February 15, or Meteorite in Chelyabinsk and Candlemas
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
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Aquarius, February 15. Born on this day have a well-developed imagination. Wherever their talents are directed - in technical or, on the contrary, poetic realities - they always achieve amazing results.
Perhaps the success of these people is due to the fact that it seems completely natural for them to think creatively. Even less enlightened personalities born on this day brilliantly cope with extremely difficult, in the opinion of others, tasks.
Among other things, those born on this day are incredibly positive in their attitude to reality.
And yet the world is arranged in such a way that the ups and downs in the life of any person are repeated with almost the same frequency. Many resign themselves to temporary failures, knowing that new victories will certainly follow them, but those born on February 15, unfortunately, do not know how to lose. If their attempts to do something are unsuccessful, they tend to experience extreme disappointment, which can unsettle them for a long time.
They are very sensitive to the outside world, those born on this day are always sensitive to criticism directed at them.
We can say that the feelings of these people openly lie on the surface, so it is quite easy to injure them or provoke them into actions that are difficult to explain.
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Aquarius men born on February 15: Zachary Gordon, Chris Farley, Matt Groening.
- have the following characteristics:
- curious,
- idealistic,
- open.
- One gets the impression that the falls in life do not frighten this person, since he understands perfectly well that this cannot be avoided, and the falls will be replaced by takeoffs, and this will be repeated throughout his life.
- This does not mean at all that this Aquarius, especially a man, loves and is ready to lose, not at all. Faced with life and professional failures, this man experiences the strongest disappointment, which, he is still able to hide from others.
Aquarius women born on February 15: Alex Borstein, Jane Seymour, Susan B. Anthony.
- endowed with the following features:
- attractive,
- safe,
- liberal.
- Whatever reality these people step into, whatever they do, technical, creative, or educational specialties, everywhere they can achieve brilliant results.
- Going to explore the world, these people diversify their lives, making it more attractive and richer.
Main event
February 15, 2013
A piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite
Destruction was a series of events, accompanied by the spread of shock waves. The total amount of energy released by NASA was about 440 kilotons in TNT.
According to NASA estimates, this is the largest known celestial body that fell to Earth after the Tunguska meteorite in 1908, it corresponds to an event occurring on average once every 100 years.
The scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters, referring to the results obtained after analysis by the scientists of the French Atomic Energy Commission of these sensory stations, gave an estimate of 460 kilotons in TNT (the highest figure for the entire time of nuclear test observations), and stated , that the shock wave twice rounded the Earth.
In total, 1613 people suffered, most of them were knocked out. There were hospitalized according to different data from 40 to 112 people; two of the victims were placed in intensive care units. The shock wave also damaged buildings. The total amount of damage (including industrial enterprises and objects of federal subordination) is about 1 billion rubles.
From February 15 to March 5, 2013, an emergency situation was introduced in the Krasnoarmeysk, Korkinsky and Uvelsky districts of the Chelyabinsk region.
The heavenly body was not found until it entered the atmosphere. The first fragments, in the form of small meteorites, were found a few days later. During the subsequent searches in Chebarkul Lake, the largest fragment was found weighing 570 kg and many smaller fragments with a total weight of several kilograms.
Holidays
Presentation of the Lord
February 15 Eastern Christians celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus. "Candlemas" in Slavonic means "meeting." "Candlemas" is a meeting of humanity in the person of the elder Simeon with a God.
Simeon the God-Receiver was a righteous and pious man - according to legend, one of the seventy-two interpreters whom the Egyptian King Ptolemy II Philadelphus commissioned to translate the Holy Scriptures from Hebrew into Greek. When Saint Simeon translated the book of the prophet Isaiah and read the words "Behold the Virgin in the womb will receive and give birth to the Son," he thought that this was an obvious mistake and instead of "Virgin" should be "Wife", and considered it his duty to correct the text. But the angel of the Lord stopped the hand of Saint Simeon and assured him that he would not die until he was convinced of the truth of the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah.
Simeon waited a long time for the fulfillment of God's promise - he lived, according to legend, for about 300 years. And on this day, according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he came to the temple and met Mary and Joseph brought the Baby Jesus.
