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2022-05-17 08:00:00
Voynich Manuscript
An illustrated codex written by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet.The manuscript can be traced to the 16th century. University of Arizona chemist and archaeometrist Greg Hodgins determined that the parchment for the manuscript was made between 1404 and 1438 in the early Renaissance period. The manuscript contains only one realistic depiction of the city with a fortified wall with dovetailed battlements. At the beginning of the 15th century, such battlements were mostly found in northern Italy.
The first attempts to decipher the manuscript were made in the 17th century. According to one view, the manuscript is a text written in a European language, probably encrypted by an unknown method. Others believe the manuscript could be written in an artificial language or in one of the "exotic" (rare) natural languages, using an alphabet invented by the author.
The book bears the name of the antiquary Wilfred Voynich, who acquired it in 1912. In 1961, the bookseller Hans Kraus bought the manuscript from Ethel Voynich's heiress for $24,500 and in 1969 donated it to the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University, where it is now preserved.
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2022-05-16 20:00:06
43 Missing Mexican Students
A mass kidnapping in Iguala occurred in late September 2014 in Mexico. Forty-three students from a teacher training college went missing. According to official data, they had gone to the city of Iguala de la Independencia (Guerrero state) to participate in a demonstration against discriminatory hiring practices and funding by the authorities. On the way they were intercepted by the city police. Details of their fate remain unclear, but an official investigation revealed that eleven students were illegally detained, then handed over to members of a crime syndicate and presumably killed.
Mexican authorities named Mayor José Luis Abarca Velásquez and his wife Maria de los Ángeles Pineda as the likely customers of the kidnapping. After the incident, they both fled, along with city police chief Felipe Flores Velasquez. The pair were arrested a month later in Mexico City. The mass kidnapping of students quickly became the biggest political and social scandal of Enrique Peña Nieto's presidency. The incident led to mass protests and anti-government demonstrations throughout Mexico.
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2022-05-16 14:00:01
Morning Gloria
A rare meteorological phenomenon, a type of cloud observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia.The clouds are a 1 to 2 km high storm collar, often only 100-200 metres above the ground (but usually higher), which can reach 1000 km in length and travel at up to 60 km/h. "Morning Gloria" is often accompanied by squalls, wind shear, and pressure surges at the surface. There is a rapid vertical movement at the front of the cloud that moves the air up and "swirls" the cloud, while in the middle and back of the cloud the air comes down.
Unusual clouds have been seen since ancient times. The Garrawa tribe called them "kangolgi." In 1942, pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force officially reported that they too had observed the phenomenon.
"Morning Glories" of the Gulf of Carpentaria have been studied by many scientific groups since the early 1970s. The first published studies belonged, of course, to Australians: Reg H. Clark of the University of Melbourne started publications about the "morning gloria. Since then, scientists have built various hypotheses, proposed various mathematical models to explain the complex movement of air masses in the area, but they have not come to a common opinion until now.
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2022-05-16 08:00:01
Huge prehistoric bird
The Moa (lat. Dinornithiformes) is a group of extinct flightless birds. They lived in New Zealand. Some reached gigantic sizes. Some of them were very large and had no wings. The largest of them were up to 3.6 m tall and weighed about 250 kg, while the smallest was about the size of a turkey. Extinct in the 1500s.
Moa are known from numerous fossil remains, including specimens with remains of soft tissue, eggs, coprolites and footprints.In 1986, an expedition, digging ever deeper into the Owen Mountain cave system in New Zealand, stumbled upon part of a mummified paw of a forest small moa. It was so well-preserved that it appeared as if its owner had died relatively recently. But radiocarbon analysis showed that the paw belonged to a moa that died more than 3,000 years ago.
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2022-05-15 20:00:01
Akambaro Figurines
A collection of more than 33,000 miniature clay figurines depicting humans and extinct animals, particularly dinosaurs. Collected by the amateur archaeologist Waldemar Yulsrud, who claimed to have found their first specimens in 1945 during excavations in Mexico. Scientific research has established the modern (not earlier than the 1930s) origin of these "irrelevant artifacts."
In 1923, Yulsrud participated in an excavation of the ancient Chupicuaro culture. The excavation site was only fifteen kilometers from the discovery site, so he assumed that what was found was also related to the Chupicuaro culture.
Waldemar Yulsrud was interested in the selected statue. According to him, further searches and excavations of local peasants, from whom he began to buy figurines for 1 peso (about 10 US cents at the time), allowed him to make a small collection of these objects. However, extinct animals, including dinosaurs, were found among the figurines. Therefore, it became clear - the assumption of Chupicuaro culture is extremely doubtful.
