Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War included six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the war in Donbas (2014–2022), and tens of thousands of deaths during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. == Russian annexation of Crimea == During the Russian annexation of Crimea from 23 February through 19 March 2014, six people were killed. The dead included three protesters, two Ukrainian soldiers and one Russian Cossack paramilitary. On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid...

Dupuytren's contracture (also called Dupuytren's disease, Morbus Dupuytren, Viking disease, palmar fibromatosis and Celtic hand) is a condition in which one or more fingers become permanently bent in a flexed position. It is named after Guillaume Dupuytren, who first described the underlying mechanism of action, followed by the first successful operation in 1831 and publication of the results in The Lancet in 1834. It usually begins as small, hard nodules just under the skin of the palm, then worsens over time until the fingers can no longer be fully straightened. While typically not painful, some...

The hand of benediction, also known as benediction sign or preacher's hand, has been said to occur as a result of prolonged compression or injury of the median nerve at the forearm or elbow.More recently it has been shown that the clinical appearance of a high median nerve palsy is different from the classical hand of benediction or preacher's hand posture pointing finger. In this article "High Median Nerve Paralysis: Is the Hand of Benediction or Preacher's Hand A Correct Sign?" it shows that the hand of benediction or preacher’s hand is incorrectly associated with a high median nerve lesion...

Interjection: devil's beating his wife

1. (Southern US) Said when it rains while the sun is shining; that is, when a sunshower occurs.

In Ancient Greece, the Daedala (Greek: δαίδαλα) was a festival of reconciliation that was held every few years in honor of Hera, consort of the supreme god Zeus at Plataea, in Boeotia, being one of the major cults of the city. According to Pausanias, there was a "lesser Daedala" (Δαίδαλα μικρά), celebrated every four years or so exclusively by the Plataeans, and a "greater Daedala" (Δαίδαλα μεγάλα), celebrated by all of Boeotians every fourteen cycles (approx. 60 years). In the lesser Daedala, the people of Plataea went to an ancient oak grove and exposed pieces of cooked meat to ravens, attentively...

Толчо́к — одно из упражнений тяжелоатлетического двоеборья (другое упражнение — рывок, ранее также — жим). Во время соревнований по тяжёлой атлетике толчок выполняется вторым. Толчок — технически сложное движение, состоящее из двух раздельных составляющих. Сначала атлет отрывает штангу от помоста и, подседая под неё, поднимает её на грудь, затем вытаскивает её руками с груди. Есть 3 техники выталкивания с груди: Выталкивание штанги «в ножницы». «Швунг в стойку» — спортсмен выталкивает с груди штангу, ноги разбрасывает примерно на ширине плеч, садится в полуприсед, затем становится в положение...