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1876 - The results of the commission's work Mendeleev on spiritualism. Yes, fashion, came at the time of the US, was very annoying for Dmitry Ivanovich. So much so that he initiated the creation of a major commission, which dealt with the "table-". Conclusions CONSEQUENTIAL very categorical - mediumship have pure quackery and divorce on the headstock, although the venerable chemist Mendeleev opponent Butlerof with the Commission disagreed, left to his own opinion. Later, he even published a booklet with the assistance of Aksakov: "Collection of articles about mediumship AMButlerov»
. The fact that in Russia / USSR / Russia this interest does not fade for many decades - is understandable. But with a devil in the United States are interested in it - a mystery to me. The country is a generally prosperous ...
1912 - Mentioned the term "jazz". Distinguished «Los Angeles Times». But after five years of jazz gave definitive characteristic «Literary Digest»: «jazz - the music, forcing people to shake, jump and squirm." Version of the origin of the word - a dime a dozen. And the ecstatic cry of African Americans, and African jaiza - the sound of drums; Arab jazib - ... Frenchmen dragged - jaser - talk. In general, it takes as a musical phenomenon at first in no hurry. But I had to. And as a treat for jazz in the former Soviet Union ... But Nitsche, he is experienced and quite bad feeling
1958 - The draft law on the establishment of NASA. Cold war, the confrontation of systems, and then the Soviet Union launches its first satellite. A cold shower, "must do Shoto". Detached from the first shock, Eisenhower established a committee that since that time, and deals with all matters relating to space exploration, if they do not cross with the themes of National Defence.
