Casa Battló in Barcelona, by Antoni Gaudí. Undisputed symbol of Catalan modernism, Batlló house It is one of the most iconic buildings in Barcelona and one of the most famous works of Antoni Gaudí. Located at number 43 of Passeig De Gràcia, in the heart of the Eixample district, it was built between 1904 and 1906 as a renovation of ...
The kilt It is a male garment of fabric that envelops and tie in life, typical of the Scottish tradition that was born in the eighteenth century. In a first version it also included a higher part that stared behind and offered a wider one protection From cold, wind and rain. The English entrepreneur Thomas Rawlinsonhowever, he created a more ...
Shock touching something is an experience common, almost on the agenda. Behind this annoying phenomenon there is a physical principle known as tip effect. It is a typical behavior of the bodies that can be loaded electrically – as well as the human body – and that, coming into contact with other objects or people, suddenly unloading the accumulated electricity, ...
The stereotype that leads us to define the color blue or blue as male and that rose as female It is not as ancient as it might seem. Until the early 1900s, small children dressed almost all in the same way, that is, with white clotheseasy to wash and reuse. Both male and females they wore skirts up to 6-7 ...
Commissioned by Adriano to the architect Demetrian as a funeral mausoleum for itself and for family members, the Castel Sant’Angelolocated near the Vatican on the right bank of the Tiber, has changed its function through the centuries. The fortress includes internal courtyards, defensive bastions added over time and the panoramic terrace With the statue of the angel, although perhaps one ...
Horror Vacui It is a Latin phrase that means “terror of the void” “Nature shocks the void“(“Nature Abhorret in Vacuo“). For this reason, as it would also have supported Baruch Spinoza Many centuries later, there would be no “empty spaces” in nature, and those apparently such would always be full of some liquid or gas: a theory that contradicts the ...
How many rectangles are there in the image? And how many rhombus? If you replied “nobody” then you were wrong! In the figure they are clearly visible 2 squares which, from a mathematical point of view, are at the same time both rectangles That rhombusall in the big family of parallelograms: quadrilaterals with the parallel sides two by two. It ...
When we take a hot shower, it mirror (and the glass of the window) appeal due to the condensate. This phenomenon occurs when the air damp and hot in the room meets the surface of the mirror, which always has one lower temperature of that of the steam, causing its sudden condensation – the transition from liquid gases – of ...
The Amish they are a Christian religious community born fromAnabattism who made simplicity and their separation from the world their existential pillars in an era dominated by technologycome on social network and from one speed always growing. They are characterized by the refusal of childhood baptism, the separation between church and state and non -violence and live mainly in agricultural ...
Many people, with the arrival of the hot season, try to caution themselves from the stings of mosquito Buying or putting the famous into operation “anti -media lamps“O zapperlarge plates a blue light Which, in theory, should free us from the annoying presence of these parasitic insects by attracting them and killing them with a small electric shock. Too bad ...