Pope Francis said that he wanted to become a butcher

Pope Francis said that as a child he wanted to become a butcher, reports TASS.

According to him, he saw a butcher’s counter in the market, who had an apron with a pocket on his belt, in which he put money.

Then a native of a family of Italian immigrants in Argentina decided that representatives of this profession live richly.

In December 2021, Pope Francis turned 85 years old, the same age as his predecessor Benedict XVI was at the time of his abdication.

Francis was elected to the Apostolic See in March 2013. Since that time, despite his advanced age, he rarely sought serious medical care.

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Russians were promised March warmth next week

In the coming week, cyclone Roxana will bring March warmth to Central Russia, said Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the Phobos Weather Center.

According to him, the average daily air temperature will be 7-9 degrees above the long-term norm, RIA Novosti reports.

In the afternoon, it is expected from minus 2 to plus 3. This temperature corresponds to the climatic indicators of mid-March.

In addition, almost every day there will be precipitation in the form of snow, sleet, light rain is possible in places.

In the next five days, up to 9-10 millimeters of precipitation may fall in the Central part of the country, which is one-fourth of the total February volume of moisture, the forecaster added.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand told when in Russia one can expect the arrival of the climatic spring, which, as a rule, does not come on March 1, but much later.

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Jars, jars. What the old pharmacies of Russia will tell you about

AiF Health No. 3. What and when to check after “omicron” 01/02/2022

Today pharmacies are not much different from ordinary shops, and before they resembled miracle shops. Wooden cabinets filled with colorful cones and bubbles, unusual smells. How many secrets and stories old pharmacies keep.

The first pharmacy in Russia was opened at Ivan the Terrible, in 1581, medicines for the royal pharmacy were delivered from England. The most popular medicines were: opium, camphor, citrus seed (wormwood seeds), saffron, Alexandrian leaf (senna). The following two official pharmacies appeared only with Petre I. «Free» (private) pharmacy John Gregorius There is also a state pharmacy of the Lefortovo Hospital in the German settlement. None of them survived. But there are several pharmacies in Russia that have survived centuries.

Old pharmacy (Vladimir)

This is the first state pharmacy in the Vladimir province. It was opened on September 15, 1805 in the wing of the Governor’s House of the XVIII century. Before that, there was only one private pharmacy in Vladimir in the Theotokos-the Nativity Monastery. Opened a pharmacy by the decree of the governor, Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgoruky. A year before that, his wife Evgenia died of consumption. There is a legend that this event was one of the reasons for opening a pharmacy in the city.

For more than 200 years, the pharmacy has performed its functions flawlessly. On the ground floor there was a trading hall and a warehouse, on the second floor there were living rooms of the pharmacist’s family.

Already in the 1980s. XX. the building, as well as the entire Georgievskaya Street, on which it stands, has been restored. In 2017  the museum «Old Pharmacy» opened here, where the unique atmosphere of the pharmaceutical shop XIX reigns.

Ferreina Pharmacy (Moscow)

Ferreina Pharmacy. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org

It traces its history back to the times of Peter the Great. It was opened “during the execution of the royal decree” by the Pole Daniil Gurchin. It repeatedly changed its owners, until in 1823 the pharmacy was bought out by a German pharmacist Karl Ivanovich Ferrein. He conducted his business very successfully, the number of visitors grew rapidly. And in 1862 Karl Ivanovich acquired the house of the merchant K. K. Schilbach on Nikolskaya Street. From this day, the Ferreina pharmacy begins its work in Moscow at the usual address. After 10 years, Ferrein’s son, Vladimir Karlovich, rented a neighboring building. The family business has grown greatly. The company «Ferrain &Co.» produced more than 300 names of medicines, perfumes, fortified wineswith medicinal additives. A also gave practical classes for pharmacists, took tests, embalmed. We needed premises for a laboratory, stables, warehouses, a small outpatient clinic. At the end of the XIX century, a new four-storey (!) pharmacy building in the neo-Renaissance style was built on the site of the old one according to the project of A. E. Erichson. On the facade there are 4 statues of the goddess Gigia feeding a snake from a bowl, and the coat of arms of the Ferreins. The building has survived almost unchanged to the present day, although the pharmacy itself was destroyed during the anti-German riots in 1915. After the revolution, the pharmacy was nationalized and renamed Central No. 1. Now there is a restaurant and a shop in the historic pharmacy building. Unfortunately, there was not even room for a small museum in the magnificent interiors.

