In America there are the Miss Navajo.But ordinary beauty contest to name it is impossible.Participants need not show the beauty and knowledge of cultural heritage of the Navajo Nation, the ability to answer questions in English and Navajo languages, as well as to demonstrate the skills deemed necessary in the life of the tribe - such a skilful slaughter of sheep.
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The ancient Romans believed that the long eyelashes are evidence of purity and chastity, and the lashes fall out from sexual excesses and debauchery.
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famous American science fiction Ray Bradbury was a descendant of Mary Bradbury - supposedly a witch, burnt in 1692 during the famous trial of the Salem witches.
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In 1844, a mysterious case of mass hysteria took place in a closed monastery in France.
The incident began with a nun - she suddenly began to meow like a cat.Soon others began to do the same, and the whole monastery mewed few hours before the end of the day.
caterwauling frightened and brought into a rage surrounding residents.Meowing nuns stopped only when soldiers were sent to the monastery threatened to beat them with whips and sticks.
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Chinese who first started selling cans of fresh air for $ 0.80 per share as a protest against air pollution in the country, in the first ten months, has earned more than 6 million dollars.
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first wholesale distributor of ecstasy tablets were seminary students.
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French mathematician Abraham de Moivre noticed shortly before his death that is becoming more sluggish and requires more and more time to sleep.The mathematician has calculated that the duration of sleep is increased by an average of 15 minutes per day.And he concluded that dies when the amount of these additional minutes will be equal to the 24th hour.For this reason he called the date - November 27, 1754, the year - and actually died on this day in age of 87 years.
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When the first black man came to Japan in 1581 after a shipwreck of the Italian ship, which among other things were taken and African slaves brought by order of the military and political leader of Japan at the time Nabunagi Ode to the capital of Kyoto, on the squarea huge crowd gathered to look at the hitherto unseen color black man.Nobunaga also ordered to strip to the waist and a Negro rubbing his skin as long as it does not brighten, believing that this man simply painted black.Later this nigger was the Japanese name Yasuko and even became a samurai.
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Until 1983, the Catholic Church there was a special post - the devil's advocate.The work of this man was to gather all possible arguments against the canonization of the next candidate for the righteous saints.The official person who performs the opposite function, called the defender of God.
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mating whales in California has always involved two males and one female.And the non-dominant male only acts as a support for holding the female dominant male.
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In 1930, the US Department of State issued a decree for the return to Spain of all who came out of letters if they were pasted stamp depicting picture of Goya 'Naked Maha. "In the US, the brand then considered pornography.
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In Japan, women were forbidden to prepare sushi, because it was thought that they are too warm hands.
