Day: December 19, 2021

Mosaic depicting a scene from the Iliad The son of one of the farmers of central England found in his own field the remains of a rich Roman villa with a unique large mosaic depicting a scene from Homer’s Iliad – the battle of Achilles with Hector. The villa and the mosaic were found quite by accident: the son of a farmer from Rutland County, Jim Irwin, walking during a lockdown in 2020 in a field that his family had been cultivating for decades, came across unusual potsherds and became interested in them. Scientists from One of the mysteries of the Scythian world has been revealed to Russia New unique finds made this year by Russian archaeologists allow us to move the boundaries of the influence of the “Great Scythia” several hundred kilometers to the north.

“Dangerous fools are two words. You can’t express it in one word,” he said in Naili Asker-zade’s film “A Dangerous Virus. The second year” on the TV channel “Russia-1” in response to the question of how one word can be called people who refuse vaccination themselves, and others agitate against it. In Sweden, citizens began to implant chips with COVID passports under their skin The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, in response to the same question, said that, in his opinion, such agitation “is unreasonable actions.” The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, believes that “people affected by fear” do this. The chief physician of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 52, Mariana Lysenko, called them unreasonable. Denis Protsenko, the head physician of the Moscow hospital in Kommunarka, refused to give any estimates, calling on anti-vaxxers to “trust trusted sources.” Other doctors were more harsh in their assessments.

Microchips, which can be inserted under the skin and transmit various information with their help, appeared in Sweden a long time ago. However, local residents became more interested in them and used them as an alternative to the QR code when the country tightened restrictions for those unvaccinated from coronavirus. Unlike most other countries, where the coronavirus was fought with strict quarantines, the Swedish authorities chose a different path. For a long time, the restrictive measures here were much milder than those of the neighbors, and were mainly advisory in nature. Even the benefits of medical masks in the country were doubted, the Swedish health agency noted that it did not believe in their “decisive importance”. For the first time, the authorities recommended wearing masks only in December last year. However, due to the increase in morbidity, Sweden still had to tighten measures. Since the beginning of December, events in

The rehabilitation process will affect more than 4,000 women convicted of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The sentences of that time featured a variety of charges: causing damage to the Royal Navy by casting a storm, regular meetings with the devil, divination in order to send a hangover to the plaintiffs and even night transformations into owls, writes the Daily Mail. Women, as a rule, were accused according to the Law on Witchcraft, more than half of those convicted were sentenced to death, most often to burning at the stake. The Witchcraft Act was signed in 1597 by the Scottish King James VI (the future English King James I). After its adoption, a real witch hunt unfolded on the territory of Scotland, the victims of which were thousands of women. Witchcraft trials with subsequent cruel sentences continued in the north of Great Britain until the middle of the

Regions are leaders in the number of new cases: Moscow – 3013 (2,003,080 since the beginning of the pandemic), Saint Petersburg – 1955 (829 248), Moscow region — 1825 (624 416), Krasnodar Territory — 765 (112 688), Krasnoyarsk Territory — 650 (166 221). Per day in 1023 cases died in Russia, which is 53 fewer people than yesterday (1076). The total number of deaths reached 297,203. 32,655 people recovered during the day, a total of 8,984,921. Regions-leaders in the number of deaths: Moscow – 81 (35,886 for all time), Saint Petersburg – 67 (27,329), Moscow region — 55 (11 491), Krasnoyarsk Territory — 37 (8171), Voronezh region — 36 (6545). In November, a new strain of the coronavirus “omicron” began to spread in African countries. WHO characterized it as less dangerous than the delta strain. In Russia, omicron was detected in 25 people. The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, called the

A heart-to-heart conversation with a stranger helps people relieve stress, feel less lonely and happier, a new study has shown. Psychologists conducted a series of experiments involving more than 1.8 thousand people. They were asked to have both superficial and serious conversations with strangers. The participants expected that they would feel awkward during a confidential conversation on a serious topic, and the benefits of such conversations would be small, but they were mistaken. As it turned out, strangers were attentive listeners, interested in the problems of the interlocutor and showed empathy. Scientists remind that people have a deeply social nature — it is important for them to build and maintain social ties for peace of mind and happiness. At the same time, they usually choose relatives and relatives for sincere conversations, believing that strangers will not be able to share their feelings and will be indifferent. They “underestimate the social

As specified in the traffic police, currently specialists continue to work on eliminating the consequences of the failure, but for this they will need more time than expected. “This makes it impossible to receive citizens on December 19 in the registration and examination units of the State Traffic Inspectorate. The approximate time of completion of the work is the evening of December 19,” the ministry noted. They added that in connection with this situation, all registration and examination units of the traffic police will work on December 20. A major failure in the work of the traffic police information system became known earlier on December 18. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that such failures are isolated, and assured that when errors are detected in the work, the department’s specialists immediately eliminate them. At the same time, it was initially assumed that Russians who had an appointment on December 18