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Where Formula 1 never brakes: the technical analysis of the Silverstone circuit

The layout of the Silverstone circuit, via Wikimedia Commons The Silverstone circuit is one of the 24 tracks of the championship of Formula 1 Located in Northamptonshire, north of London, England. Theater of the first Grand Prix in the history of F1 (13 May 1950), Silverstone is one of the longest and most fast circuits of the whole calendar with ...

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Why is Italian champion an Italian municipality even if it is located in Switzerland?

The champion casino; Via Wikimedia Commons Italian champion is a Italian country of about 1803 inhabitants, geographically placed in Swiss. It belongs to Italy because until the Napoleonic age it was a Feudo of the Archdiocese of Milan. At the end of the 18th century he lost the status of ecclesiastical territory, but was not annexed to the Swiss Confederation. ...

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What is the history and origin of the word “academy”?

When we talk about “academy“, The first image that comes to mind is probably that of a temple of knowledge: a sacred place made of books, silence, rigor and teaching. The concept of” academy “has its roots in theAncient Greecewhen a sacred wood At the gates of Athens he became the place where Plato he founded his philosophical school. Since ...

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Why are aliens often represented in this way?

Think of a alien: probably now you are imagining a green/gray man from Large black eyes And from the bossy hands. But where exactly this imagination is born from? The idea of ​​”green men” was not born with the science fiction of the 1900s, but has much older roots: the first track dates back to an English legend of the ...

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You can swim with the menstrual cycle: we disassemble the false myth

What’s better than a nice bath in this torrid heat? Too bad that, like every single time we are on vacation, here comes the menstruation and we can forget swims and you unwind in fresh water … we are kidding! It is a false myth: When you have menstruation, you can quietly swimwhether in the pool, at the sea, at ...

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The Scaliger Castle of Sirmione: history, engineering and legends of a symbol of Lake Garda

The Scaliger Castle of Sirmione It is, to date, one of the best preserved castles in Italy, and one of the major engineering and architectural expressions of what is called lake fortification. To make it fascinating, in addition to engineering solutions adopted by the designers, there is also the legend Of the ghost of Ebengardo who, it is said, vague ...

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The “Lake of Piazza Navona”, when the heart of Rome was flooded every summer

Water games in Piazza Navona (Rome). Credit: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Very few know that a Piazza Navona existed a real artificial lake: No warship, however, nor gladiators in action, only a festive crowd of popular and nobles, gathered to enjoy an unusual show in the heart of Rome. Was Pope Innocenzo Xin the seventeenth century, ...

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A metal structure can collapse at lower temperatures of the merger point: that’s why

The recent collapse of the advertising signs on the Torre Generali of Citylife in Milan designed by Zaha Hadid brought to light the possible problems of metal structures Compared to the actions produced by high temperatures. Although it is not yet confirmed (or denial) that this is the cause of the actual collapse of the reticular structure that supports the ...

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Google Ai to generate video is now available in Italy: what can do and how to activate Veo 3

Credit: Google. Veo 3 it is finally also arrived in Italyand its availability represents a turning point in the field of video generation based on artificial intelligence. It is a system developed by Google Deepmind that allows you to Create short clip realistic videos – the maximum duration of 8 seconds – in which the moving images they are perfectly ...