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Lukomorye - not a fairytale land? The prologue to "Ruslan and Lyudmila" mentions the word Lukomorye. Interestingly, this name was mentioned on Western European maps of the 16th-18th centuries. It denoted the territory adjacent to the eastern shore of the Ob Bay next to Obdora. Lukomorye is also mentioned in ancient Russian chronicles. This name was given to a place in the lower reaches of the Dnieper, where the Polovtsians lived, and the Polovtsians were called Lukomorye. Lukomorye was also the name of the territory to which the Golden Horde army had to retreat after its defeat in the Battle of Kulikovo.

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In ancient Rome, a criminal could be punished by a duel in the Colosseum with a wild animal, such as a lion. This is exactly the fate that Emperor Gallienus inscribed on a merchant who sold the monarch's wife counterfeit jewelry. And when the merchant stood in the arena, a chicken emerged from the cage instead of a lion, causing general merriment. Gallienus declared, "He deceived and was deceived," and then sent the merchant home.

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The expression "The game is not worth the candle" The expression is based on a card term that means that the stakes in the game are so small that even the winnings will be less than the money spent on candles to light the card table.

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In 1959, English teacher Anthony Burgess fainted during a lesson. He had a brain tumor and, according to the doctor, he had no more than a year to live. Burgess decided that he should leave his wife some money and began writing feverishly. This is how A Clockwork Orange (1962) and several other novels were written. And the writer somehow recovered (by melting his tumor into a novel), lived for more than 30 years and died in 1993 from lung cancer.

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Sedden found a dying crocodile on the riverbank, shot in the left eye. He took it away in a boat and nursed it back to health for six months at his home, where he not only fed and gave it medicine, but also cuddled the reptile, which he named Pocho. When Pocho recovered, Gilberto took him to the river, but it followed him back to the house and began living in a pond nearby. They began swimming together every day, playing and cuddling, and later Gilberto began putting on a show for tourists. In 2011, Pocho died of old age.

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The IBM 350 hard drive in the first production computer, the IBM 305 RAMAC, released in 1956, occupied a box the size of a large refrigerator and weighed 971 kg, and the total memory capacity of the 50 thin disks with a diameter of 610 mm, coated with pure iron, rotating in it was about 5 million 6-bit words (3.5 MB in terms of 8-bit words - bytes).

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Workers during the construction of the Forth Road Bridge. Scotland, 1961.

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Pablo Escobar in one of his money vaults with rubber bands scattered around. Colombia, 1982.

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A huge wave covers a lighthouse off the coast of France, 1989.

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US resident Donald Groske has been eating at least one Big Mac every day for 50 years During this time, the man ate more than 32 thousand pieces. He saved the receipt and the box from each burger, which helped him enter this record into the Guinness Book of Records. Most often, he eats two a day The American tried burgers at McDonald's in every state, Canada and some other countries Over half a century, he missed only 8 days, on one of which he got to the restaurant through a snowstorm, but it was closed

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A tram driver stops to give an apple to an elephant. London, 1936.

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Winston Churchill was a poor student. Our gallery opens with a classic and ingrained case. The lazy Winston, the eldest son of aristocratic parents, had an aversion to the educational process from a very young age. It’s not that he was hopelessly stupid: teachers regularly found him in some secluded corner with a book that was too old for his age. However, Churchill categorically refused to do his homework, work in class, or even try in any way. The poor student Winston later received the Nobel Prize in Literature. “School has nothing in common with education,” Churchill wrote. “It is an institution of control, where children are taught the basic skills of community life.”

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The original cast of Star Wars. We watched ?

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In 1988, Trump bought New York's famous Plaza Hotel, appointed his wife Ivana as its manager, and invested $50 million in renovations. This photo was taken in 1994, showing employees cheering Trump's refusal to sell the hotel to the Sultan of Brunei for $300 million. A year later, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bought a controlling stake in the Plaza for $325 million.

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Train with the Great Salt Lake in Utah in the background, April 1923.

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Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord in the Ascension Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin (1518), architect Aleviz Fryazin (the Old), real name Aloisio da Caresano. The cathedral was destroyed in 1929.

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John Rockefeller dreamed of earning $100,000 and living to be 100, but he earned $192 million and died at 97. Not all dreams come true.

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Gerard Omel, one of the most famous mountaineers who climbed Everest many times and also climbed other great mountain peaks, died after falling from a two-meter stepladder while changing a light bulb at home.

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American military aircraft Douglas C-47 Skytrain flies over the pyramids of Giza. Egypt. 1943.

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The yacht "Endless Sea" ("Mar Sem Fim") sunk in Antarctica. The wreck occurred on the night of April 7, 2012 in Antarctica in Ardley Bay, in Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands archipelago, in the same bay where the Russian Antarctic Bellingshausen Station is located.

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