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On February 25, 1836, a revolution took place in the arms business: 22-year-old American Samuel Colt received patent number 9430X for a “revolving gun” - a revolver with a rotating breech.

For the first time, it became possible to fire quickly from a short-barreled weapon and confront several opponents at once. All modern pistols and revolvers trace their ancestry to Colt's invention.

According to a number of historians, he contributed to the formation of American freedom and individualism. The presence of effective weapons quickly brought into circulation subjects with increased aggressiveness, and forced the rest to take into account each other’s rights.

The company's most famous product, a legend of the Wild West, a 45-caliber six-shooter model 1872 revolver, received the unofficial nickname Peacemaker.

This point of view is reflected in the famous phrase: “God created people, and Colonel Colt made them equal.” Another option: "Abe Lincoln gave everyone freedom, and Sam Colt evened the odds."

Many in the United States are now ready to argue with this: these days in the country the uncontrolled sale of weapons almost regularly leads to mass murders.

But no matter how you look at it, Colt’s product is one of the symbols of America.

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• The idea of ​​using a rotating drum to create repeating weapons has been in the air for a long time. The first hunting rifle with a 6-shot cylinder was produced in France in 1629.
• The first revolvers had four or six barrels instead of a rotating breech, which occupied a firing position one after the other. Such a weapon was called a bundelrevolver, and in common parlance a “pepper shaker”. The last “pepper shaker” was patented and began to be produced in 1839 by the Belgian Mariette. Their disadvantages were their complex design and heavy weight. Illustration copyright Getty Image caption Samuel Colt
• Colt did not serve a single day in the army, and received the rank of brevet (temporary) colonel from the governor of Connecticut for his support in the elections.
• The future inventor became seriously interested in technology at the age of 12. Two years later, on Independence Day, he called the residents of his hometown of Hartford to demonstrate the underwater mine he had assembled, placed it in the middle of the lake, but did not calculate the strength of the powder charge. The spectators were drenched from head to toe, and the teenager was almost beaten. Mechanic Elisha Root, who stood up for him, later worked as a manager at the Colt arms factory.
• After a year of study, Colt was expelled from the university, allegedly because he was studying chemical experiments, started a fire. Young Samuel got a job as a sailor on a merchant brig. The main idea of ​​​​life dawned on him when he watched the rotation of the ship's wheel and capstan (a device for winding the anchor chain). During the voyage, Colt carved a model of a revolving drum from wood, which is now kept in the company museum.
• When starting the business, Colt did not use a loan, but earned money by going on a tour, during which he entertained provincial audiences with demonstrations of the effects of “laughing gas” (nitrous oxide) on volunteers. Dentist Horace Wells, who happened to see the performance, was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
• The gunsmith shop founded by Colt in Patterson, Texas, went bankrupt in 1842 due to a lack of orders. The first Colt Patterson model produced there is today a collector's item.

Illustration copyright AP Image caption Colts from the Civil War and the Exploration of the Wild West

• New life The business was inspired by a widely reported incident in 1845, when 16 Texas Rangers armed with Colts fought off 80 Comanche Indians, killing 35 of them.
• In 1846, the war with Mexico began, and the federal government ordered Colt a thousand cavalry revolvers, asking him to modify them in accordance with the wishes of the military. The army was represented in the design group by Captain Walker. He soon died in the war, and the model created with his participation was named in his honor.
• Founded by Colt in 1855, the factory in Hartford, Connecticut, is still the company's headquarters. It was there that Mark Twain's "Yankee in King Arthur's Court" worked.
• "Colt" in English means "foal", the image of which has become a trademark.
• When Samuel Colt died suddenly in 1862 at the age of 48, he was buried at public expense, although he owned a fortune of 15 million then (about 900 million today) dollars. The inventor was escorted on his last journey, shooting into the air from revolvers of his production. According to a local newspaper reporter, “the cannonade was like on a battlefield.”
• The company was passed on to Colt's widow and then became a joint stock company. Illustration copyright g Image caption "Colt" became the hero of countless action films and westerns
• Caliber is a measure of the diameter of a gun barrel, equal to one hundredth of an inch (25.4 mm). The most common pistol and revolver caliber in the world, 38 is equal to 9 millimeters. The Colt company produced different weapons, but her business card There have always been relatively rare 45-caliber samples (11.3 mm).
• One of the world's first multi-shot automatic pistols also bore the name "Colt" (1900).
• For several decades, the revolver competed with the pistol, surpassing it in reliability, but inferior in magazine capacity and reloading speed. Currently, revolvers are considered obsolete technology, but are produced and sold in large quantities, mainly in the USA, where they are an attribute national history. In addition, the revolver can be stored loaded indefinitely for use in an emergency.
• Richly decorated Colts were in the personal arsenals of all Russian emperors, starting with Nicholas I. According to available data, the same brand was preferred by the great terrorist Boris Savinkov.
• The most famous Colt models are the Dragoon 1848, Peacemaker 1872 and Python 1955 revolvers (still in production), as well as the legendary 1911 army pistol. The company's most popular modern pistols are the 45-caliber Defender and the small 38-caliber Mustang. Illustration copyright ap Image caption M-16 - the main small arms of the US Army
• In addition to pistols and revolvers, the company produces heavy military weapons, including the M-16 assault rifle.
• The world's largest working revolver, made in a home workshop by Polish-American Richard Tobis, weighs 45 kg, has a 28 mm caliber and fires bullets weighing 138 grams. The smallest is the Swiss Swiss Mini Gun, 5.5 cm long and weighing 19.8 g; the caliber of specially produced cartridges is 2.34 millimeters, bullet weight is 0.128 grams.
• Over more than a century and a half, Colt's Manufacturing Company produced about 30 million weapons.
• The right to own guns is enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which took effect on December 15, 1791.
• Americans own about 250 million legal revolvers, pistols, shotguns and rifles, two-thirds of which are owned by 20% of the population. In 2012 alone, 18.8 million guns were officially sold.
• US Public Opinion. Gun freedom advocates say that the Second Amendment to the Constitution (on the right to bear arms) is necessary to ensure that the government does not forget about the First (on freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion).

1. At age 15, Samuel was expelled from school after he set fire to a building while trying to set off fireworks for his classmates.


