Take, please, Alphonse Allais!

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LCR, pleased th))) thanks )))

Categorically join. Liana, Alphonse Allais struck the imagination, he accidentally Odessa ?: rolleyes:

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Another interesting museum, LCR: The world's smallest museum "Baublys" is ... the hollow of an old oak tree in the Lithuanian village Bietay. The museum officially exists since 1812!

Its creator - Lithuanian writer Dionizas Poshka. In the trunk of felled oak thousand, which has a circumference of 9.2 meters, he carved out space diameter 1,9 - 2 meters. Here Poshka posted his collection of antiquities of: archaeological finds, the bones of mammoth, ancient weapons and knight armor, a collection of old coins, a whole library of 200 books and more. On the walls he hung portraits of scientists, philosophers, poets.
Incidentally, the name of the museum gave the oak, in which he settled. Local residents have long since called a giant, yet he is not burned, after which it had to be cut down. "Baublys" became the first in Lithuania, local history museum, which since its inception and today is actively visited by tourists. At the time the museum has immortalized in his poem "Pan Tadeusz" Adam Mickiewicz. Part of the museum's collection was lost during the First World War. But what was left, and still on display in "Baublys", to which careful restoration put glass "cloak" that did not dampen the barrel.

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Firebird, interested in the name of the museum.
And here: Baublys

- This name designated in Lithuania huge old oak trees, once devoted to Lithuanian gods and even after the adoption of Christianity Lithuanians served object of worship. These oaks reaching sometimes 15 yards in circumference and five in diameter.
1 yard=1 /3 fth = 4 inch = 16 inches = 28 inches = 71,12 cm
Impressive.