Aigul MYRZATAI
ALMATY, Dec 20
(THE GLOBE)
We have written already about miraculous recipes of aromatherapy. We would like to add that apart from aesthetic and magic properties, aromatic substances had medical ones.
It is known that in mediaeval centuries black death was a social evil. That time people struggle against this disease with the help of fumigation. It was considered that fumigation destroys both bad aura and the dangerous disease. Doctors recommended people to pick roots and flowers of aromatic plants, to dry them and to burn.
During the Great Plague aromatic fires were burnt in the town every in 12 hours. Huge fires made of pines gave a pungent smell that was very efficient. Aromatic candles were used in hospitals. Every aromatic substance known in that period, was used against Black Devil. Aromatic substances were the best antiseptics, which people could afford.
In the early 20th century aromatic fever at first stroke Frenchmen, later people all over the world. the guilty person was Ernest Bo, a creator of the most famous perfume �Chanel #5�.
Before the revolution the outstanding chemist-perfumer worked for Alfonse Ralle in St. Petersburg. After the revolution, having lost both his status and money, he moved to the French perfume capital, Graas.
There are some legends how the aroma of love Chanel #5 was created. People say that the French perfumer demanded too much money for his creation, hence, his perfume was rejected everywhere. Having despaired, Ernest Bo was going to give up his idea, but he was lucky. He met madam Chanel and demonstrated some aromas to her. She chose #5.
As far as the name of the perfume is concerned, madam Chanel said she would present her new collection in May. The perfume symbolizing Chanel�s image and the fifth month � May, was presented at the same show. In Chanel�s opinion, figure �five� was to make her lucky. She was right. During her life this perfume earned US$ 15 million for the great dress-designer.
Today Chanel firm has a number of aromas (Allure, Chanel #19, 21, Soso, etc.) charming with their pretentious novelties.
Kuanysh ZHUMANGAZINOV
ALMATY, Dec 15
(THE GLOBE)
On Tuesday, December 14, the presentation of the photo exhibition People and Wars organized by the International Red Cross Committee (IRCC) and the Kazakhstani Society of Red Cross and Red Crescent, was held in the Central State Museum.
The exhibition People and Wars that will be held on December 15 to 23 is one of the events to spread knowledge on international humanitarian law. In March 1993 Kazakhstan undertook responsibility to distribute knowledge, when the republic jointed four Geneva conventions of 1949 and two additional Protocols attached to the same. The exhibition presents 140 photos from 62 countries of the world. These photos are taken from the archives of the International Red Cross Committee. There are about 70,000 photos in the IRCC archives.
First exhibition was held in Geneva, where the IRCC headquarter located. Within the year the exhibition has been held in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. After Kazakhstan the exhibition will be demonstrated in Tajikistan.
According to Louisa Verucci, a IRCC delegate, the objective of this exhibition is to emphasize that there are laws restricting methods and means of the war.
The exhibition�s route is to go via unstable regions. They are Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia.
Amirbek Togusov, the deputy of the Minister of Defense on social-legal work and Verucci assured us that this exhibition is rather a proof of stability in Kazakhstan, than destabilization in the region.
December 21, 1968 Apollo Eight� was launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
December 21, 1991 eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
December 22, 1939 Gloria Jacobs became the first girl to hold a world pistol record as she shot 299 out of possible 300 points. Even better, young Gloria was only 17 years old. She bettered the world mark by one point.
December 23, 1947 John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor on this day (they shared the 1956 Nobel prize in physics for their work). The device was referred to as the electronic engineer�s dream. In its original form, the transistor wasn�t the tiny silicon component we know today. It took up a lot of space in the lab in New Jersey where it was invented. Today, thousands of transistors can be paced into an incredibly minute space, smaller than a pinhead; and is used in electronic applications, such as computers, radios, TVs and video games, to name just a few.
December 23, 1986 the experimental airplane �Voyager,� piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, round-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
December 19
New Scene Theatre. �My Younger Sister� by A. Volodin. 5.00 p.m.
December 22
New Scene Theatre. �Mademoiselle de la Belle-Isle� by A. Dumas. 6.00 p.m.
December 23
Kazakh Drama Theatre. �After the jubilee� by S. Balgambaev. 6.30 p.m.
December 2 to February 4
Kasteev Museum. Exhibition of the Semipalatinsk Nevzorov Arts Museum. �Russian art of the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.� (Paintings, graphics).
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday.
Ongoing
The Kasteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of works by S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, and V. Eifert and R. Nuriev.
From 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Closed on Mondays
November 27 to December 12
Tengri-Umai Gallery. Exhibition of Vsevolod Demidov and Oleg Chekmezov �Favorable Fjord�. (Small plastics, graphics, collages).
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday.
Kasteev State National Museum � 30a Satpaev. Tel.: 478356
Archaeological Museum � 85 Dostyk, at Abai. Tel.: 618585
Tribuna Gallery � 14a Republican Square. Tel: 694628
Orkhon Modern Arts Gallery � Zangar Trade House (TsUM), 3rd floor
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