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Even ancient people engaged in hunting, found that it is much easier to carry the prey, not on his back, and putting her on some sort of sled. Later, it became clear that if the logs to use as rollers to move heavier loads.
Disc wheel, attached to the platform by a simple axis – a direct descendant of the rink. For the first time the wheel was used in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. Vehicles with a bullish thrust gradually improved and spread to the Mediterranean, Europe and China. The Romans learned how to make durable carts; their excellent roads, established a quick message horse sleds. It was an important factor in governing the vast Empire.

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Lottery (ital. lotto) means in Italian “Destiny”. In addition, among the linguists of the opinion that the word “lottery” comes from the Frankish “hlot,” which means “the lot”, which eventually transformed into the English word “lot” — “share”. Apparently, with chronological accuracy to determine which language is the ancestor of the modern word “lottery” experts find it difficult, but at least, the fact that the roots of its origin lead to the romance group of languages.

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Yarn is the thread of evenly and parallel and then twisted fibers of wool, cotton, linen, viscose, synthetic and other fibrous materials.
Differentiate between main yarn, walking on the fabric and filling going to duck fabrics. First the yarn needs to be twisted tighter, tighter and smoother than the second, usually more loose. The most important properties of yarn: Tonin, durable twist, strength, elongation, water absorption and uniformity.

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In addition to the already familiar to all traditional radiators and convectors having a large height and is located usually under the Windows, there are other alternatives for space heating. In particular, it is baseboard heating. In this case, heat is transferred into the room with a low baseboard heater (its height is only about 14 cm), which is located around the perimeter of the room. As with traditional radiators, the heating of the water flowing in a system of baseboard heating that occurs with conventional boiler.

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Yogurt — milk delicacy, an important component of the daily diet of citizens.
The first mention of yogurt is reflected in the history of Ancient India. The indigenous peoples was filtering the milk through coarse homespun cloth, getting a delicious and extremely useful product. The tradition of the ancient Turks says that yogurt was invented as a gift to guardian angels, and they were called “white oxygen”.

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We used to see foam, which is used to prevent damage to the instrument during shipping, but not all of the applications. Currently, the foam began to actively use as insulation in construction. This is due to the fact that the foam is 96% composed of air, which is a great natural insulator. In addition, the foam can withstand heavy loads. For these qualities to become successfully applied in modern construction.

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Adhesive tape called because of the stinginess of the Scots. In English, “scotch” means “Scottish”, “Scottish”. Also called whiskey. Usually, when we talk about tape, I mean duct tape. Further in our article the story of the emergence of such a tape and its name.
Tape was not invented by the Scot, and this did not happen in Scotland. It was invented in America, and it happened thus. In 1923 Richard drew settled down to work at a company that produced sandpaper. The company Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (now it is already a Corporation called 3M)

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Neon signs – the oldest and most proven form of outdoor advertising. Classic lighting signage for casinos, night clubs, children’s entertainment centers is of course neon!
Neon lights captivates with its unique juicy color, and the brightness of its glow can even compete with SuperBright led signs. Of course, there are signs of the neon is not cheap. But if the advertising sign must be given of the elements of the classics, better than the neon, no nothing.

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Everyone knows that vegetable oil is healthier animal fats. You can find olive and sunflower, palm, peanut, soybean and sesame, palm and corn oil. All these products have quite different properties. Some – just a storehouse of vitamins necessary for human organism polyunsaturated acids. Others, not having virtually no nutritional value, but very cheap, can be used only for frying foods.

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