2. Rotating cylinder designs were already known in the 16th century (see illustration), but only Colt was able to create a revolver that was convenient to use and could be mass-produced.



3. According to legend, the phrase “The Lord created people strong and weak” is written on the tombstone of the legendary gunsmith. Samuel Colt evened their chances." In fact, only his name and dates of life are engraved on the gravestone.


4. To earn money to produce prototypes of his weapons, Colt traveled around America under the pseudonym “The Illustrious Doctor Colt” and demonstrated the effects of laughing gas on volunteers.


5. In 1847, Colt received a government order for one thousand revolvers. This helped Samuel open his own production. His good acquaintance, the Texas Ranger Captain Walker, helped the gunsmith receive the order. Yes, the same one after which Chuck Norris named the series you watched as a child!







6. The fame of Colt revolvers owes to the same Walker and fifteen of his rangers, who were patrolling the area and encountered a detachment of eighty Comanches. Thanks to their revolvers, the rangers killed 35 Indians and emerged victorious from the battle.


7. Colt did not have official ranks and titles and this prevented him from performing representative functions (many high ranks abroad refused to accept a private person), so Samuel persuaded the governor to allow him honorary title"Colonel" This is how Colt presented himself in Europe, although he did not serve a single day in the army.


8. Colt visited Russia three times and met with the emperors: Nicholas I and Alexander II, to whom he presented collectible samples of his weapons.







9. Colt did not shy away from not entirely legal operations. For example, there is a known case when a batch of his pistols (almost 3,500 pieces) was discovered at customs, which they tried to smuggle from Belgium to Russia. In correspondence with his brother, Samuel admitted that he was forced to spend 100 thousand dollars (approximately 2 million in terms of current prices) to hush up this story.


10. Colt was a brilliant industrialist; he mechanized the production process as much as possible for his time. At an exhibition in London in 1851, Samuel disassembled ten of his revolvers, mixed the parts, and then assembled them and showed them all ready to fire. Those present were shocked.


11. Samuel Colt died at the age of 47. Not in a shootout, from simple gout. By this time he had become one of the richest people countries. His fortune in today's money was $300 million.

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President Putin, in his article published in the New York Times, made a number of serious mistakes, indicating a lack of understanding of the events taking place in Syria, and a lack of understanding of the mentality of American citizens, to whom he addressed in his article http://kremlin.ru/news /19205.

Let's look at the thesis of the article and look at it through the eyes of an American. Simple, far from politics. Let's start from the end. How did Putin end his article?

Putin ended the article with the words: “God created us equal.” Any American will smile skeptically at these words, for the phrase “God created men equal” (and this is also borrowed from the US Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, which include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness") can only be adequately understood in the sense that people have equal rights from birth given to them by God. But natural capabilities are different and there must be a force that equalizes them - does not allow the strong to oppress the weak. Naturally, Americans see their country, the USA, as this force! This equality does not happen on its own... And the use of military force in Syria is precisely justified by the fact that it is to EQUALize the strength of the rebels with the forces of Assad - to help the oppressed, so to speak... I generally don’t understand how it was possible, even based on ordinary political technological considerations, It’s such a bad way to end the article... As usual, Putin’s PR doesn’t shine. Siberian cranes, pikes, tiger cubs, walruses, State Department agents - this is their element. In serious matters - failure.

Putin tried to shame the Americans with their eternal sense of EXCEPTIONALITY. And it would be nice to prove with reason that they are not exceptional at all. No...just shamed Obama for calling his people exceptional. What did Putin say? “I think it’s very dangerous to plant the idea of ​​their exclusivity in people’s heads, no matter what the motivation is.” The reference is clear. To the Ubermensch and Untermensch. Those. Putin compared the United States to the Third Reich. But it’s so feeble that most Americans won’t even understand the hint... They are, by and large, not interested in anything other than their Oklahoma and the next baseball match and quite sincerely believe themselves to be exceptional (surprise!)... And those who are interested know for sure that that it was the United States that defeated Nazism. And then some totalitarian Putin begins to reproach the Americans for their exclusivity... Who is he, this Putin anyway? He himself has been sitting at the head of Russia for the 14th year in a row, because he is exceptional, and he is beginning to teach us Americans about life. This would be the line of thought. And in some ways I even agree with him... Thus, it’s not just a failure, but also a minus. On the contrary, it was necessary to appeal to the EXCEPTIONALITY of the Americans. Moreover, it is so. You can argue about the +/- sign, but this is truly an exceptional country and people. However, so do we.

Referring to the opinion of the Pope is a good move. Americans love God. Or rather, they believe, God loves America. But the USA is a Protestant country, so the link to the chapter Catholic Church will work very poorly and will not prompt the American to think hard. The Protestant ethic ultimately leads to the fact that everyone is an architect of their own happiness. If you screw up, it's your own fault. In relation to Assad, it will sound like it was no good to torment the people personally for so long. This will also apply to Putin. As a result, it failed again.

All these disadvantages are based on the foundation: Russia lost to the United States in the Cold War. From an American point of view, Russia today is trying to limit the United States in spreading its only correct concept - DEMOCRACY. Why? Because Russia does not like democracy. Because in Russia there is authoritarianism. And Putin himself is clear proof of this. He has been rowing galleys for 14 years. He’s tired, but for some reason he doesn’t want to give up his place... They sick people can’t understand that Mother Russia will die without Putin :) In short, Putin’s very personality with such arguments gives rise to cognitive dissonance.

Putin doesn’t even seem to understand how Americans feel about their country... I assure you, they feel their country is not just some big country, but a country... They feel like a UNION of states. This is directly implied by their name UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. And even more - not just an alliance, but a new model of the world order. Please note that the name US (United States) is widely used - without any Americas... America is so... temporary, in reality, targeting the entire PLANET :))). This is our governor of a subject of the Federation - a puppet of the Kremlin. In the USA, a state is a very, very independent unit - it is actually a state within a state with its own laws, its own police, its own traditions. Therefore, Americans perceive the expansion of the United States on the world stage as the expansion of their IDEA - DEMOCRACY, and not as an attack of the Empire on adjacent territories. The Americans are naturally wrong, but that is exactly how they feel it. And you need to appeal to THEIR feeling when you try to talk to THEM.