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2022-05-15 14:00:01
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
April 26, 1986 - the destruction of the reactor of the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the town of Pripyat (Ukraine). The destruction was explosive, the reactor was completely destroyed, and a large amount of radioactive substances was released into the environment. The accident is considered to be the largest of its kind in the history of nuclear power, both in terms of the estimated number of deaths and victims of its consequences, and in terms of economic damage.
In the first three months after the accident 31 people died, another 19 deaths between 1987 and 2004 can be attributed to its direct consequences. 134 of the liquidators suffered acute radiation sickness of varying severity. High radiation doses to people, mostly accident workers and liquidators, have caused or could cause an additional 4 000 deaths from long term effects of radiation.
The cloud from the burning reactor scattered various radioactive materials, especially iodine and cesium radionuclides, over much of Europe. The greatest fallout near the reactor was in areas belonging to Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The entire population - over 115,000 people - was evacuated from the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the plant.
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2022-05-15 08:00:00
The man from Grauballe
This is the name of one of the best preserved bog bodies. The man was discovered on April 26, 1952 in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark. The body of the man from Grauballe is very well preserved (there are fingernails on the hands and hair on the head). Only his face is somewhat deformed. Judging by the throat cut from ear to ear, he was killed and then thrown into the swamp. His leg was also broken, which scientists assume happened after he was killed. His skull was slightly deformed, either because of the pressure exerted by the peat bog, or because peat was being extracted from the bog.
According to radiocarbon dating, the man from Grauballe lived around the Iron Age and died around 290 B.C. At the time of his death, he was approximately 30 years old and about 175 cm tall. His clothes had decayed and were therefore not preserved. Examination of his digestive tract helped to determine the composition of his food - it consisted mainly of grains and seeds. Small bones were also found, indicating that he had eaten meat shortly before his death. The body of the man from Grauballe is now on display in a museum in the Danish city of Aarhus.
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2022-05-14 20:00:02
The Rosetta Stone
A stela of granodiorite found in 1799 in Egypt near the small town of Rosetta (now Rashid), near Alexandria, with three identical texts inscribed on it, including two in Egyptian - inscribed Egyptian hieroglyphs and Egyptian Demotic script, which is a shortened cursive writing of late Egypt, and one in ancient Greek. Since 1802, the Rosetta Stone has been preserved in the British Museum.
The text on the Rosetta Stone is an inscription of thanks which the Egyptian priests addressed to Ptolemy V Epiphanes, a monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty in 196 BC. The text begins, "To a new king who has received the kingdom from his father"... The stone was discovered on July 15, 1799 by Pierre Bouchard, a lieutenant of the French forces in Egypt. In 1801 the French were defeated in Alexandria by the British and were forced to hand the stone over to them together.
The Rosetta Stone is 114.4 cm high, 72.3 cm wide and 27.9 cm thick. The Rosetta Stone weighs approximately 760 kilograms. The front surface is polished with carved inscriptions on it. The reverse is roughly machined.
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2022-05-14 14:00:01
Cats in Ancient Egypt
The cat was one of the many animals worshipped in ancient Egypt.They were represented in the social and religious practices of ancient Egypt for over 3,000 years. Some ancient Egyptian deities were sculpted with cat heads representing justice, fertility and power.
Cats were praised for killing poisonous snakes and protecting the pharaoh, at least since the First Dynasty of Egypt. The skeletal remains of cats have been found among funerary goods dating back to the 12th dynasty. The protective function of cats is indicated in the Book of the Dead, where the cat represents Ra and the benefit of the sun to life on earth. Cat-shaped jewelry used during the New Kingdom of Egypt indicates that the cult of the cat became more popular in everyday life.
Cat cemeteries at the archaeological sites of Speos Artemidos, Bubastis and Saqqara were used for several centuries. They contained a huge number of cat mummies and cat statues, which are displayed in museum collections all over the world. Given the huge number of cat mummies found in Egypt, the cat cult was certainly important to the economy of the country, as it required cat breeding and a trade network to supply food, oils and resins for their embalming.
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2022-05-14 08:00:00
A brief history of the fire extinguisher
The first fire extinguisher was patented on February 7, 1863. This date is considered the birthday of the fire extinguisher.
Attempts to create a fire extinguisher were made before that time. As early as the XVII century, glass flasks with water were used as fire extinguishers, which were installed in rooms in case of fire. Around 1715 in Germany a construction in the form of a wooden barrel filled with 20 liters of water and equipped with a small amount of powder with a fuse was created. In the event of a fire, the primer would be ignited, the barrel would be thrown or rolled into the hearth, where it would explode and extinguish the fire with its contents. A similar device was made in England in 1723. In 1734, a German doctor invented a fire extinguisher, which was a glass ball filled with salt water. It was thrown into the fire, where it broke and extinguished the flames.
In 1815, a Russian chemist suggested using waste products from soap factories to fight fire. In 1954, the first prototype of a self-operating fire extinguisher was patented in Japan.
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