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Folk wisdom has it that everyone has a double; somewhere out A
with your
mother's eyes, your father's nose and that annoying mole you've always meant to have removed. The
idea has gripped the popular imagination for centuries - it was the subject of one of the oldest known
works of literature.
But is there any truth in it? We live on a planet of over seven billion people, so surely someone else is
bound to have been born with your face? It's a silly question with serious implications and
B
In fact, until recently C
Then last year Teghan Lucas set out to test the risk
of mistaking an innocent double for a killer.
Armed with a public collection of photographs of U.S. military personnel and the help of colleagues from
the University of Adelaide, Teghan painstakingly analysed the faces of nearly four thousand individuals,
D
Next she calculated the probability that two peoples' faces would
match
What she found was E
but likely to disappoint anyone pining for their long-lost
double: the chances of sharing just eight dimensions with someone else are less than one in a trillion.
Even with 7.4 billion people on the planet, that's only a one in 135 chance that there's a single pair of
doubles. "Before you could always be questioned in a court of law, saying 'well what if someone else just
looks like him?' Now we can say F
." says Teghan.
1. the answer is more complicated than you might think
2. no one had ever even tried to find it out
3. it's extremely unlikely
4. there there's a perfect duplicate of you
5. good news for the criminal justice system
6. of what can be seen as an unpopular view
7. measuring the distances between key features such as the eyes and cars
Объяснение:
1 Somebody found the pictures in an old house.
The picture was found in an old house.
2 Naomi and Simon won the first prize.
The first prize was won by Naomi and Simon.
3 The police didn’t catch the art thief.
The art thief wasn’t caught by the police.
4 They didn’t sell the portraits yesterday.
The portraits weren’t sold yesterday.
5 Somebody took that big sculpture on Friday.
That big sculpture was taken on Friday.
6 Pablo Picasso painted these masterpieces.
These masterpieces were painted by Pablo Picasso.
7 A famous artist opened the exhibition.
The exhibition was opened by a famouse artist.
Nauryz is the most important holiday in the Kazakh calendar.
Nauryz means ‘new day’, it is celebrated over several days from March 21st and marks Persian New Year which begins on the Vernal Equinox. The month of March is known as Nauryz in Kazakhstan.
Since 2009, there have been officially three days of bank holidays for Nauryz beginning on March 21st. If the holiday falls over a weekend, the holiday will be extended to the following weekdays.
History of Nauryz
This is a very ancient holiday, known to have been celebrated for over five thousand years by different cultures in central Asia. Certainly noticing that the days were starting to get longer than nights on the exposed plains of the steppes must have come as welcome relief to the tribes living there after a harsh winter.
As with other Spring festivals around the world, traditional customs focus on the idea of renewal, rebirth and a chance to start again. Acts such as house cleaning, settling debts and forgiving past offences by others are common.
Nauryz celebrations today are a mixture of old and new, ranging from preparing rich food to rock concerts. In fact, these days it seems that anything goes in marking Nauryz, with the prevailing rule being the more festive, the better.
Two key traditional elements of Nauryz are feasting, starting with a tasty yoghurt-like dish known as Nauryz kozhe, and the erecting of yurts, or traditional nomad homes.
Nauryz kozhe is the most important dish related to the festival and a main symbol of Nauryz. A yoghurt like dish, Nauryz kozhe is traditionally made with seven different ingredients, which can vary but generally include water, meat, salt, milk, one type of grain (rice, corn or wheat) and two other ingredients. These seven ingredients symbolize the seven virtues of joy, success, intelligence, health, wealth, agility and security.
During Nauryz, in urban areas, traditional felt nomad dwellings called Yurts will be erected. These yurts act as focal points for people to find out more about the culture and lifestyle of the traditional nomads through Kazakh songs, dance and national clothing.
More modern festivities such as firework displays and music concerts will also take place during Nauryz.
In 1926 Kazakhstan became part of the Soviet Union and celebrating Nauryz was banned as the regime did not tolerate any reference to traditional or ethnic heritage as it was seen to detract from the formation of a pure Marxist state and a Soviet ethnicity.
It was only in 1988, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union that Nauryz became a holiday once more, and was officially recognised by a presidential decree on March 15th 1991. Since then it has regained its position as the most important and popular festival in Kazakhstan.