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 ...
The official language of the Brazil is the Portuguese while almost all the rest of theLatin America speaks Spanishthe reason must be sought in complex historical dynamics, international agreements and colonialisms that date back to the very first times of European explorations: the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 assigned the territories to the east to Portugal. After the discovery of ...
While the human being seeks the secret to live longer, some animal on the planet Earth may already have the solution: there are species capable of spending Hundreds of years in their habitat. From Greenland shark who can come to live 400 years, at Galapagos turtles who reach the age of 170 years, passing through the Greenland whale that reaches ...
Render design. Credit: Veneto Region The president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, presented on the occasion of the salon Transport Logistic 2025 of Munich, one of the most ambitious projects at European level: theHyper Transfer, a sustainable and ultra -very transport system a magnetic levitation Which, if concluded, will connect Venice to Padua in a few minutes thanks to an all ...
There Irish famineknown in the Gaelic language as An gorta mór and in English as Great Irish Faminehit Ireland between the 1845 and the 1852with the most serious moment Between 1846 and 1848. The main cause was the onset of one potato diseasewhich were the basic food of the Irish population. The measures of the British government to limit the ...