June 21, or Ferris Wheel, Yoga, Skateboarding and Longest Day of the Year
Zodiac Sign Gemini
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Gemini, June 21. Born on this day are absorbed in life, they are worried about every aspect of earthly existence.
Intellectuals or sensationalists, aristocrats or plebeians - they are all equally greedy for worldly joys, and those who happened to live in highly developed countries often personify all the best and worst that has been created by the world of capital.
Among those born on June 21, there are many financial tycoons, and just people who perfectly manage the economy of both a family and their own business.
Highly success-oriented, they display authoritarianism and do not tolerate departing from their own moral principles.
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Gemini men born on June 21:
- are distinguished by the following distinctive features:
- easily adaptable,
- inquisitive,
- agile,
- sensual.
- To conquer such a man, you need to give up hackneyed phrases, show your intelligence and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Gemini men value in women, first of all, brains and a sense of humor.
Gemini women born on June 21:
- endowed with such differences of nature:
- cheerful,
- logical,
- intelligent.
- Games are Gemini's favorite pastime.
- They adore experimentation and risk falling madly in love with someone who can seriously surprise and conquer - not by impudence and primitive courtship, but by graceful and non-standard moves.
Visitors to the World Exhibition in Chicago for the first time in history swept the Ferris wheel
June 21, 1893
June 21, 1893
High Roller in Las Vegas - the highest Ferris wheel in the world (height 167 m), opened to visitors on March 31, 2014.
In 1891, the organizers of the World Exhibition in Chicago, scheduled for 1893, announced a competition for the best project of the building, which could become the "calling card" of the future event and would outshine the Eiffel Tower - the "nail" of the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris.
The organizers received many letters from engineers from all over the world. However, their projects were not original. In general, it was proposed to build an even higher tower.
Then a young engineer from Illinois George Ferris proposed to build a giant wheel with cabins for people. This idea was prompted by the memory of the wheels of water mills, which he saw as a child on the Carson River in Nevada.
Colleagues considered Ferris' idea absurd. But he did not give up. The engineer spent $ 25,000 of his own funds to create drawings and develop exact specifications of the structure, and as a result, the exhibition administration agreed. There was, however, one condition: unlike the Eiffel Tower, the construction of which was partly financed by the French government, George Ferris had to find the money himself for the construction of his offspring.
Most of the details of the future wheel were made in Detroit, and then on trains delivered to Chicago. The Ferris wheel had a diameter of 80 m and sat on an axis almost 14 m long and 2 m in diameter. The wheel axle was at that time the largest steel forged part in the history of technology. The wheel was driven by two steam engines with a capacity of 1000 liters. from. each. To the rim of the wheel were attached 36 cabins, about the size of a bus. In each cabin there were 20 seats and 40 standing places, and, thus, the total passenger capacity of the attraction was 2160 people. The total weight of the structure was 4100 tons. The wheel was higher than the highest skyscraper of that time, but four times lower than the Eiffel Tower. A total of $ 250,000 was spent to build the wheel.
June 21, 1893, the attraction opened to the public. For the duration of the exhibition, almost 1.5 million visitors took a ride on the wheel, paying 50 cents for a 10-minute trip. This brought the organizers almost $ 730,000 profit - for those times a lot of money!
After the closing of the exhibition, this wheel was transferred twice to another place. The wheel was finally dismantled in 1904 after a year of working at the exhibition in St. Louis.
The summer solstice - day when the sun reaches its highest position. For many centuries, this day (as well as the winter solstice, which falls on December 21) was of great importance to our ancient ancestors.
The ancient Slavs dedicated June 21 to the Sun God - Yaril, and the Celts and Druids celebrated Lita, which can be translated as "the longest day of the year."
Many rites and traditions on the day of the summer solstice resemble the celebration of Ivan Kupala. Initially, Ivanov's day was celebrated on the longest day of the year, but the mixing of Christian and pagan traditions, and the division of calendars into Gregorian and Julian shifted the celebration of Ivan Kupala to July 7th.
Preparing for the holiday started in the morning. Girls put on their most beautiful outfits and decorated themselves with herbs and flowers. The guys were looking for a suitable size tree. Then it was installed on the spot where the festivities were scheduled. The girls decorated the tree with flaps of fabric and flowers. Such a tree peple was called Madder or Kupala. At the foot of the tree set the image of Yarila made as a doll, growth in half a man. It was made of straw, clay and twigs.
Traditional festivities were organized around the tree and a fire was burned. It burned the doll Yarila. Along with the burning of Yaryla, the sun died according to the beliefs of our ancestors, so that the next day he could be born again and make people happy.
Astrologers and esotericists claim that the summer solstice strongly influences all living organisms, be it humans or plants. Peasants have long noticed that just before the day of Solstice annual plants grow in height, and then begin to energetically feed their fruits..
During the summer solstice, all the space around us is literally saturated with the energy of the Sun. June 21 is ideal for programming the future - in the morning set yourself up for a positive wave and do not miss it at least until the sun goes down.
June 21, 2015 the whole world community of amateur and yoga professionals celebrated the 1st International Day of Yoga.
