Farmer Ali Aiden, who lives in the village of Akpanar in the Harmandzhik region, found unusual purple stones in his field. He became curious and brought them for expertise in the regional city of Bursa. As a result of their research, it was established that the stones found in his field were made of purple jade.
These purple colored stones are a mixture of the colors of basic jadeite, quartz, phlogopite, chlorotoid, epidote and six orthoclase minerals. They are known to occur only in this region.
In the past, villagers in the region were unaware of the value of the stones and sold them cheaply as a cladding material. Foreign traders bought them by truck, and some of them were even simply stolen or taken without money.
It turns out that purple stones are used in jewelry design. So Ali Aidan, who has about 1 ton of stone left, is really lucky. Now he is considering selling the stones for a large sum if he finds a buyer.
He complained to the Anatolian State Agency:
“It was too late until I realized the fact that the purple stones found in my field were the purple jade gemstone. I have missed a great fortune so far, but I now aim to make money with the last stones I have left.”
Aiden added: “I understand that this stone cost $ 1,600. He was known in Japan to bring happiness. He brought happiness to me too. It turned out that I have a treasure in my field. At first I couldn’t believe it. “
Although the green and white “jade” found in many regions of the world has been known since ancient times, the rich mineral deposit containing purple jade with the quality of precious stones has not been registered elsewhere. Therefore, the only known source of purple jade in the world is located in this geologically studied region. The most typical raw blocks of purple jade are obtained from the deposit near the village of Akpanar. This bulky material is known for its “very suitable for cutting various objects and gemstones”.
Elizabeth II is a very beloved person and according to the latest poll on the Island on the subject. Often super famous people are attacked by mentally ill people. These and other facts were gathered by the media in the UK on the occasion of her platinum anniversary, celebrated recently.
The queen owns all the dolphins and whales in British waters. This dates back to a statute from 1324, which is still valid today and means that the creatures have the title “royal fish”.
She has nine royal thrones – six at Buckingham Palace, two at Westminster Abbey and one at the House of Lords.
Her Majesty speaks fluent French, learned from her French and Belgian governesses.
She sent her first email in 1976 from an army base.
The list of rich people of the “Sunday Times” for 2022 sets its net worth at £ 370 million – £ 5 million increase over 2021.
Elizabeth dedicated an acre of land in Ranimeide, Surrey, to US President John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1965.
In Papua New Guinea, where she is a constitutional monarch, she is known in Pidgin as “Mrs. Quinn” and “Mother of the Big Family.”
On June 13, 1981, she rode her horse Burmese during the Trooping the Color military parade, when six shots were fired from the audience. A 17-year-old man named Marcus Simon Sargent from Kent has been arrested. He was sentenced to five years in prison, serving three. He wrote a letter of forgiveness to the queen, but it is said that he did not receive a reply. He was prompted to do so by Kennedy and Lennon’s executioners, and wanted to become “the most famous teenager.”
Months later in Dunedin, New Zealand, another 17-year-old aimed a rifle at the Queen from the fifth floor of a building overlooking the parade – but missed. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Among the unusual gifts she has received over the years are jaguars and sloths from Brazil and two black beavers from Canada. She was also given pineapples, eggs and shrimp.
Animals donated to the Queen are often sent to the care of the London Zoo.
She sent her first tweet in 2014, announcing the opening of a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, signed by Elizabeth R.
Tony Blair was the first prime minister born during the Queen’s reign. He was born in 1953.
The Queen successfully sued The Sun in 1993, after her Christmas message was published two days before it aired. The newspaper apologized on the front page and paid £ 200,000 for damages donated to Save the Children.
Elizabeth has a pillow in her private living room in Balmoral embroidered with the words “It’s good to be a queen.”
At public banquets, she does not like to serve raw food or messy dishes such as spaghetti, which risks embarrassing the people who eat.
The Queen first paid income tax in 1993 after a series of financial reforms under Prime Minister John Major.
With her youngest child, her son Edward, who seems to be the only one who did not embarrass her with public actions
She sent a congratulatory message to the astronauts of Apollo 11 for the first landing on the moon on July 21, 1969. The message was captured and deposited on the moon in a metal container.
The reason she usually wears a solid color outfit and a decorative hat is to make sure she can be seen in the crowd.
