In the middle of the 19th century, one person absolutely needs to get rich. And in California there is just a gold rush, but he is frail and weak, the profession of a miner is absolutely alien to him. All his advantages are that he is a polyglot – he speaks a bunch of languages. But who did it help to dig holes and sift sand? What should he do?
When they brought five-year-old Busya Goldstein to Stolyarsky, he remembered this and said later: “I immediately noticed three main advantages of Busya – wonderful fingers, excellent hearing and an excellent sense of rhythm.”
Even at the beginning of this millennium, home computer memory exceeded a billion bytes — that’s a lot. Nevertheless, the ability to save two bytes seemed important to someone. And as a result, the forecast of the possible damage from this savings was about half a trillion dollars – it looks like it happened somewhere! What could have caused such damage?
The Bahamas is far from Odessa. How do you remember Copperfield in his grandfather’s homeland? They know, of course, but somehow this is not specifically noted anywhere – not to erect a monument to a living person, for this you need to be Zhvanetsky, but this is still a slightly different level …
At the end of the 19th century, the head of the railway station bought a lot of watches on the cheap and sold them at a considerable profit. How can he correctly understand what he was doing and what he should do? Not by trading in watches, of course – but by what?
Strong attention, despite all the sympathy for the homeland, Hoffman is not pampered. True, in 2017, the post of Ukraine issued a stamp dedicated to Hoffman. Not bad for a start, but, frankly, quite modest so far … But inexpensive – only 5 UAH. That’s how we economical … The list of Hoffman’s awards and prizes on Wikipedia is huge – there are more than thirty of them. Most of all from America, there are gold medals from the USSR, and even from Russia, and nothing from Ukraine! Surely we are saving the sovereign penny …
The vain and gullible 17th century French poet Henri Poissonnier was cruelly deceived by his friends. At their instigation, he stood for hours at the blazing fireplace, painfully getting used to its heat. Why did he do this, my God ?! And what word was born because of this?
Why did he decide to become a physician, moreover, he immediately chose ophthalmology, the art of healing eye diseases? They say that even in his youth he saw a blind man with a stick, was amazed and exclaimed: “Everyone should see the sun!”
Then this phrase became the motto of the institute he created
The spring ice drift damaged the cable laid along the bottom of the river and made it impossible to cross to the other side. But just at this time, it became necessary to transmit an important message to the opposite side of the river. Where did the young telegraph operator run to do it?
In 2005, the Kangaroo Meat Producers Association of Australia sponsored a competition for a new name for their product. Various names have been suggested – from the elementary “kangaroo meat” (kangasaurus) to the exotic “marsupan”, because a kangaroo is a marsupial animal. But the winner was named “australatina” (australus), proposed by a participant from the United States
And what about Exter’s memory in Ukraine? A number of her works are exhibited at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and this is wonderful. But that’s all. Look at the house she lived in. Bohdan Khmelnitsky 27/1 — is there a memorial plaque there? Still no. It is clear — everything is as usual…
Burritos, tacos, and nachos, famous Mexican dishes, were not popular with American youth at first.
How did the Taco Bell brand manage to increase the sales of these dishes to the young population tenfold?