Secrets of history 2024, October

Taiwanese scientists have shown that the wood from which Antonio Stradivari's violins are made is very different in chemical composition from the composition of the wood of modern violins

January 22 (January 11) 1783 - Catherine II signed a decree introducing the post of commander of the Black Sea Fleet. This day can be considered the actual birthday of the Black Sea Fleet, although it is officially celebrated in honor of the call on May 13, 1783, 11 ships of the Azov flotilla into the Akhtiar Bay

Many historians point out that the love of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II for France at times reached some irrational proportions. For example, in the interests of the French allies, he plunged the Russian army, which was far from ready for large-scale hostilities, into the disastrous First World War

Have you ever thought about who invented the musical notation and why exactly Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si, and what do these letters actually mean? Today Muzobzor will share with you interesting information about the origin of the notes and reveal the secret of their name

We are already accustomed to the fact that notes have always been the way we know them. But where did their names come from? What's the point?The staff of the staff has its own curious history. For the first time, the 6th century Neoplatonist philosopher Boethius decided to write notes using Latin symbols

In the late 80s of the last century, when perestroika was in full swing in the USSR, foreign celebrities, from politicians to musicians, began to filter into the country through the leaky Iron Curtain.In 1988, the famous Pink Floyd group, previously banned in the Land of the Soviets, arrived in Moscow almost incognito

On January 27, 1756, the great Austrian composer and conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. Throughout his life, he wrote more than 600 pieces of music, which have become almost the main property of the classics

In Turkey, during excavation work in the ancient city of Adrianople, an ancient slab was discovered, which depicts a silhouette, presumably, of the goddess of harvest and agriculture, Demeter.According to the Daily Sabah, the ancient slab was discovered in the Turkish province of North Karabuk

Dr. Seth Pancoast wrote: "Newton was led to the discovery of physical laws (the forces of attraction and rejection) through the study of Kabbalah."A Latin translation of The Zohar Kabbala Denudata was found in Newton's library and is now kept at Trinity College in Cambridge

Isaac Newton's missing manuscript has been found in the hiding places of the Royal Society Library of London. On 22 pages of the manuscript, the greatest physicist appears before us in an unusual guise - - alchemist

The United States Chemical Heritage Foundation acquired a manuscript alchemical manuscript written by Isaac Newton. Prior to that, the book had been in a private collection for several decades. Acquisition reported by Chemistry World

Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, one of the most influential scientists in history, was also a successful alchemist and even owes part of his scientific heritage to this mysterious craft

Isaac Newton - an outstanding English scientist who laid the foundations of classical mechanics, physics and mathematics. Few people know that he was also the most knowledgeable of the alchemists. In the twentieth century. Newton's personal manuscripts were deciphered

Employees of the American Chemical Heritage Foundation received a method for making "philosophical mercury"

In search of a cipher that can open a cryptex, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu find themselves in London. Here they find themselves in Westminster Skos Abbey, where the tomb of Isaac Newton is located - first British scholar to be knighted

January 4 marked the 375th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding English scientist Biographers did a great job - thanks to their stories, we know not only about Newton's scientific discoveries in the field of physics, astronomy, mechanics, mathematics

As you know, there were no alchemists in Russia. In the 18th century, without any magical prehistory, chemistry immediately appeared in our country together with the first domestic chemist, Mikhail Lomonosov

The Soviet government committed a lot of evil and blasphemy against the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox faith. The militant atheism of the councils desecrated shrines, exterminated priests, destroyed churches, and oppressed the faith

Life is a difficult thing, sometimes it writes out such tricks that you are amazed. There are, for example, such cases when soldiers in a war have to fight first for one side, and then for the other. But this character has outdone everyone.What is such a separate person in world history?

20 years ago, Russian army colonel Yuri Budanov allegedly raped and killed a local girl Elsa Kungaeva during a counter-terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic. Let us remember those events, touch on Budanov's personality and tell how he was in prison

Discussions about who was the prototype of Isaev-Shtirlitsa, in fact, only confuse the issue of the activities of Soviet agents at the top of the Third Reich. How great were the possibilities of Stirlitz and his prototypes, if people worked for the Kremlin who had a short contact not with Bormann-Müller, but with Hitler himself?