Prior to that year, the Queen attended every opening of Parliament, with the exception of 1959 and 1963, when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
The oldest person to whom she wrote a letter was a 116-year-old Canadian in 1984.
She became the longest-ruling monarch in Britain on September 9, 2015, breaking the record previously set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
The Queen was the first British monarch to visit China in 1986.
She also paid a historic visit to the Republic of Ireland in May 2011, the first visit by a British monarch since Irish independence.
Her Majesty is known for her love of corgis, as her first pet, Susan, was given to her as a gift for her 18th birthday, and later accompanied her on her honeymoon.
She creates her own dog breed – the Dorgi – when one of her Corgi mates with a dachshund named Pipkin, owned by Princess Margaret, her sister.
The Queen hosted the first ladies’ event of its kind at Buckingham Palace in 2004. The lunch of the women with significant achievements was attended by J. K. Rowling, Tuigi and Kate Moss, and others.
For her 80th birthday in 2006, she invited 2,000 children to celebrate with her at Buckingham Palace.
Two days earlier, she had organized a party for other 80-year-olds across the country.
For her Golden Jubilee in June 2002, she hosted the first public concert at Buckingham Palace. The palace party was one of the most watched TV shows in history, with 200 million viewers worldwide.
It went down in history in 1982, when Pope John Paul II became the first to be accepted by a British monarch in 450 years.
Elizabeth II is the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror received the crown of England in 1066.
At least eight actresses have played her in movies and TV series, the most recent being Olivia Coleman in The Crown.
In 1993, she opened Buckingham Palace to tourists for the summer as part of her efforts to modernize her image.
The country has not participated in any EU military mission so far because it was not part of the common European defense policy.
A large majority of Danes (66.9 percent) supported Denmark’s integration into EU defense policy. This is shown by the results of all counted ballots from the referendum held on the issue yesterday, AFP reported.
“Tonight, Denmark has sent an important signal. To our allies in Europe and NATO and to President Vladimir Putin. We have shown that when Putin invades a free country and threatens the stability of Europe, we, the others, unite,” said the Danish Prime Minister. Mete Frederiksen in front of his supporters.
“There is one Europe before February 24, before the Russian invasion, and one Europe after that,” she added.
Two weeks after the Russian invasion, the Prime Minister of Denmark announced an agreement with most of the parties in parliament to hold a referendum on whether to join Denmark’s European defense policy. Until now, the country has enjoyed the right of exception. Most parties in parliament have also agreed to increase defense investment to meet the 2 per cent of GDP threshold demanded by the alliance.
Denmark, a traditionally Eurosceptic country, was granted in 1993 a series of exceptions to some European policies. For example, the country has not participated in any EU military mission so far because it was not part of the common European defense policy.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel welcomed the historic vote in Denmark.
“I welcome the strong message of commitment to our common security sent by the Danish people,” von der Leyen wrote on Twitter. She expressed confidence that Denmark and the EU would benefit from this decision.
“The people of Denmark have made a historic choice,” added Charles Michel.
Giraffes were not always long-necked, but always preferred head-to-toe positions.
Giraffes did not always have long necks, but they always preferred to hit their heads to maintain their position. Evidence of this is the discovery of a fossil specimen of a giraffe, endowed with a real “skull shield”, AFP reported, citing a publication in the journal Science.
The finding supports the theory that the initial driving force for neck lengthening in these animals was sexual selection.
Discovered in northern China, Discokeryx xiezhi is the first new species to live 17 million years ago.
The ancient ruminant, the size of a large deer, had a thick bony disc at the top of its skull and neck with remarkable cervical vertebrae that allowed it to withstand strong frontal blows, according to paleontologist Shu-Qi Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, lead author. the article.
This “special morphology” was most likely adapted to head-to-head behavior between males, the researchers suggested. They compare the behavior of ancient animals to “neck paint” in modern male giraffes, which fight for supremacy, swinging their heads with small horns with all their might against their opponents.
The discovery of Chinese paleontologists plays a crucial role in a debate as old as paleontology itself: why does a giraffe have such a long neck?
Paleontologists have long defended the thesis of ecological advantage, according to which this long neck gives its owner a decisive advantage in reaching the high leaves of trees. According to a more recent and well-disputed theory, a long and powerful neck influences the outcome of fights between males and therefore favors its growth.
