And within the city, and outside the city you need to adjust transport. Not everywhere a good road and there are no dangerous turns or any other potential dangers. How about them to inform the driver and pedestrian?

You can hang a healthy information shield. And you can put a very big, but no less informative conditional sign that will be understood by everyone who is a little familiar with the rules of the road.

According to the official wording, the road sign is a standardized graphic pattern, installed by the road for a message of certain information by road participants. And they establish them in strictly defined places, often - next to traffic lights or not far from them.

History and evolution

Of course, road signs in the modern sense of the word appeared not so long ago: 110 years ago at the very beginning of the 20th century - in 1903. But we will not run forward, let's start from the very beginning.

Long ago, when in Southern Europe, they still went to the items ... In general, it was in ancient Greece and no less ancient Rome. It was in the ancient times for the first time they thought about the introduction of road signs and generally rules of the road.

Today, on any track through each kilometer, there are columns with an indication of which kilometer it is. In ancient times, the distance was measured in other units, but it does not change the essence. In Greece, for example, along the roads at certain intervals, special poles were put - the Germes (they received their name on behalf of God Hermes, who among other things was considered a patron of travelers). After some time, the sculptural images of politicians and prominent philosophers began to place on these pillars, and then the inscriptions.

Where it was founder to approach this issue of Romans. Near one of the main temples of the city, a special mile pillar was installed, from which all the roads of the Empire were referred. On the most significant transport highways of the Empire, special pillars of cylindrical shape were installed. They accommodated special informational inscriptions that report about the distance from the Roman Forum.

Even further went Julius Caesar. The eternal city by that time was already the most real metropolis (although antique), the incredible number of people were moved along the streets, among whom were visiting, merchants, and local residents. So that no one cries no one, it took to regulate at least some points:

Streets with one-sided movement appeared.
The passage of private chariots, wagons and crews in Rome was banned from sunrise to the end of the "working day", which approximately corresponded to two hours before it comes.
Nonresident were obliged to leave their transportation for a feature of the city and could move on the streets only on foot or in hired palanquins.

For compliance with these rules, a specially created service was followed. In her ranks they recruited, mainly freely, which were previously performed by firefighters.

The vest poles were installed not only in Greece and Rome. With the king Fedor Ivanovich, the vest poles began to put on the roads of the Russian state. In Peter, the installation of roadside pillars was fixed by law. Prescribed and place an inscription on them with an indication of directions and distances to one or another settlement.

With the development of the automotive industry, a new problem arose: how to prevent traffic accidents. It is clear that the accidents occurred during the time of horse crews, but horses, still, living beings and can react without waiting for the Action Action. But one driver, and even on an unfamiliar road ... In the end, three road signs were installed on the streets of Paris: "cool descent", "dangerous turn", "uneven way".

To determine how to secure a traffic in 1906, European motorists gathered and developed the "International Convention regarding car movement".

This document contained the requirements for the car itself and the basic rules of the road. In addition, four road signs were introduced: "uneven road", "winding road", "Crossroads", "Crossing with the railway".

Set signs followed 250 meters to a dangerous area. A little later, after ratifying the Convention, road signs appeared in Russia. And the first Russian motorists did not bother attentive attitudes towards these signs.

Varieties of road signs

The last of the documents in which all the subtleties associated with road signs are prescribed is the Vienna Convention, adopted on November 8, 1968. The Convention was developed during the UNESCO Conference from October 7 to November 8, 1968 in Vienna and entered into force on June 6, 1978.

According to this Convention, eight groups of road signs stand out:

Warning signs.
Signs of preferential travel right.
Prohibiting and limiting signs.
Prescribing signs.
Signs of special prescriptions.
Information signs, signs denoting objects and service signs.
Directions and informational signs.
Additional signs.

Signs in different countries

Despite the existence of an international standard, in different countries of the world, road signs are quite significantly different. In a number of countries, they even publish special guidelines for visiting drivers.

In the United States, for example, in many marks instead of symbols, inscriptions are used, which makes it difficult to perceive. On Japanese road signs that are partially close to the international standard, hieroglyphs are often used.

Some signs even have their homeland. For example, the habitual sign of the pedestrian transition "composed" in the USSR. Today, in Russia alone, more than 250 road signs are used and the system is constantly developing and improved.