Dr. Pelya’s Pharmacy (Saint Petersburg)

Dr. Pelya’s pharmacy. Photo: Museum “Pharmacy of Dr. Pel”.

This pharmacy in the historical center of Vasilievsky Island is more than 300 years old. From 1710  to  now it is an operating pharmacy. The property of Wilhelm Pel she moved to 1858 g. Pel was a graduate of the medical and surgical academy, but there were legends in the city that he was not just a pharmacist, but an alchemist, a magician, like Count Cagliostro, the locals were sure that alchemy was being practiced in the cellars of the pharmacy.

Pelya’s pharmacy business was continued by his son, and then by his grandchildren. They are led byBy Alexander Vasilyevich Pele it was possible to create a huge enterprise, including laboratories, an organotherapy institute, pharmaceutical factories, libraries, warehouses, sales offices. More than 70 people worked in the pharmacy alone.

In 1910, the building was rebuilt in the Art Nouveau style. In 1914, a charity hospital was located in the pharmacy. The pharmacy continued to operate under Soviet rule. In 1918. it became known as the St. Andrew’s Pharmacy, then the 97th Communal pharmacy, later the pharmacy of Lieutenant Schmidt. Today it is the Pharmacy of Dr. Pele, inside there is a museum telling about the activities of the Pele dynasty and the pharmacy business.

Baiger Pharmacy (Stavropol)

Baiger’s pharmacy. Photo: Stavropol City Administration.

The luxurious Art Nouveau building (architect A. P. Bulygin) was designed by order of Israel Abramovich Peisakhovich a well-known pharmacist in the city, who bought a merchant’s estate on Nikolaevsky Prospekt (now Karl Marx Avenue) and decided to rebuild it to create his own pharmacy. The pharmacy, equipped with the latest pharmacology of the time, opened in 1912. Preparations from local raw materials and patented products from Europe were prepared and sold here.

But the pharmacy became famous already at Ioan­not Henrikhovich Baiger, who rented it from the owner. His name remained in the name of the pharmacy.

After the revolution, the headquarters of the Red Guard was located here, where interrogations were conducted and the enemies of the revolution were tortured. In Soviet times, the store “Hygiene and sanitation” worked. Today, the building has a functioning pharmacy and a small museum.

By the way!

The oldest operating pharmacy in Europe is located in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The Town Hall pharmacy was opened in 1442, and according to some sources in 1415. Next to the modern pharmacy there is a small museum with historical medical documents and antique pharmacy instruments.

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A faithful companion of the devil. The Life and Death of Eva Braun

Plot World History with Andrey Sidorchik

The human soul is dark. One, who grew up in care and prosperity, turns into a scoundrel and a murderer, the other, who has known insults, humiliation, hunger and cold, shows unselfishness, nobility and mercy.

“I can’t tell you how much I worry about the Fuhrer”

Women, rejecting the love of worthy men, sometimes devote their whole lives to those who treat them like soulless dolls. Others remain loyal to murderers, poisoners and other representatives of the criminal world.

Name Eva Braun preserved in the works of historians, novels and feature films is not at all because she showed some outstanding qualities. It’s just that her loyalty to her last breath was given to someone whom humanity with good reason considers to be a fiend of hell. Adolf Hitler.

On April 22, 1945, when the history of the Third Reich was counting down the last days, the Fuhrer’s companion wrote in a letter to a friend: “My dear Herta! We will fight to the last, but I’m afraid our end is getting closer and closer. I don’t know how it happened, but I don’t believe in God anymore. I can’t tell you how much I care about the Fuhrer. I don’t understand how we could have allowed all this. Say hi to all my friends. I’m dying the way I lived. It’s not difficult for me. You know».

No one really forced Eva to stay in besieged Berlin. On the contrary, she was not offered to evacuate once. But she stubbornly refused, declaring that she would stay with Adolf until the end.

Photo: www.globallookpress.com/Keystone Pictures USA

Athlete, typist, photographer

She was born on February 6, 1912 in Munich, in the family of schoolteacher Friedrich Braun andFrancisca Katharina Brown.

