Pedal horse
And this mythical creature, the illegitimate cousin of the centaur and the puller, arose from the desire of Soviet industry to give the best to children. The most brilliant minds were thrown into creating the perfect hybrid of a wheeled horse and a bicycle. The mutant received the official name “pedal horse” and was put into mass production in the late 1950s.
Children and parents were in ecstasy. The kids couldn’t ride the horsebox, pushing off with their feet as usual: the protruding pedals got in the way. And it was also impossible to turn the tight and clumsy pedals - a rare muscular child could cover a distance of several meters, after which he usually fell safely, since the structure also did not suffer from excessive stability. A few years later, horse builders were forced to admit their fiasco, and the pedal horse disappeared from the shelves, but remained forever in the people's memory.
Ovation
Derived from the Latin word meaning "sheep". Why did this peaceful and lethargic animal come to symbolize resounding success? Because for successful military leaders and other persons who committed outstanding civil feats, the Romans decided to organize “triumphs” - ceremonial processions with obligatory sacrifices. During a great triumph, bulls were slaughtered, and during a small one (for slightly lesser achievements), sheep went under the knife.
Not at ease
This expression has become so familiar and understandable that its strange meaning is not felt at all by those who pronounce it. But at one time, about 150 years ago, it made a lot of noise. The entire enlightened society of Moscow and St. Petersburg laughed at the would-be translator, who, having undertaken to translate a fashionable French novel into his native speech, scribbled a bunch of mistakes there. Even in such a common expression as “n"etre pas dans son assiete” (“not in his usual position”), he managed to confuse similar words - “position” and “plate” and, without thinking too much about what happened , decided that it would do just fine.
Loaf
Dr. Ferdinand Justus Christian Loder, who opened an “artificial establishment” in Moscow at the beginning of the 19th century mineral waters“, of course, he counted on success, but reality exceeded his wildest expectations. Coachmen and footmen, who waited for three hours for their masters, who lay under umbrellas in sun loungers with mugs of mineral water, created a word that accurately describes the above-mentioned activity. “They’ve been chasing lazy people since noon,” they sighed to each other and dejectedly scratched their shaggy beards, soaked with sweat.
Tragedy
The word "tragedy" means "song of the goats." IN Ancient Greece tragedies were plays of divine content, which were accompanied by performances of a choir dressed in masks depicting the heads of these divine artiodactyls. By the way, there may well have been no sad things in these plays, although, of course, the intervention of the gods usually did not bring good to the heroes. So, in the end, the word “tragedy” began to mean something like: “And now a sea of blood will be shed, everyone will first suffer for a long time, and then die in terrible agony.”
Sharomyzhnik
The word appeared at the very beginning of the 19th century, shortly after the Napoleonic campaign. The remnants of the French army, as you know, were retreating along the Smolensk road, deprived of any supplies. They supplied themselves by raiding nearby villages. Moreover, they rarely attacked with weapons: it is not easy to brush off pitchforks with scythes with frostbitten hands in a hungry delirium. Therefore, they addressed the local residents timidly and affectionately: “Mon cher ami! Dear friend, don’t you have something to chew, for all people are brothers and I really want to eat!” “Sher Amyg” were somehow fed, and they moved on, populating the vastness of our country with a new wonderful expression.
Give me two!
The phrase, which in recent years everyone and all and sundry has been chasing around, is in fact the end of a once very famous joke, which in its entirety goes like this:
- Girl, how much is this porcelain kitty with a mustache?
- This is no kitty, but Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny!
- Holy shit! Give me two!
Let's go back to our sheep
This phrase is 537 years old. In 1469, the now famous medieval farce “Lawyer Pierre Patlin” was staged for the first time. The plot of the farce is incredibly complicated (that's why it's a farce), but the central part of it is the courtroom scene. A man is being tried, suspected of stealing a flock of sheep from his patron, but the trial is constantly getting confused, due to the fact that all its participants quarrel, scandalize and accuse each other of a variety of sins. So the judge has to say the phrase ten times: “Revenons a nos moutons!” - “So let’s go back to our sheep!”
