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The technology of sparkling wines was developed by the monk by name of Pierre Perinon from abbey Otviler that is located in the centre of Champagne.
Birthday sparkling – on August, 4th, 1668!
Up until that time the monk, being the house-keeper at abbey and managing food stocks and a cellar, was engaged in experiments on manufacture of various wines. On a legend, Pierre Perinon could define without effort only on one cluster of grapes not only a grade, but also a place of its growth, and also site soil. Being guided by taste of grapes, he was capable to foresee quality of the future wine.
And though the champagne invention has been dated 1668, the description of technology of its manufacturing has been published only in 1718, abbey Fedino, the canon of the Rejmsky cathedral.
These darlings zhuchki with black specks – tireless fighters with harmful insects, and korovkami them named because, being protected from enemies, they allocate a caustic liquid, on colour similar for milk.
For the first time this drink has appeared 8 thousand years ago in Egypt, and its description Gippokrat has left, Gerodot and Pliny the Senior. Slavs have learnt taste of kvass long before formation of the Kiev Russia that confirms a mention of it in «to Move time years». Art of preparation of kvass our far ancestors well owned many years back.
– tomatoes – tomatoes have received the first name in the homeland, in the South America. In language of Indians the word "tomatl" meant 
«a large berry» as fruits of a wild tomato were in size with a cherry. In Europe tomatoes considered as a poisonous plant and grew up only for the sake of exotic colours. And the well-known naturalist Charles Linnej, specifying in inedibility of tomatoes, named them «the wolf peaches»
In 1850 the native of Bavaria Levi the Ostrich has opened in San Francisco a workshop on tailoring of working clothes for gold diggers. The first jeans have been sewed from a fabric reminding a canvas. It delivered from Genoa and on bales put a stamp «Genes» (from here and the name jeans).
Ancient Egyptians at washing used paste on the basis of wax. In ancient Rome a dirt from a skin deleted a solution from istolchennogo a chalk and pumice. Gauls have thought up ointment for treatment of a skin from fat and ashes. Since II century AD it began to use as a washing-up liquid, it and became a primogenitor of soap.
We have got used to see everything that us surrounds in an everyday life, at times at all without paying attention to presence of those or other things. And after all each part in our world has the history. Reflect … And WHETHER YOU KNOW as there was a soap who has sewed the first jeans why tomatoes named «the wolf peaches» and set of other interesting facts about the world surrounding us???
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