View from the top of the island of Bouvet; Credits: NASA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Lost among the cold waters of theSouthern AtlantictheBouvet island (in Norwegian Bouvetøya) is considered one of the most remote and inaccessible places of the entire planet. Just over a rock of origin volcanicis completely covered with glaciers, and is located almost halfway between the ...
The feces animals may seem like a rather disgusting topic, yet the dejections, also called “the made“, They can reveal a lot of interesting information on the species that produced them. It is appropriate to say”Tell me how you do it and I’ll tell you who you are!”. From the wolves to hares, to the made of lizards and geckles ...
Under the umbrella or train, enigmistic It is pastime that trains the mind by having fun. But its story is ancient: from the puzzles of the Sphinx and Sansone to the words of Cicero and Leonardo, up to the Galileo rebus; In the nineteenth century the first magazines arrive and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the term “enigmistic” ...
Have you ever wondered why, when we do the bathroom at seais it much easier for us to float than the swimming pool or the lake? Everything has to do with one of the most famous principles of physics, that is the Archimedes principle! According to this principle, a body immersed in a fluid (like water) receives one upward pushed ...
Vladimir Putin in 2022. Credit: kremlin.ru, cc by 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons There succession to power of Vladimir Putin With the choice of an heir, when it happens, it will undoubtedly represent a watershed in the history of Russia and of the whole world since, in the guise alternately before prime minister time of presidentthe current tenant of the Kremlin ...
There is really someone who hasn’t sang at least once as a child nursery rhyme “Girotondo around“? With a simple and catchy melody, a play of rhymes and a small choreography to dance with friends, the little ones can only be mad.And if we told you that this famous song for children hides, with good probability, one history disturbing Blood ...
The Woodstock Festival took place in the locality of Bethel, in the United States, from 15 to 18 August 1969. The organizers called him Woodstock because it was the name of the town, located about 70 km from Bethel, in which they had founded their company. At the concert assisted 400-500,000 young peoplein large part followers of the Hippie culture ...
The Mid -AugustIn Italy it represents one of the most rooted holidays in our culture: its origins could go back to the era of the Roman Empire, when Ottaviano Augusto he would have established the feast of Feriae Augusti (which means “vacation of Augustus”) to put order between the pre -existing summer popular celebrations, typically associated with agricultural work. With ...
Characteristic elements of the French and German Gothic architecture of the Middle Ages, i Gargoyle (particularly iconic are those of the Church of Notre-Dame in Paris) are gathering documents Usually modeled with fantastic or animalistic features with wide open jaws. In medieval churches these sculpted and richly adorned terminals appear at the Download of the gutter canalsso as to divide ...
The fire emergency on Vesuvius has ended. Credit: Civil Protection of Campania Region THE’emergency fires on Vesuvius yes it is ended And the bonfires were off: to confirm it, in a post published on Facebook, was directly the Vesuvius National Park, which declared the end of the emergency following the absence of thermal alterations and, therefore, of active outbreaks. After ...