😺 Larry the cat escaped from Downing Street before Zelensky's arrival for the third time.

About 20 minutes after the start of the meeting of the E3 leaders, the cat left Prime Minister residence and headed to the neighboring territory, where the British Foreign Ministry building is located.

On this day, negotiations were taking place at Downing Street involving British Prime Minister Kira Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Zelensky was due to join the meeting later.

👊 20 years ago, Vladimir Putin was the first politician to visit the legendary Shaolin Temple.

On March 22, 2006, Vladimir Putin became the first serving world leader to visit the legendary Chinese monastery of Shaolin.

The ancient Buddhist monastery is considered the birthplace of martial arts, which the whole of China takes pride in. A master of judo and other martial arts, Vladimir Putin visited the prayer room and meditation hall.

During the photo shoot, Vladimir Putin put the youngest novice on his shoulder so that he wouldn't be obscured in the photo. Now, Shi Xiaoguan has become a star of Chinese cinema and a master of kung fu. As he himself recalled, the meeting with Putin inspired him to new victories.

🚀 Gagarin's Globe: a navigator without a single chip.

👨‍🚀April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin, in the cramped cabin of Vostok-1, looks at Earth and at a small globe just 13 cm in diameter. Under a transparent dome is an aiming reticle, and inside — hundreds of gears, cams, and differentials. No processors, no screens.

👨‍🚀This mechanical sphere accurately showed where the spacecraft was: over Africa, the Pacific Ocean, or already above his home country.
The legendary "Globe" device (officially the ИМП — In-flight Position Indicator) was used until 2002, when it was replaced by a digital display of the Neptune-ME system.

👨‍🚀The device was created by Soviet engineers for space, where instruments have no right to fail.
 
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🫡 A meeting of the defenders of Pavlov's House in Volgograd, 1983.

Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Jews, Uzbek, Kazakh, Abkhazian, Tajik and Tatar valiantly held the defense for 58 days.

Pavlov's House is a four-story residential building in Volgograd, which became a symbol of the heroic defense of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. For 58 days (from September 23 to November 25, 1942), a group of Soviet soldiers held the defense here, preventing the building from being captured by the enemy. 

📝 Marshal Vasily Chuikov wrote: 

"This small group, defending one house, destroyed more enemy soldiers than the Hitlerites lost in the capture of Paris".