The flames within the crater of Darvazain the desert of Karakumin Turkmenistan – Also known as the “Port of Hell” – They seem to have started extinguishafter a fire that lasted beyond fifty years. The merit is above all of the activity of extraction gas residual in the deposit started by the national government, in an attempt to remedy an ...
In our body flows the bloodand we all agree on this. However, not everyone knows that his function main is that of transport things, above all oxygen And anhydride carbonism. This transport capacity is due to the presence of a metal: The iron. Every human being has iron that flows in its veins and arteries. We are not talking about ...
Enzo Tortoraborn in Genoa on November 30, 1928 and died in Milan on May 18, 1988, was a popular TV presenter active from the 1950s until death. Led successful transmissions, including Sports Sunday And Portobelloand is considered one of the fathers of Italian TV. In the 1980s he was involved in a famous judicial case: unjustly accused of the Camorra ...
Hotel corridors and deserted hospital, parking without living soul in the middle of the night, schools and closed shopping centers are all examples of space limb (from the Latin limen“Threshold”), or that category of “non-places” characterized by a function of Liminal stateie of transition or connection Among other places and environments, however emptied of the normal human presence that animates ...
The Watergate scandal It is the largest political scandal in the history of the United States, which emerged during the campaign for the 1972 presidential elections and which led to the resignation of the president Richard Nixon. Five men were arrested in Complex of buildings called Watergatein Washington, while they placed bugs in the offices of the National Committee of ...
THE’forensic entomology It is one of the applied sciences that provide a Essential contribution to investigations concerning murders: the presence of certain insects on a corpse, for example, proves to be essential to calculate thepost mortem interval (SMEs), i.e. the time spent from the death, but also to reconstruct the facts and evaluate whether the murder occurred at the place ...
A hypnotic session by Morey Bernstein conducted on Virginia Tighe.Credit: Morey Bernstein, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The BRIDEY MURPHY CASE He became famous in the United States following the publication of the book The Search for Bridey – “Looking for Bridey Murphy”, written byhypnotist Morey Bernstein. The work told the surprising History of Virginia Tighean American woman who, during ...
The Kattennkabinet in Amsterdam. Credit: Michiel1972, CC by 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Amsterdam It is a city of canals, entertainment, and very particular museums: if you do not plan to go and see the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Vermeer or Mondrian, you could opt for the unusual Kathentkabineta Museum completely dedicated to cats. Literally “Cabinet of cats”, the museum ...
In addition to the city of Sizhoualong the banks of Yellow riverin China There is also another archaeological site that deserved the nickname of “Pompeii” Chinese: it is Lajiain northern China, an ancient dated village Between the III and the second millennium BCalso located along the yellow river and probably destroyed by one Mud floodjust like Sizhou. Lajia’s settlement is ...
The invention of the road signs It is something that, to date, each of us associates with modern times. But, in reality, to the need to codify the rules of road traffic through the use of symbols It is something that dates back to very ancient times. Just think that already theRoman Empire made extensive use of the milestoneswhile in ...