A party for young people or a solemn mass event for adults, a meeting of employees to relax and chat, or of relatives to celebrate a birthday or the anniversary of an event - all these events are united by the fact that people gather together of their own free will, spend time, communicating, playing or engaging in general activities. Such meetings are typical for people of any age, because a person is social, which means communication with his own kind is one of the main conditions for his happy life. On April 3, the whole world celebrates Party Day. This holiday appeared after the release of Vanna Bonta's novel “Flight”. In the science fiction novel, the countdown went backwards, heading towards April 3, 2000. On this day, as planned, a world holiday was to take place - the goal of which was to prevent war, unite humanity and make friends. In general, if you think about it, a holiday and spending time with friends can always be considered as an alternative to war. Society spends energy on organizing a party (and in English a party is called “party”), but this energy is directed in a peaceful direction and brings joy. By the way, International Party Day is better known all over the world as Party Day or P-Day. On April 3, in Europe or America, parties are always held everywhere - both large ones, for a large number of people, and small ones - for loved ones or with family. This holiday really helps to take your mind off any problems, forget at least for a while all the unpleasant moments in life and spend time usefully and with pleasure, in a relaxed, cheerful and welcoming state. Party day is gradually becoming popular among our society - people make fun for themselves and their friends, enjoy life and spend exciting hours together. By the way, such an event can also be a great opportunity to break away from computer screens and enjoy communicating with people live. Come visit someone or invite friends over, or maybe meet friends in a cafe or in the park - in a word, have a holiday, a party, a meeting of friends. Take a break from internal and external experiences and problems and enjoy the company of people you like.

Every year, April 3 is celebrated around the world as the birthday of the mobile phone. It is impossible to imagine the life of a modern person without this device. A smartphone is a means of communication, a device with which you access the Internet, record messages or take photographs. This is interesting: Researchers of extraterrestrial civilizations believe that we received advanced technologies such as wireless communications and mobile phones from aliens. Ufologists are confident that access to similar alien devices became available to people after the UFO crash. Wireless telephony has interested scientists for many years. One of the engineers involved in research in this area was an employee of the American company Motorola Inc. Martin Cooper. He spent many years improving bulky car phones, trying to make them lightweight and ergonomic. It was Cooper who made the first cell phone call to his colleague at rival Bell Telephone Laboratories on April 3, 1973. Cooper happily announced that he had contacted his friend on the phone. It was very different from modern gadget models. The progenitor of today's mobile phones had an impressive weight (1 kg) and dimensions - about 4 cm thick, 22.5 cm long and almost 13 cm wide. The first devices went on sale in the United States in 1983. The cost of each was $4,000. This is interesting: The average person looks at their smartphone about 110 times a day and cannot imagine their life without this device. The fear of being without a mobile phone is called “nomophobia”. It affects 47% of US users, each of whom claims that they could not live without their smartphone. Modern models of gadgets are very different in functionality from the handset, which was invented back in 1973. Today, using the phone, people not only make calls, but also take photographs, access the Internet, exchange files, watch movies, control household appliances, listen to music and send money . A modern smartphone is a computer in miniature. Most Chinese mobile phone users access the Internet using smartphones, not PCs, which the majority do not own. This is interesting: The power and performance of a single cell phone exceeds the combined performance of the computers that powered Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing. The device with the ability to access emails went on sale in August 1994. IBM Simon model from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. became the first communication device to combine the functions of a computer and a telephone. The phone cost $1,099. It could work as a pager, alarm clock, receive calls, fax messages and e-mail. The device, in fact, was the first smartphone, although this word began to be actively used in 2000 after the Ericsson R380s entered the market. At the same time, users had the opportunity to take photographs using their phones. Sharp, together with the Japanese cellular operator J-Phone, released a smartphone with a built-in camera in 2000. This is interesting: Mobile phones use different operating systems to operate. Despite the popularity of the iOS-based iPhone, 80% of all existing smartphones run on Android. The price of mobile phones has been constantly decreasing since their invention. And if the first model was sold for $4,000, today a smartphone can be bought for $30. A Digma phone costs 2,000 rubles, VERTEX Impress Funk for 2 SIM cards costs 1,870 rubles. The appearance of two GSM modules has increased the list of smartphone options. The first device with two SIM card slots was Benefon Twin, released in 2000. Switching between them was done manually. The constant increase in the number of functions and memory capacity in modern phone models allows us to confidently say that they are worthy competition for bulky PCs. Compact and convenient smartphones are appreciated by the majority of the world's population. That is why April 3 is the birthday of the mobile phone.

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April 3 (March 21, old style) is celebrated according to the folk calendar Kirill Katanik. According to the church calendar, on this date the memory of St. Cyril of Catania, a Sicilian bishop of the 2nd century, is honored. The story of Cyril began in the 1st century. He was lucky enough to find the Apostle Peter and adopt his teachings. Saint Peter helped the successor become a bishop in Catana, a Sicilian city. For his virtue and wisdom in instructing parishioners, the Lord rewarded the bishop with the gift of working miracles. One day, with the help of prayer, he turned unsuitable spring water into drinking water. Until a very old age, Cyril carried the word of God to the people and converted people of other faiths to Christianity. Among the people, the last day of children's fun on sleds began on Kirill Katanik. The children could still ride down the slides during the day, but in the evening the sleds were put away in the barn until the next winter. Instead of skating, they came up with other children's entertainment. On this day it was getting hot enough to wear felt boots. They were replaced with paws woven from birch bark. But birch bark shoes were not always suitable for the yard, when melting snow turned the ground into a swamp. Bast shoes allowed moisture and cold to pass through, and a person could eventually catch a cold with symptoms of fever. Previously, fever was called not only an ordinary increase in temperature, but also diseases such as bronchitis, tuberculosis or typhoid. They were treated in different ways. Firstly, they used well water, believing that the Mother of God endows such water with healing properties. Secondly, they got rid of fever by visiting a healer. He gave the spelled ash from the oven, wrapped in rags, to apply to the painful parts of the body. The patient should walk with her until he completely cooled down, and then go to the intersection of the streets and throw the package over his shoulder back and read the spell for recovery. The peasants believed that the heat of the stove expels the evil spirits that infected him with fever from the patient’s body. But the fever was not only driven away, but also cajoled. It was believed that the fever spirits themselves lived in the thick of the forest, so 12 pies were prepared for them, taken to the forest and left under a tree. They said that such a ritual would make the fever leave the sick person alone. By the signs of Kirill Katanik they judged the future weather. Thus, the flowering of coltsfoot or the appearance of the first mosquitoes foreshadowed warming. The chirping of tits also promised fine days. Blue clouds meant the approach of rain. If there was a thunderstorm, residents prepared for a harvest year.

