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Лой Быканах (Русско-абиссинская песня ушельцев) — песня группы «Аквариум».

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKWuLZQvk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRedira3Ev8

Предположительно, эта песня принадлежит Борису Гребенщикову. Песня дважды исполнялась в фильме «Чёрная роза — эмблема печали, красная роза — эмблема любви» (1990) самим Гребенщиковым и Андреем Гороховым. Под названием «Русско-абиссинская песня ушельцев» эта песня была опубликована в альбоме «Ночной суп. Часть 2» группы «Адо», возглавляемой Гороховым.

Смысл песни, как и её язык, остаются неизвестными [...] По утверждению исполнителя песни в фильме, песня исполняется на ушельском языке.

Текст песни

Лой Быканах,
Лой Быканах,
Вы-шли-хлаи
Вы-шли-хлаи
Вы-шли-хлаи
Лой Быканах.
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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лой_Быканах

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- Русско-абиссинская народная песня ушельцев. Исполняется на ушельском языке. Все ждут пришельцев, а это неправильно. На самом деле они уже были. Пришли, поглядели на нас и ушли...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKWuLZQvk0

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A giant grid of X's
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He counts 273 X's on this map. Each marker is spaced about a mile apart. Pez Owen had flown her little plane over the edge of a massive 289-square-mile grid. [...] These X's were once part of a top-secret government program called CORONA
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http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/496567104/decades-old-mystery-put-to-rest-why-are-there-xs-in-the-desert
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/496567104/decades-old-mystery-put-to-rest-why-are-there-xs-in-the-desert

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The Air Force launched a fourth X-37B mission, designated OTV-4 and codenamed AFSPC-5, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 20 May 2015. The launch was designated USA-261 and is the second flight of the second X-37B vehicle. The mission will test a Hall effect thruster in support of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite program, and conduct a NASA investigation for testing various materials in space.[4][21][44]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#OTV-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#OTV-4

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Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America's Worst Political Outrages.
Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America's Worst Political Outrages. (Oct 21, 2015) By Kurt Eichenwald
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One important point has been universally acknowledged by the nine previous reports about Benghazi: The attack was almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel at an American consulate in Libya.
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http://www.newsweek.com/benghazi-biopsy-comprehensive-guide-one-americas-worst-political-outrages-385853
http://www.newsweek.com/benghazi-biopsy-comprehensive-guide-one-americas-worst-political-outrages-385853

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How Columbus discovered America
How Columbus discovered America

He said: it's well-known that 70% of Earth surface is covered by oceans. But if we count all continents, the total comes to less than 30%. This means that America must exist.

True story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day

BTW, for the record, Alexander Gorokhovsky allegedly told Marianna Dizik that this allegedly was in some kind of alleged documentary on Columbus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day

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House Speaker Paul Ryan is not a big fan of Donald Trump [...] refused to back Trump during the Republican primaries and then held out on endorsing him even after Trump became the presumptive nominee. But eventually, Ryan did get behind Trump. [...] Ryan said he won’t defend Trump, but he has refused to unendorse the GOP nominee. Trump responded by attacking Ryan on Twitter.

A reasonable person might ask why, if Ryan was reluctant to support Trump to begin with, the speaker of the House isn’t washing his hands of the whole Trump campaign.
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Trump is more popular among Republicans right now than Ryan is. In the most recent YouGov poll, for example, Trump’s net favorability rating (the percentage of respondents who rate him favorably minus the share who have an unfavorable opinion) among Republican primary voters was +36 percentage points. Ryan’s was just +16 points. Perhaps more telling is that Trump’s “very favorable” rating among this group is 34 percent, while Ryan’s is only 13 percent.

This means two things. First, Ryan really doesn’t have as much credibility among Republicans as Trump does. Second, if forced to choose, Republicans would almost certainly choose Trump over Ryan.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/paul-ryan-needs-trump-more-than-trump-needs-ryan/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/paul-ryan-needs-trump-more-than-trump-needs-ryan

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In recent years, Republicans have made inroads into the overwhelmingly Democratic constituency of American Jews [1]. But this year, Republican Jews — or Jewish donors to the Republican party, at least — are abandoning their party’s nominee at a stunningly high rate.

In 2012, 71 percent of the $160 million that Jewish donors gave to the two major-party nominees went to President Obama’s re-election campaign; 29 percent went to Mitt Romney’s campaign, according to our analysis of campaign contributors, which used a predictive model to estimate which donors are Jewish based on their names and other characteristics. This ratio of support mirrors how Jewish voters cast their ballots in 2012.

So far in 2016, of all the money given to major-party candidates by donors who appear to be Jewish, 95 percent has gone to Hillary Clinton and just 5 percent has gone to Donald Trump.

To understand what’s going on here, some context is useful.

In 2008 and 2012, about 70 to 75 percent of voters identifying as Jewish supported President Obama. A recent poll of Jews suggests that 76 percent of those voting for a major-party candidate are leaning toward Clinton. These numbers make Jews one of the most pro-Democratic constituencies in American politics.

But there are also active constituencies of Republicans, including Orthodox Jews, the majority of whom favor Republicans, as well as Jews who are dissatisfied with Obama’s handling of Israel, though there is overlap between these groups. And as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to align himself with Republicans in the U.S., Jews who are supportive of Netanyahu’s policies in Israel may be following suit.
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in 2016, of the $95 million given to presidential campaigns so far by Jewish donors, 84 percent went to Democrats and just 16 percent went to Republicans. This is particularly interesting, since this figure includes donations to all of Trump’s primary opponents. If we ignore the primary losers and just focus on the nominees, 95 percent of all contributions went to Clinton.

In raw dollars, Jewish donors have already given Clinton about two-thirds the amount they gave to Obama through the whole 2012 cycle. But donations to Trump amount to just 8 percent of what was given to Romney.

As a percentage of all contributors, Jews made up 18 percent of Obama’s donors and 7 percent of Romney’s donors in 2012. In 2016, 20 percent of Clinton’s donors appear to be Jewish, compared to 3 percent of Trump’s donors.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-gops-jewish-donors-are-abandoning-trump/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-gops-jewish-donors-are-abandoning-trump

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