The conflict between loved ones psychologically traumatizes each of the participants to one degree or another. Unresolvable contradictions and quarrels between parents and children, spouses, and friends cause pain in their hearts. All methods are good for using and cooling hot heads, including hugs and kisses. Tactile contact, including touching with lips, can reduce the intensity of passions and take relationships to a new level. In honor of one of the forms of sincere expression of feelings, an unusual holiday was established - “Let's Kiss and Make Up” Day. The fun Kiss and Make Up Day encourages people to remember one of the most popular ways to show affection, friendliness and love. The holiday was invented by a certain Jacqueline Milton, who believes that with the help of a kiss you can get rid of a grudge against a partner and maintain close relationships. Rajiv Gandhi argued that only a strong person can forgive another, a weak person never. Therefore, August 25 is the ideal day to bury the hatchet and show your best sides of character: nobility and generosity. With the help of kisses, people not only express their affection, sympathy and stronger feelings. The famous tradition of drinking at Brudershaft is a ritual that allows you to move to a new level of intimacy in a relationship by starting to address each other as “you.” It is no coincidence that simultaneous drinking of alcohol with crossed arms ends with a kiss - it is a symbol of the good intentions of all participants sitting at the table. Guests at a wedding traditionally often shout “Bitter!” to the newlyweds. The bride and groom respond to this call by kissing, just as they did after they were declared husband and wife at the registry office. In this way, they seal their vows to each other to be together through thick and thin and demonstrate to guests and relatives the seriousness of their intentions. A kiss after reconciliation is also used for this purpose - it, like a seal, confirms the decision of the participants in the quarrel to forget about it and forgive the insults. The poetess Olga Kamarinskaya discusses this in her poems: Kiss and Make Up Day reminds us of the importance of a truce and encourages us to remember “things of days gone by.” History knows a lot of examples of resolving major conflicts in which thousands of people were involved with the help of kisses. One of them is the war for the English crown of Lancaster and York in 1455-1485. Representatives of the two branches of the feudal nobility were distant relatives, because belonged to the Plantagenet dynasty. The armed conflict, which went down in history as the War of the Roses, ended with the reconciliation of the parties in the form of a kiss: Henry IV Tudor from the Lancaster dynasty married Elizabeth of York. A team of psychologists from the University of Texas, working under the leadership of Professor Karen Prager, came to the conclusion that in resolving a conflict, the behavior of the participants is very important, both at the stage of clarifying the relationship and after reaching an agreement. Kisses and other expressions of love contributed to the rapid emotional recovery of 115 couples of respondents living together. Touching with lips, apologies and mutual forgiveness are the most optimal type of post-conflict behavior for partners, according to psychologists' observations. If you haven't tried these stress-relieving tactics in your relationship yet, the best time to do so is on Kiss and Make Up Day.

August 25 is the birthday of the tin can. The celebration coincides with the invention of a tin container with a sealed lid in 1810 by Peter Durant. Compared to glass canning jars, steel ones had a number of advantages - they weighed less and did not break during transportation. The novelty was quickly appreciated: within a couple of years, British soldiers were given rations in tin containers. In honor of this invention, the birthday of the tin can is celebrated annually at the end of August. The first factory for the production of tin containers was built in 1813 by two Englishmen - John Hall and Brian Donkin. It was to them that P. Durant transferred the rights to his patent. In Russia, the production of canned food in tinned steel cans began in 1870. Inventor Nikolai Nikolaevich Benardos improved their production through the use of electric arc welding. The use of thin-sheet tin for the manufacture of cans made it possible to begin producing containers with a “double seam” in the late 1880s. The lid was connected to the container without welding - by pressing using special equipment. Until the mid-1950s, cans could only be opened with a chisel or knife. This labor-intensive process was simplified by the invention of can openers. The lids of modern containers are often equipped with an opening ring. The content of the novel by the famous Soviet science fiction writer A. Belyaev, written in 1929, turned out to be prophetic. Today you can buy not only stewed meat, canned fish or vegetables in a tin can, but also air. The unusual souvenir went on sale in 2003 for the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. The composition of the gas is heterogeneous: the tin container contains 50% of the air from the Summer Garden, 15% from Nevsky Prospekt, the rest of the volume is occupied by the aromas of Petrodvorets, New Holland, Tsarskoe Selo and Pavlovsk. Enterprising residents of San Francisco began selling their city's fog in cans in 2009. Special conditions and discounts are offered to customers who order delivery of 50 or more cans in one shipment. A can of air from various places in Paris, from the Champs Elysees to the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, costs 10 euros. Icelanders retail clean air from the foot of Mount Hekla, which is the country's largest active volcano. In the era of hippies and pop art, consumer products became the objects of paintings, in defiance of abstract impressionism. The central figures of the exhibitions of the 60s of the last century were Coca-Cola bottles, Heinz ketchup boxes and Brillo powder containers. Popular artist and designer Andy Warhol, when creating posters for the Campbell Soup Company, used an image of a tin can in which the company produced tomato soup. In total, the founder of the ideology of “commercial pop art” painted 48 works using painting and silk-screen printing techniques, the center of the composition of which was Campbell’s soup in a tin container. The production of steel containers for long-term food storage is one of the most important inventions of mankind, which has not lost its relevance 200 years later. In honor of this event, the birthday of the tin can is celebrated on August 25th.