Frankly funny moments happened and frankly: for some time the "uneven road" sign disappeared from the list. We returned it to the list only in 1961. What is due to its exclusion from the set - not clear. Whether the roads suddenly became smooth, whether their condition was so sad that there was no particular sense to put a warning.

Road signs of the Russian Federation (GOST R 52289-2004, GOST R 52290-2004 and Art. 12.16 of the Code
Rules of the RF road (GOST 10807-78, GOST R 51582-2000, GOST 23457-86)
Free electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia, section "Road Sign".
Free electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia, section "Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals".
Free electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia, section "Comparison of Europe Road Signs".

On the Internet, the famous "dog" symbol (@) is used as a separator between the name of this user and the name of the domain (host) in the syntax of email addresses.

Fame

Some Internet figures consider the specified symbol of a signature of the general human communication space and one of the most popular signs around the world.

One of the evidence of the worldwide recognition of this designation can be called the fact that in 2004 (in February) the International Union for Telecommunications introduced into a general special code to designate @. It combines the codes of two C and A, which displays the joint graphic writing.

History of the symbol "Dog"

The Italian researcher Giorgio Stabil managed to discover in the archive, which was owned by the Institute of Economic History in the city of Prato (which is near Florence), a document in which this sign is first found in writing. Such an important testimony was a letter of a merchant from Florence, which was subsidized for another 1536.

It consists of three merchant ships arriving in Spain. In the composition of the cargo, the vessels appeared the containers in which the wine was transported marked with @. After analyzing data about the price of wine, as well as about the capacity of various medieval vessels, and comparing data with a universal system of measures used in those times, the scientist concluded that the @ sign was used as a special dimensional unit that replaced the word AnFora (translated "amphora"). So with ancient times was called a universal measure of volume.

Theory of Bertold Ullman

Bertold Ullman is an American scientist who put forward the assumption that the @ symbol was developed by medieval monks in order to reduce the common word AD of Latin origin, which was often used as a universal term meaning "in relation", "B", "on".

It should be noted that in French, Portuguese and Spanish, the name of the designation comes from the term "Arrro", which in turn denotes the old-person weight of weight (about 15 kg), it is abbreviated, it was designated on the letter symbol @.

Modernity

Many people are interested in how the dog's symbol is called. Note that the official modern name of this symbol sounds like a "commercial AT" and originates from the accounts in which it was used in the following context: [Email Protected]$ 2each \u003d $ 14. This can be translated as 7 pieces of 2 dollars \u003d 14 dollars

Since the symbol of "Dog" was used in business, they were placed on the keyboards all typewriters. He was present even on "Underwood", which was released back in 1885. And only after a long 80 years, the symbol "Dog" inherited the first computer keyboards.

the Internet

Let us turn to the official history of the worldwide network. She claims that the Internet symbol "Dog" arose in email addresses due to the American engineer and a computer named Ray Tomlinson, who in 1971 managed to send the first electronic message through the network. At the same time, the address was necessary to make up of two parts - the name of the computer, by which registration was made, and the username. As a separator between the specified parts, Tomilson chose the "Dog" symbol on the keyboard, since it did not enter any computer names or user names.

The versions of the origin of the famous name "Dog"

In the world there are several possible versions of the origin of such a funny name. First of all, the icon is really very similar to the dog, which rolled out the grassland.

In addition, the ripple sound of the word AT (the symbol of the dog in English is so readable) resembles a little dog bark. It should also be noted that with a good imagination you can consider almost all letters in the symbol, which are part of the word "dog", except, excluding "K".

However, the most romantic can be called the following legend. Long ago, at the best time, when all computers were very large, and the screens are exclusively text, in the virtual kingdom there was one popular game that was named, reflecting its content - "Adventure" (Adventure).

Its meaning was on a trip to the labyrinth created by the computer in search of various treasures. There were, of course, and battles with underground malicious creatures. The labyrinth on the display was drawn using the characters "-", "+", "!", And the playing, hostile monsters and treasies were designated various icons and letters.

Moreover, according to the plot, the player was friends with a faithful assistant - the dog, which could always be sent to the intelligence in the catacombs. Due to the only @ icon. Was it the root cause of the generally accepted name, or, on the contrary, the icon chose the game developers, for it was so called? These questions do not give the legend of answers.

