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There are still places on Earth where no human foot has set foot.

But also on our planet there are places where people should not have lived, but they still live there.

Whether it's unbearable heat, Siberian frosts, or an island that is almost impossible to get to, some people are unwilling or unable to leave their places of residence for one reason or another.

Here is a list of 25 such places.

25. Atacama Desert, Chile/Peru

This desert is considered the driest place on Earth. It rains here 4 times in a thousand years.

Temperatures can range from incredibly cold at night to stifling heat during the day.

Despite these conditions, over 1 million people consider the desert their home, and most of them work in a copper mine.

24. Verkhoyansk, Russia

Despite the fact that this is one of the coldest places on our planet, and officially coldest city on earth, Verkhoyansk is still inhabited.

Where the temperature reached the mark -69.8 degrees Celsius lives a little over 1,200 people.

23. Merapi Volcano, Indonesia

This is the largest in the country active volcano, which is located on the island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta.

Merapi is also called the "fiery mountain", and it erupted more than 60 times in 500 years. But this did not force nearly a quarter of a million residents to leave their homes, located on fertile land in the shadow of a volcano.

22. Kivu (Lake), Rwanda/Democratic Republic of the Congo

At the bottom of this lake are several million cubic meters of methane and carbon dioxide. If all this comes to the surface, more than 2 million people could be affected.

21. Pitcairn Islands

Sometimes they are called "the smallest democracy on Earth." This state is the place of residence for 50 residents from 9 families.

On the island no harbor or airport- can only be reached by canoe. But there is high-speed Internet.

20. Cook Islands, Australia and Oceania

Only 4 people live here. There used to be a railway station here, where trains were refueled to cross longest straight road on earth.

Since nothing grows on the island, the inhabitants have to bring all the food and drinking water by boat.

19. Minqin, China

This area has a sad future. The rapid growth of the population has led to the fact that on the site of the only river passing through the district, desert formed.

Here left only 155 square kilometers of fertile land.

18. La Rinconada, Peru

The city is located in the Andes at an altitude of about 5 100 meters above sea level. That makes La Rinconada the highest human settlement on the planet. You can get into the city only by climbing a narrow mountain road.

Plus, its ecology is completely unfavorable. Except almost underdeveloped sewerage and wastewater systems, here you can find high mercury content, which remains after gold mining.

live here about 30,000 people, many of which suffer from mercury poisoning.

17. Chernobyl, Ukraine

After a tragic accident that happened in 1986, almost all the inhabitants of this city were evacuated.

To date some workers still live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but the time of their stay is limited - only a few days a week they can live there.

It should be noted that the Exclusion Zone is a territory into which no free access, since after the accident she was subjected to intense contamination with long-lived radionuclides.

16. Linfen, China

Until 1978, this city was known for its pure spring water, greenery and rich agricultural culture, earning it the nickname "Modern City of Fruits and Flowers".

But after the city was turned into the main industrial center of coal mining environment has changed drastically.

It is currently one of the most polluted cities in the world: air polluted with ash, carbon, leadandorganic chemicals.

15. Pompeii, Italy

After the destruction brought by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, this ancient Roman city, located in the Campania region and buried under volcanic ash, is still a place of residence for some people.

And all because of the fertile land. Even despite the fact that frozen lava lies at every step, people consider the risk of living in the city justified.

14. Socotra (island), Yemen

Known as "the most ethereal place on Earth", this island is located in the northwest Indian Ocean, about 250 km from the Somali Peninsula, and 350 km south of the Arabian Peninsula.

This makes it so isolated from the rest of the world that most of the flora and faunaimpossible to findnowhere else.

There are only two roads here, but the inhabitants, who number just over 40,000, it does not bother.

Socotra is inhabited mainly by shepherds, fishermen and farmers - they all breed frankincense and aloe, as well as sheep and goats.

13. Barrow (Alaska), USA

Barrow is the northernmost city in the US. It is located about 2,100 km from the North Pole, which makes the city incredibly cold.

In addition, Barrow is included in the list of settlements that can "boast" the harshest environmental conditions.

Only 109 days a year the temperature can rise above 0 degrees Celsius. On the average the temperature in the city is below zero for 324 days a year. Plus, frosts and snowfalls can begin in any month, and the polar nights here are incredibly long.

