“La Breccia di Porta Pia”, Carlo Ademollo, 1880; Credits: Carlo Ademollo, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Italy, unified in 1861, remained without its capital for ten years. Rome belonged to the Papal Statesruled by the Pope and protected by Napoleon III France. The pontiff, Pius IXrefused to yield the temporal power (i.e. the political government of the ...
One of the trains of the Tren MayaSource by Protoplasmakid – Own Work, CC By –a 4.0 The project of Tren Maya (Maya train) is part of a large project in South America, aimed at revolutionizing the local tourism market. In particular, it is a large long interurban railway network 1,500 km which crosses the peninsula of Yucatán, By connecting ...
Billie Jean King. Credit: Via Wikimedia Commons In these days in Shenzhen in China the Billie Jean King Cupthe competition for women’s female national teams, in which Italy is reigning champion thanks to the title won in 2024 in Malaga. But who is Billie Jean King And why since 2020 the tournament takes its name? The former American tennis player, ...
Image generated with AI. Who is really theItalian Italian? What drinks coffee in the morning, look at the game in the evening and complains about taxes, or a simple number in Istat databases that summarizes the population data in Italy? If the common imagination mix reality and caricature, the statistics Take a more realistic photo: based on the most recent ...
A young Nepalese during protests against the government. Credit: Himanshu Mittal Today’s young people? “Always listless, too fragile to endure the weight of this world and unwilling to fight for their rights”. Or maybe not? The protests of the Generation Z in Nepalperhaps the first great youth revolution of the 21st century, have paid attention to a theme that has ...
In the image it can be seen how, by lowering the notification center curtain (in this case on iPad), the Geopop logo is distorted due to the Liquid Glass. This distortion is not deactivable, but by acting on transparencies it is possible to improve the readability of the interface in other contexts of use. With the arrival of iOS 26Apple ...
They afflict us throughout the summer and, even with the arrival of autumn, some specimens remain at home taking advantage of the warmth of the apartments to survive; We are talking about the mosquitoise. About the world have currently been classified about 3,700 species of this annoying insect, of which Over 60 are present in Italybut fortunately, only a few ...
The Meta Ray -Ban Display. Credit: Giorgia Giulia Evangelista We witnessed the presentation of Meta Ray-Ban Displaythe new Smart Glasses shown by Mark Zuckerberg to the annual event Meta Connect of San Francisco. Smart glasses, made in collaboration with Essilorluxottica with photochromatic lenses, are the Firsts equipped with integrated micro-checkmate high resolution and a neural control system via the bracelet ...
A strong magnitude earthquake 7.8 He hit the Russian peninsula of the Kamchatka: as reported by the USGS (United States Geological Survey), the shock took place at 06:58 of 19 September (local hours, 20:58 on 18 September in Italy), while L‘epicenter was located at sea, a 128 km east of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (capital of the Region), at ...
Many of the sports that we practice every day have names that seem simple, but which actually hide curious stories, historical origins and often forgotten anecdotes. Tennis, for example, takes its name from French exclamation “Tenz!”with whom the players warned the opponent that the ball was about to be hit. The ping-pongInstead, it owes its name to the sound of ...