 people were on the throne;

- Annia Lucilla was the eldest daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of Emperor Lucius Verus, the adopted son of her father. After his death, she retained the insignia of the imperial distinction. Under Commodus, a torch was carried before her; in the theater she sat in the imperial chair;

- after participating in one of the unsuccessful conspiracies against Commodus, Lucilla was exiled to the island of Capri and killed in 183, her son Pompeian was subsequently killed by order of the emperor Karcalla.

All information is taken from the book by E. Fedorova People of Imperial Rome, ed. Moscow State University, 1990

Over the past century, more than 150 new states have appeared on the world map. the number of sovereign countries rose from 30 in 1900 to nearly 200 in 2000. (Monde, Paris, 13.05.00)

The longest plant on earth is a vine-like palm that grows in the mountainous region of India. The length of its trunk is 345 m.

The lowest shrub grows in the tundra of Greenland. This is a dwarf willow. Its height is not more than 5 cm.

The rainforest covers only 7% of the globe, and serves as a shelter for 4/5 of all species of animals and plants in the world.

In many regions of Russia, it was believed that the hut needed to be avenged from the kut (the front corner where the icons hang) and not to throw out the rubbish after sunset, because then you would throw everything out with the rubbish.

In 1900, the production of automobiles in the United States amounted to 4129 cars and for the first time exceeded the production of all types of horse-drawn transport.

By the beginning of the First World War, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Podolsk, Volyn, Turkestan, Steppe, Irkutsk and Amur Governor-Generals existed in Russia.

According to the American psychophysiologist Stephen Meyer, in spring and summer they kiss 5 times more often than in winter and gloomy autumn. (New Petersburg, 25.05.00)

At a pressure of more than 100000 atmospheres, water turns into the so-called ice VII, this ice has a density of 1.5 g/cm1 (water has a density of 300 g/cm1976) and its melting point is XNUMX degrees. S. (Chemistry and Life, XNUMX)

The sign of the health service is defined by the Geneva Convention as a symbol of immunity. Each of the four ends of the cross has its own meaning: the upper one is medical skill, the lower one is honesty, the left one is courage, the right one is prudence. (Dvoryashin Vladimir. Soviet culture 28.04.84)

The sculptor E. Vuchetich sculpted the War - the Liberator, which is installed in Berlin's Treptow - park from the paratrooper Ivan Odarenko from Tambov. (Soviet culture 12.05.84)

In most European countries, the railway gauge is 1435 mm, in the USSR - 1520 mm, in France - 1440 mm, in Spain, Portugal, Chile, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Argentina - 1676 mm. Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador have the smallest track width - 610 mm. (Dvoryashin Vladimir. Parallels (Bulgaria) i 46 1985)

The founder of the Red Cross was the Swiss banker Henri Dupont. (Parallels (Bulgaria) i 49 1985)

Authors of the song Sleep, my joy, sleep B. Flies (Austria) - W. Mozart, Russian text by S. Sviridenko. (Soviet culture 30.07.84/XNUMX/XNUMX)

Author of the poem One, two, three, four, five! The poet F. Miller went out for a walk, the poem was published in 1851. (Book Review i 43 1987)

The phrase atomic bomb first appeared in 1921 in A. Bely's poem First Date: The world was torn in the experiments of Curie Atomic bomb that burst (Book Review i 40 1987)

DDT is dichlorodiphenyltrichloromethylmethane.

The largest meteorite crater is in Siberia, its diameter is 100 km, its age is 38 million years, and it is called Popigay. (Maxim Sevastyanov aka SlonNick. Material taken from the Ulyanovsk Today newspaper, signed by A. Tim)

In one second, a hummingbird can flap its wings 200 times. (Ulyanovsk today)

Around the world, 15 monetary units of different countries are called dollars. (Ulyanovsk today)

At 5:20 am on March 2, 1907, in the meeting room of the Tauride Palace - the residence of the State Duma - the ceiling collapsed. By the way, about the fate of Russia: the left side of the hall suffered the most during the collapse.

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhin, the same world chess champion, a legendary man, worked in the archive department of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (from May 20 to February 21).

Physicist and mathematician Leonhard Euler could name the first 6 powers of all numbers up to 100.

On October 16, 1960, in Budapest, the Hungarian chess master Janos Flesz gave a blindfold session on fifty-two boards. The session lasted 14 hours. After 4 hours, the messenger, who reported the moves of the master to the partners, and the moves of the partners to the master, fell, exhausted, into a faint. The result of the game was as follows: +31-3=18. (D. Bogdanova, Entertaining psychology of sports)

On March 16, 1915, by order of the Petrograd mayor, the artistic basement at 5 Mikhailovskaya Square, Stray Dog, was closed.