12. Tristan da Cunha (Islands)

Together with Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands, it is on the list the most remote settlements on the planet.

Tristan da Cunha is located 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America. You can only get here by fishing boats or scientific vessels., but be careful - the locals are not very friendly to tourists.

It is worth noting that immigration is illegal here.

11. Bajo, Philippines

This is not so much a locality as an ethnic group that lives in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Indigenous peoples and tribes from nearby areas were nicknamed "Sea Gypsies" because of their way of life. Even though more and more Bajo decide to move to land, there are families who continue to life on the water.

They live without drinking water and electricity, and they stick to the shore only when it is necessary to bury the dead.

10. Kifuka, Democratic Republic of the Congo

If you are afraid of lightning, then you will definitely not like it here. This village is where lightning strikes regularly, and for every square kilometer there are about 60 lightning strikes every year.

9. Meghalaya, India

This state in India is famous for its torrential downpours and monsoons. The town of Cherrapunji, which is located in this state, has become famous as the rainiest place on Earth - rainfall exceeds 11,000 mm. This amount of precipitation led to the emergence of unique plants.

8. Muli, Faroe Islands

Despite its extremely unstable weather and the complete or partial absence of minerals and vegetation, the four residents of this tiny village in the Faroe Islands are not going to leave their home just yet.

7. Motuo, China

This is the place where incredibly hard to get to. The path to this isolated settlement is considered the most difficult in the world. Here live about 10,000 people.

Here no roads and no communication with the outside world. To get to the mysterious (the word "Motuo" means "hidden, mysterious lotus") you need to make your way through the mountains, and the journey can take a week.

6. Norilsk, Russia

Besides the fact that Norilsk is one of coldest cities on earth, it is also one of most environmentally polluted cities on our planet.

5. Dallol, Ethiopia

This settlement can "boast" of the most high average annual temperature on Earth. Between 1960 and 1966, the highest average annual temperature was recorded here - 34 degrees Celsius.

In addition, Dallol - one of the most remote places on the ground. Here no roads, and to get to it, you need to use the caravan routes, which are aimed at collecting and delivering salt.

Nearby, below sea level, is Dallol volcano(last eruption in 1926). There are no exact statistics on how many people live here.

4. La Oroya, Peru

This city is famous mining and metallurgical industries. But these industries have listed the city most environmentally polluted cities in the world.

Due to lead smelting, literally all residents, including children, have some degree of lead poisoning.

The average life expectancy in this city is 51 years for men and 55 years for women. It is worth noting that on average in the country, people live 20 years more.

The main cause of death is oncology. Here there is many genetic deformities, because for several generations they have not left this lead shell.

3. Oymyakon, Russia

This village is known as one of the "Poles of Cold", ie. region where registered lowest temperature on earth.

About 500 people live here (2012). The length of the day in Oymyakon can vary from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer.

In January, the average monthly temperature is -46.4 degrees Celsius(sometimes it can go down to -50).

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Rezekne is a city of miracles. Walked in with money, walked out without.

I don't have thoughts.

I love my house, courtyard, river nearby and actually the whole city!

I was born and lived for 19 years in Daugavpils ... it is not the same as before, there are no those carousels where for 50 centimes you could ride a Ferris wheel and see the whole city, there is no Cindy cafe where in my childhood they made the most delicious cocktails, there is no pizzeria with the most delicious pizzas - my mother and I always looked there when we were in the center ... there are no already those friends with whom more than one pair of jeans were sitting on the bench .. ! now everything is different .. but anyway, when I come here once every two weeks, he is still waiting for me

no, no. My favorite places in Russia. Closer to Karelia and in the Tver region, on the Volga.
When I get there, everything inside somehow boils.
And then... it's not...

I moved at the beginning of the year, now everything suits me. There is no talk of any relocation. True, the neighbors here are mostly all sorts of freaks, but they don’t bother me.

I warmly welcome everyone! Very often we have to witness any crimes or even car accidents, and sometimes we become participants in incidents. At such moments, it is necessary to communicate with emergency services - ambulance, police, fire department. And if something happens to you or just passers-by during a trip to the USA? You must be able to communicate with emergency services, answer their questions or ask the victims for the necessary information.

