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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

The population of the largest colony of king penguins has been greatly reduced Scientists don’t know what it involves. The world’s largest colony of king penguins lost in numbers, and scientists cannot understand why it happened, reports ScienceAlert. In 1980-ies the population of the colony living on the subantarctic island of cochon, which is part of the Crozet archipelago, was about two million individuals, including 500 000 breeding pairs, and now the colony has only about 60 000 such pairs. Using satellite data, high-resolution images taken in the period from 2005 to the present day and in the period from 1982 to 1988, experts from the French research center of Chizé Centre for Biological Studies (CNRS) evaluated the changes in colony size (from the time of the visit by a team of scientists in 1982). It turned out that the colony, known since the 1960-ies, has lost 88 percent of

Katya LEL will pay Maria Zakharova Singer Katya LEL has stated that the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova will receive a portion of the income from the song “in Full”. About it “lente.ru” have declared in a press-service of radio station “Silver rain” on Tuesday, July 31. Zakharova co-authored a song Katya LEL. About the speaker of the Russian foreign Ministry said in Facebook on 29 July. She wrote that after a conversation with the singer could not sleep: “And in the morning after a sleepless night sat and wrote the text, lines from which became the song”. Katya LEL noted that Zakharov is refused the fee for the lyrics. The singer stressed that he will insist on the fact that she received part of the royalties from the sale of the track to “Full” in the network. During the download an error has