Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games without shoes. Credit: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The September 10th of 1960during the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila he won a medal that will forever remain in the history of sport. Born in 1932 in Ethiopia, he began his career almost by chance. At the age of ...
The first modern crossword was published on December 21st 112 years agoin 1913, on Funthe Sunday supplement of New York World. The invention of crossword puzzleas they were called in the United States, can be attributed to Arthur Wynne (1871-1945), the editor of the puzzle section of the American weekly. At the time they were already widespread word squaressimpler squares ...
Credit: Google. Gemini 3 Flash was officially released on December 17th last. Google’s new efficient AI-powered model brings the reasoning and understanding capabilities of frontier models to a version optimized for speed of response and computational efficiency. Gemini 3 Flash represents an important step, as it maintains the technological foundations of Gemini 3 Pro, but drastically reduces latency and costs, ...
Among the Italian popular sayings that occur most often, “Christmas with your parents, Easter with whoever you want“is most likely the phrase most linked to family and holidays, so deeply rooted that we hear it repeated every year. But where does it come from? In reality, although its origins are not well defined, they are as deep and ancient as ...
A representation of what happens during the winter solstice. Credit: Timeanddate, via The December 21, 2025at hours 4.03pm Italians, the winter solsticewhich will officially begin the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere. Contrary to what you think, the change of season does not happen over the course of an entire day, but falls at a specific timeand does not occur ...
Tim Berners–Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN in Geneva. Credit: CERN. to meet the demand for automated information sharing between scientists at universities and institutes around the world. The December 20, 1990inside the corridors of CERN in Genevain Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee turned on the “engines” of first website in historyan ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 20th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Spring, summer, fall, winter. The seasons are such a part of our daily lives that we take them for granted. Yet, they are not at all obvious. They don’t exist the same way everywhere on the Earththere have not always been four and without them our way of measuring time – even the very concept of “year” – would be ...
In some areas it is protected, in others, especially where it has been transplanted, it represents an enormous risk for biodiversity, despite being much loved by fishermen. A catfish (Silurus glanis) long 2.8 meters and the weight of 68 kg it was caught in October in Lake Alserio in Lombardy. Record size, but definitely not rare for this fish species: ...
The Huangjuewan Overpass, also known as “Panlong flyover”, is located in Chongqing, southwest China, and is considered the most complex highway intersection of the planet. Designed to solve the traffic problems of a constantly growing city, it is developed on 5 overlapping levels that intertwine like threads in a spider’s web. It is made up of 15 ramps – of ...