But this is not enough. Putin not only cannot reach the hearts of Americans. He also fits into the wake of their worldview, thereby further weakening (from a logical standpoint) his already weak arguments against the active position of the United States in the international arena in defending democracy. And this is exactly how Americans perceive US activities. Because in line with the US worldview, their actions are CORRECT. It is possible to prove the wrongness of the US actions only by directing the reader’s thoughts in a different direction. Putin didn't do this.

In general, an unsuccessful, toothless article. Putin has already said the same thing. And this never stopped anyone, and could not stop anyone. Moreover, the entire article is permeated with a misunderstanding of the Americans’ point of view on the role of their country in history, as well as a clear dissonance between their persona and their highly moral statements. A PERSON who considers himself exceptional cannot deny exclusivity to other PEOPLES. And this is exactly how it looks for an American: The exceptional and unique Putin, who rules in Russia as he wants, does not allow the entire PEOPLE, who have reached the highest stage of development on Earth, to carry the banner of democracy.

It's unfortunate, but it's true. The maximum that Putin will achieve is the same thing he achieved with his Munich speech. That is NOTHING.

So what will happen to Syria? In general, Putin already said this in his previous interview: “You know what, how do I know?”

At the same time, naturally, there are many people in the United States who are categorically against military action in Syria. And without any moralizing from Putin. But it’s the same as in Russia: many people understand that it’s high time for Putin to receive a well-deserved honorable pension, but the majority... the majority of Russians need a tsar-father. Bye. But the majority of Americans need the stars and stripes banner over the planet and the triumph of democracy... And for these Americans, Putin did not say anything valuable... At the same time, I would like to emphasize once again that, of course, a huge number of Americans consider a military action in Syria unnecessary and harmful - this is there is the main deterrent to a military strike, and not Putin’s article at all.

Plus, it turns out that the article in the NYT was published by the American PR agency Ketchum, which has been improving the image of Russia in the West for many years! http://news.rambler.ru/21083840/ Imagine, it turns out they are improving our image...:) Yeah. I remember that the American PR people just now also improved and improved Gaddafi’s image... http://eugenyshultz.livejournal.com/173721.html When they started bombing Libya, they didn’t even do a money-back...

There are two views on religion and human faith in God or in several Gods (the Jewish term “Elohim” used in the “Torah” is the word “Gods” in the plural).

Here are these two views on religion and human faith with a brief explanation:

1. The gods created everything, including people.(And according to the Bible, there are people on the 6th day of creation - “goyim”, and there are people on the 8th day of creation - the Jews. They were created by different Gods. Details in a separate article "Historical truth, which is carefully hushed up". Its logical continuation is another article "Crimean epic, a story about snake people").

2. People created God (or Gods) in their own image and likeness.(This is what the Hyperborean-Aryans did in their mythology, calling themselves “Hellenes” - “children of God.” Below are stone images of the god Apollo and the hunter-goddess Artemis).

The gods in human form look in these images as they themselves looked thousands of years ago people from the country of Hyperborea, who sculpted these Gods from stone in their own image and likeness.

Civilization of Lies

The most potent and therefore the most dangerous are basic matrices, which determine the main ideological attitudes of billions of people. Such matrices are given in the form of religious and political doctrines.

Artificial religions

In natural religion - paganism - the gods lived among people. They were visible, tangible - the God of the sun, the God of the wind...

God of the Sun - Russian Yarilo.

They were stronger than people, influenced their lives, and therefore people deified them, but were not afraid of them, they were friends with them, they addressed them directly - in the forest, in the clearing, with songs, round dances.

Secret control structures developed a speculative design - some abstract one God was torn away from people, lifted up, placed at an unattainable height. Instead of the horizontal structure of “people are gods”, a vertical hierarchy was created: at the top is the Lord God, below are his servants - priests, below - other people are God's servants, and not the children of the gods, as in paganism.

Symbolically this device is represented Masonic pyramid, top part which is torn off from the rest of the structure, raised high, equipped with an all-seeing eye.

Image on the US $1 bill.

For comparison, the same pyramid, only for a capitalist society, where money - American dollars or gold - serves as God:

God in heaven is analogous to the secret structures on Earth. Both God and the secret power are invisible, but all-seeing, their will cannot be comprehended, it must be blindly obeyed.

Slaves are obliged to submit to both the servants of God - priests and secular rulers, since power comes from God - as is written in the sacred books.

All postulates of the “holy books” (as well as orders from secret structures) must be taken on faith. Analysis of the tenets of religion (as well as the rules of secret structures) is prohibited: to speculate, i.e. to think is sinful, for “blessed are the poor in spirit.” True adherents of religion - “believers” - were proclaimed to be those who were inclined to take everything on faith, without comprehension.

Thinkers were called heretics and subjected to all kinds of persecution - both religious and secular.

So, lie number 1: God created man.

I will say the following about this: everything is true, but what is said about God is a little wrong!

The so-called “pagan Gods” and “pagan mythology” were knowledge for the people, presented in a very simplified form, accessible to the consciousness of absolutely every person. Like fairy tales for children today! And the knowledge currently hidden from the people behind “Masonic symbolism” is already at the level of sages, magicians, clairvoyants and other esotericists. This esoteric knowledge differs from mythology as much as classical music (for the soul) differs from “pop” - music that pleases only a person’s animal feelings and instincts.

“Esotericism is a teaching, a body of knowledge intended only for initiated people who carry this secret within themselves and do not have the right to spread it beyond the boundaries of their knowledge. The concept of esotericism comes from the Greek word “esoterikos”, which means hidden, internal.”

In connection with everything stated above, in our time only a few lucky people can have an idea of ​​​​a real, and not an illusory, mythical God. These are either those who have been initiated into secret knowledge, having received it from the guardians, or those who at least once experienced the real support of God at a critical moment.

After these insights, I did not have “faith in God” like millions of believers, but real knowledge about God, who really created everything, including man. True, I learned that this real God is not at all the same as the representatives of various Christian Churches portray him to the people.

It was also revealed to me that our entire modern science of Nature - physics - is built on a false foundation. And this was done on purpose so that some people would not lose their monopoly on real information, on true knowledge.