August 25 marks the birthday of the Linux operating system. When many people say this word, they usually mean a whole group of operating systems. In fact, Linux is only a kernel, on the basis of which operating systems are created using components from other resources. The popularity of the product is determined by active support, low resource requirements, versatility with the ability to run on almost any equipment. Of course, the list of advantages of Linux is not limited to this, but today we will take a closer look at the history. Today, the Linux brand is easily recognizable by its characteristic logo - a sitting black penguin with bright yellow paws. This icon appeared only in 1996, and the idea to create an operating system kernel that would be compatible with Unix came to the Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds in 1991. At that time, the creator was still a student and worked on sheer enthusiasm. If we dig very deep, the history of Linux will lead us to two major projects - Unix and Multics. Torvalds decided to create an operating system kernel for his own computer, and he placed his developments on an open access server. As a prototype, he used Minix, a “training” operating system developed by a Dutch programmer to familiarize himself with the capabilities of Unix. A Finnish student wanted to make a more advanced operating system. When Torvalds' project became publicly available, other specialists helped the Finn complete the project, so Linux was literally created by “the whole world.” The result was a full-fledged operating system. All major errors were corrected by 1992. The Finnish student's operating system was originally called Freax. The word was created by merging the English “free” and “freak” - a strange free product if you try to translate it literally. Torvalds later renamed his creation Linux. This name was also formed by merging two words - Unix and the name of the Finnish creator. The famous logo was designed by Larry Ewing. The penguin was named Tux. The idea to use this particular animal for the logo belonged to the same Torvalds. Now this sign has become a symbol not only of Linux products. Programmers associate the logo with any free software. For three decades now, Linux has remained completely free software. Anyone can view the source code and even modify it. No one will punish for such enthusiasm, but there is one important condition - the modified code can only be distributed under the GPL license, like Linux itself. It is noteworthy that during this time Torvalds stepped away from his “position” as chief developer. Linux is a large international community of enthusiasts, in which the Finn maintains a position as an authoritative participant. Traditionally, he evaluates the changes that other programmers are planning to make.

Soldier's Day in Brazil (Dia do Soldado)

Day of operational search units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Every year on August 25, people celebrate Foti Povetenny Day. In the Orthodox calendar, this date correlates with the names of Saints Photius and Anicetas. Anicetas was a Christian and a high-ranking military man in Nicomedia. He fearlessly appeared before Emperor Diocletian, who was cruelly persecuting Christians, and read him a sermon about his faith. Then he ordered the fearless preacher’s tongue to be cut off, but the tongueless Anikita still continued to preach. The emperor tried more than once to execute Aniceta for believing in Jesus. But several times the execution was disrupted. The lion, sent to tear Anikita to pieces, approached him and began to lick him. The executioner, who raised his sword over the Christian's head, fell dead. The fire with which they wanted to burn the martyr went out, and the wheel with which they wanted to wheel him stopped. The hot tin into which Anikita was thrown instantly cooled down.

Catholic Feast of Saint Louis of France

Orthodox holidays on August 25:

Day of Martyrs Photius and Anicetas and many with them