Day: August 1, 2018

Philology girl: how J. K. Rowling gave people a desire to read Disclose the secret of the success of the Creator of Harry Potter. Her life has been studied thoroughly by fans and biographers, and someday it will be studied in the faculties of Philology, as now the life of our Pushkin, and “theirs” Byron, and protect her coursework and dissertation. Readers love fairy tales about Cinderella — it turns out, loves them and the history of world literature. Life most famous writer of the XXI century is just perfect for the autobiographical drama, as if written by its laws, where a fantastic takeoff is impossible without a catastrophic fall. This, of course, about J. K. Rowling, July 31, which marks 53, and literary critic Konstantin Milchin specifically for the portal iz.ru explained why the Creator of Harry Potter means to world culture much more than many people think. There

Identify countries from which the tourists do not want to come back Service traveling tutu. ru figured out which countries to Russian tourists do not want to leave — the time between flight “there” and “back” is very large. MOSCOW, 31 Jul — RIA Novosti. Service professionals has analyzed all sold tickets from any city in Russia over the past year (1 July 2017 1 August 2018). On the first and second place rankings, two States North America — Canada and the United States. Russian travelers spend about a month — 31 and 29 days, respectively. In third place is India, where average tourists fly for three weeks. Approximately the same number of travelers divert in Vietnam and South Korea. Interestingly, the top three were not only the most expensive cost of flights in the country. For example, more than 50 thousand rubles is the average cost of travel to

The last day of what? First, all participants, including never interested in archeology, remembered picture of Charles Bryullov “the Last days of Pompeii” (1830-33), a famous example of Russian classicism. However, in this dispute the sense of this wonderful picture came out a little bit because in the beginning of the XIX century, the name of the ancient city were used in the singular — Pompey. Very convenient: Pompey was no Pompeii. But today the norm is different, the word “Pompeii” — plural. (In Italy there are other similar examples, such as ancient Veii and Falerii. Thank God, about which we have not yet written.). The newsDisclosed the real cause of death “survived” the eruption of Vesuvius disabled Therefore, in the course went other arguments. One part of the revision indicated that the main online resource for checking the correct spelling portal to “Gramota.ru”. There, with reference to the “Dictionary

In search of the “Cordillera”: as in France, looking for sunken 500 years ago a warship The spirit of the famous French Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau helps a search mission, which searches for the two ships — French and English — sunken 500 years ago, not far from Brest. Instead of minesweeper Cousteau “Calypso” came the patrol ship “andré Malraux” of the Ministry of culture of France with a team of scientists and divers on Board. NewsWho owns treasures in sunken ships? Task: to find, to extract from the soil and eventually raise to the surface the skeletons of the “Cordillera” and the “Regent” two gigantic ships sunk during the battle of Saint Mathieu in 1512. The role Cousteau — Michel Lur, a distinguished marine archaeologist involved in a thousand expeditions to study French underwater heritage. “I’m obsessed with finding these ships for 40 years, says the noble, ruddy and bearded