Vernissage

Cinderella’s shoes are actually an alloy of lead oxide - PbO - with silica, a sodium or potassium compound (soda or potash) and small additions of other oxides.

One hundred and seventy-three years ago, in 1848, Nikifor Syutkin, a worker at the state-owned Miass gold mines, was, just as usually he did, digging for gold. Suddenly he heard a tinkling sound from underneath his pickaxe. When he shook the dirt off the find, he barely managed to elevate a 36-kilogram gold nugget up the wooden ladder.

One would ask, what mystery may little cast-iron statuettes, known as ’Capuchin Foxes’, hold?

The correct answers are as follows: on the window glass and in December. If, while the temperature is above zero, and provided the air humidity is high, a water film forms on the glass surface, then, once the temperature drops below freezing, the film may turn into a dendrite-like frost pattern.

The most well-known reference to windmills dates back to 1604 when the first part of the novel ’The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha’ was published.