On June 10, 1793 world's first public zoo opened in Paris.
It was established not only as an entertainment facility, but also as a scientific and educational institution. Absolutely everyone could visit it, not only members of the upper class.
Zoos first appeared in China more than a thousand years before our era. They were called the gardens of intelligence and their inhabitants were deer, birds, and fish. This exhibition was completely closed to ordinary people.
By today zoos are active as scientific research centres. For instance, the Singapore zoo is a home to the largest colony of orangutans and researchers study behaviour of the monkeys.
One should know that many species of animals still inhabit our planet only thanks to efforts of zoological gardens staff.
Nowadays there are zoos in many cities around the world, and each of them with its own history and traditions is unique. It has also become very popular to take custody of animals in zoos. This possibility is provided to companies and individuals by many zoos all over the world.
Masks, dances, and traditional music penetrate the carnival in Limoux, small and cozy city on the South of France. The carnival has been lasting for three month. Indeed, the performances are at the weekends.
The castle Le Paluel in the South Western France is acclaimed to be auction showpiece. The sales with the purpose to save the destroying mansion will happen on the 21-st of September. The necessary amount is 500 thousand euro, however, the minimal contribution starts from 50 euro.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
The best cooks of France will participate in the auction «CHEFS DE GARE» in the course of which the cooking profiles will be represented at the railway stations of the country. This year the auction will happen from the 14-th to 23-rd of October.
Nearly thirty French cities have already implemented the idea of the own local currency. Paris is on the turn. The essence of the concept is that citizens of any given city pay their purchases with the currency additional to euro. The stated currency is about to circulate exceptionally within the exact territory.
As UNN with the reference to Variety reports, French authorities forbade the filming of cinematographic extracts where the violence is represented. Such a decision is caused by the series of terroristic acts happening in 2015-2016. As the result of them government decided to take measures of extreme safety in the country.
Antibes, Dijon and La Baule have been included to the list ‘International travel areas’ of France. The stated status means that in these cities tourists may go shopping in the stores up to midnight and on Sundays.
On July 14 France celebrates the French National Day which commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress.
It was established not only as an entertainment facility, but also as a scientific and educational institution. Absolutely everyone could visit it, not only members of the upper class.
