September 18, or "Iron mask" and Water Quality Day
Zodiac Sign Virgo
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Virgo, September 18. Born on this day are self-sufficient, serious and secretive.
Born 18 September are extremely solitary, even secretive people who, for one reason or another, often have a public career.
Their world is very personal, and it is not so easy to access it for outsiders.
They can be completely dependent on their partners, but at the same time, many of them are capable of decisively and unexpectedly breaking off friendship or love relationships if something does not suit them. Thus, it is dangerous to deal with them, unless their environment is ready for such a change.
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Virgo men born on September 18:
- are distinguished by the following qualities:
- technical,
- helpful,
- intelligent,
- analyst,
- caring.
- Virgo man can like only a woman who is ideal in every sense - modest, well-mannered, educated, with an impeccable appearance, inaccessible and mysterious.
- You should not expect surprises or explosive emotions from a Virgo man.
- It is stable, consistent, and very predictable.
- He performs all his actions according to a clear plan, understanding the logic of which, you can understand the man himself.
Virgo women born on September 18:
- are distinguished by special features:
- dependent,
- capable,
- independent.
- Virgos strive for excellence in everything - in their careers, and in relationships, and in appearance.
- Coquetry is alien to them, but false modesty is also an atypical feature of Virgos.
- They with dignity accept well-deserved compliments and courtship, but do not flatter them.
- Virgo women are well versed in people, they are difficult to deceive or mislead.
Main event
In Bastille, a man whose face was concealed by an "Iron mask" was placed
September 18, 1698
"The Man in the Iron Mask". Anonymous print (etching and mezzotint, hand-colored) from 1789.
September 18, 1698
"The Man in the Iron Mask". Anonymous print (etching and mezzotint, hand-colored) from 1789.
Image from the Library of Congress, ppmsca.07185.
September 18, 1698 in the Parisian Bastille from prison Piedmont was transferred to a mysterious prisoner - a man whose face was masked. This is only one of the few reliable facts of his life, which gave ground for numerous hypotheses of the real name and the origin of the prisoner. Legend, he also owes his nickname "Iron Mask".
The prisoner was taken to the Bastille in a dark pouch, and, according to the order, was imprisoned in one of the most deaf casemates in the Bastille, it was forbidden to talk to him. About the man in the iron mask, the prison authorities knew only that he had come from the island of Saint-Marguerite, and before that he had been kept in the fortress of Pinierol.
In silence he lived for long 5 years in his solitary cell and died in 1703. He was buried in the prison cemetery of St. Paul under the name of Marciali. The personal belongings of the deceased were burnt. In his cell they ransacked the walls and dismantled the floors, so that no inscriptions or immured notes remain. Then they forgot about him.
After 86 years, the Parisian people seized the Bastille. The Great French Revolution made it possible to unveil the archives of the terrible fortress-prison. Secular secrets were revealed, the fate of many victims of royal arbitrariness became clear.
But the mystery of the Iron Mask remained unsolved. All sheets of the prison book relating to this prisoner were destroyed.
- Some saw him as Count Vermandois, son of Louis XIV and Lavalier;
- Others believed that it was the quartermaster Fouquet;
- called an other persons.
- But especially stable were the versions that considered the "Iron Mask" as the half-brother of the "Sun King".
- It was also assumed that the Bastille prisoner could have been the brother of Louis XIV, his twin, who was isolated for fear of civil strife in the country. This option, which seemed particularly romantic, was included in fiction.
The history of the "Iron Mask", which has been exciting for three centuries by the imagination of scientists, writers and filmmakers, began back in the eighties of the 17th century.
The first topic touched in 1732 by Voltaire in his "Century of Louis XIV."
A century later, Alexander Dumas-father addressed the riddle of the "Iron Mask".
This day was established in 2003.
This holiday has become a global informational and educational program aimed at raising public awareness of water issues and participating in the protection of water resources around the world.
Every year, more and more countries take part in the celebration of Water Day. A traditional event of this day is a sample of water in different parts of the globe to assess its quality and safety for the lives of people and living organisms.
1769 - American John Harris creates the first piano.
1819 - Jean Bernard Leon Foucault was born, a French physicist who worked in the fields of optics, mechanics, electromagnetism. He conducted experiments with a freely swinging pendulum (Foucault's pendulum) and explained the deviation of the plane of its swing by the daily rotation of the Earth.
1830 - horse overtook the first American steam locomotive in a 9-mile race between Railis Tavern and Baltimore.
1851 - first issue of ''New York Times'' came out. The price of a copy is 2 cents.
1905 - Greta Garbo (real name Greta Louise Gustafson) was born, a Swedish (and, in principle, the greatest) film actress.
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov was born (d. 2002), the Soviet cosmonaut, the first space test engineer.
1938 - an inexplicable onset of darkness during the day (''Black Day'') was recorded on the Yamal Peninsula.
1947 - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in the United States.
1970 - Jimmy Hendrix (b. 1942), one of the best guitarists in rock history, died. The traditional cause of death is an overdose.
1971 - Jada Pinkett, an American actress (The Matrix), the ex-wife of Will Smith's Hollywood star, was born.
1973 - Jardel Mario Almeida Ribeiro was born, a Brazilian striker.
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, founder of ''Canonical Ltd'', which will subsequently developed ''Ubuntu'', was born.
1974 - Saul Campbell was born, an English football player, central defender.
1998 - Formed ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) - an international non-profit organization created on September 18, 1998 with the participation of the US government to regulate issues related to domain names, IP addresses and other aspects of the functioning of the Internet.
2000 - Madonna released the album ''Music''.
2009 - Japan invented a persistent antiseptic that destroys viruses, including swine flu.
World Water Quality Monitoring Day
This holiday has become a global informational and educational program aimed at raising public awareness of water issues and participating in the protection of water resources around the world.
Every year, more and more countries take part in the celebration of Water Day. A traditional event of this day is a sample of water in different parts of the globe to assess its quality and safety for the lives of people and living organisms.
Also on September 18...
1819 - Jean Bernard Leon Foucault was born, a French physicist who worked in the fields of optics, mechanics, electromagnetism. He conducted experiments with a freely swinging pendulum (Foucault's pendulum) and explained the deviation of the plane of its swing by the daily rotation of the Earth.
1830 - horse overtook the first American steam locomotive in a 9-mile race between Railis Tavern and Baltimore.
1851 - first issue of ''New York Times'' came out. The price of a copy is 2 cents.
1905 - Greta Garbo (real name Greta Louise Gustafson) was born, a Swedish (and, in principle, the greatest) film actress.
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov was born (d. 2002), the Soviet cosmonaut, the first space test engineer.
1938 - an inexplicable onset of darkness during the day (''Black Day'') was recorded on the Yamal Peninsula.
1947 - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in the United States.
1970 - Jimmy Hendrix (b. 1942), one of the best guitarists in rock history, died. The traditional cause of death is an overdose.
1971 - Jada Pinkett, an American actress (The Matrix), the ex-wife of Will Smith's Hollywood star, was born.
1973 - Jardel Mario Almeida Ribeiro was born, a Brazilian striker.
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, founder of ''Canonical Ltd'', which will subsequently developed ''Ubuntu'', was born.
1974 - Saul Campbell was born, an English football player, central defender.
2000 - Madonna released the album ''Music''.
2009 - Japan invented a persistent antiseptic that destroys viruses, including swine flu.
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