Open the circuit: hand-drawn advertising antistatic for clothing

Why "hand-to-hand" at all times was the "superweapon" of Russian soldiers, and How it helped them out in the most desperate situations

The words of the commander Suvorov: "A bullet is a fool, and a bayonet is a fine fellow", did not lose their urgency during the Patriotic War of 1942. The powerful "superweapon" of the Russians called "hand-to-hand combat" more than once helped the Red Army to defeat enemies, despite the numerical superiority of the latter. The skill of using melee weapons, plus the moral strength of the soldiers, made them deadly opponents in close combat both at the end of the 18th century and in the middle of the 20th century

What things in Russia could not be passed from hand to hand, and what are these superstitions connected with?

In old Russia, it was not recommended to pick up some objects or pass them on to other people. It was believed that otherwise you can attract trouble both to yourself and to others. Sometimes this was done to show respect for things. Today some superstitions persist, but not everyone knows about them. Read why it was impossible to transfer weapons and bread to other people, and also where the iron gloves came from

And they know how to seduce glands: non-standard advertising of hand tools

Can a hacksaw blade look sexy? Maybe non-standard advertising answers confidently. And for this you don't even need to make up, you just need to place it in the familiar scenery of the "Basic Instinct". The same applies to other devices, seemingly far from the sphere of seduction. Custom ads recreate scenes from 9 1/2 Weeks, Flash Dance, and American Beauty to make viewers more pleasantly associated with the tools depicted on the posters

A cage is not a cage, a right hand is not a hand: The most common mistakes in ancient words by modern authors

Fantasy and historical novels about people who fell in love and great love in the times of Moscow or even Kievan Rus encourage numerous authors to use old words for the atmosphere and transmission of the realities of the time. The problem is that few of them bother to check the meaning of a word first, and as a result, the amount of embarrassment and absurdity in their stories is discouraging. We present a quick guide to the most commonly misused words when trying to "write antiquity"

Hakone Open Air Museum - open-air contemporary art museum

Not far from Tokyo and Mount Fuji is the small town of Hakone. If you are not Japanese, then it is quite possible that you have never heard of him before. But among the inhabitants of the land of the rising sun, this place is popular, because there is a huge open-air museum - Hakone Open Air Museum