Yoga Day is approved by the UN General Assembly in 2014. The holiday was proposed by India and approved by a record number of Member States: the document was supported by 175 delegations.
Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India. The word "yoga" comes from Sanskrit and means "connection", symbolizing the connection of body and consciousness. Today, there are several different areas of yoga that are practiced around the world and their popularity continues to grow.
This year, the Day of Yoga will be held under the theme "Yoga for the good of health." The event is organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. The theme of the Day is to demonstrate the effect of yoga on the balance between mind and body. The organizers of the event hope that yoga will make a direct contribution to the process of sustainable development of mankind and the establishment of harmonious relations with nature.
Longest Day of the Year
The ancient Slavs dedicated June 21 to the Sun God - Yaril, and the Celts and Druids celebrated Lita, which can be translated as "the longest day of the year."
Many rites and traditions on the day of the summer solstice resemble the celebration of Ivan Kupala. Initially, Ivanov's day was celebrated on the longest day of the year, but the mixing of Christian and pagan traditions, and the division of calendars into Gregorian and Julian shifted the celebration of Ivan Kupala to July 7th.
Preparing for the holiday started in the morning. Girls put on their most beautiful outfits and decorated themselves with herbs and flowers. The guys were looking for a suitable size tree. Then it was installed on the spot where the festivities were scheduled. The girls decorated the tree with flaps of fabric and flowers. Such a tree peple was called Madder or Kupala. At the foot of the tree set the image of Yarila made as a doll, growth in half a man. It was made of straw, clay and twigs.
Traditional festivities were organized around the tree and a fire was burned. It burned the doll Yarila. Along with the burning of Yaryla, the sun died according to the beliefs of our ancestors, so that the next day he could be born again and make people happy.
Astrologers and esotericists claim that the summer solstice strongly influences all living organisms, be it humans or plants. Peasants have long noticed that just before the day of Solstice annual plants grow in height, and then begin to energetically feed their fruits..
During the summer solstice, all the space around us is literally saturated with the energy of the Sun. June 21 is ideal for programming the future - in the morning set yourself up for a positive wave and do not miss it at least until the sun goes down.
International Day of Yoga
Yoga Day is approved by the UN General Assembly in 2014. The holiday was proposed by India and approved by a record number of Member States: the document was supported by 175 delegations.
Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India. The word "yoga" comes from Sanskrit and means "connection", symbolizing the connection of body and consciousness. Today, there are several different areas of yoga that are practiced around the world and their popularity continues to grow.
This year, the Day of Yoga will be held under the theme "Yoga for the good of health." The event is organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations. The theme of the Day is to demonstrate the effect of yoga on the balance between mind and body. The organizers of the event hope that yoga will make a direct contribution to the process of sustainable development of mankind and the establishment of harmonious relations with nature.
Skateboarding Day
And June 21 is celebrated Skateboarding Day. All over the world this day all skaters take to the streets for celebration and skiing.
The skateboarding holiday was invented on the West Coast of the USA in 2004. Local skateboarders changed prohibition signs "No Skateboarding!" on "Go Skateboarding!" and grinded right on top of the skate-stoppers. In the same year, the International Association of Skate Companies supported California hooligans and reached the US Congress - the document that officially announces June 21 is International Skateboarding Day store in library of Congress.
Also on June 21...
1781 - Simeon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, physicist, creator of modern mathematical physics, was born.
1804 - Smithson Tennant submitted to the Royal Society of London a report on the discovery of two new metals: iridium and osmium.
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer, playwright and essayist was born.
1913 - for the first time a woman made a parachute jump from an airplane. Eighteen American Georgia Broadwick, nicknamed Baby, using a five-kilogram silk parachute, jumped from a height of 305 meters from a plane piloted by Glenn Martin, and landed safely on the Griffith Field airfield in Los Angeles, California.
1948 - the record company “Columbia Records” launched long-playing records on the market, on each side of which 23 minutes of music could be recorded. In the music industry, there was a real revolution: the old heavy and fragile one-song disks were replaced by vinyl albums.
1948 - first launched a computer program on the Manchester small experimental machine ("Baby"), the first computer with a von Neumann memory architecture.
1970 - Pete Townsend, leader of the English rock band ''The Who'', was detained at the airport in Memphis by police and FBI agents on suspicion of terrorism. Commenting the success of the rock opera ''Tommy'', Pete used the English slang term "drop the bomb", meaning "to succeed." The security service heard only the word “bomb” and arrested the musician.
1971 - during the excavation of the mound of the Scythian period ''Thick Tomb'', Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky discovered the famous Scythian pectoral - the chest ornament of the Scythian king of the 4th century BC. Now it is stored in the ''Museum of Historical Treasures'' of Ukraine in Kiev and belongs to the ''Historical Fund of Precious Metals and Gems'' of Ukraine.
1973 - Juliet Lewis, American actress (“Cape of Fear”, “Natural Born Killers”, “From Dusk Till Dawn”) was born.
1975 - Steven Spielberg’s ''Jaws'' released on the screens of the United States.
1978 - London premiere of the musical “Evita”, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
1988 - “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” movie is released.
2004 - the world's first private, controlled spacecraft, ''SpaceShipOne'', first entered space.
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