Riddle of the Celestial Metal Balls
The press has repeatedly reported mysterious metal balls that come across people in different parts of the world. In 1966, in the state of Arkansas (USA) several eyewitnesses observed how…

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Unsolved mystery of the 20th century: "Loss of aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle"
After a long break, the editors decided to continue a series of articles on unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. The hype around the Bermuda Triangle began in 1945 after…

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Unsolved mystery of the 20th century: "Philadelphia experiment with the ship"
Let's continue the series of articles on unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. This time let's talk about the experiment to create an invisible warship. On a gloomy October morning…

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Prophecies of the Yorkshire Witch
Predictions have always interested mankind, but ordinary people have always been admired by the gift of a soothsayer and fear, sometimes turning into hatred. Not passed this cup and Mother…

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Accessories panopticon and their application

The history of the use of accessories goes back thousands of years. In 1949, in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, a picture of a man with a so-called magic rod was found on the walls of one of the caves (otherwise, Jacob’s rod, a water prospecting or rudous mine). It is believed that this image is at least eight thousand years old! The time is set after studying the dye used to apply the pattern.
There are many descriptions of the use of the rod in the era of the pharaohs. The Chinese owned this method for 2200 BC. Plutarch wrote about the use of the wand. Continue reading

The most interesting person of the XIX century

The most interesting personality of the XIX century, Russian writer, teacher, music critic Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky (1803 – 1869), the last representative of the ancient princely family of the Rurik dynasty, the organizer of the Society of Lyubomudriya, publisher of the magazine “Mnemozina”, one of the founders of the magazine “Moscow Herald” and co-editor of Pushkin’s Sovremennik, assistant director of the St. Petersburg Public Library and director of the Rumyantsev Museum, enthusiastically collected various facts attributed to the category of superstition and prejudice. A part of the collected materials was published by the prince in the journal “Notes of the Fatherland” in the article “Sorcery of the XIX Century” in 1839.
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Divination: superstition or knowledge?

Our world is the house in which our ancestors lived, we live, our children will live …
However, considering the cultural heritage of the ancestors, we are far from always able to understand the true causes of the emergence of ancient rites, their roots, meaning, and sometimes do not understand the essence of the patterns that manifest themselves in them. Sometimes it is easy to understand them. More often – centuries pass, and we are marking time, stretching our hands helplessly about the toga that we have encountered. Continue reading