What is the name of the virtual "dog" in other countries?

It is worth noting that in our country the symbol of "dog" is also called a ram, ear, a bun, frog, a dog, even kryakyabroy. In Bulgaria, this is "Maimunsky A" or "Klomba" (Monkey A). In the Netherlands - Monkey Tail (Apenstaartje). On the territory of Israel, the sign is associated with the whirlpool ("strudel").

The Spaniards, the French and the Portuguese call the designation as much as weight (respectively: arroba, arrobase and arrobase). If you ask about what the symbol of the dog in the inhabitants of Poland and Germany, they will answer you that it is a monkey, clip, monkey ear or monkey tail. He is considered snail in Italy, calling Chiocciola.

The symbol in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, called the least poetic names, calling it "Ryl A" (Snabel-a) or an elephant tail (taped a). The most appetizing title can be considered the option of Czechs and Slovaks who consider Seld's sign under the fur coat (Rolmopes). Associations with the kitchen are carried out and the Greeks, calling the designation "little macaron".

For many, this is still a monkey, namely, for Slovenia, Romania, Holland, Croatia, Serbia (Majmun; Alternative: "Choknaya A"), Ukraine (alternatives: snail, dog, dog). From English, Lithuania is borrowed from English (ETA - "this", borrowing with the addition of Lithuanian morpheme at the end) and Latvia (ET - "ET"). In the despondency can lead the version of Hungarians, where this cute sign became a tick.

In the cat-mouse "play" Finland (feline tail), America (cat), Taiwan and China (mouse). Romantics were the inhabitants of Turkey (Roska). And in Vietnam, this icon is called "curved a".

Alternative hypothesis

It is believed that the name of the denotation "Dog" in Russian speech has appeared thanks to the famous computers of DVK. In them, "Dog" appeared during the boot of the computer. And really the designation resembled a little dog. All users of DVK, without claiming, came up with a name for a symbol.

It is curious that the initial version of the writing of the Latin letter "A" assumed the decoration by her curls, thereby she was very similar to the current writing of the sign of the "dog". Translation of the word "dog" to the Tatar language sounds like "fl."

Where else can you meet the "dog"?

There are a number of services using this character (except email):

HTTP, FTP, Jabber, Active Directory. In the IRC, the symbol is put before specifying the name of the channel operator, for example, @OPER.

Widespread use received a sign in the basic programming languages. In Java, it is used to announce an annotation. On C # is required to shield characters in the line. The address of the address of the address is appropriately denoted in Pascal. For Perl is an array identifier, and in Python, respectively, decorator decorator. The field identifier for the class instance stands on Ruby.

As for PHP, here the "dog" is used to suppress the error output, or to warn about the task already occurred at the time. The symbol has become an indirect addressing prefix on the MCS-51 assembler. In XPath is a reduction in the ATTRIBUTE axis, which selects a set of attributes for the current element.

Finally, Transact-SQL assumes that the name of the local variable should begin with @, and the name of the global variable - from two @. In DOS, thanks to the symbol, the echo propeller is suppressed for the executable command. The action designation, as ECHO OFF mode, is usually applied before entering the mode to prevent the display of a specific command (for clarity: @echo off).

So we reviewed how many aspects of virtual and real life depend on the usual symbol. However, we will not forget that he became the most recognizable thanks to e-mails that are sent by thousands daily. It can be assumed that today you will receive a letter with a "dog", and it will bring only good news.

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Who came up with road signs?

Do you know that the organization of the movement was a problem long before the emergence of cars. Julius Caesar was probably the first ruler in history that introduced the rules of the road. He, for example, adopted a law on which women had no right to drive chariots in Rome.

With the emergence of cars, the first adjustments appeared, who stood on the roads and hand showed the direction of movement. Then they were given signal lamps. But they could not solve all the problems. Because the transport stream is changing during the day, and there are very tense hours of movement. Until 1920, automatic traffic lights did not exist.

In 1927, two people patented an "automatic regulator". The first traffic lights were installed at the intersections to streamline traffic. One of the traffic lights, invented by Harry Hau from the University of Yael's university, was in New Haven, Connecticut, Waprele 1928. This mechanism, which operated through pressure, pointed out traffic on the roads. The machine, approaching such a pointer, gave the signal to the signal booth, and from there the command came to enable the allowing signal for the machine. This type of traffic lights, but only now with the use of a light signal exists in our day.

