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2022-05-20 02:21:09 Remote Work calls for Latvian Native speaker!

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2022-05-19 21:18:00 "We are the partisans who shot at the German troops". Soviet underground fighters before their execution. Center - 17-year-old Maria Bruskina, left - Kirill Trus, right - Volodya Scherbatsevich. Minsk. USSR. October 26, 1941. Open / Comment

2022-05-19 17:18:00 The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR writes to the Central Bureau for Personnel Records of Losses in the Active Army. May 12, 1942.

"...I transmit to you the German, Romanian and Italian lists of Soviet POWs and the lists of dead Soviet POWs received by the NKID through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
I draw your attention to the fact that we have not responded to the repeated offers of the International Committee of the Red Cross to exchange information on prisoners of war with the Germans and their allies. You must take this into account when using the above lists and not enter into any correspondence with the International Committee of the Red Cross in this regard ...". Open / Comment

2022-05-19 14:18:00 Leo Tolstoy learned to ride a bicycle at the age of 67. And even got the right, without which it was forbidden to ride a bike in Moscow.

The popular science magazine "Scientific American" reported in 1896: "Count Leo Tolstoy ... now rides a bicycle, astonishing the peasants on his estate”. Open / Comment

2022-05-18 21:18:00 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to take part in any public events on Tuesdays because three members of his family had died on that day of the week. In the end, he decided to do away with the "silly prejudice”.

One Tuesday, the king paid an official visit to Marseilles and was shot and killed by a terrorist. Open / Comment

2022-05-18 17:18:00 Near the location of German troops. Bulgaria. World War II. 1941.

Bulgaria officially entered World War II on the side of the Axis countries on December 13, 1941, declaring war on the United States and Great Britain, but was the only ally of Germany, which had not broken off diplomatic relations with the USSR and, consequently, did not fight against the USSR. Open / Comment

2022-05-18 16:00:17 Japanese invasion

In the 19th century in Japan there was a tradition called "Yobai". It consisted in the fact that a man could sneak into any girl's house, get under the blanket and... Open / Comment

2022-05-18 14:18:00 The skeleton of a whale in the Egyptian desert.

This representative of archaeocetes, literally ancient whales, swam in local waters tens of millions of years ago. Archaeocetes appeared in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. The last archaeocete, most likely belonging to the Basilosaurus, went extinct in the Oligocene.

In the winter of 1902-1903, well-preserved archaeocete fossils were found 150 km southwest of Cairo. Today, the site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is referred to by no other name than Wadi al-Hitan, that is, the Valley of the Whales. Open / Comment

2022-05-17 21:18:00 In 1968, DPRK troops seized the American reconnaissance ship Pueblo and began to make the sailors work for Korean propaganda.

They noticed that some Korean films about the West did not cut out the gesture of the raised middle finger. Convinced that the North Koreans simply didn't know its meaning, the sailors began to show their middle fingers in all photographs, explaining that the gesture meant wishing the Hawaiians good luck. Open / Comment

2022-05-17 19:00:15 According to writer Alexander Moritz Fry, who served in the same regiment as Hitler during World War I, the future Führer originally wore a rather bouffant mustache similar to that of German Emperor Wilhelm II.

However, he had to shave it off by order of his commander and leave the characteristic "toothbrush" because it prevented him from putting on his gas mask properly. Open / Comment