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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 sets of the very first King Kong movie were burned during the filming of the fire in Gone with the Wind. There are 18 cartridges in the clip of the Gyurza pistol. John Walker (1732-1807), philologist and lexicographer, author of the Critical Dictionary of Pronunciation. The golden key is the badge of Harvard University. Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469. Glyptic is the art of carving precious or semi-precious stone. The Russian Museum has a picture of Harlequin and Pierrot, in which two artists - V.I. Shukhaev and A.E. Yakovlev - depicted their self-portraits. Everything for Norway is the motto on the coat of arms of the King of Norway. The Rolling Stones became the first Western rock band to receive royalties for their songs in the USSR. This happened in 1975. April 2 is International Children's Book Day. The Goodall Cup is Australia's premier hockey tournament. It has been held annually since 1921. Selma Lagerlöf is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize (1909). A person has twenty milk teeth. Pointillism is a technique in painting with small dots rather than elongated strokes. The first police dog kennel in Russia was established in St. Petersburg in 1907. After the betrayal of Judas Iscariot, Matthias was chosen to take his place among the apostles. The Russians began to undertake the first campaigns in the Caucasus in 1013. Genghis Khan died in 1227. W. Van Gogh signed his canvases only with his name Vincent. The authors of the Hammer of the Witches are the inquisitors Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Institoris. Ivan Elkin in the XNUMXth century was the name of a tavern, on which, according to custom, they put a Christmas tree. (Dictionary Russian onomastics and onomastics of Russia) Cavalry - a wide sash worn over the shoulder. Rubel - a wooden board with cut-out transverse grooves for rolling linen in order to level and iron it. The first work on the theory of probability, On the Calculations of Dice, was written by Christian Huygens in 1657. Abraham Lincoln was killed with a pistol invented by Philadelphia gunsmith Henry Deringer. The modern pencil differs little from its prototype, invented in 1795 by Nicolas-Jacques Comté at the request of the French Minister of War. In 1903, when Gillette's new razors went on sale, King Camp Gillette sold only 51 razors and 168 blades. However, the following year, 90 razors and 000 blades were sold. In the Jewish hell, in the power of the angel of darkness and sin Belial, it is not the Jews who are writhing in the fire, as you think. Only Arabs and Christians are burning there. In the same way, there are no Christians in Christian hell - Mohammedans or sons and daughters of David fall into the fire there; while only Christians and Jews suffer in Mohammedan hell, not a single Turk or Arab is there. (Milorad Pavic Khazar Dictionary) During the creation of the Last Supper fresco, Leonardo da Vinci invented a hygrometer in order to control the humidity of the air. Thomas Jefferson led the drafting of the Patents Act of 1789, which led to the first American patent in 1790, but he never patented his own inventions. In the table of the Russian football championship published on April 3 in the Izvestia newspaper, instead of the Torpedo team, the Toronto team is indicated. French lacquer is the general name for a large number of finishes made from shellac dissolved in alcohol, a substance obtained from the secretions of insects (lac bugs). The area of Tiananmen (Beijing) extends over 39,6 hectares. According to the head of the Novgorod archaeological expedition, academician V. Yanin, in the 93th century Moscow was called Kuchkovo. (Divo-1993, Miracles, records, achievements, Moscow, XNUMX) The name of the Yamal Peninsula is translated from Nenets as the end of the earth. Junker bayonet - in Russia of the XNUMXth century. - the first junior officer rank in artillery. Tsar Ivan chopped off the heads, drowned, burned his close servants with fire: the people did not grumble, did not declare horror and displeasure at the sight of many executions, often performed publicly. (N. Kostomarov, Personality of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, 1871) Malchish-Kibalchish is the hero of the fairy tale by Arkady Gaidar, in English translation he received the nickname Nipper-Pipper. (Malysh Publishers, Moscow, 1975) At the shipyard of the French port of Saint-Nazaire, the construction of the largest liner in the history of the Queen Mary II, which is being carried out under the auspices of the Cunard company, is being completed. The length of the vessel is 344,4 meters, the displacement is 150000 tons. It will be able to accommodate 2800 passengers on board. For comparison: the length of the legendary Titanic is 269 m, the displacement is 46000 tons, and the passenger capacity is 2584 people. Rembrandt's father was a miller. Cheese croquettes in Italian are called suppli al telefono - telephone wires. They got this name because when they are eaten, the melted cheese stretches and forms long threads. The godson of Alexander I was the Russian architect A.L. Witberg. The scriptorium is a workshop in the monastery where manuscripts were copied. Absolute zero is -273,15°C. Thessaloniki is named after Alexander the Great's half-sister Thessaloniki. On board the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13 under the command of A.I. Marinesko, there were 10582 people, including 1626 conscripts, including: 918 officers and cadets of the 2nd submarine training division, 173 crew members, 373 women of the Navy auxiliaries, 162 seriously wounded soldiers. There were 8956 refugees, of which over 5000 were young children. 