Everything is fine New Year’sbetween fireworks and greetings, steaming dishes of lentils with cotechino or zampone. It’s not just a question of taste: it’s a small ritual that promises money and prosperity throughout the year. The round and flat shape of lentils is reminiscent of ancient coins and popular belief has it that the more you eat them, the more ...
Credit: Amazon. If you were among those who couldn’t wait to have their latest order delivered on Amazon with a drone, we have some bad news to give you: the project Amazon Prime Air in Italy suffered a sudden and unexpected event setback. THE’Enac (National Civil Aviation Authority) has in fact received an official communication from Amazon management which establishes ...
Cover windows with bubble wrap to improve the heating of the house: this is the “home trick” that promises to have warmer homes in winter and avoid heat loss in a simple, fast way and with minimal expense, with possible savings on your bill. But does it really work? As always in these cases, the answer depends on many contextual ...
In blue the irruption of cold arctic air arriving in Italy. Credit: ECMWF 2025 will end on a high note Freddo and of frost throughout Italy: the cause of this general drop in temperatures can be attributed to airruption of cold air coming from the Arcticwhich will also involve our country. This cold front – which will replace the high ...
Every year, close to the Epiphany, the winter sales. By sales, we mean a specific period of discount sale of the goods by commercial activities, regulated by law and foreseen in two specific moments of the year: the summer one and the post-Christmas one. Winter sales they begin on the first working day before the Epiphany – this year from ...
You’re watching Until proven otherwise Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop According to legend, Annabelle it would be one possessed doll which, over the years, would cause the death of several people – inspiring, among other things, numerous horror films. Maybe many of you think it’s a fantasy story, but in reality Annabelle really exists, even if she ...
There evening of December 31st the script usually provides the lentils on the fire, a table set to greet the passing year, a toasts at midnight and often a red garment. All this constitutes a social ritual for bring luck ahead of the new year. Behind this apparently superficial habit, however, lies a complex world of symbols, beliefs and rites ...
The so-called “dragon stones” (known as “vishap“, which in Armenian means “dragon“), the fascinating ones prehistoric monuments of 2nd millennium BC characteristic of the high mountain landscapes ofArmeniahave fascinated travellers, historians and anthropologists for centuries. Carved to represent gods fish or animals that appear to be gods rams (but there were also hybrid forms of ram-fish or cattle-fish), they can ...
It seems like that to you too May the winter stars shine brighter? It’s partly an impression, but there is a grain of truth: actually in winter the light from the stars “stands out” much more than the darkness of the sky, which is greater when the air is colder due to the lower humidity and the sun being lower ...
One of the most immovable limitations (at least so far) of the Google ecosystem seems to be on the verge of falling: the possibility of change your Gmail address without having to create an account from scratch and consequently lose all your digital history. According to what emerged from an official support page, although currently only visible in a localized ...