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Since Adam was a boy The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764. The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly appearing in an Elizabethan chapbook. Since Adam was a boy (Am inf) – очень давно, с давних пор, с незапамятных времён A person is told of some extraordinary occurrence and exclaims: Well, such a thing as that was never before heard of since Adam was a boy. This expression is very general. Singer (sewing machine) – (швейная машина) «Зингер» In 1846 Elias Howe, a young Boston native, produced the first workable sewing machine. So revolutioanary was Howe’s machine that he couldn’t find a clothing mill willing to try it. Depressed by his failure, he suffered a nervous breakdown and traveled to England in the hope for a more congenial reception. It was not. After two years of tramping the streets, he arrived penniless to Boston to discover that in his absence one Issac Singer had stolen his patent and set up a sewing machine factory and was making money hand over fist. Howe took Singer to court, where two things became clear: Singer was nothing more than a thief, but now an extremely rich one who could afford to hire the sharpest lawyers. After a long fight, Singer was eventually compelled to pay Howe a handsome royalty on every machine built. Nonetheless, it is Singer’s name, not Howe’s, that is Singer House, Saint Petersburg associated in the popular mind with the sewing machine. Also, Singer House (Дом компании «Зингер»), widely known as House of Books (Дом книги) is a historical landmark building located at an intersection of Nevsky Prospekt with Griboyedov Canal, just opposite the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is officially 150