Miscellaneous 2024, May

In the rugged jungles of Sudan and Congo, the mysterious Azande people live, whose language, way of life, traditions, rituals and beliefs have remained unchanged for many centuries.- Salik.bizTerrible savagesThe British colonialists who appeared on the lands of the Azande tribe in the 19th century were amazed by the primitive way of life of this people, who stubbornly did not want to join the benefits of European civilization

It has long been known that traditions are of great importance and must be honored. Usually, traditions mean various restrictions and in many respects this is so. But there are those who, on the contrary, permit what is usually prohibited.This is the case with the Tsamai tribe of Ethiopia

Bushmen are one of the most mysterious and unusual tribes. Ethnographers who study the Bushmen still do not know many of their secrets and are surprised at the life of this little people …- Salik.bizNaive peopleThis nomadic tribe has lived in Africa since time immemorial. W

In Namibia, the Himbu tribe lives, in which the date of birth of a child is considered, and not the moment of his birth, and not the date of his conception, but the day when his mother thought to have a child. When a woman decides to have a child, she retires somewhere under a tree and listens to the silence until she hears the songs of a child asking for the world

Our compatriot Vladimir Zverev from St. Petersburg and Anatoly Khizhnyak from Moscow have made several trips in recent years to the Amazon, a distant, mysterious and largely unexplored territory in South America. Moving in small boats along the Amazon and its tributaries, wading through the thickets of the rainforest, our travelers got to places where a European has never gone before

Where do many earthlings disappear without a trace? What is behind the paranormal? Where do original knowledge and artifacts come from in our world? Obviously, our consciousness is able to draw information from other worlds.- Salik.bizNot everyone agreesThe famous Moscow physicist Mikhail Mensky (1939–2015) answered such questions with the help of the many-worlds version of quantum mechanics. I

Last year, a good friend of mine visited Nilgiri - translated as Blue Mountains - in southern India in the state of Tamil Nadu. He brought photographs of beautiful people and said a little about them, namely, they are light magicians, who obey the little ugly dwarfs mulu-kurumba, evil sorcerers who kill with a glance

Relationships between people are never easy. And if we are talking about the interaction of members of society in various spheres of life, then everything becomes generally extremely complicated. In modern countries, several systems and institutions simultaneously operate at once that regulate people's relations with each other: family law, criminal and administrative codes, police and courts, a religious set of rules, some kind of moral and moral laws, even if unwritten, but g

The mysterious journey in the middle of 1911 was organized by the then well-known company called Sanetti. The trip was intended only for members of Italy's wealthy and influential families. The journey was organized on a small train with only a locomotive and three passenger carriages

A mysterious story took place in the Ozherelye microdistrict. Kashira. There, a 68-year-old man mysteriously disappeared, and a video surveillance camera installed on the staircase showed that the pensioner did not leave the apartment.The last time Sergey Ponkratov got in touch was on April 12

The phenomenon of missing persons near national parks in the United States is becoming an increasingly visible problem as the number of unexplained disappearances of children and adults increases.For decades, large numbers of people have gone missing across the country, especially in places like Lake Tahoe and Mount Charleston in the Nevada region

Ethnic diversity on Earth is striking in its abundance. People living in different parts of the world are at the same time similar to each other, but at the same time they are very different in their way of life, customs, language. In this article, we'll talk about some of the unusual tribes that you might be interested in learning about

In 1970, Boris Georgievich Rezhabek (then - a novice researcher, now - a candidate of biological sciences, director of the Institute of Noospheric Research and Development), conducting research on an isolated nerve cell, proved that a single nerve cell has the ability to search for optimal behavior, elements of memory and learning …- Salik.bi

The authorities of the American state of Washington allowed the bodies of deceased people to be used as fertilizer. It is reported by BBC News. State Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill into law on Tuesday, May 21. According to the document, composting is seen as an alternative to standard burial or cremation: the body of the deceased is placed in a hexagonal steel container filled with alfalfa, sawdust and straw

The AST Nonfiction publishing house has published a sequel to the best-selling forensic physician Alexei Reshetun, dedicated to his difficult work (according to the first book, we made the hit test "What kind of forensic expert are you?" The new book is called Between Lives

Thus, people who have moved to another world will be able to pay their last debt to the state. There are innovative technologies that cause some confusion. Know-how recently applied by two Swiss crematoria, among them

The largest crematorium in Switzerland has created the technology for the extraction of precious metals from 6,000 bodies that are cremated annually at this facility. However, at the moment only one body out of three is selected for the filtering process

These are not otherworldly beings who return from the grave to drink the blood of their victims and gain eternal life. At first glance, these are the most ordinary people. They have one feature - an incomprehensible addiction to drinking blood

A vampire is a powerful creature with many supernatural powers. Depending on which people the legends about vampires belong to, they can turn into fog and bats, command animals and change their appearance.The vampire, according to the legends, is quite difficult, but still possible to defeat

