February 21, or "Alka Seltzer" Birthday and a Day of Guide and Mother Language

Zodiac Sign Pisces

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Pisces, February 21. Born on this day do their best to express themselves.

Their early life may be fraught with difficulties that they have to face almost daily.

At first, they blame others for everything, but then they usually realize that the real cause of all troubles is their own complexes.

But difficulties from the outside, of course, are also common.

These people should learn, work hard on themselves, and most importantly - not be lazy.

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Pisces men born on February 21: Corbin Bleu, Jordan Peele, Tiziano Ferro.

• are distinguished by the following features: 
• generous, 
• impressionable, 
• musical, 
• romantic.
• Pisces men are idealists and dreamers, they are light and comfortable people in communication.
• Politeness and tact do not allow men of this sign to show open aggression, which is often their problem.
• Pisces men fall in love easily and find it difficult to build strong harmonious relationships.
• The main problems in love are associated with striving for an unattainable ideal and building relationships with those who have a much brighter temperament.

Pisces women born on February 21: Ellen Page, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sophie Turner.

• are not like others with such properties:
• sensual,
• attentive,
• intellectual.
• Pisces women are charming, delicate and mysterious young ladies who attract men with their vulnerability and defenselessness.
• Their femininity and weakness are their main trump cards, creating an atmosphere of mystery around them.
• Her location is not easy to achieve, and it is her reason that sometimes makes her not go on about emotions.
• The strongest traits of Pisces women are femininity and the ability to properly manage their trademark features - fragility and softness.

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Main event

The release of a remedy against nausea and a hangover "Alka Seltzer''

February 21, 1931

In the mid-1920s, the American pharmaceutical company "Dr. Miles Laboratories in Indiana began working on the creation of easily soluble tablets. However, the experiments of that time were unsuccessful.

In January 1928, during the epidemic of flu and colds, the president of the company Hab Berdsley accidentally learned that the editor of the local newspaper has been successfully, but mysteriously, protecting his employees from catarrh diseases. Beardsley met with him and asked him to reveal the secret of the miraculous elixir. It turned out that it a mixture of simple aspirin, soda and lemon juice.
After receiving the prescription, Beardsley instructed his laboratory staff to turn the "combustible mixture" into a tablet.

On February 21, 1931, a new drug was launched, which appeared in American pharmacies on December 3, 1931 as a new medicine against the cold "Aspir-Vess", later called "Alka-Seltzer".

Later, the pill was started to be advertised as an effective remedy for all diseases.

It helped with:

• colds and flu, 
• took off the headache, 
• relieved pain and heaviness in the stomach, 
• and also helped with overeating.

Discovered later "side effects":

• relief in a hangover,
• prevention of delirium,
• even more popularized "Alka Seltzer".

This is how successful brands are made - even small assistance in solving problems of the masses leads to great success ...

Holidays

Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day has been celebrated on the initiative of UNESCO since 2000. The purpose of the holiday is to draw attention to the support of linguistic and cultural diversity. UNESCO interprets the concept of language not only as a means of communication, but also as a cultural heritage and expression of cultural identity.

In general, about six thousand different languages ​​are spoken in the world, UNESCO researchers say, but half of all languages ​​are threatened with extinction. Along with the disappearance of the language, the researchers note, the cultural heritage is also lost: poetic works, legends, sayings and jokes are forgotten.

Among the causes of the disappearance of languages, UNESCO experts call war, deportation, migration, and language mixing. In addition, modern technologies contribute to the increased dominance of certain large languages, for example, English.

World Guide Day

Many cities in the world - especially those that are centers of tourism - celebrate World Guide Day. Since people began to actively travel, it has become difficult for them to do without the help of professional guides.

In the middle of the last century, any educated person familiar with the history of a particular city could feel like a tour guide. In this capacity, philologists, history teachers, and students of relevant faculties often worked. However, in the 70s of the 20th century, the requirements for professionalism of guides increased, and only people who had received special training began to be called guides.

Currently, guides prepared by universities with a specialization of "Tourism". In the role of guides are educated people, often even with a scientific degree. Two more indispensable conditions - knowledge of the basics of psychology and correct speech.

Also on February 21...

1613 - the election of to the realm of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, the founder of the Romanov dynasty, made by the Zemsky Sobor took place.

1804 - British engineer Richard Trevithic demonstrates the first steam engine to run on rails.

1811 - Humphry Davy reports on the properties of the chlorine gas he discovered.

1842 - American John Greenau patented a sewing machine.

1858 - In Boston, Edwin Holmes installed the world's first electric burglary protection system.

1878 - The first phone book in the world, including 50 names, was released in New Haven.

1927 - Hubert de Givenchy was born, a French couturier.

1931 - Alka Seltzer anti-shampoo product was launched.

1944 - the first weekly TV program appeared.

1946 - born Alan Rickman (d. 2016), British actor (“Die Hard”, “Reason and Feelings”, “Harry Potter”).

1947 - Edwin Land for the first time demonstrates the Polaroid camera he created, which in a minute produces a black and white photograph.

1953 - J. Watson and F. Creek propose a structural model of DNA (the so-called double helix of heredity).

1956 - Presentation of the world's first video.

1963 - William Baldwin, American actor (“Return thrust”, “Komatozniki”, “Squid and whale”, “Born on the Fourth of July”), Alec Baldwin's younger brother was born

1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt was born, American actress and singer.

1987 - Ellen Page was born, a Canadian actress (''Beginning'', ''American Crime'', ''Juneau, Lollipop'', ''X-Men: The Last Stand'').

1993 - in Donetsk, Sergey Bubka set a world record in pole vaulting in enclosed spaces - 6 m 15 cm.

1995 - American Steve Fossett first in the world alone in the balloon crossed the Pacific Ocean.

1998 - Celine Dion's song "My Heart Will Go On" topped the chart. The song entered the soundtrack to the film “Titanic” and became Dion's biggest hit, making her a superstar.

2006 - the SCP 06F6 object is registered with the Hubble telescope, the nature of which astronomers cannot explain until now.

2008 - United States shot down its own spy satellite; The last time cosmic weapons were used by this country were in 1985.