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In olden time spoke: «From food without spices advantage, pleasure».
On kitchen of our great-grandmothers aromas not only fennel, garlic and parsley, and and grown up on kitchen gardens a coriander, pasternak, a balm, a basil and many other fragrant plants smelt sweet.
From exotic spices it was widely applied not only black pepper, a bay leaf and a dried peel, and also ginger, a carnation, a saffron, vanilla, a nutmeg.
All of them of a phytogenesis, have started to use them in food earlier salt.
In China, India, Egypt knew about them 5000 years ago. The mention of the Chinese cinnamon meets for 2700 B.C. Slaborazvitoe navigation, monopoly of the separate countries for trade in spices inflated the price for them to level of the price of gold. Quite often there were even wars for the right to own the earths where spices were grown up. In XII century for nutmeg pound two cows could offer.
In the night from 24 for the October, 25th, each of us should translate a hand on an hour back, fixing so-called "winter" time. About it it is possible to hear often: «we will Sleep on an hour longer!»
When time passes back, I too give in to this deceptive hour euphoria. Every year I twirl arrows there-here, and about where and when there was this "hour" never reflected. So …
Before occurrence of special clothes for a dream people slept nude or in clothes and which went in the afternoon. It was very inconvenient and unhygienic.
The first mention of special clothes for a dream has appeared in Czechia in XV century.
At that time the night shirt was very big sizes – wide and long, and afford this subject of a toilet the provided people could to themselves only. The shirt only in a XIX-th century became more accessible.
Women often put on for the night over a day shirt a night jersey. So it was called at that time and, probably replaced a today's dressing gown.
The pyjamas became known in Europe in a XIX-th century thanks to travellers. It is considered that the first samples of such clothes in Europe have appeared in first half XIX. Young travellers came back from Istanbul and Algeria and, together with a habit to quiet, extremely weakening rest with a hookah, coffee and sweets, have brought and the clothes ideally suited for this rest "peeped" at local residents – a shirt and trousers from an easy fabric and free breed. It also was the first pyjamas – the great-grandmother of modern models.
When in pyjamas began to sleep, it is not known. But it is known that already in the beginning of the Victorian epoch in England (60th years of a century before last) the pyjamas has superseded man's nightgowns. Approximately then pyjamas have started to make and factory way – of a dense clap, a flannel and silk – but it remained imperceptible and modest men's wear.
Today there is a huge choice of absolutely different clothes for a dream. This list is not limited to night shirts or to pyjamas, it is possible to buy a peignoir or is simple majachku with special shorts. Besides models, fabrics, a colouring are various. Ruches, an embroidery, laces – without a thing it it is difficult to imagine modern clothes for a dream.
On days off we collected grapes. And me the question has come to a head: “When for the first time grapes have got to a diet of people?” I have been surprised. So … the grapes History, at least, is so old as mankind history. The earliest grape consumers were, possibly, hunters-collectors who included wild fruit in the diet.
But grapes did not remain wild too long. Archeologists say to us that grapes were, actually, one of the earliest cultural fruit on the Earth. Grapes were the native prichernomorskogo region and extended quickly on the south to the Near East. According to last estimations, grapes were grown up in Mesopotamia (area in territory of modern Iraq) already 6 000 BC Therefrom, grapes extended in east direction to Phoenicia (in territory of modern Lebanon, Syria and Israel) both to Egypt. And 2 000 to n.e, Phoenician seamen forwarded grapevines through Mediterranean sea to Greece and other world.
Because of that the peacock dismisses feathers and walks up and down with a proud kind and there was an expression: «Self-satisfied as a peacock». Actually it is not quite fair in relation to this bird. It is no more self-satisfied, than any other bird during a marriage season. After all the peacock-male dismisses the magnificent plumage only for a female and for anybody more. During a reproduction season (from April till September) to it should dismiss often enough the tail what to involve females. After all females choose to themselves "groom" on beauty operenja. And as, in the nature, peacocks live groups, "groom" should be always in all beauty what to find to itself some "brides" (on 1 male – from 3 to 5 females).
The native land of a peacock — India and South East Asia. Still in the ancient time Greeks and Romans considered a peacock as a sacred bird. But it did not prevent to use to Romans a peacock in food! Likely the sacred spirit of a bird influenced ancient people from within is better. I cannot present to myself at all as it is possible to pluck such beauty!!!
After all a peacock with the dismissed feathers — one of the most impressing shows among all birds!!!
"Indian summer" is a small part of summer in the middle of autumn. And here whence has gone names of this period of warm solar days, I have learnt, more recently. So …
Generally such scientific term in meteorology is not present, the name this national.
"Indian summer" is called as "woman's" only at east Slavs. In the North America this period of autumn name «in the American Indian summer» (because of motley raskraski the leaves, similar to clothes of Indians), in Italy and France — «in the summer Sacred Martinique», in Bulgaria call «in the Gipsy summer», in Germany — «summer of grandmothers», and in Czechia — «in the web summer».
I love sharfiki! Warm, easy, striped, in a section, bright, dark – voobshchem different.
And for their existence we should tell "thanks" ancient Chinese soldiers. After all for the first time the scarf has appeared in China, more two thousand years ago.
Soldiers used scarfs with the practical purpose: tied a neck with a matter piece to be saved from a cold and a wind.
And the descendant of a warm scarf has appeared for the first time in Ancient Rome. It was carried by the Roman legionaries, trying to take cover from an unusual cold during campaigns to Gallia and Germany.
Domestication of the first cats, most likely, has occurred in Egypt in 4-3 millenium B.C. Most earlier the image of a cat is found in the Egyptian tomb, it concerns 2600 B.C. The first hieroglyphs which have been used for a designation of a word "cat" and "cat", concern the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Egyptian Pharaohs (about 2300 B.C.). Today they are deciphered as "mint" and "miu".