Therefore, with the help of today's audio lesson, you will learn how to tell in English where you work, live, what kind of the exact address and also answer the questions: What is the address? - "Your address?", "Where do you live?" - “Where do you live?”, “Where do you work?” - "Where do you work?" , and you will also repeat the material of past classes in spoken English for ordinary Americans and visiting foreigners.

Recall a useful audio lesson in conversational American Who are you? or Who are you?

In addition, along with new phrases, prepositions, verbs and nouns, today you will also learn words from a new grammatical category - English numerals as part of the course "So They Say in America". Knowing the numbers is necessary in order to quickly call the police, ambulance, firefighters or the only emergency service in America - 911.

policeman: Where do you live? — Where do you live?
Paula: I live at fifty-five Georgia Street. - I live on the street. Georgia 55
policeman: Where do you work? - Where do you work?
Paula: I work at Jenson's. — I work for Jensons.
policeman: What is the address? - What address?
Paula: 307 California street. - st. California 307

And now listen to this dialogue, voiced by the professionals of the Voice of America radio, and other vocabulary in English:

Listen carefully to the pronunciation of each sound to catch the peculiarities of American articulation and practice your own pronunciation.

Where do you live? - in English

A table with phrases in English, as well as words broken down according to their grammatical category, and with translation will help you learn new vocabulary much faster.

Don't be intimidated by so many numbers. It is enough to learn the first 13 numbers, and then following the scheme of their formation, it will be easy to remember all the other numbers. Moreover, almost everyone can count up to 10 in English, even those who did not learn English at school.

"The place where the leader lives"

In 1871, the German traveler Karl Mauch, hacking through the thickets on the right bank of the Zambezi River, discovered majestic ruins, the likes of which no one has ever seen in Africa. Right in the jungle, overgrown and braided with creepers, there stood silently mighty walls built of hewn stone and built without any mortar, and massive round towers with a simple ornament of stripes.

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Of course, this is only one of the hypotheses, one of many assumptions. There must have been hundreds of other reasons for the progress of human evolution. But the African geological catastrophes cannot be discounted. No wonder it was in Africa that the most ancient remains of humanoid creatures, hominids, were found. They are still very similar to monkeys, but they already stand firmly on two legs, live in a herd, hunt together and do not disdain meat food. Their remains differ from monkeys in something very significant, very important. So important that scientists, without classifying them as humans, cannot also attribute them to monkeys ...

Powerful defensive structures protected the dilapidated entrances inside. Who lived here? Who built these cyclopean fortifications in the very center of Africa - the "wild" continent, the peoples of which, according to white researchers, did not know other buildings, except for adobe huts with leaf roofs?

When the traveler, accompanied by porters, went inside the building, he saw that behind the first circle of walls there was a second one, divided by stonework into small spaces. Here and there, numerous smelting furnaces, fragments of ore, slag and the remains of ancient melting crucibles caught my eye. Mauch moved from one crucible to another, carefully examining the remains of their contents. A few years ago, in the area between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers, he discovered rich gold placers. Suddenly, this find has something to do with the precious metal?

And there is! Some crucibles show traces of yellow metal. So maybe he stumbled upon the ruins legendary country Ophir - countries of gold? She was looked for in India, then in Africa, but was not found anywhere ...

A few years before Karl Mauch, the Englishman Adam Rendere visited these places. He briefly described some ruins of Zimbabwe, which in the Kaffir language meant "The place where the leader lives." But his article was ignored. But as soon as the word "gold" flashed in Karl Mauch's message, it immediately attracted greedy glances, especially in colonial England.

And when diamonds and gold were found in the land taken by the Boers from the Africans, the colonialists of Great Britain could not stand it. Once again, regular troops in British colonial uniforms crossed the frontiers to "help the Boers". The Anglo-Boer War began.

The entire European world sympathized with the colonists who fought against the English invaders. Few then thought that the Boers themselves took these lands from the local population. Only the belligerents knew and felt it. The British diligently set the African tribes against the Boers, and the Boers watched with alarm at the unreliability of their rear...

