Numismatics

Posted by Someone on April 07, 2011  •  Comments (64)  • 

Numismatics (from gr. Νομισματική) - auxiliary science of history, the study of coins, banknotes and other signs of money in terms of historical, aesthetic and technical. In recent years more and more for the department of numismatics is considered monetary policy (combating crime, monetary, policy issuance, circulation of money, as an expression of conscious activities of the issuer). Origin of the word numismatics is not entirely clear - it is not known whether it comes from the Latin nummus, or from the Greek Nomism. Numismatics has its origins in the fourteenth century, developed during the Renaissance. Poland's largest collections of coins and medals are in the national museum in Warsaw and Krakow.

Sailboat

Posted by Someone on April 05, 2011  •  Comments (64)  • 

Sail boat - a vessel propelled sailing. The boat, whose sole or primary factor driving one or more sails. At the unit is ready for shipping to the set of all possible types of use on the sail is its current rig, but not all of these sails must be used simultaneously.

Horizontal system

Posted by Someone on April 01, 2011  •  Comments (64)  • 

Of the world, destinations of the world, more precisely, the main geographical directions, the main directions - four main areas designated on the surface of the globe. Their determination is related to the properties of the Earth's rotation. It takes place around the axis of the Earth. The points of intersection with the surface of the Earth's axis of Earth's geographical poles: north and south. They are connected by wearing the name of the meridian half-circles that set the direction north-south. Direction along the meridian of returning to the geographic north pole is the north direction, and the geographic south pole - south. While the points where there is either sun disappears behind the horizon on the day of equinox, determine the directions: east and west. Are semantically close terms: points of the horizon, geographical directions and the world. The scope of the concept of semantic side of the world is closer to the first general meaning of the word page [1]-containing in itself the concept of space. Determination of the world, especially colloquially, is understood not as precisely determined direction (the line with the return), but as larger or smaller portion of the surface horizon, which is close to that direction, or part of the earth's surface contained between the approximated geographical directions. He says, for example, the winds from the south, and even from the south-west. Such a concept, the importance of space, it is also useful, but should be distinguished from the term is defined at the beginning of the article textual of an entry. Thus, a clear time limit geographical directions (used already in the books of nature). There in the four main points of the horizon (see the horizontal system), also called the cardinal points: north (N) - azimuth 0 ° (or 360 °) east (E) - azimuth 90 ° south (S) - from 180 ° west (W) - from 270 °