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In the twenties of the last century, suddenly appeared in Moscow Glowing monk. So this mysterious ghost was called Muscovites, which for some time now they began to meet in the dark a whitish figure that exuded an unusual bluish light.
It is not surprising that soon flickering in the dark the corresponding name was given to the ghost, and this whole story has grown all kinds of gossip. However, it is reliably known that for A luminous monk was constantly followed by a crowd of onlookers, as Muscovites quickly realized that a ghost is harmless.
“Ghost” was actually harmless, it is often not uncommon stopped and addressed passers-by, begging them not to accept him for something supernatural, because, they say, he is the same Muscovite, like all these people.
People, of course, did not believe the “ghost”, although the Glowing Monk, in in fact, had not the slightest thing to the other world relations.
It was just a Soviet scientist Semyon Isaakovich Wolfkovich, Doctor of Chemistry, who at that time was engaged just by studying the processes of electrothermal sublimation of phosphorus with the purpose of testing the production technology of the corresponding mineral fertilizers.
But here is the hitch: all these experiments with phosphorus Wolfkovich spent in an electric furnace that secreted fumes of this substance glowing in the dark (as we all know today), soaking them with a scientist’s clothes.
There is an established version of why the scientist was not defending himself. from these vapors. Firstly, he did not know about the dangers of phosphorus on the body. a person that every schoolchild today knows (by the way, a scientist He lived for 84 years and never complained about his health; maybe he knew about phosphorus is much more than our school ideas about it element?), and secondly, he, apparently, was funny so harmless way to entertain the rustic inhabitants of Moscow (after all, he could not notice the first time that his clothes glow in the dark).
Be that as it may, great people are also not without a sense of humor, moreover, more often than not, they have a much larger supply of it and, most importantly, the ability to joke so that these jokes are transmitted later from generation to generation, like jokes. It is to this anecdotal case and the case of the Luminous the monk, who once played the talented Soviet chemist Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich …
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