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2022-04-20 18:00:13 The way you hold your phone will tell a lot about you... Open / Comment

2022-04-20 15:05:01 As the legend goes, in 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses II successfully conquered the Egyptian fortress of Pelusium by placing cats sacred to the Egyptians in front of his army - and Egyptian archers didn't start shooting for fear of harming the cats. As a result of winning the battle of Pelusium, the Persians captured all of Egypt with almost no further struggle. Open / Comment

2022-04-20 11:05:01 Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) at a meeting in Hendaye, France, October 1940.

Hitler hoped that Franco would let German troops through to Gibraltar at the talks, and the ardent anti-Semite shakes hands with the Spanish Marran (a baptized Jew). After the meeting, Hitler told his cronies that he would rather let him rip out his healthy tooth than meet Franco again. If Franco had let the German troops through and they had taken Gibraltar, it would have been, without exaggeration, a disaster for Britain. But he refused to do so, which paid off for him after the war, when, despite the diplomatic demarches of the USSR, the United States and Britain left him in power. Open / Comment

2022-04-19 19:03:00 The plague doctors known to all wore a special mask with a beak. However, this beak was not intended to intimidate: they wore a variety of strong-smelling substances, such as cloth soaked in vinegar, flowers, herbs, or camphor.

It was believed that the plague spread through special "miasmas," and such a peculiar filter was supposed to stop them. By the way, this costume appeared only in the XVII century, so it has nothing to do with the Middle Ages. Open / Comment

2022-04-19 15:03:00 Cleo de Merode is the woman who topped the first-ever rating of beauties.

A French dancer born in the late 19th century who became one of the most famous women in the world for her beauty.

She received the title "Queen of Beauty" of the French magazine "Illustración", which compiled the world's first ranking of the world's beauties in 1896. Open / Comment

2022-04-19 11:03:01 A British serviceman stands at the grave of his compatriot killed in an air battle. The inscription, in German, translates as follows: "Here lies an unknown British lieutenant killed in air combat, 14.06.1941." In the background we can see the tail with part of the fuselage of a British American-made Martin Maryland bomber. Open / Comment

2022-04-18 19:03:01 Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the richest Romans in the 1st century B.C., made much of his fortune through fires.

As soon as he learned about a burning building, he immediately offered to buy it back for a sum significantly lower than the market value of the property. The same offers were made to the owners of neighboring houses, to which the fire could spread at any moment.

If a deal was struck, an army of 500 of Crassus' slaves would immediately set out to extinguish and then quickly repair the damage. Otherwise, no help was given by Crassus to fight the fire. Open / Comment

2022-04-18 18:00:12 Fatal error is officially allowed on Telegram

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2022-04-18 15:03:00 The ancient Greeks Zaleucus and Charondas wrote the first laws for the cities of Italy and ensured that they were not changed too often. Whoever wished to make an amendment had to come to the people's assembly with a noose around his neck, and if the amendment was not accepted, he had to strangle himself on the spot. Only two improvements were made in three hundred years Open / Comment

2022-04-18 11:03:00 That demonstration was organized on the occasion of Thanksgiving Day, celebrated in the city of Bückeburg in 1934. The number of participants was estimated at 700,000.

As the Germans, who didn't support the NSDAP, were told, even they were shocked by the magnitude of the event. No one had ever seen anything like it before that moment. Witnesses and participants spoke of a sense of national unity, emotional elation, incredible enthusiasm, and a mood for change for the better.

When the Germans headed back to their tents after the demonstration, they could still see huge lightning flashes in the sky. Open / Comment