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Polit.ru offers your attention the most unusual news of the outgoing year. The selection includes the most outstanding events of each month according to the editorial office.

MS-DOS got into the museum

Microsoft made the source code of the MS-DOS operating system first released in August 1981, and Word for Windows, which appeared in 1989. The corporation handed over the programs of programs to the Museum of the Computer History of the California city of Mountain-Vew.

Editor commentary: The availability of the code of these programs once prompted users to view them in search of jokes left by programmers of the 80s. Success was achieved by Leon Zandman, who informed about finds on his Twitter . In the notes to the lines of the code that the programmers left, there were statements like “The stupid user uses the equipment Novell Networks!” Or "do it because we are the gods." In the notes of programmers, even a quote from Hamlet was found, which is translated by Mikhail Lozinsky as follows: “For the workshop creation is a person! How noble is the mind! How chaos is in its abilities, guises and movements! ” The signature under this note looked like this: Bill Shake Spear.

Obama would save the sinking Putin

On April 25, US President Barack Obama at a press conference in Seoul said that he was ready to save Vladimir Putin in the event the head of the Russian state suddenly drowned. “I would definitely save Putin if he drowned,” Obama said and added about his hope that the Russian president would also save him.

Photo: moscow.usembassy.gov

Editor’s comment: Barack Obama’s statement can be considered as a kind of alaverd - a week earlier Vladimir Putin during a “direct line” with citizens suggested that the US president would save him if he had drowned, since Obama was a “ decent and courageous person ” .

The author of the book about the disappeared Boeing put forward his version of his loss

Briton Nigel Cowern, the author of the book about the disappeared Malaysian flight MH-370, suggested that the liner could bring down fighters of the United States and Thailand during the exercises.

Cowern also believes that the aircraft could be found if its equipment for tracking had been improved. On the missing liner, according to the author of the book, an outdated equipment was installed, which transmitted only basic information about finding the aircraft without GPS data.

Nigel Cowern

Editor commentary: It should be noted that Nigel Cowern is a fantasy writer, and his book is called Flight MH370: The Mystery (“Flight MH-370: Secret”) close to the dead believe that the author is profitable for their tragedy, and that writing a book about the plane is still early. “There are no answers there. This is destructive for families. Tomorrow will be 10 weeks tomorrow, and nothing, ”said Irene Burrose, the mother of one of the passengers.

CIA opened the account on Twitter

On June 6, 2014, the Central Intelligence Directorate of the United States has a Twitter account . The first message in the account looks as follows: "We can neither confirm nor refute that this is our first tweet." Obviously, this phrase is a playful reference to the standard formulation with an official response to “uncomfortable” questions. To date, 764 thousand people read Twitter CIA.

Twitter CIA

Editor comment: June 6th also appeared on the first post on Facebook CIA. It is dedicated to the memory of the Americans, "who fought and served on this day" - 70 years ago, in 1944, the operation began to land the troops of the Western participants in the anti -Hitler coalition in Normandy. This date is called "Day D". Earlier in 2014, the CIA launched its own accounts in the Flickr Photo Bank and YouTube video hosting.

Patriarch Kirill called holiness the ideal for the Russian population

Patriarch Kirill, speaking to the pilgrims in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, said that holiness is a Russian national idea.

The Patriarch noted that "Holy Rus' is the unwritten spiritual and moral ideal of our people, and the expression of this ideal, its dominant is holiness." He explained that in this case we are “not about monasteries”, but about the whole people. At the same time, Cyril said that the ideals of other peoples are associated "with earthly life, with physical - the ideals of wealth, power, power."

“The ideal of our people was holiness. It was a nationwide idea. And therefore, those who reached holiness, who realized this national ideal, became heroes, heroes of the spirit, ascetics, lamps, those who were equal to people, ”the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was sure.

Patriarch Cyril. Photo: Patriarhia.ru

Editor's comment: how the topic of holiness was reflected in the poetry of Russian rock (we took only those passages that we could remember):

“He who is bright is holy,” “Golden City” Henri Volokhonsky (it was this poet that wrote poetry to the song, which was later performed by Boris Grebenshchikov and Alexei Khvostenko).

“Bright barefoot kysh y nose ...” - “Flocks fly” Yanka Diaghilev.

“Honest people are all holy,” “In the clean field, the rains of the oblique” Alexander Bashlachev.

“After all, saints in Rus' - just know, take it out!”, - “Poschok”, the same author.

David Lynch invited Putin to lick cold water

American director David Lynch took part in the World Flashmob and doused himself with cold water, challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Lynch doused with two buckets of cold water, in the first of which he added a glass of double espresso. All this time, the director played on the pipe, and after dousing, he said that he was passing the ice relay race to Vladimir Putin.

Editor commentary: In 2014, the call to the President of Russia was also abandoned by the American actor Vin Diesel, but the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said that Putin is unlikely to respond to this proposal. Of the Russian officials , the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko accepted participation in the charity flash mob ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE. Thus, he answered the call of the goalkeeper of the St. Petersburg Zenit Vyacheslav Malafeev.

