In the XIV century, the Roman Church undertook to interpret the Old Testament tradition of the "anniversaries". As you know, Hebrew law requires honoring the seventh day of the week; The seventh year (“Shabbatic” - Saturday) should be the year of thinking and summing up the results of the week; And a special place occupies a special place in the biblical world for a year that advancing after the seventh sevenths, that is, the fiftieth.

Nelson Mandela will celebrate the New Year behind bars. The famous Aparteid fighter is going to refute the belief that how you celebrate the New Year, so you will spend it. Together with 500 guests, including the current president of South Africa of Tabu Mbeki, he will spend New Year's Eve Brison on the island of Robben Iland, where he served 18 years of his 27-year imprisonment.

On October, the Central Election Commission refused to register the federal list of the LDPR in connection with the exception of Anatoly Bykov and Mikhail Musatov from the above list, which were in it, respectively, under the second and third numbers.

Rome is a city where not only the ashes of the main apostles of Christ rests, but also abundant relics related to Jesus itself. The first Roman Christian Emperor Konstantin seemed to be so careful about the transfer of worthy places of storage to Rome to Rome and the establishment of relics for them. Under him, in the 4th century AD, the same four main Roman basilicians were laid, which are already mandatory stages of pilgrimage.

Ancient Rome has a belief that lives so far: if the New Year's Eve has been a success, then all year it will be successful. It is clear that on the holiday you can not do without wine. “Good wine, wrote the famous poet Horace,” the sunny power, which was absorbed by grape bunches, reports to us. ” This warm solar force is especially lacking in winter. Perhaps that is why the New Year's fight of chimes is always welcomed by the ringing of glasses with hissing foamy wine.

One and a half. Because exactly follow the psychological rule of the Stirlitz: "The first and last words are remembered." And these “last words” should be: “unity” for Putin, and Putin for “unity”. The idea of ​​“attaching” Shoigu to the rating of Vladimir Putin erupted up back in early November, when the popularity of the prime minister began to grow like yeast.

Last week, the Russian authorities brought several ministers from Muslim countries to Ingushetia and Dagestan From the very beginning, a demonstration of the achievements of Russian national policy in the Caucasus did not work out. Demonstrated it to prominent figures of the Islamic Conference. Already from the first words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran, Mr.

"End of the world" It is necessary not when, but strictly at the last hour of the year (which in the film is stubbornly called the last hour of the millennium) and subject to laborious rituals.

For the first time, I heard about David Copperfield in 1990 from the Israeli visiting me: “What did Kashpirovsky give you?! Nothing is visible directly. But our Copperfield with a look from the TV cutting devices in the houses of people oppressed, the clock on Big Ben stopped. And how many centuries have they walked?! " I thought: Yeah, and the Charlatans started on the Earth of the promised.

The Moscow Carnegie Center conducted an express analysis of the officially approved economic programs of four parties and blocks, which, judging by the surveys of public opinion, have a chance to overcome the five percent barrier: the Fatherland-Vero-Veroi Bloc, the Communist Party (Communist Party), the liberal democratic party (LDPR) and the Yabloko association. The results were almost sensational.

The company did without attempts to redistribute capital in this way. Surgutneftegaz and Yukos, Sidanko and Noyabrskneftegaz tried to use these schemes (especially cynically in the latter case - here society resorted to additional emission to pay off debts to the budget). According to lawyers, additional issues of shares are usually inherent in some offshore companies, mainly Cyprus.

X International Opera Festival Nom Festivals: It is easier to find money for a prestigious holiday for the city with the participation of metropolitan artists than for an ordinary production of a new performance. In the best position, theaters of those cities where there is at least some reason for opera celebrations. The troupe of the capital of Chuvashia was lucky.

Who saw our meteorite? Irish astronomers addressed this issue to the owners of security systems equipped with external surveillance video cameras. Only they, according to stargagers, could accidentally record the fall of a large meteorite observed at the end of last month for the southern suburb of Dublin. This event can be considered historical: meteorites are not frequent guests of the island state. The last time such a appearance in Ireland was observed in 1835.

The Indian authorities announced his intention in Millennium's eve of presenting his gift to the world: on December 22, in the full moon, after a 15-year break, night excursions to the famous Taj Mahal, recognized by one of the wonders of the world. The Mongol emperor Shah Jahan, who was picked in the 17th century, is called the Taj Mahal called the “monument of eternal love”.

Grass instead of a carpet The entrepreneurs of the country of the rising sun are not enough to be the first in the global market of cars and electronics: today they want to crush a gastronomy for themselves. How else can you regard the request No. 06090838, which received the Patent Bureau of Japan, in which House Foods Corporation asks the famous Indian seasoning patent, which hundreds of millions of residents of the Hindustan Peninsula and not only them use daily.