The research of Shu-Qi Wang and his colleagues supports the latter thesis: this type of battle is probably the first reason why giraffes have long necks. Subsequently, this acquisition gave them the advantage of being able to graze high leaves.
“This is a perfect example of ‘exaptation’, ie an advantage granted by an organ that will later be useful for other uses,” explains Gregoire Mete, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, who welcomed the “excellent research”. “.
According to him, the giraffes have started a “race” for a long and powerful neck. This shows once again that sexual competition is one of the driving forces of evolution, leading to morphological innovations that can be used for other purposes.
In the case of Discokeryx xiezhi, the morphology of the species is the most optimal adaptation for head-to-head battles compared to modern species that resort to this practice.
This morphology has given Discokeryx xiezhi the incomparable ability to absorb the energy of the blow and protect its brain.
But then why didn’t Discokeryx xiezhi also get a long neck? First, because the species did not need it: it experienced a remarkable episode of the Miocene, during which the climate warmed and this allowed it to graze to satiety. And secondly, because this is just the beginning of the history of giraffes and that of the growth of their long necks.
Scientists have identified what they define as the largest plant in the world – a type of seagrass that stretches about 180 kilometers off the coast of Western Australia, the DPA reported.
Australian researchers have noticed a “clone” of Posidonia australis seagrass in the shallow waters of Shark Bay, according to a publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
The discovery is the work of experts from the universities of Western Australia and Flinders.
They studied how many different species thrive in seagrass meadows in Shark Bay, 831 kilometers north of Perth, when genetic tests showed it was a single plant. It is believed to be at least 4,500 years old.
Lead author of the study Jane Edgelow of the University of Western Australia says the team took samples of seagrass shoots from different parts of the bay for research.
“Only one plant has spread over 180 km in the Gulf of Sharks, making it the largest known plant on Earth,” she said. “The answer struck us.”
According to Edgelow, the existing 200 square kilometers of meadows have been expanded by a single colonizing seedling.
Co-author Martin Breed of Flinders University says the plant has no sex. “How it has survived and thrived for so long is really puzzling. Asexual plants also tend to have the reduced genetic diversity they usually need when dealing with environmental change,” he said.
Researchers from the Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York have analyzed a detailed study on the subject
Yawning affects others by mobilizing them and increasing their vigilance to objects in front of their faces, Science Direct magazine writes, citing the results of an American study.
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York, and the Department of Biological Sciences at New Southwestern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, have analyzed the latest research in animal behavior, psychology and neurology that proves similar properties. of yawning.
Its contagion is a signal for synchronization and coordination of group activities. These reactions are consistent with the physiological significance of yawning, as well as with the frequency of the process in mammals and birds, depending on the context of the situation.
In addition, according to magnetic resonance imaging studies, yawning individuals activate the prefrontal cortex and areas of the upper temporal sulcus of the brain that are responsible for attention during visual search and recognition of potential threats.
Scientist Andrew Gallup confirms some of this evidence with experiment. Participants had to look for snakes or frogs in one of eight photos. Before being shown the images, the volunteers watched two videos, one showing yawning people and the other a neutral scene.
It turned out that the subjects found the dangerous snakes faster if they had previously seen people yawning, but this did not affect the speed with which they look for frogs.
“We know how to preserve the values of our Russian world. And your world, if it does not wake up, will die of its own fears.”
“Your Russian world is a world of fear,” Mikhail Barishnikov, a ballet legend who opposes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, wrote in an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, AFP reported.
The famous ballet dancer, born in the USSR and crossing the Iron Curtain in 1974, turned to the Russian president after the website of the charity project “True Russia”, supported by famous cultural figures in exile who oppose the hostilities in Ukraine, was blocked in Russia. The site is available outside the country.
In the letter, Barishnikov wrote: “We know how to preserve the values of our Russian world. And your world, if it does not wake up, will die of its own fears. You know what to fear. And rightly so. You know exactly which weapon strikes. “, Barishnikov concludes.
The project, founded by Barishnikov, Boris Akunin and economist Sergei Guriev, raised 1.2m euros in support of Ukrainian refugees. He is supported by artists such as writer Ludmila Ulitska, musician Andrei Makarevich and journalist Leonid Parfionov.
