Where did the teddy bear come from

Today, for most children and adults, the Teddy bear is a touching gray teddy bear Me to you. However, in comparison with its brown predecessors, the modern bear is still very young. He is only a little over 10 years old. How did the first Teddy bears appear? How they initially looked and how later ...

For years she worked as a waitress and a cleaner: how a Ukrainian woman in the USA decided to change her profession at the age of 49

The relevance of the well-known proverb that it is never too late to learn was proved by Yaroslava Tkachuk by her own example. At the age of 49, a Ukrainian woman who has cleaned houses in the United States for years, completed a course and passed the exam for an American realtor's license. This is stated in the video clip Voices ...

The man lost 86 kg thanks to a deal he made with children

As Josh Gretz's career progressed, he took on larger projects. But this often meant that he skipped exercise and ate not very healthy foods. Reflecting on his life before his 37th birthday, he realized that his self-esteem was not quite ...

Ten strongest earthquakes in California history

California is a seismically active area, and concerns about strong tremors are always present here. Researchers have an extensive historical database of powerful seismic shocks in California, which is also called the center of earthquakes in the United States. GOBankingRates has compiled a list of 10...

About the Paramount Building in Times Square, cinematography, the legendary film studio, and Adolf Zukor

Walking through Times Square (How can we not bring guests here?), We involuntarily find ourselves at the front entrance to this building. But today only the surviving name of Paramount reminds us of the times when the headquarters of the legendary film studio and one of the largest ...

New Hampshire built a utopia without laws and taxes: it was destroyed by dreamers and bears

The history of the American city of Grafton goes back more than two centuries. Its inhabitants were distinguished by a particular hatred of paying taxes, which attracted the attention of modern libertarians. They decided to build in Grafton the ideal anarcho-capitalist society without unnecessary regulation. But they did not take into account that next ...

How vaccines changed the world: the history of vaccinations from the XNUMXth century to the present day

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced humanity to remember how dangerous and destructive outbreaks of infectious diseases can be and why, in such situations, vaccines become the only hope for a return to normal life. The BBC described how at different times they fought against diseases and how vaccines were invented. ...

10 unexpected facts about the iPhone that you might not know

Even if you're a fan of Apple technology, you probably don't know everything about it. The Lifehacker publication has collected little-known details from the history of legendary smartphones. We present 10 interesting facts about her most popular product that few people know. The iPhone wasn't the first phone...

Genetic anomaly: how people without fingerprints live and travel

22-year-old Apu Sarker lives with his family in a village in the northern district of Rajshahi (Bangladesh). Until recently, he worked as a paramedic. His father and grandfather were farmers. The men in the Apu family have a very rare genetic mutation - they have no fingerprints. Counts,…

An American abandoned as a child found relatives after 83 years of searching

In 2018, Angela Raven read the story of Ronald Perrault, who was left as an infant in a parked car in Portland, Oregon, 83 years ago, and decided to reach out to him to help find relatives. An unusual story was told by the Press Herald. “I spent some ...

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