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during childbirth for the first time used the anesthetic (it was in 1847), the mother was so surprised, pleased and grateful for relatively painless childbirth, which named her daughter anesthesia.
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In ancient Rome, the punishment for parricide was drowning in a sack, which in addition to the perpetrator planted viper, a dog and a rooster.
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first machine for cutting bread invented in 1927 by Otto Rohveder.
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In 1911, China banned men wearing pigtails.The fact is that in order to suppress the Chinese people, the Manchus, who ruled in China in the 1644-1911 biennium.impose their traditions and culture, they forced all men under the threat of death to wear braids and shaving of the head.In 1911, the Manchu dynasty ceased to rule in China, after which a ban on braids.
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the world's first woman police officer was Alice = Stubbins Wells.In the post she was appointed in 1910 in Los Angeles.Since Alice was the first woman in the history of the police, the design of its shape, it invented itself.
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In ancient Rome there was a profession vyschipyvatelya underarm hair.
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In the middle of the 70s of the 18th century in the rainy Parisian ladies wore hats with lightning protectors.At the same time, the bourgeois de Wieser, bet on his home in Saint-Omer lightning rod subjected to violent attacks neighbors who eventually sued him in court.That was in 1780.The trial lasted four years.Defender lightning rod in the process of speaking to anybody yet known lawyer Maximilien Robespierre.This process was the beginning of his great popularity.On the side of the opponents of a lightning rod experts advocate Jean-Paul Marat.(By the way, Marat was a famous writer and popularizer: he is the author of three books on electricity - one of the first.) In the end, de Visceri was acquitted.
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Greek sophist Gorgias of Epirus (483-380 BC) was born in the coffin of his mother died.When her body was carried to the place of burial in the box surrounding the children heard a loud cry.The coffin was open and people were surprised to find a newborn baby, "dropped out" of the mother's womb.
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At the end of the 18th century for the resuscitation of drowning used tobacco enema.A rectal tube inserted into the anus and connected to elektrofumigatora of special bellows, which led the smoke towards the rectum.
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first US president George Washington was among other things a very large producer of alcoholic beverages.In 1798 alone, he produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey.