Linear coding technology, which made it possible to identify products, appeared thanks to IBM in 1973. The introduction of barcodes marked the beginning of the automation of trade processes, which speeded up the process of serving customers. For the first time, linear symbols were applied to the packaging of chewing gum in 1974, although the process of creating the code began in 1948. Authorship of one of the most advanced inventions of the twentieth century. owned by Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland. On April 3, 1973, IBM officially introduced the development of the UPC (Universal Product Code) to the world. This date is considered the barcode's birthday. The first keys, providing information about the product to both consumers and sellers, were round in shape. Thin and wide lines were connected into a circle, which reduced the likelihood of errors when reading barcodes pasted on the product label. American inventors from IBM took Morse code and the technology of encrypting sounds for movies as the basis for linear symbolism. After B. Silver and N. Woodland came up with the barcode in 1949, they began to develop the design of the scanner. The first model was quite bulky and bore little resemblance to modern devices. Scanners for decoding linear coding technology began to be produced on an industrial scale only in the late 1960s. after the advent of computers and lasers. Before barcodes, punch cards were used to label goods. However, the cards were not very convenient to use, and the machines for reading information from them were expensive and gigantic in size. The scanning machine for barcodes, first demonstrated in 1971 at the summit of major US trade figures, aroused the interest and approval of its participants. The development of UPC has quickly become a universal linear symbol used by manufacturers, exporters and sellers of goods in many countries around the world. IBM's barcode competes with symbols in which information is encrypted using dots, squares and other shapes. However, it was UPC that was recognized in 1973 by participants in a convention of representatives of US retail chains as the standard for labeling goods. In Europe, this coding system is called European Article Numbering and has been used since 1977. Today, a barcode, consisting of a sequence of black stripes of different widths, is used to mark both goods and tickets, letters, documents, etc. UPC, or more precisely, its EAN-13 variety with numbers under the symbols, is applied to 80% of manufactured products. worldwide products. Therefore, establishing the date and celebrating the birthday of the barcode on April 3 is completely justified, because without this invention the life of a modern person would not be so comfortable.

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On April 3 (March 21 is the date according to the old style), the Orthodox Church celebrates the Day of Remembrance of St. Seraphim Vyritsky. For believers, he became a model of compassion and hard work, without demanding rewards for good deeds. The life of the saint began in Vakhromeevo, located in the Yaroslavl province. He was born on March 31, 1866 into a family of deeply religious Christians. Father Nikolai Muravyov and mother Khionia named him Vasily, in honor of the great confessor - Vasily the New. At an early age he studied the Bible and wanted to become a monk. From his parents he learned hard work and caring for those in need. When his father died, ten-year-old Vasily had to go to work in St. Petersburg to feed himself and his sick mother. He became a messenger at Gostiny Dvor. At the age of 14, Vasily wanted to become a monk. But the abbot recommended first living a worldly life: getting married, having children, and becoming a monk by the age of 40. Over the next years, he read a lot, prayed to the Lord, helped his mother, and became a student of Father Barnabas in the Gethsemane village for monks. Vasily started a business selling fur skins. He transferred the income received to church needs. He completed commercial courses and received excellent knowledge, which later came in handy in monastic affairs. At the age of 24 he married the righteous girl Olga. Five years later they had a son, Nikolai, and after him a daughter, Olya, but the girl did not live even a year. Then Vasily and Olga agreed to sleep separately. They helped the poor and needy with money, food and kind words. After the civil coup in 1920, Vasily closed the case and became a monk at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and with him took the name Varnava. His wife went to the Resurrection Novodevichy Convent. All their property was transferred to the needs of the above monasteries. The revolution of those years greatly influenced church life. There were disagreements between senior clergy. The church was fenced further and further from the people. But the church helped the people: it collected funds for orphans, helped disabled war veterans, and fed the hungry. And Barnabas played an important role in this. After 6 years, Barnabas (Vasily) moved to the highest clergy with strict ascetic rules. He became a confessor and took the name Seraphim. He took care of his flock and gave wise advice to those who asked. Due to the frequent cold, he began to develop severe leg illnesses and fell ill. In 1930, the priest was sent to Vyritsa to improve his health. During the persecution of believers, a temple was miraculously built there, and Serophim was nicknamed Vyritsky. Thousands of people came to him for help and blessing, and Seraphim did not refuse anyone, despite his poor health. In 1949, Seraphim foresaw his death. One morning I stopped taking it and spent time in prayer. And by the evening of April 3, his soul went to God. Believers continually went to the saint’s tomb for three days to say goodbye.

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Memorial Day of St. James of Catania