Stupid as a plug
Why a cork is stupider than a fork, a chest of drawers, or, say, ontognoseology, can only be explained by that highly erudite citizen who knows this proverb in its full, unabridged version, which sounded like this: “Stupid as a cork, where you stick it, it sticks out.” The end of this very common phrase was gradually stopped being said (why? And so everyone knows what’s next) and was shortened to the point that now almost no one remembers why the traffic jam was so offended.
Confusion
The cats and Vasya have nothing to do with it, although both of them sometimes cause a lot of noise and trouble. This word, funny to the Russian ear, has the most pompous ancient origin: it is from the Greek language, and even straight from a church service. It means “descent” and describes the moment when, in some solemn services, two choirs (choirs) descend from their places to the center of the temple, merge into one and sing together. Even after long rehearsals, this convergence did not always proceed smoothly, so it is not surprising that “disarray” came to mean confusion, bedlam and confusion.
It will heal before the wedding
Nobody remembers what exactly should heal before the wedding. But in vain. Because it doesn’t heal before the wedding - this is a medically established fact. But this anatomical moment was unknown to the uneducated village ladies, to whom the depraved lads whispered these words in their ears, trying to lure the village women into the hayloft. By the way, “nothing, everything will grow together” is from the same opera, and not at all about broken arms and legs.
Fly like plywood over Paris
At the beginning of the era of aeronautics, an event took place in France - the flight of the airship "Flâneur" over Paris. In those days, any events of this kind were necessarily accompanied by numerous newspaper comments, so for several days the whole world followed the fate of the Flaneur with interest and discussed its flight over evening tea parties. The device landed safely and was forgotten, but the expression remained. True, since no one remembered any “Flaneur”, at first it became Russified, turning into “Flaneur”, and then somewhere lost the letter “l”. The result was an image that excites the imagination with its mystery - “plywood over Paris.”
Ksiva
This slang word is at least three thousand years old. It was ksivs that the Jerusalem guards asked Christ and his apostles, because in Aramaic this word means “papers”, “documents”. And it came into Russian jargon with the help of educated Jewish bandits and swindlers, who at the beginning of the 20th century made up a significant part of the criminal world of Odessa and Kyiv. In general, about 10 percent of the words in the criminal dictionary are of Jewish origin (from Yiddish and Hebrew) - for example, “boy”, “shmon”, “shmot”, “shukher”, “raspberry”, “blat”, “parasha”.
Hunger is not a thing
And again we have an example of how, having cut off the tail, everyone happily forgets about it. Why “not auntie”, but at least not “not uncle”? But because in its entirety the phrase had a completely understandable meaning: “Hunger is not an aunt, it won’t slip you a pie.” That is, unlike a kind-hearted female relative who will feed you at least furtively, hunger does not know any leniency.
Stay with your nose
Why is it bad to stay with your nose? Is it better without a nose, or what? No, the creators of this phraseological unit were not at all fanatics of noselessness. It’s just that 300 years ago, when it arose, the word “nose” had another meaning, almost as important as the main one. It meant “bribe”, “offering”, that is, something without which it was impossible to take a step in Russia of that time (and not only in Russia of that time). If the person who took the bribe was unable to reach an agreement with the official, he, accordingly, remained with his nose and felt unimportant about this.
According to the Hamburg account
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the world was gripped by the fever of the French struggle. In all circuses, the second section was assigned to mustachioed strongmen in striped tights, who, to the delight of the audience, relished each other's faces in the sawdust, performing all these amazing techniques: suples, roulade, tour de bras, nelson, parterre. Champions were more popular than singers, actors and princes; The names of Poddubny, Buhl and Van Riel were known to every self-respecting child over three years old. But very few knew that this whole struggle was a complete fiction like modern wrestling. The fight scenarios were written out in advance, and entertainment was much more important than sport. Impresarios of wrestlers were sold tournament results their wards, fortunes were made on pseudo-totals. And only once a year best wrestlers They gathered in Hamburg, where they rented an arena for themselves and secretly, almost under the cover of darkness, in fair fights they found out which of them was really the best, and who was just a mustachioed doll painted with stripes.