The truth is that at the level of our microcosm we live inside a sort of endlessly sized “etheric matrix”. This endless, and therefore omnipresent “matrix” is both our soul and our memory, it is also God, this “ethereal matrix” is the “Kingdom of God” in the terminology of the Christian Gospels. I will repeat and clarify once again: this is located in the very depths of our microcosm, far beyond the boundaries of subatomic particles. So, God is not somewhere “in Heaven”, outside of us, He is inside us!

By the way, as I later found out in the process of studying world religions, this idea of ​​mine “about God and God's Kingdom" correspond very precisely to the words of Christ: God is in me, and I am in Him. "I and the Father are one"(John 10:30). “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you...”(Matt. 6:33). “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which, although smaller than all the seeds, when it grows, it is larger than all the grains and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and take refuge in its branches...”(Matthew 13:31-32). The last words of the legendary Christ the Savior speak about the materiality of the “etheric matrix”, which is the “Kingdom of Heaven”. (I just ask you not to confuse matter, which gives birth to everything, with matter!).

Information for those whose soul is looking for its beginning...

Among those living on earth there have always been, are and will be people who commit transition from atheism to belief in God, Whom the various "sacred scriptures" available today describe as .

Why does this process of transition from atheism to faith in God take place in modern society, and why it will never be stopped, is explained primarily by the fact that human soul tends to ripen like fruit on a tree. And if the soul matures together with a person in the process when he turns from a child into an adult, it begins to encourage an already mature person to look at the world through the prism of his worldview that has suddenly changed and look for answers to seemingly long-forgotten childhood questions: "How was this whole world created with its wild diversity?" and “how did the very first people appear on earth?!”

At the same time, despite the fact that different nations There are as many as a dozen different “holy scriptures” in the world, and four religious collections: “Bible”, “Koran”, “Tanakh” and “Ganjur” are even protected by Russian legislation (so that no one can recognize them as extremist for their murderous content! ), for a person’s conscious faith in God it is necessary to recognize only one postulate: the invisible God exists inside nature and, moreover, He creates nature from the very depths of the microcosm.

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As a person who has long since made the transition from atheism to conscious faith in God, with this article I want to help other people (who have yet to make such a transition) understand what it means “the invisible God exists inside nature and, moreover, He creates nature from the very depths of the microcosm”?

Let me make a reservation right away that not every adult’s soul matures to the state of a mature fruit! Often the human soul rots even at the stage of development, like an apple bitten by a worm.

Why is that? - there are many reasons for this. The main reason for the rotting of souls in people is due to a person’s struggle with his conscience, when it prevents him from achieving what he wants by unrighteous means. Going against his conscience, gradually killing it in himself, a person destroys his soul, which binds him with invisible bonds through subtle world with the invisible Creator.

By the way, on fruit trees, too, not all the inflorescences that we see in the spring later become mature fruits. The reason for this is the very different negative factors. Can you imagine what kind of harvest this fruit tree would have if each of its inflorescences turned into a ripe fruit?! But this doesn’t happen!

So people have all their little children - like these flowers! Thanks to modern medicine their survival rate is close to 100%, and when they become mature adults, then those who have preserved their souls are left with well if half!

Actually ours modern society due to the large percentage of soulless people and their special activity, it is therefore degrading, albeit slowly but surely, despite obvious scientific and technological progress... True, what kind of “progress” is this if the majority of all inventions and discoveries made undoubtedly the best minds of humanity, has a military purpose, and each new World War kills at times more people than the previous one?!

This has already been tested on people 2 times!

So, with this article I want to help all those people who still face the maturation of the soul and all subsequent metamorphoses associated with some adjustment of their worldview as a result of gaining conscious faith in the Creator.

Among people who have unconscious faith in God, and there are millions of them in the world today, the most common terms are: "The Kingdom of heaven", where every blind believer dreams of going when he dies, and "Holy Spirit" or simply "Spirit", about which, in particular, the Bible says that all gifts and talents in man come from Him:

4 There are different gifts, but Spirit the same;

5 and the ministries are different, but Lord the same;

6 and the actions are different, but God one and the same, producing all in all.

7 But to everyone is given a manifestation Spirit for good.

8 One is given Spirit a word of wisdom, a word of knowledge to another, the same Spirit;

9 faith to another, to the same Spirit; to others gifts of healings, to those Spirit;

10 To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different languages, interpretation of tongues to another.

11 But the same one does all these things Spirit, dividing it to each individual, as He pleases.(1 Cor. 12:4-11).

Fresco: "The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles":

Concerning "Kingdom of Heaven", into which every blind believer dreams of getting when he dies, in the same Bible, Christ the Savior himself gave him the following definitions:

24 Kingdom of Heaven like a man who sowed good seed in his field...

31 Kingdom of Heaven like a mustard seed

33 Kingdom of Heaven like leaven

(Matthew 13:24-34).

I note that these words are the most significant thing in religious literature, since they represent a worldview, one might even say, natural science part Christian faith . After all, through these words it is not at all difficult for thinking people to understand where exactly in the natural scientific picture of the world they need to look "the omnipresent and invisible Creator."

Let me note that I could never once refer to anyone’s “holy scripture” in order to tell where exactly in the natural scientific picture of the world people who seek it should look "the omnipresent and invisible Creator" since my transition from atheism to conscious faith in God did not occur after I "I read a lot of different religious literature"(as someone might think), but it happened contrary to this fact, even before I read the same Bible! This happened due to the emergence of new worldviews in me after overcoming the 33-year mark. It was as if after this milestone I became a little “clairvoyant”. Actually, even now, from article to article, I show my readers that I can look at the world completely differently than other people. But from the outside it seems to someone, and this has been said about me more than once, that "The writer Anton Blagin has a whole team of advisers and analysts".

So, when I was making a transition from atheism to conscious faith in God, and I realized that something unusual was happening to me, I then began to write a book to capture all those revelations that came to me in the form of incomplete the natural science and historical knowledge that I have comprehended, which is directly in contact with the sphere of religion. I simply didn’t have time to physically comprehend a lot of things back then, but I understood that I could figure it out later, but for now the main thing was that I had to systematize all the information and have time to put it on virtual shelves on the pages of the book.

This work took me more than two years. As a result, a book about our lives was born.

