Who has never blown one Menelik language? Also known as “Menelicche’s tongue” or “mother-in-law’s tongue”, we are talking about the sound tongue (or trumpet-whistle) that can be seen almost everywhere during the carnival, the one in which by blowing inside a long colored paper tube it unrolls and suddenly lengthens making an annoying noise and then curls up again. The ...
The Colossus of San Carlo di Arona, which inspired the Statue of Liberty in New York The Sancarloneor more correctly the Colossus of San Carlo Borromeoit is the tallest statue in Italy: overall measurement 35.1 metersof which 11.40pm of statue covered in copper and 11.70 of pedestal. It is located at Arona, in Piedmont, on Lake Maggiore, and is one ...
Image generated with AI There ethical tax is an additional tax introduced in Italy with the financial law (Law 266/2005) of 2006 and applied to income deriving from activities that the legislator has defined as “sensitive”, starting from production and dissemination of pornographic content. The rate is 25% and is added to ordinary income taxes. Those who pay it are ...
The ice of Greenland are melting at an unprecedented rate due to global warming, yet around the island, unlike what is happening on the rest of the planet, sea level could fall by up to 4 m by 2100. This phenomenon, apparently paradoxical, can be explained by the fact that the loss of ice lightens the crust of Greenland: the ...
Image of Jupiter obtained by the Juno probe on February 12, 2019. The iconic red spot is visible at the top right. Credits: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC–BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL–Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. The gas giant Jupiter would be smaller and more flattened at the poles than previously estimated. A study published in Nature Astronomy in ...
Winning a gold medal at the Olympics requires talent, sacrifice and, sometimes, a significant dose of luck. The story of the former Australian skater Steven Bradbury he is living proof of this. The athlete won an incredible gold in short tracks – the discipline of ice skating – at the Winter Olympic Games Salt Lake City 2002starting as a super ...
Credit: Google. AI Overviewthe feature that generates AI-powered summaries in Google search, is now also available on Gmailthe email service of the Mountain View giant. This marks a key step in the way Gmail users interact with email, bringing the experience gained with AI Overview in the search engine (which has now effectively transformed into a “response engine” that is ...
The expression “love at first sight” comes from French “coup de foudre“and describes with a metaphor thesudden falling in love and intense that happens at the first meeting between two people, as if one struck between them spark. The origin of the expression is uncertain, but it can be placed in 18th century Francewhen the so-called “electric games” were in ...
How many times, after lunch, do we wash the dishes by hand and, once finished washing, we leave the still wet sponge on the sink and then use it again a few hours later, even just to rinse a glass that we will use for drinking. Well, science says we should pay a little attention. Well yes, contrary to what ...
The ski jumping is a sport in which athletes equipped with skiing at the feet they go down the ramp of a special one trampoline at the end of which they take a leap, exploiting speeds of up to 100 km/htrying to land as far away as possible. Often also called “trampoline jumping”, it is one of the most fascinating ...