1239 people were saved. (Heinz Schön, SOS Wilhelm Gustloff. The biggest ship disaster in history) In the scenes of the bas-relief on the column of Trajan (113) in Rome, 2500 figures of warriors are depicted, and in the ancient Chinese monumental burial of the times of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (260-209 BC) - 7500 terracotta warriors. Both here and there, most warriors have knotted neckerchiefs - the prototype of a tie. Tyufyak in the Russian army of the XV-XVI centuries was called a small-caliber artillery gun. Shoulder straps originated from knightly shoulder pads, which protected from blows with melee weapons. Birds never sleep in their nests. In them, birds only hatch their chicks. An ostrich egg weighs 36 times more than a chicken egg. Mosquitoes have teeth. Under a microscope, 22 teeth are visible in their mouth. Piano strings require 1500 meters of wire. Japanese students learn to write with both hands. The most difficult English tongue twister included in the Guinness book: The sixth sheep of the sixth sick sheikh is sick. In the film, Anton Ivanovich gets angry (dir. Ivanovsky, 1941) for Lyudmila Tselikovskaya The Evening Waltz was sung by the famous singer Deborah Yakovlevna Pantofel-Nechetskaya, who was asked by the composer Kobalevsky. There is no name of the singer in the credits of the film, so that the bourgeois think that our artists can do anything. In the UK, all swans are the property of the Queen. The longest paid holidays in Europe are Italians and Finns - 9 weeks. In the US, the average paid vacation is 5 weeks. (Press, Vienna, 10.03.00) According to American fashion designer Steve Katz, more and more men in the United States are wearing nylon tights, which are cooler in summer and warmer than underpants in winter. (Blick, Zurich, 6.03.00) For $20, any citizen of Singapore can order a postage stamp with their own image, which can be stuck on an envelope, parcel or package. (Bild, Hamburg, 10.03.00) The eminent 704th-century mathematician Charles Babbage tried to persuade the British government to fund his research into the development of a computer. Among other blessings, he promised that someday this machine would be able to automatically translate spoken language. (www.atlant.ru/comar/articles.phtml?kod=XNUMX) The first power plant in Russia appeared in St. Petersburg in 1879 and was intended to illuminate the Liteiny Bridge, and the next one a couple of years later in Moscow to illuminate the Lubyanka Passage. (www.nt.org/tp/it/io.htm) The first export of butter from Russia was made in 1822 to Turkey and Egypt. Oil in those days was sent abroad in barrels in melted form. Because of this, melted butter was called Russian butter on the world market. The city councils of Moscow and St. Petersburg decided to allow women to enter the imperial in horse-drawn carriages in 1903. According to UN estimates, about 2 million children under the age of 5 die every year from a lack of vitamin A in the world. The first settlers of the New World called tobacco - apuk. At the international exhibition Lenexpo in 1995-1996, Bagration cognac, produced by the Kizlyar brandy factory, was named the cognac of the Kings by the king of cognacs. In a natural gait (walk, trot, amble, gallop), the horse moves without prior training. Artificial gait (elements of the higher riding school - piaffe, passage, school or Spanish step and trot, three-legged gallop, pirouette, etc.) are developed in the horse by special training. The SI note was considered incorrect by the Catholic Church and was not recognized until the XNUMXth century, when they switched from six sounds to a system of octaves. On May 5, 1999, the tugboats Purga and Uragan moved the icebreaker Krasin from the Baltic Shipyard to the berth at the bridge named after. Lieutenant Schmidt. I. Goebbels in an article in 2000, published in the magazine Das Reich on February 23, 1945, wrote: The Soviet Union will fence off Eastern and South-Eastern Europe from other countries with an iron curtain if it wins the war. Hitting - a way in which a hare was poisoned at random, shouting and clapping a rapnik and holding the greyhounds at the ready. The wandering German poet K. Kindleben in 1781 processed and presented to students Gaudeamus - a chant of the XNUMXth century. At the wedding of Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova, Apollinaire, Diaghilev, Cocteau and Matisse were witnesses. According to alchemical beliefs, everything that exists consists of four elements: water (any liquid), air (any gas), earth (all solids), fire (all types of heat). Riding a mare was considered humiliating for respectable people in XNUMXth-century Europe. A large English bow made of Spanish yew was larger than the shooter, it was possible to fire 12 arrows per minute from it, which was three to six times the speed of firing from a French or Genoese crossbow. The combat range is 250 - 300 meters. Arrow length - 1 m. Tom & Jerry - American hard punch, named after two characters in P. Egan's (1772 - 1842) Life in London; or Day & Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom and its sequel Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic. The official languages of Singapore are Tamil, Chinese, Malay, English. The Greek hymn is the longest of all existing - 158 stanzas. It would take fifty years of eight hours of daily