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Europeans, especially Anglo-Saxons, are highly superstitious when it comes to the number 13. They say that if 13 people sit down at one table, one of them will die within a year. The 13th day of a month, the 13th storey, the number 13, 13 coins in a purse are considered to bring ill luck. In a word, everything containing the baker’s dozen is considered to be unlucky. In Russia this number is known as the devil’s dozen
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12.05.2008
Russian investigative authorities are getting familiar to the usage of hypnosis to investigate crimes. Criminalists are sure that in the near future each police station will have a psychic. Even today the demand in psychics in city and district police courts is great.
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08.05.2008
It is an open secret that ice caps of the Earth are quickly diminishing in size. Scientists calculated to which extent the surface of the World Ocean will rise if ice of high latitudes melts completely. Scientific forecasts look quite pessimistic, but nobody knows how to counter the global warming. Surprisingly, it is the ozone hole that prevents the quick melting of the Antarctic. Two decades ago the ozone hole was regarded as the major threat to the biosphere of the planet
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08.05.2008
Evolutionists, like those in Internet media organizations such as The Panda's Thumb and Pharyngula, ignorantly continue to criticize creationists and argue that the law of entropy in science does not contradict evolutionary theory because they claim the law of entropy does not apply in open systems such as our Earth, and evolutionists use examples such as a seed becoming a tree as a contradiction to the law of entropy. Evolutionists are wrong on both counts for reasons which will be fully explained in this article.
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Russians to operate computers by power of thought [ / Science / Technologies and discoveries ]
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Cockroaches to be added to Red Book in Russia [ / Science / Planet Earth ]


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