Struggle of capitalIn November 1918, the First World War, which began in August 1914 at the initiative of European finance capital and, above all, its leading core represented by the Rothschild banking family, ended.- Salik.bizThe goal of the First World War was a radical political reorganization of Europe with the aim of dramatically improving the possibilities for the further exploitation of European countries by financial capital

As you know, a chatterbox is a godsend for a spy. It was no coincidence that an agent of West German intelligence entered this pub in the Soviet sector of Berlin: what if something interesting comes from the tipsy visitors? That evening he was incredibly lucky: at the next table, a well-dressed gentleman shared with his friends: "Finally, I got an artificial diamond

Thanks to historical and adventure novels filmed in the same vein, films, popular TV shows, video games, etc. most of us have formed a whole set of stable associations associated with pirates and sea robbery: these are boarding battles, and chests full of gold and precious stones, and distant uninhabited islands on which these chests are buried, and barrels of Jamaican being emptied after a successful raid

Dr. John Wilkins (1614-1672) is a renowned natural philosopher, or naturalist, and rector of Wadham College in downtown Oxford. Although Wilkins was a well-educated intellectual and had the opportunity to engage in any scientific research in any direction, he was simply fixated on the fact that people should go to the moon and meet its inhabitants, whose existence the scientist had no doubt about

From the reports it becomes clear: the United States underestimated the space capabilities of the USSR In fact, both countries actively spied on each other's space plans

The sensational discovery made by German scientists on the eve of the Second World War about fission of uranium seriously agitated American physicists

The US invasion of Panama is the first ever US intervention to be theoretically justified by the US government using the slogans of "restore democracy" and "preserve democracy."Let's remember how it was …- Salik.bizEVENTS THAT LEADED TO THE INVASIONn1. T

The Second World War has not yet ended, and a new clash of the world's leading powers looms on the horizon. The Soviet Union, which made the greatest contribution to the defeat of Hitlerite Germany, as the victor began to impose its own order in the occupied Eastern Europe

Over the past half century, the inhabitants of the planet have been on the verge of death several times, however, few people know about this. At that moment, only a miracle saved us all.This case became known only in 2015, when the US authorities officially allowed the veteran Bortn to tell a story that happened in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis

Before the Mongol-Tatar invasion, lunar pendants were the favorite adornment of the Slavs. They came in various shapes, were worn as a single pendant or made into necklaces. With the advent of Christianity, they continued to be worn, sometimes combined with a cross

Currently, the Earth has only one natural satellite - the Moon. But relatively recently - some 6-7 thousand years ago - two moons could be seen above our planet

For almost 45 years, a Soviet biological weapons testing center existed on a godforsaken island in the middle of the Aral Sea. A residential town with a school, shops, post office, canteen, scientific laboratories and, of course, a testing ground where large-scale tests of deadly biological agents, including anthrax, plague, tularemia, brucellosis, typhoid, took place

Interpretation of the events of Russian history XII - XVI centuries lately it has become an acute issue, the subject of fierce disputes. Of course: after all, quite a few sources have survived from this time, and to hide the forgery (committed in the 17th century

Among illiterate people, the myth is very common that there are no pure Russians, since the Tatar-Mongol yoke remained in Russia for a fairly long time.And the Eastern Slavs allegedly mixed with almost the whole world. Therefore, many people rely on old misconceptions that have long been debunked

The Tatar-Mongols created the largest empire in history. Their state stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea. Where did the people who controlled a quarter of the earth's land disappear to? There were no Mongolo-Tatars Mongolo-Tatars or Tatar-Mongols?

In almost any book on the era we are considering, you will find the word exceptional, applied to the Mongol conquests. The Mongols could not have conquered anything in any way, but they showed exceptional qualities

The leading group of the Tatar ethnic group is the Kazan Tatars. And now, few people doubt that the Bulgars were their ancestors. How did it happen that the Bulgars became Tatars? Versions of the origin of this ethnonym are very curious

In the ancient - pre-Mongolian - The Russians went to bewitch the Finns, from which it follows that they were recognized as more skillful in magic than their healers. This belief was very tenacious

The story of how Peter ordered the icons not to cry in Soviet times wandered from one atheistic brochure to another