Link to download the book in PDF format.

Among the various information that came to me in 1996-1997 in the form of revelations was this:

This is a photograph of page 179 of my book, through which the text and drawing of the reverse side of the sheet appear.

You see here, among other things, the inscriptions in bold: “Kingdom of Heaven”, "Higher intelligence", followed by a dividing dotted line......... and then go: “Elementary particles”, “Atoms”, "Lower Mind" and so on. At the very bottom expanding towards the bottom size pyramids, where the infinity sign should be, there is again a dividing dotted line......... and then there is the inscription: “UNIVERSE”.

It’s interesting, isn’t it, about the “higher” and “lower” minds and their location on the chart?!

I repeat, this came to my consciousness as if by itself in 1996. Moreover, over the past 21 years since then, I have found a lot of evidence of the truth of this information! And then it was simply amazing and interesting to me how, as if out of nowhere, knowledge came to me that could not be read about in any textbook. Then, by the way, I learned that what was happening to me at that time, in different time happened to other people too. And the phenomenon when knowledge comes to people in an amazing way, as if from outside, has been called by the world of scientists and philosophers since very ancient times intuition.

"Intuition is the ability of direct, immediate comprehension of the truth without preliminary logical reasoning and without evidence" . (C) Daniel Kanneman.

Look now at this drawing, which can be found in various school physics textbooks:

Here a comparison is made of the frequencies of the so-called “electromagnetic radiation” and the corresponding wavelengths with the geometric dimensions of various objects. It turns out that in 1996 I saw in my mind's eye almost everything is the same, however, is not exactly the same...

This color drawing does not contain all the information about the Universe, since it is cut off on both the left and the right! Unlike him, he black and white drawing, which I published in the book “Geometry of Life,” contains all the completeness of information. Available on it size scale(its presence is extremely important!) begins with UNIT and ends with INFINITY. And this is the entire Universe in its totality from one end to the other, described in mathematical language!

If we now transform a color drawing from a school physics textbook, adding a “size scale” to it, then, regardless of whether we want it or not, we will come to a geometric construction in the form of a pyramid of sizes with a pointed top, which in turn will force us think the same way as the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), the author of the idea, thought two and a half millennia ago atomic structure of matter.

This is what I got as a result of converting the drawing:

It is known that the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus was the first of the geometers to establish that "the volume of a pyramid and a cone is equal, respectively, to one third of the volume of a prism and a cylinder under the same height and with the same base area".

Thanks to his mathematical and geometric talent (and in ancient times, geometry was considered a science that allowed one to penetrate into the secret essence of things!), Democritus once came to the conclusion that everything large can be mentally cut into small ones, and everything smaller can be cut into even smaller ones, and so on almost to infinity in the direction of decrease, but at the very beginning size scales(and at the top of the size pyramid) is already uncut piece of matter.

This really existing, but extremely small, invisible to the eyes, uncut (indivisible) part of matter, described by Democritus, then in ancient times began to be called ATOMS.

Look now where in modern science the confusion and distortion of ancient knowledge about the Universe occurred:

"Atom(from ancient Greek ἄτομος - indivisible, uncut) - particle of matter microscopic size and mass, the smallest part of a chemical element that is the carrier of its properties. An atom consists of an atomic nucleus and electrons. If the number of protons in the nucleus coincides with the number of electrons, then the atom as a whole turns out to be electrically neutral. Otherwise, it has some positive or negative charge and is called an ion. In some cases, atoms are understood only as electrically neutral systems, in which the charge of the nucleus is equal to the total charge of the electrons, thereby contrasting them with electrically charged ions. The nucleus, which carries almost all (more than 99.9%) of the mass of the atom, consists of positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons bound together through the strong force. Atoms are classified according to the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus: the number of protons Z corresponds to the serial number of the atom in the periodic system of Mendeleev and determines its belonging to a certain chemical element, and the number of neutrons N - to a specific isotope of this element. The only stable atom that does not contain neutrons in the nucleus is light hydrogen (protium). The Z number also determines the net positive electric charge (Ze) of the atomic nucleus and the number of electrons in a neutral atom, which determines its size. Atoms various types V different quantities connected by interatomic bonds form molecules". .

As we see, it is stated here that "atom is a particle of matter" , but this is wrong!

First of all, modern science has violated the logic of Democritus’s understanding of atoms!

If you use a scale of sizes in your mental constructions, you will definitely end up with the construction of a pyramid with a pointed top, which with its tip indicates the existence of the smallest indivisible material particle, which forms the fundamental basis of the Universe.

And what do modern scientists explain to us with the help of their drawings?

They want to convince everyone that atoms - these are particles of matter that they consist of smaller subatomic particles: electrons and atomic nuclei, which in turn consist of even smaller particles, while they also claim thatatom from ancient Greek ἄτομος - indivisible, uncut.

Sorry, our scientists have some kind of schizophreniait turns out!

If you, dear ones, have discovered particles of matter, and then found that they are divided into smaller particles, then call these particles something in your own way, but do not give them a name "atoms", referring to Democritus! And don’t make a fool of the greatest ancient Greek scientist in this way! Like, "He was wrong when he spoke about the indivisibility of atoms!"

It is you, gentlemen scientists, who are mistaken! Why? - I explained above. The existence of truly indivisible ATOMS is proven by the exact science of GEOMETRY. At the same time, Democritus did not have particles of matter in mind when he built his geometric construction. By atoms he understood the indivisible particles of matter from which everything in the Universe is formed (takes shape)!

Now on this occasion it’s time to remember first button rule:

Now look at what an interesting historical parallel arises: the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who gave the world concept of atoms of matter, lived on earth since 460 BC. e. - to 370 BC. e., as all encyclopedias say. Another great educator, whom we know as Christ the Savior, according to the teachings of the Christian Church, lived four centuries after him, and in his parables he used the idea of ​​​​Democritus about the “smallest particles” from which everything in the world comes.

It is also known that for the convenience of the perception of complex knowledge even by simple farmers, Christ the Savior used the language of allegory to the maximum extent in order to explain to all people as clearly as possible where exactly God is, where the human soul and all life originate.