The challenge was also abandoned by US President Barack Obama, who was invited to follow his example by pop singer Justin Bieber. The head of the White House ignored this proposal.

New intimate photos of celebrities have appeared on the Web

At the end of September, new intimate photos of celebrities appeared on the Internet. Hackers published photographs of actresses Kim Kardashian, Kayley Kuoko-Switting, Vanessa Hajens, Hayden Panetter and Mary-Kate Olsen. According to other sources, the list of celebrities also includes the names of Lily Sobeski, Lake Bell, American football player Hope Solo. According to the TMZ portal, the photos were uploaded to two sites and quickly deleted.

American football player Hope Solo

Editor's comment: On September 1, unknown hackers posted on anonymous forum 4Chan.org intimate photographs of Hollywood celebrities (stars pose in front of their cameras in naked form). Public access was personal photographs of actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Teresa Palmer, fashion models Kate Apton and Bar Rafaeli, actress and singer Ariana Grande, singers Selena Gomez and Avril Lavin, as well as many other celebrities. In total, the list contains more than 60 surnames. According to unconfirmed reports, hackers gained access to the pictures, hacking the “cloud” service of Apple ICloud.

The new Secretary General announced the possibility of deploying NATO forces anywhere

The former Norway Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who took office, who took office, said, during his visit to Warsaw, that the North Atlantic Alliance has the right to housing their forces anywhere. According to Stoltenberg, in 2015 the alliance is detailed by the previously adopted decision to create a quick response forces on the basis of the Alliance. “But even before they are created, NATO has an already powerful army. We can place it wherever we want, ”said the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, his words quoted by RIA Novosti .

Jens Stoltenberg

Editor commentary: Russian agencies, who quoted these words of the NATO Secretary General, fell into a curious situation. The fact is that during a visit to Warsaw the Polish translator attributed to Jens Stoltenberg the words that he did not say. “Next year, at the ministerial meeting, we will make a decision regarding the forces of quick response, but even before they will be created, NATO has a powerful army, and we are ready at any time to expand the operational response forces,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with TVP Info during his visit to Poland. The words of the translator this phrase sounded like this: “Next year at a meeting of ministers, we will decide on the so -called quick response forces, but without them NATO has a strong army. And we can deploy it where we want. ”

Robert Plant refused to revive Led Zeppelin for $ 800 million

The British musician Robert Plant refused to revive the legendary rock band LED Zeppelin for $ 500 million ($ 791 million). The founder of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, who is a great fan of the Led Zeppelin creativity, addressed the appropriate proposal to Plan. Former Led Zeppelin musicians agreed to the deal, but the 66-year-old vocalist tore the contract right in front of the promoters and said that the chances of reuniting Led Zeppelin are “equal to zero”. In accordance with the terms of the agreement, the group was supposed to play 35 concerts in three cities-in London, Berlin and New Jersey. Plant's colleagues tried to persuade him to change his opinion, but to no avail.

Led Zeppelin. 1970

Editor commentary: Later, the representative of the planter called the “nonsense” story about a broken contract with Branson. This was reported by The Guardian. Meanwhile, no information about the contract has appeared since then. The British media wrote that touring had to include 35 concerts in London, Berlin and New Jersey. The deal could bring to musicians, including guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones for about $ 250 million before tax payment.

Led Zeppelin musicians, after the group’s decay in 1980, because of the death of the drummer John Bonam, gathered together for four concerts: at the Live AID festival in 1985, at the anniversary of the Atlantic label in 1988, at the Glory Hall of Rock-Rollah and for a large solo concert in London in 2007 year. The London concert was supposed to be the first in the world round of the revived group, but the tour was canceled at the request of Plant. Nevertheless, the recording of the concert was released at the DVD "Celebration Day" at the end of 2012.

Conchit Vurst announced the desire to spend a week with Putin

In 2014, the Austrian Vurst (Tom Neuvirt), who won at the Eurovision Song Contest, said that she would like to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. Nevertheless, I would like to spend a week with Putin. To make it easier for me to understand him, ”VURST noted in an interview with the Austrian publication Kurier . In addition, the singer expressed a desire to speak in Russia. “I have many fans in Russia. And this is an incredibly beautiful country, ”she said.

Conchit Vurst

She stated that she considers it wonderful that many citizens of the country do not agree with the decisions of the head of state. What exactly she had in mind is not specified. Speaking about a meeting with the Russian leader, Conchit Vurst explained that she, in particular, was interested in what Putin means to be and what pressure he has to withstand.

Editor commentary: The desire of Conchita VURST “laughed” the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. Commenting on the possibility of Putin’s meeting with the singer, Peskov noted that such questions should not be addressed to him.

Earlier in 2014, the St. Petersburg deputy Vitaliy Milonov demanded to ban the concerts of VURST in Russia, but the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that his department would not do this.

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