When a person dies, his usual body is buried or burned

Serbs are worried about vampires again! A local resident's complaint about regular visits to blood-sucking monsters came to the Bor police station

A strange tradition on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, has existed since 1905 - excavate the corpses of relatives every 3 years. For residents, such a ceremony is very important, because this is how they show their relatives their love and respect

After the death of 112-year-old Briton Bob Wayton, 111-year-old resident of the Romanian city of Bucharest Dumitru Comanescu became the oldest man in the world. The secret of its longevity was revealed by the site Romania-Insider.com.According to a press release from the Bucharest Center for the Elderly, Comanescu has been named the oldest man by the Research Gerontology Group (GRG), a global group of multidisciplinary researchers that screen and track super-centenarians

Professor Samuil Abramovich Voronov was born on July 10, 1866 in Shekhmani, Tambov province of the Russian Empire. At the age of 18 he left for France, where he studied medicine at the university. Upon graduation, he became a student of Alexis Karrel

Hungarian scientists were amazed by the cave salamander, which for 7 years did not change its position. This creature will outlive them all.Cave salamanders (Proteus anguinus), they are also European proteas, they are olms, which locals call "human fish" (chovechiјa ribitsa), marveling at their pale pink - downright human - skin, the rarest creatures

Biologists from George Washington University and Rockefeller University have found that during evolution, turtle ants have repeatedly changed their head shape, which can be used to judge the "specialization" of the insect. An article about the discovery was published in the PNAS journal

It has long been known that one of the most effective popularizers of evolution "concocted" some drawings, but only now has the breathtaking breadth of his deception been revealed.Most people have heard and been taught the idea that the human embryo, during the first few months of its development in the womb, goes through (or briefly repeats) various evolutionary stages, such as having gills like a fish, a tail like a monkey, and so on

In 1611, Johannes Kepler, a future famous astronomer, presented an unusual New Year gift to his benefactor. The scientist presented his patron with a witty, well-founded scientific work on the topic of why snowflakes (more precisely, ice crystals) have six corners

“As a child, I often composed deliberate nonsense and, moreover, always only in order to surprise others. Once, for example, I plucked many excellent fruits from the trees that belonged to my father, hid them in the bushes, and then ran headlong to spread the news that I had found a warehouse of stolen fruit.”

The most insidious and destructive ideology ever imposed on the mind of modern man is the idea that people are just animals and the descendants of other, more primitive creatures. It is known as the theory of organic evolution. This concept has been reflected in recent years in books such as Man, Animal (1986) by Phil Donahue, and in an early issue, The Naked Ape (1967), as described by the zoologist Desmond Morris

Thousands of years ago, on the site of the largest sandy desert on planet Earth, savannahs stretched. There were trees and lakes, people and animals lived there. Now humanity is trying to return the lifeless Sahara to its former appearance. Read about this and other large-scale environmental projects in the material

"Heavenly burial" ((jhator (Wiley: bya gtor) is the main type of burial in Tibet and in a number of areas adjacent to Tibet. It is also called "giving alms to birds." According to Tibetan beliefs, the soul leaves the body at the time of death, and the person on In all stages of life, one should try to be beneficial, therefore the dead body is fed to the birds as the last manifestation of charity

Who needs an ancient horse, a mammoth with traces of kitchen butchery and an abandoned human grave

Malay bears can mimic each other's facial expressions. This conclusion was reached by a group of British scientists after their study, the results of which were reported by The Daily Telegraph

Common crows (Corvus corax) have a developed ability to empathize - say scientists from Austria, who have found that the behavior of one representative of this species can depend on the state of his relative, which he is watching.It is interesting that only the negative state of the birds is "contagious"

Birds do not have to go through a negative experience with a person to consider it threatening - they can use warnings from neighbors.Scientists from the University of Exeter have found that jackdaws evaluate a person as potentially dangerous, using not only information about him that they received from their own experience, but also information that they received from neighbors in the nest

At the just-ended GastroSummit conference in Stockholm on the future of food, Swedish professor Magnus Söderlund said that for the planet to survive under the influence of "climate change", people need to radically change their way of life including diet

In Turkey, a truly shocking event is taking place, nonhumans harvest organs from the children of Syrian immigrants while they are still alive. Lebanese newspaper ad-Diyar reported that Turkish authorities were transporting young children and wounded Syrians entering Turkey to hospitals in Antalya and Iskenderun in vehicles controlled by Turkish police and security services

Robert Maudsley celebrated his 64th birthday this year. He has spent his last 39 years in prison in solitary confinement (more than anyone in British history).Robert Maudsley was born in Liverpool in 1953. He had 11 brothers and sisters. He grew up in a dysfunctional family, so he spent several years in an orphanage

An ordinary-looking local came to the police station in Eastcourt, South Africa, and immediately stated:At first, the police thought that this man had gotten a cigarette, but in the bag with him he really had parts of a dismembered human body, or rather arms and legs