In the end, the colonists still had to lay down their arms and submit to the British. From the Boer republics and the British colonies a new state was formed - the Union of South Africa. His government began to support England in everything and organized a real terror directed against the local African population.

White minority politics in South Africa can be summed up in one word: APARTHEID. In the Afrikaans language, which is spoken by the descendants of the Boers - the inhabitants of South Africa (since 1961, the country has adopted the old name - the Republic of South Africa), this word means "separate existence of white and colored inhabitants of the country." At the same time, all the wealth and rights are in the hands of the "whites", and the lack of rights falls on the share of the "colored".

The lands of the Republic of South Africa turned out to be extremely rich in rare minerals. There is a lot of gold and platinum, uranium, antimony, manganese and chromium ores, excellent diamond mines. Has grown in the country and its own industry. The working class emerged. Every day the consciousness of the South African working class is growing, and the power of the democratic forces is growing. And no terror will stop the movement of those who defend the democratic rights of the peoples of the country. The imperialists know this. Know and fear...

Well, how did the story of the discovery of the mysterious stone complex of Zimbabwe - Places where the leader lives - end? For a long time, scientists did not know what to think. Hypotheses were put forward according to which these buildings were allegedly erected by visiting specialists from Asia or Europe. Or maybe they were built by aliens in general ...

Today, the ruins of Zimbabwe have been explored in the most advanced physical ways. Other buildings were found nearby, similar to the Place where the leader lives. Everywhere during the excavations, archaeologists found a lot of iron spearheads and arrowheads, hoes and axes, found shards of Persian faience dishes, Chinese porcelain and Arabic glass. This means that the people who lived within these walls were not only skilled builders, experienced metallurgists, but also enterprising merchants. Look from what distant countries goods were brought to them ...

When did the first settlements appear here? Precise physical instruments showed that the oldest buildings date back to the 6th century AD. Scientists have come to the conclusion that the ancestors of the modern Bantu peoples created the culture of Zimbabwe. And on its basis, around the 14th century, here, in the area between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, an extensive state formation of Monomotapa was formed.

Few travelers who visited here in those days told real miracles. The king of Monomotapa was, according to them, so rich that he received guests sitting on a golden throne, and weighed golden dust with golden weights depicting various fish, insects and plants.

Oh, how the Portuguese and the Dutch, the Arabs, the British, the Indians and the French, the Persians, the Belgians, the Danes… wanted to get to the gold of Monomotapa! It didn't work! The fabulous riches of African kings remained legends. And when the first conquerors nevertheless penetrated the virgin forests, the cities turned out to be abandoned and overgrown with jungle. As in other countries of that era, African states were at war with each other. Some rose, others fell. Weakened by internal unrest and the struggle against the Portuguese colonialists, Monomotapa at the end of the 17th century was captured by the tribes of other African peoples, who were replaced by new conquerors. Big cities, standing on the banks of full-flowing rivers, fell into decay. Trade routes are overgrown. The secrets of metal production were forgotten. But there was a time when life was in full swing here.

It is believed that it was in Africa that people first got acquainted with iron. No one on other continents had ever known this hard, refractory metal compared to copper and tin, but here bellows were already puffing, forges and furnaces were burning hot. Blacksmiths forged beautiful tools from the new metal, which were convenient for cultivating the land and harvesting.

In the western regions near the shores of the Gulf of Guinea, amazing varieties of velvet were made from the tender leaves of a banana tree. Today, his secret is irretrievably lost. They wove crease-resistant materials, shiny and flexible, like silk ... They carved wonderful sculptures from wood and ivory. And spears and bows were decorated with ornaments of such amazing beauty that they would worthily take a place in any armory. And what magnificent masks, gold pendants and bracelets were produced by black jewelers!

As in the rest of the world, the Black Continent developed its own original civilization, in no way inferior to either Asian or European cultures.

Foreign colonialists took it by surprise, trampled, destroyed it. They mixed the peoples of Africa, setting the boundaries of colonial possessions, regardless of the historically established national boundaries.

But the time of the colonial regime has passed. One by one, the young African states shake off the remnants of foreign domination and choose their fair path of development. Never again will the past return to the lands of Africa.