Friedrich’s three daughters were brought up in strictness: the father announced the lights out at 22 o’clock every day in the house, and no one had the right to stay awake later. No liberties were allowed to the girls. Eva graduated from the monastery primary school, and then from the Lyceum in Munich. Francisca, her mother, was strong in her youtha skier, and Eva also became interested in sports, choosing, however, athletics. After the Lyceum, Eva studied at the Institute of English Fraulein in Zimbach, where she studied French, typing, accounting and home economics.

At the age of 17, Eva became a saleswoman and a delivery girl in the photo studio of photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The work seemed boring to the girl, and on her own initiative she began to master the photography department, in which she achieved good success.

Photo: www.globallookpress.com/Keystone Pictures USA

Mistress of the “Mountain Yard”

In the autumn of 1929, she met a man who was introduced to her as “Herr Wolf”. The visitor was clearly interested in the girl, and Eva, who did not follow politics, did not even know at first that her boyfriend was none other than the head of the NSDAP Hitler.

Two years later, Eva turned into the main woman in the life of the main Nazi. However, this novel was not carefree, twice the girl tried to kill herself, as well as Hitler’s previous passion Geli Raubal.. The Fuhrer was not going to bear the second personal loss: he bought a house for his mistress and made her his personal secretary. This post was nominal, so as not to raise unnecessary questions.

In 1936, the reconstruction of Hitler’s personal residence in the Bavarian Alps was completed. The residence was named Berghof (“Mountain Yard”), and Brown moved there, becoming the unofficial hostess of the house.

The next eight years of her life were carefree. The war was thundering somewhere far away, and Eva was whiling away her time in the Berghof, doing color film and photography. Hitler came to the residence to rest, and Eva did not get into political intrigues, indulging in entertainment.

Photo: www.globallookpress.com /Scherl

Only one wish

Of course, it’s not worth considering Fraulein Braun as a naive fool. The memoirs of contemporaries and the surviving letters say that the Fuhrer’s girlfriend understood that the end was approaching. That’s just her he, by and large, did not scare her. The only thing she stubbornly sought from Hitler was the conclusion of a legal marriage.

At one time, the Nazi leader explained his official loneliness in this way: “Many women are attached to me because I am not married. It’s like a movie actor: if he is married, then he definitely loses something in the eyes of the women who adore him, he is no longer their idol.

But in April 1945, there were no more crowds of German women adoring Adolf. The man with the shaking head now needed only Brown. After hearing from Hitler about his intention to end his life before the door of the Fuhrerbunker was knocked out by the Red Army soldiers, Eva agreed to do the same. But in return, she asked to realize her main dream to formalize the marriage.

On April 29, 1945, under the roar of Soviet artillery, Brown became Hitler’s wife. The small banquet that followed was the last celebration in the history of Nazi Germany. Against the background of the general depression of those present, only the newly appeared Eva Hitler stood out with a blooming appearance.

Eva and her sisters. Photo: www.globallookpress.com /dpa

Name like a curse

A few hours later, she will calmly commit suicide. Everything Eva Braun wanted in this life, she got.

Eva’s younger sister, Gretl, was married toby SS Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein. Gretl’s husband, unlike Eva, did not want to die for the Fuhrer, and on April 28 tried to escape from the bunker. However, he was caught and shot according to one of Hitler’s last orders. Fegelein was not saved even by the intercession of Eva, who did not want her niece, who had not yet been born, to lose her father.

Gretl was in the last month of pregnancy. Already knowing about the death of her husband and sister, on May 5, 1945, she gave birth to a girl, whom she named Eva in honor of a relative. But, apparently, this name in this family acted as a curse in 1971, the younger Eva also left life on her own.

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Who should be responsible for the attack of dogs?

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 5. The roles played by Leonid Kuravlev are relevant today 02/02/2022

Cases of attacks by stray dogs on people have become more frequent.

A great resonance was caused by the tragedy in the village of Domna near Chita, where stray dogs killed a first-grader. Is it possible to solve this problem?

Vladimir Burmatov, 1st Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection:

Many tragic incidents could have been avoided. But a number of regions sabotage the implementation of the law, do not sterilize animals.7000 violations of laws were detected by supervisory authorities. I hope they will reach the court. 28 criminal cases have been initiated against officials on the fact of non-compliance with legislation in this area.

