Matches as a symbol of the “cold war”

Artist Sasha Chavchavadze published her memoirs

A book of memoirs by Sasha Chavchavadze “Museum of Matches” was introduced at the publishing house Proteotypes in the New York.

The preface says that many years ago in Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir “Remembrance, speak!” the author was struck by the episode in which a friend of Nabokov’s family, tsarist general, showed a variety of games with matches to young Volodya.
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Tabbest.com – the best tabs download site

Vacations, tourism, fun…During the working period people dream about, expect, make plans for and at last get holiday. No doubt people seem to be all unlike subsequently people tend to display a great variety of likes. Certain people that cannot imagine a holiday deprived of azure sea, sandy beach, trees, warm climate and getting tanned.
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Shapsel’s matches were wooden sticks with a head from a mixture of sulfur, potassium chlorate, and cinnabar.

The first self lit matches were invented by Shapsel in 1812.

They were still very imperfect, but with their help you can get the flame much easier than with the flint.
In sunny weather, such a match was lit up by double-convex lens, while in other cases, in contact with a drop of concentrated sulfuric acid.
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Calendar of matches from the studio of Jurko Gutsulyaka

The works of graphic design studio of Jurko Gutsulyaka from Kiev, Ukraine, took part in many international exhibitions, as well as they wrere prize-winners of European and American design competitions.

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