January 8, or Earth is Spinning, Women's and Porridge Day
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
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Capricorn, January 8. Those born on this day are destined to have a huge impact on the world around them.
They are not necessarily outstanding personalities or people who are inclined to play for the audience, but nevertheless, each meeting with them leaves a feeling of their identity and dissimilarity from others, which makes a deep impression on others.
Whether they are materialists or, conversely, natures prone to abstract thinking (many of those born on January 8, by the way, are very imperceptible in this regard, but rather, perhaps, even lack the ability to think abstractly), the importance and scale of what they talk about, is their permanent brand name.
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Capricorn men born on January 8: Stephen Hawking, Elvis Presley, David Bowie.
- possess the following qualities:
- wise,
- responsible,
- hardworking,
- disciplined.
- This person always talks about specific things, he is not interested in talking about anything.
- Among these people, who were lucky enough to be born on this January day, there are many public, well-known and quite famous personalities.
- These people are able to work hard, not knowing tired, directing their natural energy not to several things at once, but focus on some specific action, bringing what was started to its logical conclusion.
- The ability of these men to give their best to the end, while not completely wasting their strength, gives them the opportunity, immediately upon completion, to start a new project, which distinguishes them from many people.
Capricorn women born on January 8: Noah Cyrus, Carolina Herrera, Shirley Bassey.
- characterized by the following properties:
- practical,
- wise
- stabilizing.
- In their life, they are used to thinking large-scale and rational. They always accurately and responsibly assess their potential and their capabilities, what they are capable of and ready for, and what they should not undertake.
- It is common for a Capricorn woman born on January 8 to question long-known and generally accepted truths.
- In life she is calm, and not interested in the rebellious mood of the crowd.
- She approaches any problem from the wrong side, as is customary, first a woman born on this day will study an issue that no one even thought of considering, and only then she will make her own conclusion.
Main event
January 8, 1851
Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, with the device he designed, received proof that the Earth is spinning
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault designed a device consisting of a five-kilogram ball of brass suspended from the ceiling on a steel wire 2 meters in length. Shaking the ball, Foucault watched the rotation of his swing plane in a few degrees. Although there were no reasons for this. Thus, Foucault concluded that there is nothing more than a rotation of the Earth.
At two o'clock in the morning Foucault recorded his observation in a working journal.
And later, on February 3 of the same year, Foucault invited the academicians to the Paris Observatory to observe the rotation of the Earth and demonstrated his instrument, later named Foucault's pendulum.
The pendulum in the Parisian Pantheon was a metal ball weighing 28 kg with a point attached to it on a steel wire 67 m long. The pendulum attachment allowed it to freely oscillate in all directions. Under the anchorage point made a six-meter circular enclosure, along the edge of which was poured a sandy path so that the pendulum in its motion could draw marks on the sand. To avoid a lateral jolt when starting the pendulum, he was taken to the side and tied with a rope, after which the rope was burned.
The oscillation period of the pendulum at this suspension length was 16.4 seconds, with each oscillation the deviation from the previous intersection of the sand track was ~ 3 mm, for an hour the oscillation plane of the pendulum turned more than 11 ° clockwise. The experiment entered the history of science, clearly confirming the hypothesis of the rotation of the Earth.
In St. Isaac's Cathedral of St. Petersburg, the Foucault pendulum was launched on the night of April 11 to April 12, 1931.
Holidays
Women's Day or Porridge Holiday
Women took their children and with gifts and congratulations went to the midwives, who helped them in childbirth. Those, in turn, treated the guests with a porridge.
At the same time, a custom connected with Christianity was born: women came to church with pre-baked cakes to present them to the Virgin Mary.
From that day began the girlish fortune guessing, which continued until the Christening ( January 19). Guessing was made with special songs or in complete silence. The main subjects of divination were the wedding, death and harvest. Over time, the ritual essence of fortune telling has been lost practically, and their entertainment side has come to the first place. And nowadays, many girls gladly guess "on the betrothed."
"Ginayratia"
On January 8, in Greece, mainly in the cities of Monoclisia and Nea Petra, as well as in many villages and villages in the northern part of the country, the Women"s Fest, "Ginayratia" takes place.
On this day, families exchange family roles: women are relieved of the usual household chores and spend their day in the "cafeteria" (cafe) or other public places - places of entertainment and recreation, where usually only men are allowed.
Husbands at this time are ordered to be at home, do housework, look after children.
Also on January 8...
1824 - Wilkie Collins, English writer, was born (“Woman in White”, “Moonstone”; died 1889).
1851 - physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault proved that the Earth is spinning.
1861 - the first issue of Vokrug Sveta magazine was published in St. Petersburg.
1910 - Galina Ulanova was born, the famous ballerina.
1912 - The African National Congress was founded, which almost 90 years later came to power in South Africa. The main goal of the organization is to protect the rights of the black majority.
1935 - In the US state of Mississippi, the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley was born.
1947 - born David Bowie, English rock musician.
1957 - Bobby Fischer became the champion of the USA in chess at the age of 14.
1961 - the French voted to grant independence to Algeria in a referendum.
2004 - The “christening” ceremony of the “Queen Mary 2” sea super liner, the largest at that time in the world, was held.
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