Charles Adler in 1928 also invented the road regulator in which the microphone was used to supply the signal to the signal booth. Driver, seeing red light blowing into the horn. The microphone transmits the sound into the signal booth, from there comes the response signal to change the color of the traffic light. Nowadays, there are different types of road regulators that also react to the sound to switch the traffic light.

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It is unlikely that the Internet audience will meet a person who is unfamiliar to this symbol @. On network expanses, it is used as a separator between the username and the host name in the email address syntax.

Some of the Internet spaces call this symbol "one of the main pop characters of modernity, a sign of our common communication space." Somewhat highly, in my opinion, but about the global recognition of this symbol, and as even sometimes, the following fact is noted, "canonization".

In February 2004, the International Telecommunication Union introduced the code for the @ (- - - -) symbol into ABC, for the convenience of sending email addresses. The code combines Latin letters A and C and reflects their joint graphic spelling.

The search for the sources of the symbol @ lead us to at least in the XV century, and perhaps even further, although linguists and paleographs still disagree in opinions on this issue.

Professor Georgio Stabil (Giorgio Stabile) put forward such a hypothesis. In the document XVI century, written by the Florentine merchant, was mentioned "the price of one and wine" (possibly amphoras). At the same time, the letter A, according to the tradition, was decorated with curl and looked like @.

American scientist Bertold Ullman put forward the assumption that the @ sign was invented by medieval monks to reduce the Latin word "AD", which was often used as a universal word meaning "on", "in", "in relation", etc. In that font, which was used by monks, the letter "D" was written with a small tail, and this made it a little similar to the number "6" in the mirror reflection. So the pretext of "AD" became the symbol @.

Be that as it may, this innovation soon took over the merchants: one of the first who used a symbol outside the wall of the monastery was the Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi, in one of his letters I denoted the "dog" an amphora - standard in those times a measure of volume, approximately equal to 26 -The l.

In Spanish, Portuguese, French, the name of the symbol comes from the word "ardarroba" - an old-visan weight measure, approx. 15 kg. (According to other data, 11.502 kg), which abbreviatedly designated in the letter sign @.

As for the Renaissance, then the @ sign began to use in order to designate the price, but in the era of the industrial revolution, the @ sign began to appear in the reports of accountants. The modern official name of the Symbol "Commercial AT" takes its origin from accounts, for example, 7 widgets @ $ 2 Each \u003d $ 14, which is translated as 7 pcs. $ 2 \u003d $ 14. Since this symbol was used in business, it was placed on the keyboards of typewriters and moved from there to the computer.

The distribution of this symbol on network expanses we are required to Tomlinson email. It was he who was the man who chose the @ symbol.

Here you need to distract a little and enlighten you than Tomlinson and why it is considered to be an e-mail inventor, and at the same time the @ icon, although in fact he did not do any or another. The company in which Telttnson worked, at about the late 60s, was a member of the Arpanet project, a computer network for the US Department of Defense. It is this network that was the internet predecessor. In those years, there were already several programs that were able to transfer a file or a message from one person to another. But the sender and the recipient needed to use one computer. As for the modem, even the fastest time worked once in 200 slower than the modern usual, which allows you to download information at a speed of 56.6 kbps.

Tomlinson just at that time was engaged in developing a mail program and creating a virtual mailbox. In fact, the electronic box of that time was the file that differed from the usual only one feature - users did not have the opportunity to correct the text sent, but only add something to something. Only two programs were used in such an operation - SNDMSG in order to send a file and readmail to read it.

Tomlinson also wrote a new program that consisted of Code in 200 lines. Such a program was a cross between the two above-mentioned programs and the CPYNET protocol, which was used in Arpanet to send files to a remote computer. The first experimental Message of Tomlinson was sent from one computer in the laboratory to another.

In order to smuggle the Tomlinson file spent about six months, until it turned out to edit the message to a computer, which could really be considered remote.

Of course, not many, only a circle of colleagues knew about the success of Tomlonson, as the merit was not covered by anywhere.

