"It has a significant healing effect: it strengthens the stomach, stops vomiting, stimulates appetite and cleanses the blood;promotes blood circulation, has a beneficial effect on the lungs, give...

Planet Earth. A view from space. Caravel swiftly cut heavy waves. The captain, having determined the position of the Polar Star and performing calculations, bent over the globe - they had been...

Machine for irrigation of fields, levers and cables for raising heavy weights, military throwing machines - these and many other inventions and discoveries of the Syracuse sage Archimedes produce...

Remember, what mess began in the house when one of the characters of Jerome K. Jerome's story "Three in a boat( not counting a dog)" - Uncle Podger undertook to do something for au pair? Once he ...

. .. The god Apollo was angry at Achilles and sent the arrow of Paris to his heel, the one and only place that was dangerous for the great hero. After all, his mother redeemed him in the sacred wa...

One summer morning in 1817, despite the early times, the entire German city of Karlsruhe was on its feet. There was a funny spectacle - a competition in speed between the post coach and the "craz...

At the end of the 17th century the Russian carpenter Peter Mikhailov came to Holland. He tried to be no different from other masters. Life led the most ordinary - he studied shipbuilding, went to...

It is not forbidden to write and draw on the walls of houses in ancient Rome. And the residents willingly did it. And since there were enough literate people, there were so many inscriptions t...

At the end of July 1904, a large black cloud from Moscow was coming from the south-east, from which a huge trunk hung. One of the fire brigades took him by the smoke and rushed to put out the fir...

That night in 1565, a storm broke out in the English county of Cumberland. It was raining all the time, and the gusts of the wind were so strong that even the young strong trees bent to the groun...

The education of children from the ancient Romans was not very fond. But, like all caring parents, they, of course, tried to please the kids with a good toy. Usually toys are given for exemplary ...

This happened in July 1951.One of the women of Novgorod walked along the street, where archaeologists had recently worked. On the 14th century road, freed from the earth's thickness, she saw a de...

The English Queen Elizabeth Tudor, who ruled during the time of Shakespeare, paid exceptional attention to clothing and ornaments, not only for her own, but also for her courtiers. A luxurious, q...

"And then there's the land where all the people with their heads are haggard", - scared the townsfolk of the town of Kalinova, the talkative wanderer Feklush from the drama of A. Ostrovsky "The S...

Do you remember the lines from IA Krylov's fable? Do you know what gives an oak except acorns? Of course, valuable wood that is hard to rot and very beautiful after processing. The bark, with ...

Ambassadors of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyry, who arrived in Baghdad, were amazed. In the palace of the caliph stood a giant fairy tree, the trunk and branches of which were made...

Prince Potemkin gave a holiday in honor of the Empress Catherine II in the Tauride Palace. Of course, the prince's attire did not differ modestly, especially a hat that shone with diamonds. This ...

In March 1912, in the United States, police arrested a Frenchman, Lee de Forest, along with accomplices, accusing them of fraud. The case turned out to be sensational, because the main defendant ...