On May 30 in the Svyatogorsk Lavra “St. Assumption of the Virgin “killed two monks and a nun. The bombs fell on the third and fourth monastic corps, the UOC reported. The victims are the trustee of the monastery, Archim. Galaktion (Vuychenko), monk Aristocles and nun Barbara. Hieromonks Joasaph and Amphilochius and Hierodeacon Alypius were wounded. The number of dead and wounded lay people is currently unknown.
The Holy Archimandrite or Abbot of the Lavra is the Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol Hilarion. “I pray for your holy prayers for the peace of the victims and the speedy recovery of the wounded,” he said in a succinct statement.
This is another shelling of the third largest monastery in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion of the country. Until now, bombs had fallen near the monastery and damaged buildings, but there were no casualties among the monks and about 300 refugees.
In the photo: the murdered archim. Galaktion (Vuychenko)
After more than 6 years of consideration in three instances, the Islamic case is returned in April to the District Court in Pazardzhik and starts from the very beginning – with a pretrial hearing. This is a decision of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC), which is not subject to appeal and protest.
The proceedings in the Supreme Court of Cassation were instituted on complaints of 12 of the defendants and their defenders. They are challenging the decision of the magistrates of Pazardzhik, who found guilty all 14 accused of preaching anti-democratic ideology and religious hatred in sermons and social networks with mujahideen gestures, as well as distributing the book “Apostasy”. The alleged spiritual leader, Ahmed Musa, and some of his associates were also convicted of promoting war through photos or videos of the Islamic State flag, as well as providing T-shirts, headbands, hats and flags with the terrorist’s logo. Islamic State organization.
We remind you that the district magistrates sentenced Musa to 8 and a half years in prison and a fine of BGN 9,500. Four of the group were sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison and fined BGN 7,000. Another eight received 2 years in prison each, six of them – and fines of BGN 6,000 (ab. 1500 EUR). A suspended sentence of 2 and a half years on a 4-year probation period was given only to the only woman in the group – student Alexandrina Angelova. This decision was fully confirmed by the Plovdiv Court of Appeal in February last year.
However, their lawyers are challenging many of the arguments for this decision. The complaints say there is no evidence of religious hatred, that the mujahideen gesture with a raised index finger means monotheism, it is not specified where the gesture was made and against which groups of people it is directed to incite hatred. The items with the Islamic State logo were bought from Turkey for a wedding, for commercial purposes, and not to promote war. Criticism was also leveled at a disregarded request to drop the case and return it to a previous phase due to the dismissal of supervising prosecutor Nedyalka Popova, who drafted the indictment (she was taken away in March 2018, but defenders insist her bias this should have happened much earlier). The lawyers want their clients to be acquitted or their sentences reduced.
The cassation appeals contain objections for significant violations of the procedural rules, which led to restriction of the rights of the defendants. Despite the claims of the referring parties for violation of substantive law and for unfairness of the imposed penalties, the allegations of substantial procedural violations should be discussed in the first place, as such a finding would invalidate the ruling on the other arguments put forward by the parties.
In summary, the objections of the cassators can be defined as aimed at omissions in the analytical work of the appellate court in assessing the evidence sources or rather lack thereof, as the impugned decision completely repeated the reasons for the first instance verdict, lack of response to defense of objections, crediting conclusions of expertise prepared by experts who do not have the appropriate qualifications and are not included in the lists of experts, representation of one of the defendants by a lawyer who is related to a person who performed procedural – investigative actions on the case, as well as the bias of the prosecutor supervising the pre-trial proceedings and preparing the indictment under consideration – it is said in the decision of the Supreme Court of Cassation, which returns the case for a new hearing in the Pazardzhik District Court.
Apart from Musa, the accused in the case are Angel Simov, Stefan Alexandrov (Suleiman), Svetoslav Manchev (Zekeria), Ercan Smail, Stefan Dimitrov (Tafik), Alexandrina Angelova (Melekshen), Yosif Minchev (Yusnyu), Rangel Iliev (Little Ramzi), Alexander Ivanov (Bango), Orhan Barzak (Mazgala), Rayko Kartalov (Remzi), Nenko Shterev and Veselin Stefanov (Vaidin).