Well, and now you can return to the "dog." Tomlinson used 33 TELETYPE keypad. And once he needed a fairly unique symbol that was not used widespread earlier. Such a symbol was not to meet in any title or name and he had to share the name of the user and computer. It was supposed to be the algorithm for the name - symbol - places.

In addition to numbers and letters, the signs of punctuation were on the keyboard, as well as @. But after 1971, the keyboard model has undergone changes.

@ was the easiest solution to such an algorithm. According to Tomlinson himself, it was the only option. When he was asked much later, why he chose this particular icon, he answered simply: "I was looking for a sign on the keyboard that could not meet in any name and call confusion."

Clichable

In 1963, an ASCII standard appeared encoding, among the 95 printed signs of which was also present and "Dog", and in 1973, members of the Internet Engineering Taskforce organization secured the use of a sign in the division of the name and domain - this idea in 1971 -M year put forward the programmer Ray Tomlinson.

Such a symbol was needed to Tomlilson at that time when he worked on creating a message system in the ARPANET network (Internet agencies). In essence, he had to come up with a new addressing scheme, which would have identified not only recipients, but also computers on which their mailboxes were located. For this, Tomlinson needed a separator, and it, in general, random choice fell on the @ sign.

The first network address was [Email Protected] The mass "dog" became in 1996, when the "Hotmail" service appeared.

Approximately a year later, after the events described above, Vintin Serf and Bob Kahn invented the protocol called TCP / IP. And this was also mentioned for a long time only in narrow circles.

In general, the history of the Internet is pretty fresh, all historically personality is still alive, so it will be fair to mention people who put the hand to create an e-mail mail.

One of the creators is Douglas Engelbart (here is the story of this invention). He made a computer mouse and created the first text messaging system. After that, Tomlinson was presenting it in the form of an envelope with a recipient field, the sender and address and text of the letter. After that, the program processed Lawrence Roberts, which came up with the list of letters, read the letter selectively and save information in a separate file and shipping.

Tomlinson, it should be noted, quite having a hype, which was deployed to the 30th email.

Despite that glory, which fell on him, he impresses an ordinary person, although she laughs over the fact that E-mail in the opinion of everyone else appeared in one day. Yes, it was not 30 years ago. The story of the @ sign is a rather funny epic that is connected with the first message. There are two legends about this.

The first version that was kept in the historical first letter read that Tomlinson scored QWERTYUIOP - that is, the entire top number of letters from left to right. On this occasion, journalists raised a lot of noise. They were interested in what was written, and clearly expected something meaningful and symbolic. Since Tomlinson was not public person, he did not guessed that he could say anything.

He quite honestly responded about the body of the letter, since he did not suspect at all that it could turn out to be historical. But the journalists need raisins, not banalities. Therefore, I didn't really want to inform everyone that in the letter was at all a random set of letters. Therefore, QWERTYUIOP appeared. And the engineer does not think to refute this version.

And the second version is what he wrote a quote from the Gettisburg speech Lincoln. It is necessary to think, the scientist is simply joining journalists and roasts, as can. It would be strange if he actually wrote something elevated in every experimental letter. But this version liked this version to journalists, and they began to repeat it.

In Russia, users are most often called the symbol of "@" "dog", because of what E-mail addresses formed from personal names and surnames sometimes acquire an unexpected color. It is curious that this symbol is used in their work as folk talents (for example, a joke: "The dog disappeared, @ not to offer"), and official Hochmachi - KVNers (for example, " [Email Protected]»).
But still: why exactly "Dog"? There are several versions of the origin of this funny name.

First, the badge really looks like a rolled dog.

Secondly - the abrupt sound of the English "AT" little resembles a dog Lai.

Thirdly, in case of a fair imagination, you can consider in the design of the symbol almost all the letters included in the word "dog", well, except for the "K" exclude.

But the most romantic is the following legend: "Long ago, when computers were large, and displays - exclusively text, lived, there was a popular game with the unwitting name" Adventure "(" Adventure "). The meaning of her was a journey through the Maze created by the computer in search of treasures and battles with malicious underground colors. At the same time, the labyrinth on the screen was drawn by symbols "!", "+" And "-", and playing, trees and hostile monsters were designated various letters and icons. Moreover, in the story, the player had a faithful assistant - the dog, which could be sent to the catacombs for exploration. And he was indicated, of course, the @ icon. "

Whether it became the root cause of the generally accepted name of the name, or, on the contrary, the icon was chosen because it was already so called, - the legend is silent.