Let us read the words of Christ again:

31 Kingdom of Heaven like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field,

32 which, although smaller than all seeds, yet when it grows, is greater than all herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and take refuge in its branches.

33 Kingdom of Heaven like leaven which the woman took and put in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the people in parables, and without a parable he did not speak...(Matthew 13:24-34).

We read again and think about it: Kingdom of heaven like mustard seed, which is smaller than all the seeds, and it is similar sourdough, which is put into flour to ferment the dough!

Do you still not understand what mustard seed, leaven and the “Kingdom of Heaven” have in common?

The purpose of this allegory and the purpose of bringing this comparative series is only one - to convey to the consciousness of all who show interest in the questions of the origin of life on earth and the structure of the Universe, the simple principle of existence that “everything big consists of the small and is formed from it, and the small is from even less, and everything in general is formed from the smallest particles of matter (which is the Mother who gives birth to everything in the Universe!)”.

It turns out that that area of ​​the microworld that remains unknown modern science, is precisely the area "Kingdom of Heaven" from the teachings of Christ the Savior!

Even then, in 1996-1997, when I was writing the book “The Geometry of Life,” I wrote in it:

“If the basis of the world is a finite and indivisible particle of matter, then the Self-Generated, Self-Developing and Self-Knowing God is material, just as the “Kingdom of Heaven” in which He dwells is material, and He is eternal, just like Nature is eternal, capable of knowing Itself.

Some readers, having studied everything previous and reached this page, have the right to tell me: “This is the author’s point of view that is not supported by anything!” I also believe that the reader has the right to say so, because no hard evidence has been provided to him.

Christ once convinced people simply: he performed a miracle. Nowadays, a miracle is no longer proof. It has been privatized by all the media and is being shamelessly exploited. Parodies of miracles are literally pouring from TV screens today, fooling people. Thrillers, killers, shows-everything is suitable for fooling the viewer and listener. Therefore, I will not demonstrate any “supernatural” phenomena here, but I invite you to the miracle of insight-a new look at known scientific truths. To do this, I am forced to switch to the language of practical radio engineering and, as briefly as possible, literally introduce you to the ABCs of this science.

Let's consider the circuit symbol known to every schoolchild for an ordinary oscillating circuit, consisting of a capacitor (capacitance) and inductance (coil of wire). Anyone who has studied at school knows that when an electric current flows through a wire coil, a so-called magnetic field is formed around it, the lines of force of which form a torus-shaped volumetric spatial figure, similar to a lifebuoy or steering wheel.

The arrows in the figure indicate the direction of movement (rotation) of the so-called “magnetic field”.

Reference: The “magnetic field” has a pronounced material effect. The effect, for example, will appear when you begin to bring the like poles of two strong magnets closer together. There will be nothing visible between the ends of the magnet, but there will be a tangible resistive force preventing the poles from approaching each other. The “stronger” the magnet, the more difficult it is to bring like poles together. If we begin to influence iron powder with a magnet, then the particles of this powder will line up along the so-called lines of force. The picture of the arrangement of grains of iron powder will give us a visible form of the magnetic field..."

Take in now, reader!

Today even young children know about the magnetic field. Schools and universities teach disciplines called “magnetism” and “electromagnetism.” Teachers of different ranks and with different academic degree they tell how the so-called “magnetic field” is generated, how it interacts with the “electric field”, they even talk about the fact that the “magnetic field” has kinetic energy... However, about what material carrier is located in the so-called “magnetic field” flow" that performs work in electric motors and other electromagnetic devices, not a word is said!

This great mystery is WHAT flows, WHAT changes - students and schoolchildren do not understand it, and teachers do not explain this because they themselves do not know!

But the most curious thing is that all scientists and teachers know that the so-called “magnetic field” is always vortex! That is, it represents a certain vortex motion, which has (like a whirlwind on water!) the following characteristics:

2. rotation speed;

3. flux density (density of the so-called “magnetic flux”).

It is also known, and no one disputes this, that vortex magnetic fields (formations) equally arise both in air space and in airless space, for example, in outer space. And this eloquently suggests that the “physical vacuum” invented by modern scientists simply does not exist! It doesn’t exist, that’s all! There is only airless space called "vacuum"(from Latin vacuus - empty), which is given a precise and correct definition: "vacuum - This space free of matter". ( ).

And now, friends, pay attention! I hope that after reading everything written above, you understand that there is various substance, listed and numbered in D.I. Mendeleev’s Table, and exists matter, from which every substance is formed.

Consequently, a space free from any matter, in which so-called “magnetic fields” can arise and visible and invisible light can propagate, is literally "kingdom of matter", the kingdom of that very “Mother who gives birth to everything in the Universe” from the philosophy of the ancients, or the “Kingdom of Heaven” from the terminology of Christ the Savior!

Hence the conclusion: if nature begins with endless subtle matter, and LIGHT and the invisible “HOLY SPIRIT”, which takes on various forms, are its hypostases, then these two lines from two sacred scriptures can rightfully be considered the immortal truth:

Gospel: "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness..."(1 John 1:5).

Koran: "Allah is the light of heaven and earth"(Sura 24, verse 35).

Part two: "GOD IS LIGHT!"

So two religious teachings - Islam and Christianity- in unison they tell us that The Creator of the world is light!

What is elementary? unit of light as a physical phenomenon?

Quantum physics tells us that the unit of all light radiation is "PHOTON".

Let's read his definition: "Photon(from ancient Greek φῶς, native pad. φωτός, “light”) - an elementary particle, a quantum of electromagnetic radiation (in in the narrow sense- Sveta). It is a massless particle, capable of existing in a vacuum only by moving at the speed of light. A photon can only be in two spin states with a projection of the spin onto the direction of motion (helicity) ±1.Classical electrodynamics describes a photon as an electromagnetic wave with circular right-hand or left-hand polarization. From the point of view of classical quantum mechanics, the photon as a quantum particle is characterized by wave-particle duality; it simultaneously exhibits the properties of a particle and a wave." .

Illustrate this Aesopian language academicians from physics I want the following picture, which explains how elementary vortex formation, arising in the depths of the microcosm, may appear in one case as a transverse wave, and in another case as a kind of “energy quantum” that has spatial polarization.

Single microvortex- and there is "quantum of energy", which has spatial polarization.