In the folks, Candlemas have long been perceived as a meeting of winter and spring. They said that “on this day, winter meets spring, it wants to freeze it, the same villain only sweats from its own desire".
Folk calendar, signs and folklore of the ancient Russia:
- At the Candlemas, winter and summer met.
- In the morning, snow - to the harvest of the early loaves, noon - medium, in the evening - late.
- Snowing at the Candlemas Snow - spring will be rainy.
- Eavesdrop on the Candlemas foreshadowed a good harvest of wheat.
- Candlemas - the time of the last winter frosts.
- If winter blizzard sweeps the road - then the whole feed will pick up.
- If the sky is starless, spring will cry late.
- After return from the church on Candlemas, it was necessary to shake the garden trees so that they will be full of fruits.
- Feeding chickens with oats - in spring and summer they will be with an eggs.
Also on February 15...
1710 - Louis XV was born, which went down in history by saying: “After us - even a flood”.
1786 - William Herschel discovered a planetary nebula in the constellation "Cat's Eye". It became the first planetary nebula from which the spectrum was studied. This was done by English amateur astronomer William Huggins in 1864.
1874 - Ernest Shackleton was born (died 1922), Irish polar explorer, explorer of Antarctica.
1898 - Toto was born (real name Antonio Clemente; d. 1967), Italian film actor, comedian.
1898 - The death of the American battleship "Maine" in Havana. At the end of January 1898, he arrived in Havana on a goodwill visit to defend American interests in Cuba, where a national liberation uprising against Spain was taking place. On the morning of February 15, a ship in the harbor shook two powerful explosions, and at 9:40, it sank, taking 260 sailors with it. The exact cause of the explosions was never established, but the incident was used by the yellow press to blame the Spanish authorities for the incident. The result of the rising wave of hysteria was the appeal in April of President McKinley to the Congress calling for the "forcible pacification of Cuba." Congress recognized the independence of Cuba, demanded to withdraw from the Spanish troops and authorized the president to use the armed forces. In response to the blockade of Cuba by the Americans, Spain declared war on the United States. Its results for the Spaniards were sad, and the United States annexed the Hawaiian Republic during the war, occupied Puerto Rico, landed in Cuba, and received the Philippines from Spain, acquiring as a result an entire colonial empire with a population of 8.5 million people.
1903 - Birthday of a teddy bear. The 32-year-old Russian immigrant, Morris Michtom, who sewed dolls in New York, made a toy - a bear-stuffed sawdust - and put it in the window of his shop. The bear was instantly purchased, and behind it all the ones that followed. Michtom instantly opened a factory for the production of fun plush with eyes button-eyes. We bought them either because it was the first doll for the boys, or because of the Teddy bear signature, that is, the Teddy bear (Theodore is the name of the then President Roosevelt).
1926 - The longest parliamentary speech in history was delivered (deputy Martinson in the Estonian State Duma, 11 hours).
1950 - Walt Disney Studio premiere, based on the fairy tale of Charles Perrot, "Cinderella".
1954 - Matt Groening, American сartoon maker, producer and creator of the series "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" was born.
1957 - Gul Mohammed was born, a resident of India, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest person about whom there is reliable information. During a survey at the New Delhi Hospital on July 10, 1990, he was 57 cm tall and weighed 17 kilograms. Mohammed died on October 1, 1997 from a cold complication caused by excessive smoking.
1969 - R.G. Edwards of the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England, for the first time performs artificial insemination of a human egg.
1970 - In the US, specialists from IBM invented a floppy disk (floppy disk) on which computer owners can store information.
1989 - the end of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. At first it was a holiday of veterans of Afghanistan, now it is celebrated by everyone who participated in the hostilities in Egypt, Spain, Kosovo, Cuba, Chile, Ethiopia and other “hot” points of the planet.
2010 - the largest railway accident in the history of Belgium. Head-on collision of two trains in the municipality of Halle near Brussels, Belgium. Trains collided during morning rush hour in a big snow falling. The crash killed 18 people, injured 171 people. The break in the movement of trains was at least two days.
2016 - George Gaines (born 1917), American actor, star of the film “Police Academy” died.
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