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The tea ceremony is rightly considered one of the greatest achievements of Japanese traditional culture. The cult of tea was borrowed by the Japanese from China, and initially the custom of tea drinking was spread mainly among Zen Buddhist monks, later the custom of ritual tea drinking penetrated into the aristocratic milieu, and then into the urban milieu. A small garden adjacent to the tea ceremony pavilion has a willow stone path, stone lanterns and mossy stones in the garden. Of particular importance are stone vessels with clean water (zucubai)...

The Japanese say that their cuisine is either not liked by foreigners, and then they don't like it so actively that they won't take anything Japanese in their mouths, or, on the contrary, they like it very much, and then they prefer it to everyone else. Japanese like variety most of all, and that's why in Japanese cities you can find restaurants of Italian, French, German, American, Indian and, of course, all variants of Chinese and Korean cuisine. But abroad, the Japanese quickly begin to yearn...

The material culture of the Japanese people continues to differ in its uniqueness, and despite numerous innovations, the traditional basis remains the dominant beginning. Next to giant skyscrapers, complex interweaving of modern highways for high-speed transport, the traditional culture of the Japanese people continues to live in the system of colossal metropolitan areas with their multi-million inhabitants. As for traditional Japanese homes, they are made of bamboo and paper, as the Japanese say, and the traditional homes are now inhabited by rural populations...

When people talk about hypnosis, they often mean something almost supernatural. In this case, the influence of one person on another is explained by the expiration of this force in the form of a so-called fluid from the ends of the fingers or from the eyes hypnotizing during sessions of hypnosis a. And so far, this view is especially willingly supported by the so-called magnetisers, who use the phenomena of hypnosis and for self-serving purposes of exploiting trusted persons. But science has long ago abandoned these and similar unfounded theories...

The history of shoes is as ancient as the history of human culture and the shape of shoes, like all other parts of clothing, has changed at all times and in all nations. Though craftsmen, soldiers and people of the lower classes of ancient Egypt went barefoot, but the Egyptians belonging to the higher classes, carried sandals which, however, always were removed in the presence or in a palace of tsar. The Egyptian sandals made of palm leaves or papyrus were attached to a leg by a transverse belt...

Time is divided into years, months, weeks, days, hours, seconds. Historians count down time for centuries, geologists count down time for millions of years. But only three units of time are connected with celestial phenomena, it is a year, a month, a day. The change of day and night is especially important for living beings living on Earth. Already caveman knew that from sunrise to sunset or between the two moments of the sun's standing in the zenith is about the same time, and called it "day". ...

A normal person sleeps 8 hours a night, 16 hours of awake. All our organs have a 24-hour life rhythm. However, this does not prove that we have a biological clock that regulates the body processes regardless of external events. Experiments carried out with volunteers who have gone underground have shown that a person has an internal, or "biological", clock, which, however, if not corrected by changing the light and darkness, go a little slower than expected: the 24-hour rhythm is imposed on us by the change of day and night and social signals...

Let's look at the crystals of different substances. How to distinguish them from each other? By color? By shine? No, these signs are not reliable. For example, quartz crystals can be colorless, golden, brown, black, lilac, purple, and violet. Looking at the crystals more closely, it is easy to see their much more characteristic feature: crystals of different substances differ from each other in their forms. Long gone are the times when they believed that crystals are only natural polyhedrons, and therefore thought that the crystals are rare, considered them a game of nature...

Diamonds with rare and beautiful coloring are especially valued. Thanks to scientific and technological progress in the second half of the XX century it became possible to change the color of natural diamonds. Bombardment of diamond crystals by electrons, protons, neutrons and subsequent thermal treatment gives them yellow, blue, green, brown and smoky colors. Diamonds irradiated in a nuclear reactor acquire green and brown colors, and the elementary particles placed in the accelerator become blue or blue...

Concepts: mineral, ore, mineral species. Minerals are crystalline substances, homogeneous in composition and structure, formed as a result of physical and chemical processes and being a part of rocks and ores. From a chemical point of view, a mineral is a more or less homogeneous body, corresponding to a certain composition. Physically, each mineral is also characterized by more or less limited qualities: hardness, density, magnetality, optical properties, etc. To define the concept of "mineral" it is necessary to make the following remarks...

Selecting the location of the warehouse When determining storage capacity, it is necessary to take into account the requirements for the conditions and terms of storage of a particular type of raw materials, materials, finished products, etc. For the storage of such raw materials as coal or sand, the requirements for storage capacity can be satisfied by providing an open area, the maintenance of which is associated with low costs. It is taken into account that the damage that may be caused...

Logistics - the science of planning, management, control and regulation of the movement of material and information flows in space and time from their primary source to the final consumer. Although logistics has deep historical roots, it is a relatively young science. It was especially developed during the Second World War, when it was used to solve strategic tasks and to ensure clear interaction between the defense industry, standard and supply bases and transport in order to provide the army with arms, fuel and lubricants and food in a timely manner...