Few animals are as important to humans as the horse. Horses, along with dogs, were the first animals to become true friends of the first man. The horse was not just tamed, but turned into an assistant, friend, ally...
Scheme "Pedal horse"
This post has a lot of useful and interesting information about horses with photos, but let's start with a joke (and finish!). Although, you will see that in every joke there is a grain of joke, but the rest is the same interesting information and facts.
Horse history
The history of the horse begins 65 million years ago (Early Eocene) with a small, dog-like Eochippus, or Chiracotherium, with a flexible, arched spine and a long tail. This animal rested on its entire foot, and not on the ends of its toes, of which it had four on its front legs and three on its hind legs. Its teeth were adapted for pinching and grinding leaves and young shoots. Another step in evolution is the anchytheria, small three-toed horses about the size of a pony. They are originally from America, and from there they migrated to Eurasia.
In the Miocene (26 million years BC), the ancestors of horses became new way development - they have adapted to living in open spaces and feeding on grass. On average, they were close in size to ponies, their skulls became like those of a horse, and their teeth were close to modern ones. The greatest changes occurred in the structure of the limbs at this time. The paw was replaced by a leg supported by a hoof, adapted for jumping and fast movements.
The next link in the evolution of the horse is the hipparion, which resembled small, fleet-footed gazelles or three-toed horses of medium height. And only in the Upper Pliocene (7 million years BC) did the first one-toed horses appear, which replaced the numerous and diverse three-toed hipparions, and in a number of places (Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Africa) even lived with them at the same time. During that period, the savannah landscape (with lush vegetation and highly moist soils) was replaced by dry steppes, which contributed to the advantage of one-toed horses over hipparions. In a short time, horses populated Europe, Asia and Africa in abundance. From them came tarpans, zebras and donkeys.
The history of the horse is inextricably linked with the history of mankind. The horse was domesticated later than other types of farm animals - 5th - 6th centuries. BC e. For a long time, horses were used only as a productive animal. The domestication of horses cannot be attributed to one specific place; it had several centers of distribution - both in Europe and in Asia. The role of these animals was very important for humans, including for waging wars, so horse breeding developed very rapidly.
Horse records
Publication time: 04/26/2009 17:59
The largest is a stallion Belgian breed Brooklyn Supreme (1928-1948); height - 1.98 m; weight - 1.44 t; girth chest— 259 cm.
The tallest is the Shire heavy truck Sampson: height - 2.19 m; weight - 1524 kg.
The smallest is the stallion Little Pumpkin: height - 35.5 cm; weight - 9.07 kg.
The fastest is the stallion Siglevi Slave I: he ran a distance of 804 m (standing start without a rider) in 41.8 s. average speed 69.3 km/h.
The oldest is the stallion Old Billy - 62 years old.
The strongest is the heavy shire truck Vulcan: it pulled off with a weight of 29.47 tons.
Jumping records: the horse Huazo jumped 2.47 m; Samting stallion jumped over a ditch with water 8.4 m wide.
The longest horse ride was Henry G. Perry, a shepherd, who rode 22,565 km in 157 days.
The most big bet for a horse named Niheleitor - $19.2 million, the largest winning was the horse Niheleitor, $3,225,653.
Thank you for your attention!
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Scheme “Pedal war horse”
Valery Gulyanov. Poem. Pedal horse
Oh yes, Miracle! Oh yes, Horse!
With him, either into water or into fire!
Now we have this one -
Pedal war horse!
You can sit down and immediately go into battle!
No enemy is afraid of him!
NATO missiles are not scary
A horse can swear,
Beware, adversaries!
You should be rewarded for this
All our designers,
Candidates, doctors! –
The development is brilliant
This Superhorse is pedal
It will immediately lift your morale
The long-suffering army,
And will strengthen its power
A hundred times, well, and also...
So that the horse doesn't get bored
And sadly alone
We're a pedal mare
We'll release him soon!
That mare is even cooler
There is no better weapon in the world!
That pedal mare has
10 pieces of ultra-long-range missiles!
Pedal war horse,
With him by fire power
Nothing compares
Combat unit!
He is with a pedal mare
Will become a very formidable force,
Protect our borders
Providing us with peace -
Glory to the Native Army!!!