However, the three-member panel of the Supreme Court of Cassation accepted the appeals of Musa and the others convicted as admissible and well-founded in relation to some of the arguments presented. In their reasons, the Supreme Judges wrote that the appellate court had announced that it had independently established a factual situation, which was not in fact objectified, because in describing the facts the court had quoted and retold the testimony of witnesses in the case, the investigative actions and conclusions expertise, without based on them to give a description of the factual situation adopted by him. This leads to a lack of motivation in the issued secondary act.
Diligent enumeration of the information through its retelling cannot replace the facts related to the actions of the defendants and the specification of the actions for which they were found guilty. Such clarity is not present in the reasons for the first instance act.
According to the panel of judges of the Supreme Court of Cassation, the defense’s reproaches to the prosecutor and the court for ambiguity are justified, both for the time parameters of preaching hatred on religious grounds and for the manner of its preaching. Declarative statements that the defendants through sermons created religious intolerance towards non-Salafists, without indicating the specific expressions or content of these sermons, cannot be convincing evidence.
The Supreme Court judges are adamant that in practice the act of the district court suffers from a lack of reasons. Violations of the procedural rules were also found, so in this case the case should be returned for a new hearing to the District Court – Pazardzhik.
The first hearing of the trial was more than 6 years ago – in February 2016.
The 14 accused were arrested during a large-scale operation of the special services on November 25, 2014 in Pazardzhik, Plovdiv and Asenovgrad.
How venture differs from futures, what is lend-lease and in what form exactly the concepts of “acquiring” and “grace period” are present in our lives – we understand the meanings of business terms – especially if English is not your mother tongue.
Venture, or venture business, is an investment in an innovative business with a high risk. In other words, these are investments in startups at an early stage, when it is not very clear whether the project will succeed or not. Venture investors usually invest in several projects at once and are ready for the fact that not all of them will bring profit. From English, the word venture is translated as “adventure”.
The word “futures” is borrowed from English, where futures are goods purchased for future use. The “Big Explanatory Dictionary” defines the meaning of the word as follows: “a type of sale and purchase transaction on the stock or commodity exchange, at the conclusion of which the parties agree only on the price and delivery time of the goods.”
Simply put, the meaning of a futures transaction is to protect yourself from financial risks – to sign a contract that will fix the price of the product, protect the buyer from its possible fluctuations in the future, and the seller from the fact that the buyer’s plans will change.
Judging by the “Big Explanatory Dictionary”, this word has two main meanings: affiliated is a structure attached to a larger company / organization as a junior partner; also this word can characterize a company or a person closely related to a larger structure or organization, depending on it.
“Affiliate firm” – attached to a larger structure in the form of a branch or subsidiary. An “affiliate” is a person (usually an investor) who has the ability to exercise direct influence over the operations of the company.
Another borrowing from English: the verb acquire is translated as “acquire” or “receive”. In the modern world, acquiring refers to all technologies of non-cash payment acceptance using bank cards and contactless payment systems.
There are five types of acquiring: merchant (payment terminals in places of trade); Internet acquiring (virtual purchases using bank cards or virtual money); ATM-acquiring (ATMs through which you can pay for services); mobile acquiring (a technology that allows you to accept payments using a smartphone and a special terminal through a payment application issued by the bank). Payment by QR code is also one of the types of acquiring.
Lend-Lease (spelled with a hyphen) is an American system invented during World War II for the transfer (on loan or lease) of weapons and / or food to the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition.
The Lend-Lease Act was signed in March 1941 to transfer industrial and agricultural products to countries whose defense system was recognized as critical to US security. At first, only Great Britain and Greece were such countries. In November 1941, the USSR joined them. After the Great Patriotic War, the USSR owed the United States $1.3 billion in lend-lease debt. The last payment on it was made on August 21, 2006.
The English word grace has more than twenty meanings, including “mercy”, “grace”, “decency”, “favor” and even “prayer”. In the financial world, the concept of “grace period” is used to refer to a grace or interest-free period of lending. In most cases, the grace period applies only to non-cash transactions, some banks extend it to cash withdrawals as well.
The word “issuer” is of Latin origin. Emittens is translated as “issuer”. It is used to refer to companies and financial institutions that issue securities that anyone can buy. In addition, the issuer can be called a bank that issues credit or debit cards. The state, which has the right to issue money, is also an issuer, as are municipal governments that sell bonds to make up for the budget deficit.