So far, cases are being initiated under the article of the Criminal Code “Negligence”, but this is not effective enough. Sanctions in the event that non-performance of powers caused harm to the health of citizens, and even more so death, should be tougher. And the responsibility for officials should come not when a tragedy has happened, but when they have not fulfilled their powers.

Much in solving the accumulated problems depends on the government. This includes the financing of the construction of shelters for standard projects. There is not enough  response systems to citizens’ messages that detect stray animals. We need a ban on self-driving (since domestic dogs that walk by themselves are often attacked), preferential sterilization programs, support for volunteers and municipal shelters. And this is the subject of subjects. They need to understand that these measures will remove stray animals from the streets.

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Correction of the ISS orbit was postponed to February 8

Correction of the ISS orbit height has been postponed until February 8. This was reported in the press service of Roscosmos.

Representatives of the state corporation clarified that according to ballistic conditions, the correction of the orbit height will take place at 10:56 Moscow time on February 8. Initially, the event was scheduled for 12:30 Moscow time on February 6. 

Roscosmos added that the engines of the Progress MS-18 cargo ship will be used to ensure correction. They will be turned on at 10:56 Moscow time, they will work for 142.3 seconds.

Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Mark Vande Hai, Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer are currently on the ISS.

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What did they do with witches in Russia?

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 5. The roles played by Leonid Kuravlev are relevant today 02/02/2022 The expert’s answer is 1 + –

–The so-called «vedic»processes in Russia were no less, – says Candidate of Historical Sciences Alexander Bayramov. – However, the fire rarely threatened our sorcerers. According to the laws of the Russian Kingdom, heretics, schismatics, blasphemers and those who had become desecrated who had converted from the right to Islam were subject to burning. The cases of sorcerers and witches were thoroughly sorted out, but often in the investigation process it turned out that there was either illegal medical activity, or the turnover of some “datura-grass”, i.e. banal drug traffic. The link was supposed to be for thisin the monastery. In an extreme case, batogi and hard labor. The article about the burning of warlocks appeared only in the Military Charter of Peter I in 1716. It was borrowed from the Swedish military laws. In the XVIII century. There are only three known burnings for witchcraft, corruption and intercourse with the devil. The last sentence on the burning of a Russian sorcerer was passed in 1762, but the fire was replaced by the Nerchinsk penal servitude to the convicted Andrei Kozitsyn.

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Turkey has initiated an investigation into the case of insulting Erdogan

The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office has initiated an investigation into users who posted offensive messages on social networks in response to the statement of Turkish President Recep Erdogan that he had contracted the omicron strain.

At least one suspect was detained by law enforcement officers, the NTV channel reports. The man is accused of posting provocative and offensive content on the Internet, which according to the laws of the republic is considered sufficient for a crime.

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in his Telegram channel that he and his wife had contracted a coronavirus infection. According to the Turkish leader, the disease passes in a mild form. Erdogan himself continues to work remotely. 

Now there is a law on insulting the president in Turkey. Such an offense is punishable by imprisonment from one to four years.

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Is it true that tits eat sparrows?

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 5. The roles played by Leonid Kuravlev are relevant today 02/02/2022 The expert’s answer is 0 + –

Cases of great tits attacking other birds are known. Also, beetles, bees, smaller rodents, etc. can be found in their diet. «But still it cannot be said that the tit is a daring predator, – says biologist, ecologist Svyatoslav Zabelin. Even in the frosty winter period, 90% of the diet of this bird is plant food. A tit does not attack sparrows like a kite. And only as an exception, on the hungriest days, she does not refuse a meat diet.

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Light snow and ice are expected in Moscow on Sunday

Cloudy weather, light snow, ice, and frosts up to -4 degrees are expected in Moscow on Sunday. This is reported on the website of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.

Forecasters note that the air temperature day and night will range from -2 to -4 degrees. South wind, 5-10 m/s.

In the Moscow region, the thermometer columns will show from -1 to -6 degrees. On Monday night, the air may cool down to -7 degrees.

Recall that in Moscow and the Moscow region, the day before, the yellow level of weather danger was extended due to icy conditions. The warning will be valid until 13:00 on Monday.

Earlier, forecasters told whether to expect the arrival of early spring in Moscow. For more information, see the material АиФ.ги.

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