Scheme "First SUVs"
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And this mythical creature, the illegitimate cousin of the centaur and the puller, arose from the desire of Soviet industry to give the best to children. The most brilliant minds were thrown into creating the perfect hybrid of a wheeled horse and a bicycle. The mutant received the official name “pedal horse” and was put into mass production in the late 1950s. Children and parents were in ecstasy. The kids couldn’t ride the horsebox, pushing off with their feet as usual: the protruding pedals got in the way. And it was also impossible to turn the tight and clumsy pedals - a rare muscular child could cover a distance of several meters, after which he usually fell safely, since the structure also did not suffer from excessive stability. A few years later, horse builders were forced to admit their fiasco, and the pedal horse disappeared from the shelves, but remained forever in the people's memory.
Not at ease
This expression has become so familiar and understandable that its strange meaning is not felt at all by those who pronounce it. But at one time, about 150 years ago, it made a lot of noise. The entire enlightened society of Moscow and St. Petersburg laughed at the would-be translator, who, having undertaken to translate a fashionable French novel into his native speech, scribbled a bunch of mistakes there. Even in such a common expression as “n"etre pas dans son assiete” (“not in his usual position”), he managed to confuse similar words - “position” and “plate” and, without thinking too much about what happened , decided that it would do just fine.
Loaf
Doctor Ferdinand Justus Christian Loder, who opened an “institution of artificial mineral waters” in Moscow at the beginning of the 19th century, of course, counted on success, but reality exceeded his wildest expectations. Coachmen and footmen, who waited for three hours for their masters, who lay under umbrellas in sun loungers with mugs of mineral water, created a word that accurately describes the above-mentioned activity. “They’ve been chasing lazy people since noon,” they sighed to each other and dejectedly scratched their shaggy beards, soaked with sweat.
Tragedy
The word "tragedy" means "song of the goats." In Ancient Greece, tragedies were plays of divine content, which were accompanied by performances by a choir dressed in masks depicting the heads of these divine artiodactyls. By the way, there may well have been no sad things in these plays, although, of course, the intervention of the gods usually did not bring good to the heroes. So, in the end, the word “tragedy” began to mean something like: “And now a sea of blood will be shed, everyone will first suffer for a long time, and then die in terrible agony.”
Ovation
Derived from the Latin word meaning "sheep". Why did this peaceful and lethargic animal come to symbolize resounding success? Because for successful military leaders and other persons who committed outstanding civil feats, the Romans decided to organize “triumphs” - ceremonial processions with obligatory sacrifices. During a great triumph, bulls were slaughtered, and during a small one (for slightly lesser achievements), sheep went under the knife.
Sharomyzhnik
The word appeared at the very beginning of the 19th century, shortly after the Napoleonic campaign. The remnants of the French army, as you know, were retreating along the Smolensk road, deprived of any supplies. They supplied themselves by raiding nearby villages. Moreover, they rarely attacked with weapons: it is not easy to brush off pitchforks with scythes with frostbitten hands in a hungry delirium. Therefore, they addressed the local residents timidly and affectionately: “Mon cher ami! Dear friend, don’t you have something to chew, for all people are brothers and I really want to eat!” “Sher Amyg” were somehow fed, and they moved on, populating the vastness of our country with a new wonderful expression.
Give me two!
The phrase, which in recent years everyone and all and sundry has been chasing around, is in fact the end of a once very famous joke, which in its entirety goes like this:
- Girl, how much is this porcelain kitty with a mustache?
- This is no kitty, but Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny!
- Holy shit! Give me two!
Let's go back to our sheep
This phrase is 537 years old. In 1469, the now famous medieval farce “Lawyer Pierre Patlin” was staged for the first time. The plot of the farce is incredibly complicated (that's why it's a farce), but the central part of it is the courtroom scene. A man is being tried, suspected of stealing a flock of sheep from his patron, but the trial is constantly getting confused, due to the fact that all its participants quarrel, scandalize and accuse each other of a variety of sins. So the judge has to say the phrase ten times: “Revenons a nos moutons!” - “So let’s go back to our sheep!”