work to rewrite all the works of Leonhard Euler. For the first time in Switzerland, women's watches were created by Patek Philipe for the Hungarian Countess Kozevich. In England, there is a careful count of people who slip on pigeon droppings. Kiprensky was the first Russian artist to be awarded the honor of commissioning his portrait for the Uffizi Gallery, which since the XNUMXth century has been collecting and specially commissioning self-portraits of famous artists. In England, noble debtors were kept in Ludgate prison, commoners were sent to the navy. The first live television report on Soviet television was on April 14, 1961, from the meeting of Y. Gagarin in Moscow. Blacksmiths in ancient India had the right to settle in the northern part of the city along with the Brahmins. The recipe for the glue that was applied to the first English postage stamps was not published until 1852 in the Report of the Select Committee on Postage Stamps, according to which the ingredients of the glue were wood glue, potato starch and wheat starch. Taking advantage of this occasion, C. Dickens published a brilliant article The Great Secret of British Glue. (L. and M. Williams, Postage stamp. Its history and recognition) Candio Jacuzzi made his first whirlpool bath to relieve the suffering of his son, who had rheumatoid arthritis, in 1940. In the second round of the presidential elections in April 1932, the Nazis rented a Ju-52 aircraft from Lufthansa to transport Hitler around the country. They named the campaign Hitler over Germany. One day, a plane with the Fuhrer on board took off in a strong wind, in which flights are usually canceled. Such courage, the Nazis noted, was exactly what Germany needed. (Terra, Assault on Power, Third Reich: A Tragedy of Nations) The Russian surname Chaplin is a patronymic from the non-church male personal name Chaplya from the Polish czapla - heron. It has nothing to do with the name of actor Charlie Chaplin - that from the word chaplain. According to official data, in 20 villages around Trier in 1587-93, 306 people were burned for witchcraft; only two women remained in two villages. (Hennen. Ein Hexenprozess aus der Umgebung Von Trier, 1887) Starting in 1748 to study electricity, Franklin, always indifferent to mathematics, could not analyze his results with the help of calculations. Instead, he followed a tortuous path of trial and error. After the death of Cardinal de Rechelier, the King was very happy to receive letters and dispatches himself. He said he would never have a favorite among the Guards. (Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, Historiettes) Most importantly, a samurai should never neglect fighting spirit, at any time and under any circumstances. For our country differs from other lands in that even merchants and artisans keep old rusty swords, and this manifests the military spirit of the great Japanese Empire. (Yuzan Daidoji, Budoseshinshu) The Concise Oxford English Dictionary dates the first uses of some abbreviations: Mr. (originally from Master) - 1447, Mrs. (Mistress) - 1582, am (ante meridiem - before noon) - before or around 1600 Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, but he was born in Wales, lived in England, and his parents were Romans. (Terry Diary, Rotten Romans) At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on January 13, 1842, the majority voted against the project to build the Petersburg-Moscow railway. The project was supported by Nicholas I and construction began. The decree on renaming the Nikolaev railway to the Oktyabrskaya was signed by the People's Commissar of Railways F. Dzerzhinsky on February 27, 1927. In the reference book All Petersburg, among the descriptions of the architectural ensembles of the historical center of St. Petersburg, there is a description mentioning 1455 - 1414. BC. This is a description of the pier with the sphinxes of Amenhotep III. Marlene Dietrich died on May 6, 1992, immediately after the departure of the doctor, who confirmed that she was healthy. The coffin with the body of Marlene, covered with a French flag, was set up for a funeral service in a local church. then, covered with an American flag, they were sent to Berlin. and there already under the banner of Germany, buried next to the grave of his mother. The symbol of the Guards crew is the Kulm cross. The Kulm Cross differs from the Iron Cross by the absence of the date 1813 and the cypher of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (www.genstab.tsi.ru/nagr1812_kulm.htm) The first major railway accident in Russia occurred on the night of August 11-12, 1840 on the road St. Petersburg - Pavlovsk, through the fault of a drunk driver Robert Maxwell. Marilyn Monroe's real name is Norma Jean Baker Mortenson. The word circus comes from the Latin circus - circle. The smallest mass of the stars in the Milky Way is the Sun. Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Fire and Sword was first published in Poland in 1884 as the first part of the Polish historical saga, and in 1905 the author won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The trilogy, which also included the novels The Flood and Pan Volodyevsky, is the most famous, most widely read and most significant work in the history of Polish literature. The novel With Fire and Sword was translated into 26 languages of the world, and in 1904 it was staged on the stage of the Sarah Bernard Theater. The first film adaptation of this novel was made in 1961 in Italy. (neo.cracksoft.kiev.ua/movies/?oim)
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