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Далекий и Близкий Кейп Таун Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad [ˈkɑːpstɐt]; Xhosa: iKapa) is the second-most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is also Africa’s most popular tourist destination.
Located on the shore of Table Bay, Cape Town was originally developed by the Dutch East India Company as a victualling (supply) station for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East. Jan van Riebeeck‘s arrival on 6 April 1652 established the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. Cape Town quickly outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at theCastle of Good Hope, becoming the economic and cultural hub of the Cape Colony. Until theWitwatersrand Gold Rush and the development of Johannesburg, Cape Town was the largest city in South Africa. Today it is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, reflecting its role as a major destination for immigrants and expatriates to South Africa. As of 2011 the metropolitan region had an estimated population of 3.74 million.
The city was named the World Design Capital for 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
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Экзоты на Луне и после.
«А был ли мальчик?…» — Максим Горький.
From THE GARDIAN:
Neil Armstrong never milked his historic step for personal or chauvinistic applause and never became a celebrity.
Shortly before Neil Armstrong stepped out of obscurity and on to the Sea of Tranquillity to become one of the most famous people of all time, he was asked why humans were planning to go to the Moon.
He argued those who used to say:» We’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.»
«I think,- hе said,- we’re going to the Moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challengers.»
It was a fine answer of a fine man who owed his fame not merely to the dauntless human spirit, which President Kennedy also invoked in September 1962 when he promised that the United States would put a man on to the moon by the end of that decade.
Полет состоялся еще и благодаря более эмоциональной фразе от Кеннеди, распространившейся в узких кругах после успешного полета Юрия Гагарина в открытый космос в апреле 1962го:» Если Америка не ответит быстро, то первого человека на Луне будут звать Иван.»
He grasped from first to last that he was part of a huge team, that it was his strange destiny to be the one whose name went down in history, and he was content with that.
Нейл Амстронг принадлежал к тому поколению американцев, кто были инициаторами подписания в 1967 году договора, провозгласившего Луну «the province of all mankind» and to be used «exclusively for peaseful purposes».
Об этом договоре сейчас очень сожалеют неоконсерваторы, почти как наши о потере Аляски.
А скромный образ жизни, конечно, похвален, если только не обстоятельства, когда похвастать нечем и надо строго хранить государственную тайну о загадочном полете, который почему-то никто не догадался повторить в наши дни, когда современные технологии позволили бы наблюдать за таким полетом онлайн.
Гагарину было нечего скрывать!
В прочем, об усопших «либо хорошо, либо НИЧЕГО».
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