Stupid as a plug
Why a cork is stupider than a fork, a chest of drawers, or, say, ontognoseology, can only be explained by that highly erudite citizen who knows this proverb in its full, unabridged version, which sounded like this: “Stupid as a cork, where you stick it, it sticks out.” The end of this very common phrase was gradually stopped being said (why? And so everyone knows what’s next) and was shortened to the point that now almost no one remembers why the traffic jam was so offended.
Confusion
The cats and Vasya have nothing to do with it, although both of them sometimes cause a lot of noise and trouble. This word, funny to the Russian ear, has the most pompous ancient origin: it is from the Greek language, and even straight from a church service. It means “descent” and describes the moment when, in some solemn services, two choirs (choirs) descend from their places to the center of the temple, merge into one and sing together. Even after long rehearsals, this convergence did not always proceed smoothly, so it is not surprising that “disarray” came to mean confusion, bedlam and confusion.
It will heal before the wedding
Nobody remembers what exactly should heal before the wedding. But in vain. Because it doesn’t heal before the wedding - this is a medically established fact. But this anatomical moment was unknown to the uneducated village ladies, to whom the depraved lads whispered these words in their ears, trying to lure the village women into the hayloft. By the way, “nothing, everything will grow together” is from the same opera, and not at all about broken arms and legs.
Fly like plywood over Paris
At the beginning of the era of aeronautics, an event took place in France - the flight of the airship "Flâneur" over Paris. In those days, any events of this kind were necessarily accompanied by numerous newspaper comments, so for several days the whole world followed the fate of the Flaneur with interest and discussed its flight over evening tea parties. The device landed safely and was forgotten, but the expression remained. True, since no one remembered any “Flaneur”, at first it became Russified, turning into “Flaneur”, and then somewhere lost the letter “l”. The result was an image that excites the imagination with its mystery - “plywood over Paris.”
Ksiva
This slang word is at least three thousand years old. It was ksivs that the Jerusalem guards asked Christ and his apostles, because in Aramaic this word means “papers”, “documents”. And it came into Russian jargon with the help of educated Jewish bandits and swindlers, who at the beginning of the 20th century made up a significant part of the criminal world of Odessa and Kyiv. In general, about 10 percent of the words in the criminal dictionary are of Jewish origin (from Yiddish and Hebrew) - for example, “boy”, “shmon”, “shmot”, “shukher”, “raspberry”, “blat”, “parasha”.
Hunger is not a thing
And again we have an example of how, having cut off the tail, everyone happily forgets about it. Why “not auntie”, but at least not “not uncle”? But because in its entirety the phrase had a completely understandable meaning: “Hunger is not an aunt, it won’t slip you a pie.” That is, unlike a kind-hearted female relative who will feed you at least furtively, hunger does not know any leniency.
Stay with your nose
Why is it bad to stay with your nose? Is it better without a nose, or what? No, the creators of this phraseological unit were not at all fanatics of noselessness. It’s just that 300 years ago, when it arose, the word “nose” had another meaning, almost as important as the main one. It meant “bribe”, “offering”, that is, something without which it was impossible to take a step in Russia of that time (and not only in Russia of that time). If the person who took the bribe was unable to reach an agreement with the official, he, accordingly, remained with his nose and felt unimportant about this.
According to the Hamburg account
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the world was gripped by the fever of the French struggle. In all circuses, the second section was assigned to mustachioed strongmen in striped tights, who, to the delight of the audience, relished each other's faces in the sawdust, performing all these amazing techniques: suples, roulade, tour de bras, nelson, parterre. Champions were more popular than singers, actors and princes; The names of Poddubny, Buhl and Van Riel were known to every self-respecting child over three years old. But very few knew that this whole struggle was a complete fiction like modern wrestling. The fight scenarios were written out in advance, and entertainment was much more important than sport. Wrestling impresarios sold the tournament results of their players, and fortunes were made on pseudo-totals. And only once a year the best wrestlers came to Hamburg, where they rented an arena and secretly, almost under the cover of darkness, in fair fights found out which of them was really the best, and who was just a mustachioed doll painted with stripes.
