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For the first time the term telepathy (from Greek et al. "????" - "far away" and "?????" - "feeling") formed Frederick Myers, one of the founders of the British Society for Psychical Research. It was a non-profit organization, created in 1882 to study the unusual phenomena and human abilities, which are called "paranormal". It should be noted that the creators opis in no way was the charlatans and ignorant. These were the wisest people of his time - linguists, poets, philosophers, physicists, chemists. Sir William Crookes, for example, discovered thallium and first got helium in the laboratory.

One of the first fantastic civilizations on Earth were the countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver, hero of the books of Jonathan swift. In lilliput he communicated with very little people, in Brobdingnag - with the giants in the Sky - with scientists, Glubbdubdrib - with sorcerers and immortal struldbruggs, in the country of the Houyhnhnms - with reasonable and good horses.

In recent times the theme of the Apocalypse, which, according to the prophecy of the Mayan calendar, should happen in 2012. That is waiting for us in the future, we have many versions, from the most fantastic to quite real. We decided to look at seven of the most popular of them.

Almost all well-known history of ancient Greece. From an earlier period rather well studied Mycenaean and Cretan-the Minoan civilization. But what was in Greece before, historians virtually unknown. Meanwhile, even a cursory glance at the archaeological monuments can be found here traces of highly developed technical civilization, representatives of which our ancestors were called gods. The remains of buildings of this civilization gods thousands of years later, the ancient Mycenaean Greeks used for their own purposes, preserving the memory of times of ancient gods, not only in myths and legends.

Why people are so attracted to the mountains? What is happening there?

Experiments on implantation of people gills been carried on since 30-ies of the last century. What have they been? And why it became possible - do we have a lot in common with marine mammal?

On Earth coexist two of the world. One - on the surface, the other - in the bowels of the planet. Where worlds touch, called "zones". It is believed that there are some artifacts from other worlds.

It turns out that the coat covering mammals, can not only warm, but cool. However, it should be very rare. Scientists have found that it is for this elephants need their bristles, the density of the hairs which per square centimeter of skin is very low. These hairs are as devices for effective heat dissipation.

Scientists argue about the health properties of green tea. The spectrum of its actions is very wide - from the stimulation of immunity to antioncogene effects. However, what components of green tea perform all these useful steps, still one can only surmise.

In the constellation of Cancer near the star 55 Cancri astronomers have discovered one interesting exoplanet. Before it was considered a gas giant like Neptune, but recent studies have shown that it is not. This planet is carbon, and, consequently, a large part of its mantle consists of diamonds. They weigh twice more than the planet Earth!

Turns out, the monkeys also love to look at other people's fights. However, they did not try to break up the fighting on the contrary, never interfere in the process. But why such a sight is pleasant? First, formed a "party", where you can establish new contacts, and secondly, after the fight has a chance to get a free servant.

Greek archaeologists near the modern city of Serres (where in ancient times there was an ancient Greek Polis of Amphipolis), discovered the tomb in which, perhaps, are buried the remains of the wife and son of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great - Roksana and Alexander IV. Leaders of excavations claim that it is too early to speak about the person buried.

Usually the Sun is considered as an enemy of water, as its rays cause evaporation of moisture. But sometimes it can act as its Creator. Recently the American scientists have found that stocks of water on the moon could be the result of the impact of the solar wind. Portable them hydrogen ions could be combined with oxygen on the surface of the satellite.