In fairness it should be noted that in Russia "Dog" is also called a dog, a frog, a bun, ear, a ram and even kryakyabroy.

In other countries, this symbol is associated with different objects. Below is a far from a complete list of how the @ symbol is called in other countries.

Italians say "chiocciola" ("snail"), in Greece he knows how "παπακι" - "duck", in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - "Zavináč" -rolmops - ("Rulek from Herring" or herring under Marithon), in Taiwan The concept of "小老鼠" is used (pronounced "Xiao Lao Shu") - "Mouse", the name "שטרודל" - "Studel" is common in Israel, and in Kazakhstan, the sign is called "Iұұlak" - "Moon Ear".

Bulgaria - Klomba or Maimuno A ("Monkey A"),
Netherlands - Apenstaartje ("Monkey Tail"),
Spain - like the measure of the weight "Arroba",
France is the same measure of the Weight "Arrobase",
Germany, Poland - Monkey tail, monkey ear, clip, monkey,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden - "Snabel-A" - "Ryl A" or ivory trunk,
America, Finland - Cat,
China, Taiwan - Mouse,
Turkey - Rose,
In Serbia - "Choknoy A",
in Vietnam - "Screamed A",
In Ukraine - Ravrika (snail), "Pesk" or again "Dog".

As you can see, many peoples sign @ causes an association with a comfortable beast, some with a delicious strapp or a herd-tree roll, poetic Turks compared with a flower, but the disciplined Japanese use the English "Attomark" without any poetic comparisons.

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http://www.factroom.ru/facts/40864#more-40864.
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Let me remind you just

Road signs are an integral part of roads and order on them. It is difficult to imagine life without them. And recently I thought about where they came from, who and how did they come up with.

But first things first.

First signs

There are many hypotheses about the very first signs. It is believed that primitive people paved routes through the forests and in the open area, leaving small stone handhes, making scubons on trees or overwhelming branches.

Not the best option. Tags, branches and stones can not always see.

The next step

Further, people decided to put the pillars with the sculptural heads of gods, statesmen and philosophers so that they contrasted with natural landscapes. Over time, the signs have added an inscription of settlements.

Officially, the first system of road signs originated in ancient Rome. Cylindrical Mili Poles installed on the roads. They had information about the distance from the Roman Forum, where there was a golden mile pillar. Therefore, "all roads lead to Rome."

From there, the system of mile pillars spread everywhere. Although our pointers appeared rather late: only in the time of Peter I.

New impetus

The first rules of the road in modern understanding appeared in Portugal in 1686. On narrow streets of Lisbon, the priority signs that regulate traffic flows were installed.

On a wide scale, road signs began to establish for rapid and quiet cyclists in the 1870s. The pointers did not contain information about the distance, and warned, for example, about steep hills.

With the development of the automotive industry, the system of road signs decided to revise. In 1895, the Italian tourist club completed the development of the first. In 1903, the first signs set first signs in Paris.

Standardization failed

And then it began. Who is what is much. Each country had their own road signs. However, the car movement to other states has become familiar. There was an urgent need to introduce signs of international importance.

So, in Paris in 1909, the "International Convention regarding the movement of cars" adopted the following road signs: "uneven road", "winding road", "Crossroads", "Crossing with the railway".

Since 1926, international road signs were intensively developed, they were changed and complemented. But no matter how cool, signs in different countries are different. On some Chinese or Japanese, nothing to understand nothing without knowing the language.

Who came up with them

Road signs did not invenitate simultaneously. They developed and modified over the years.

For all different types of pointers developed not one person. In this work, automobile users and government committees involved to create easily perceived signs. In any business you need a focus group, and traffic rules are no exception.

A bit of humor finally

Today, it is very popular to stick different little men, animals and more on signs, giving them a cheerful and extraordinary look. I know for sure that there are many in Italy.

And depending on the locality, signs can warn on the representatives of wildlife, which run away on the road: about loses, bears, kiwi, crocodiles, penguins and other animals. Plus there are funny, like "you can not go to the toilet in a large in the woods", "Reproductive zone, do not interfere with the kangaroo" or "can not be hunting for killers" in the desert.

So it goes. Have you noticed unusual signs in other countries?