This idea of ​​the photon clearly shows us that there are no real "transverse vibrations" An elementary particle of light does not perform any motion while moving in space. And what we mean by “frequency” when talking about light is actually the frequency at which the photon rotates around its axis! And this is not directly written about in any textbook!

"Spin(from the English spin, literally - rotation, rotate) - the intrinsic angular momentum of elementary particles, which has a quantum nature and is not associated with the movement of the particle as a whole." .

"Photon - massless neutral particle. The photon spin is 1, but due to its zero rest mass, a more appropriate characteristic is helicity, projection of the particle’s spin onto the direction of motion.” .

Now, friends, forget everything you were taught at school, technical school or university regarding the theory of light and the propagation of so-called “electromagnetic waves” in space.

Since the “first button” in theoretical physics was once “buttoned” incorrectly, then everything else, alas, was also “buttoned” incorrectly!

You are already convinced that scientists lied about everything atoms, passing off as them particles of matter, but hiding the real ones from humanity atoms of matter. At the same time, when the edges of incorrectly “buttoned” theoretical physics stopped meeting for these scientists, they invented "special form of matter". It had to be invented to explain the unique phenomena of electricity and magnetism at a time when these two phenomena began to be intensively studied in Europe, England and America.

This term “special form of matter” was introduced into scientific use in the middle of the 18th century by the US scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), who in one of his works indicated that "electricity is special form of matter, consisting of particles whose sizes are smaller than the particle sizes ordinary substance" . Following him, all other scientists began to use this awkward term to designate particles that were smaller size particles of "ordinary matter". The term “special form of matter” began to be used to describe phenomena associated with various types of “fields”. Light generated by electromagnetic phenomena has also become a “special form of matter” in the theory of modern physics.

At the same time, despite all the lies of scientists regarding the region that is located in my drawing above the nucleus of an atomic substance...

The truth is that photon, an elementary particle of light, is capable of existing in a vacuum (airless space) only by moving with speed of light, and can only be located in two spin states with projection of the spin onto the direction of motion (helicity) ±1,- as written in the encyclopedia.

And indeed, any vortex formation may have either right direction of rotation, or left direction of rotation..., as, by the way, swastika, which was once embroidered on the ceremonial clothes of the priests of the "Russian Orthodox Church" and served as a symbol of the "Holy Spirit".

Swastika of left and right rotation on the deacon's vestment (16th century). Now it is an exhibit in the museum of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. The monastery itself was built in 1524, in 100 extra years before the famous Nikon reform.

The non-coincidence of the presence of swastika symbols on the ancient clothes of Orthodox priests is explained by the historian A. von Fricken, author of the pre-revolutionary work “Roman Catacombs and Monuments of Early Christian Art.” (M., 1872).

"One of the central places in the symbolic language of early Christians is occupied by swastika: “The gammatic cross is found on Christian monuments, primarily next to epitaphs, before Constantine. We see it next to a 3rd century inscription from the catacombs of the city of Chiusi in Tuscany; on a tombstone of Roman origin, now preserved in the collection of antiquities of the city of Bergamo, together with the monogram of Constantine, near the epitaph of the year 363 and accompanied by a monogram, a wreath and a palm. In many other examples, an equilateral cross with curved ends is a replenishment of catacomb tombstones, either separately next to the name of the deceased, or between A and Q. The same sign is repeated several times on a Christian sarcophagus of the 4th century (now in the city of Milan).”[With. 154; 519].

And this early Christian wall painting, discovered in the catacombs of Priscilla in Rome, dated to the 2nd century new era, directly points to the fact that the swastika in early Christianity was used as a symbolic image of the “Holy Spirit”.

On the right is the original drawing discovered in the catacombs of Priscila in Rome, on the left is the same one, restored.

This image was interpreted by experts as follows: "holy communion(vessel with a swastika), which is awarded to the soul of the righteous (dove) in the heavenly abodes."

It is not at all easy that I have now made a sharp transition from the theory of light to the image of the swastika (the symbol of rotation) and talked about its use in early Christianity as a symbol of the “Holy Spirit”.

In the language of ancient scientists (Latin) "Holy Spirit"- This Spiritus Sanctus. Just "Spirit"(The Gospels state: "God is spirit"(John 4:24)) - Spiritus.

Latin word with the same root spir - spīralis(spiral in Russian) means literally "coil, curl". And another Latin word spiro, containing the same root spir, translated from Latin into Russian means "to blow, to blow, to be alive" .

What prevents this religious and at the same time natural-scientific idea of ​​the ancients about the divine essence from being mentally correlated with the already familiar picture of an elementary particle of light - the photon, as it is represented by modern natural-scientific theory?!

There you are Spiritus(Perfume spīralis(spiral, vortex) at the same time, the symbol of which in ancient times was the so-called “Aryan swastika”.

Floor mosaic in the ancient Jordan, the temple of St. Cosmas and St. Dominian, discovered by archaeologists in the twentieth century.

By the way, according to the electronic encyclopedia, the word "alcohol"(alcohol) appeared in the Russian language exactly during the times Peter I(1672-1725) via English word spirit, which, in turn, comes from the Latin Spiritus - "spirit, breath, soul" (Wikipedia ). This can be regarded as mockery and mockery of the non-Russian sovereign of Russia over the state-forming Russian people.

26 year old Peter I Romanov.

So, we have learned that in the very depths of the microcosm, beyond all matter, that is, in the deep vacuum of space, the finest matter (“dark matter,” as some now call it) is hidden from our eyes, from which not only everything in the Universe is created , but also which literally “breathes” light of different frequencies, both in the range we see and in the invisible.

Most galaxies in the Universe are spiral! This image of deep space was taken Hubble telescope, launched jointly by the United States and the European Union into low-Earth orbit.

The finest omnipresent “dark matter”, in addition to the fact that it is infinite in the Universe, it also passes through all matter and through each of the living entities on Earth. At the same time, it participates in energy-informational communication with literally every living cell.

So, now I move on to the most important thing that I learned in 1996 from the revelations that began to come to me through the channel of intuition.

Let's look again at the drawing from my book "Geometry of Life":

I hope the reader already understands the location of the “Kingdom of Heaven”. The “Higher Mind” is also located there, to which some people sometimes connect and receive unique knowledge from there.

