Mysterious disappearance of people in Alaska
Why are almost two times more people lost in Alaska than living there? Local search and rescue teams conduct hundreds of operations each year, but do not find signs of…

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About the "end of the world."
Rumors about the upcoming lightning apocalypse, of course, did not arise from scratch. The ancient Mayan people considered time as cycles of 5,125 years each. The beginning of the last…

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Time travel - fantasy or reality?
In 1895, English science fiction writer Gerber Wells released the novel "The Time Machine." It presented an original idea: someday scientists will create a device that allows you to travel…

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Extreme life forms can dwell in the universe.
To date, astronomers have discovered in the universe already a sufficient number of different planets - from hot worlds with hot surfaces to cold frozen ice balls. While the search…

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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

Extreme life forms can dwell in the universe.
To date, astronomers have discovered in the universe already a sufficient number of different planets - from hot worlds with hot surfaces to cold frozen ice balls. While the search…

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Unsolved mystery of the 20th century: "Piri Reis Card"
The mystery of the mysterious Piri Reis map was not included in the series of articles about unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. We decided to correct this inaccuracy and…

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