On June 20, there was a note in the mailing list: there are only five convex polygons in geometry. (Ulyanovsk today)

According to Dahl, the word trunk originally meant the tail (hence the trunk of the gun, the long end of the gun carriage), and the word elephant simply means a big beast, and in some places the elk was called that. So an elephant's trunk could easily mean an elk's tail.

According to Napoleon's calculations, the stone blocks from the three pyramids of Giza would be enough to encircle the whole of France with a wall three meters high and 30 centimeters thick. It was calculated that each block weighs an average of 2,5 tons, and the heaviest - 15 tons. The total weight of the Cheops pyramid is about 5,7 million tons. Its stones are held by their own weight - there is no binding material. Despite this, the blocks are so fitted to each other that the gap between them is no more than 5 millimeters!

Over the past two months, two negative developments have been noted: Israelis' investments abroad have increased by NIS 20 billion and deposits in pension funds listed on the exchange in Tel Aviv have fallen by NIS 2.3 billion. Money is leaving (is2day.co.il/article.mdb?ID=eco2106-1#eco2106-1)

During the 2nd World War, Japanese pilots were awarded only posthumously. (Japanese aviation in the 2nd MV)

Napkin Your Grace! In the days of Peter the Great, people so desired good health. Napkin, like a napkin, comes from the Latin salve, which means be healthy! And the key to health, as you know, is cleanliness. (cooking.ru)

Tame is a long forgotten concept. It means: to create bonds. Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It's a pity that sometimes people forget about it.

By jumping 70 to 140 times per minute for 15 minutes, you will burn 150 to 200 calories.

The largest and oldest auction house in the world is Sotheby's in London, which was founded in 1744.

There are currently 436 nuclear power plants in the world. If all of them are closed and replaced with conventional thermal power plants, the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will increase by 1,8 billion tons per year.

One of the most popular explanations of what philosophy is sounds like this: Science is knowledge, since it requires proof, Theology is beyond knowledge, since it does not require proof. Philosophy is at the crossroads of science and theology.

Heroin was first introduced by the pharmaceutical company Bayer in 1897 as a more effective and non-addictive drug to replace morphine. The new tool began to be actively used in medicine, as a result of which many patients became drug addicts. In fact, heroin is 4-5 times stronger than morphine. It is more soluble in fats and therefore reaches the brain faster than morphine. In addition, heroin addiction is stronger and develops faster. (narcostop.ru/appl/narcotics/opiats/#heroin)

Inquisition - translated from Latin investigation.

Smallpox began to be vaccinated in Russia in the autumn of 1768. Doctor Dimsdal was discharged from England, and Catherine II became his first patient, G. Orlov was the second; a week later, a third person was vaccinated. It was Paul I.

In ancient Rus', the word Varangian meant - an ally, a comrade on an oath, a warrior who took an oath. Solovyov believed that this word meant squads made up of people who, willingly or unwillingly, left their homeland and were forced to seek their fortune in foreign countries. Later, some northern peoples began to call it that.

In ancient Greece, a slave who took a child to school was called a teacher.

Academician Pavlov said: A change of occupation is rest. Pavlov took this formula from Peter I, who, in turn, considered his work as a refreshment.

According to Naum Sindalovsky, Peter I planned, if the Azov campaign was successful, to build a new fortress at the mouth of the Don, which was supposed to become a key one, opening the gates to the sea for Russia. Peter was going to call this fortress St. Petersburg. (N.A. Sindalovsky. Legends and myths of St. Petersburg)

In July-August 1941, the Novgorod distillery (distillery) produced 70 Molotov cocktails (Molotov Cocktail).

Disputes about the ownership of Antarctica have been going on since 1820. Among others, it was claimed by the USA, India, Russia (then the USSR). It was only in 1959 that the Washington Treaty put an end to these disputes. (Geo, 5, 1999)

According to Leonardo Da Vinci, beauty and ugliness should be depicted next to each other so that they seem more powerful. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Judgments on Science and Art)

Having visited the mountainous hinterland of the Philippines, President Fidel Ramos was unpleasantly struck by the abundance of children. The head of state recommended the residents of the three provinces cable television as an effective means of solving the demographic problem. For this purpose, he allocated a million pesos to each province, so that, according to him, the locals would have at least one more thing to do at night. (turgid.ru/news.phtml)

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