A big holiday - the New Year - is on the horizon. Passengers of the domestic flight Bishkek - Osh are eagerly awaiting departure on board the Tu-134 of Altyn Air in the livery of “Kyrgyzstan”. The departure is delayed due to weather conditions at Osh airport, but not canceled. There is a tendency for the weather to improve.

Having once again received the requested weather from the Osh airport meteo (wind at the ground 20°, 2 m/s, visibility 500 m, on the runway 750 m, supercooled fog, vertical visibility 60 m, air temperature 0°), the crew decided to perform the flight.

Researchers argue that the pirate's craft was sometimes profitable, but they did not make fortunes with it. Meanwhile, myths about pirate treasures excite seekers even today. And one of the reasons supporting interest in the topic is the fate of Henry Avery - the most successful corsair in the history of mankind. Although not much is known about this man. Only that he was born in 1659 near Plymouth. And he'd been dreaming of the sea since he was a boy. Doesn't seem like much for a legend.

When English postmaster Rowland Hill initiated the world's first postage stamp, the Black Penny, in 1840, his intention was simply to introduce a uniform and cheap postal rate. But in a few years the example of England was followed by other countries, and the stamps themselves turned from a utilitarian object into an object of collecting.

In the early 1920s, the leadership of the Soviet state placed abroad most of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire. The main operations in this direction were carried out by Maxim Litvinov, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR. The funds withdrawn from Russia settled in the secret accounts of the party.

However, Litvinov's channel was not the only one through which the “worker-peasant” power squandered the national patrimony. At least a quarter of the gold reserve went with the help of railroad engineer Yuri Lomonosov, Lenin's special envoy abroad.