Credits: Zeynel Cebeci, CC By -Ssa 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Wondering if the color was born first orange or the fruit orange It’s a bit like asking if theegg or the hen. In this case the answer is there: first comes the fruitthen the name of the color. The word was born from the Portuguese Laranjawhich in turn derives fromArabicfrom ...
The tank heavier in history was German Panzerkampfwagen viii mauswith an incredible mass of 188 tons. This enormous military vehicle was able to protect its occupants from enemy fire, even if in reality He never went down to the battlefield. The Second World War in fact ended before its development and were made only Two prototypes: One was destroyed and ...
How often do we take a shower in Italy? And are we really the cleanest people in Europe? Data and statistics show habits other than those we imagine. But between bidets, teeth and ears, hygiene remains a distinctive trait of our country. How often do we take a shower? Lately a statistics have returned viral according to which Over 95% ...
The USA are perhaps the home of western “modern environmentalism”: high pollution and symbolic events such as the fire of the Cuyahoga river have already favored the foundation of state control bodies such as the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the formation of a public environmental consciousness between the 60s and 70s. Despite this, citizens still face dangers for their ...
Navigating on the web can happen to come across the photos and videos of empty rooms and illuminated with artificial light that, to look at them, could make us feel a slight feeling of nostalgia mixed unease And restlessness. We are talking about the Backrooms (translatable with Rooms on the back), that is, one of the most famous examples of ...
Everything is fine tongue of the world holds its own arsenal of words considered prohibited, not elegant or socially inappropriate: the swear words. They have a social function: They strengthen ties in groups, they mark belonging, allow emotional relief and transgression of the rules. They are more used between young people and in informal contextsvary for cultural taboos: in any ...
One of the most particular buildings within the future urban complex of the city of Abu Dhabi It is undoubtedly the museum Guggenheim. Conceived by the famous Canadian-Stanitense architect Frank Gehrythis building is one of the maximum representations of the style deconstructivist, that is, taking advantage of a “intentional disorder that reaches clarity“And that presents a similarity with a Cubist ...
Google Earth does not show the world just as it is now: the Mountain View software allows in fact “Go back in time” in satellite and aerial photos To see how a certain area presented itself at different times also thanks to historical images. The option that allows this “magic” is accessible through a temporal cursor that makes the consultation ...
The flag of Önneköp with the cup and the Cuculocredit: Arnold Wernerson Within the Swedish borders there is one micronation from or, 27 km2 whose flag shows a cup of coffee flown by a cuckoo: We are talking about Önneköpin the county of Skåne in Sweden, independent of 2005. This tiny urban center is just counts 228 people, of which ...
Not all goals have the same weight, and not all occasions are the same: the Expected Goals (XG), Or “expected goals”, are born to answer an apparently simple question, but fundamental in modern football: how many goals a team would have had to really score, regardless of the final result? In practice, XG are an advanced statistics that measures the ...