I note that all the stories in " scriptures"of different peoples of the world who tell us that some prophet heard the voice of God who told him some information or gave him some commandment, this is actually an artistic retelling of just such cases (or a parody of such cases) when a person with his consciousness found himself connected via a high-frequency communication channel to divine matrix, called in Christianity the "Kingdom of Heaven".

"Matrix".

This is probably how you need to imagine the “Higher Mind,” Self-born in the kingdom of divine matter, as the creators of the film “The Matrix” imagined Him.

It is curious that blindly believing people dream of going to this “Kingdom of Heaven” when they die! At the same time, there is a phrase in the Gospels that encourages people to fall into Him during their lifetime: “From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forced upon us, and those who use force take it by force.” . (Matt. 11, 12).

It turns out that the original meaning of Christianity, most likely, was to teach people living on earth to make direct contact with the invisible God and receive grace from him in the form of special opportunities and special knowledge for doing good deeds. By the way, this is also hinted at by the phrase of the Apostle Paul, obviously addressed to some unreasonable people: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

I think it’s possible to stop the story here. The knowledge presented above, in my opinion, is quite enough for those who read my story to have a correct understanding of where to look with their minds "the omnipresent and invisible Creator".

I also hope that my readers will never have the desire to ask astronauts who have been in space: “Didn’t you see God there?!”

July 19, 1814 was born Samuel Colt(Samuel Colt). The legendary American engineer Samuel Colt is known as the inventor of the most famous individual small arms, named after him, and a proverb that says: “God made men big and small, and Colonel Colt evened their chances.” This is where the mistake of most ordinary people lies, believing that Mr. Colt was a military designer and even worked for the government (like our national pride, Mikhail Kalashnikov).

Russia is threatened with weapons

In reality, the American army and police forces did not immediately receive the automatic pistol invented by Colt. For a long time Samuel was mistaken for an eccentric who invents things that no one needs, which seemed like toys to others. He would have been considered a city madman, but the guy was the son of the owner of a factory where fabrics were produced. However, the rich son did not grow up as a barchuk, but from the age of 9 he worked hard at his father’s enterprise, where he created his first four-barreled pistol, which fired four bullets simultaneously. A very heavy weapon with such strong recoil that when fired, it could cripple the shooter himself.

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814 in the town of Hartford (Connecticut). For his birthday, 4-year-old Samuel was given a bronze toy gun. The inquisitive kid stole a handful of gunpowder from his father’s hunting horn and the pistol exploded in his hands with a terrible roar, enveloping the child in clouds of black smoke. This was his first introduction to firearms, but far from the last experiment of the novice pyrotechnician. At the age of 15, Samuel entered Amhera University. Within the walls of his alma mater, the boy conducted an experiment with a sea mine, which turned into a loud explosion and an equally loud scandal. The student was expelled. The future creator of the legendary revolver hired himself as a sailor on the merchant ship Corvo. Watching the operation of a capstan - a mechanism in the form of a large drum for selecting anchor or mooring ropes with sockets for a stopper - he was struck by the idea of ​​​​replacing the gun lock with a rotating drum. They say that Colt assembled the first wooden model of his revolver on board the ship.

It must be admitted that the very idea of ​​​​using a drum for charging was not new, but it was Colt who was the first to think of combining the operation of the trigger mechanism with the rotation of this drum, which led to the appearance of a capsule revolver. The ingenious invention not only made its way, but its inventor had the same penetration power as his weapon. On February 25, 1836, 22-year-old Samuel Colt received a patent for his first revolver.

A year earlier, with the help of his businessman uncle, he opened the Patent Arms Manufacturing Co. and weapons factory in Paterson, New Jersey. The first model of the 38 caliber revolver was named Colt Paterson. His 9 mm bullet from a distance of 20 yards (18.29 m) pierced 3 pine boards each one inch thick (762 mm). All five charges could be fired in 5 seconds, and the handle, carved from walnut wood, made the revolver easy to handle.

Even the famous Texas Rangers, who appreciated the advantages of the multi-shot revolver, could not save the father of the American pistol. A group of rangers led by Jack Hayes unexpectedly encountered Indians near the Pedernails River. Having brought a large group of horsemen within shooting range, the Texas boys fired several continuous volleys at them, which demoralized the Comanche attackers. After several similar episodes, when small groups of Rangers completely defeated large hordes of Redskins, Colt's revolver began to be proudly called "Texas".

However, the Colt product, which cost only $20, was sold in small quantities, and the US military department, having purchased 100 pieces for testing, refused to continue the deal, declaring this revolver “yesterday.” Five years later, the Patent Arms Manufacturing Co. plant was closed. There are only two thousand bucks left in the pocket of the self-taught engineer. Samuel Colt, commissioned American government, developed sea ​​mine with an electric fuse, together with his namesake Samuel Morse, he launched the production of underwater telephone cables. It’s not for nothing that it is said that to whom war belongs, to whom mother is dear! The war with Mexico showed the merits of the new weapon to the soldiers and officers of the US Army. In Texas, conquered by the Americans, Jack Hayes formed a regiment of rangers and ordered a thousand revolvers for them - two per brother! Another Texan, a certain Sam Walker, suggested that Colt make some changes to the design. Advice from an experienced soldier helped create a new revolver model Colt Walker.

Since 1847, by order of the government, it began industrial production this type firearms. In 1848, near his native Hartford, Samuel Colt purchased a wasteland on which he built an arms factory, which is still in operation today. Colt's company "Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company" can be said to have armed all of America without a stretch. Already in the first year, the plant produced up to 150 "barrels" per day. The plant in Paterson switched to the production of expensive piece revolvers. The buyers of Colt's products were cowboys of the Wild Westerners and nouveau riche from the East Coast, terrorists, bandits and revolutionaries.Italian independence fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi sent a personal letter of gratitude to the inventor.

The governor of Connecticut awarded Colt the title of colonel because a famous and wealthy businessman (his fortune was estimated at $15 million) supported him in the elections. Samuel Colt died on January 10, 1862 at the age of 47, having survived Crimean War, American civil war between North and South and numerous skirmishes and clashes, one of the main characters in which was his brainchild, spewing deadly lead.