For many famous literary authors The places are not just backgrounds, but protagonists from the great literary works Sices out of their pens. We are talking about writers such as Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa, Italo Calvino, Isabelle Allende, Jrr Tolkien and many others, who in cities and landscapes have found the primary inspiration for their books, so much so that ...
There is a place, in the north of Spain, which seems to have come out of a fairy tale. Is called Playa de Gulpiyuriin Cunning (on the border with Cantabria), set between the meadows and rocks near the town of Llanes, without any contact visible with the coast and is considered the smaller beach in the world: with a length ...
The Jwaneng diamond mine in Botswana. Credit: DTC Botswana THE diamondssymbols of beauty and luxury, have always fascinated humanity. Theirs extraction is a complex process which takes place in different parts of the worldbut a particular mine is distinguished by its extraordinary importance: that of Jwaneng operational since August 1982. Located in Botswanasouth-west of the capital Gaborone, this diamond mine ...
If you’ve ever wondered because in almost all lifts there is at least one mirrorknow that the answer goes far beyond simple vanity or the opportunity to settle your hair before reaching the office. The presence of the mirrors inside the cabins is actually a very specific design choice, designed to meet needs psychologicalOf safety and of accessibility integrated between ...
The Morse code It is a communication system born in the 19th century that has revolutionized the transmission of remote information. It is a coding system which represents letters, numbers and punctuation signs through a combination of Points (·) And lines ( -)also called “dit” And “Dah”. Designed by Samuel Morse and perfected by Alfred Vail, the intermittence code also ...
When you hear about perpetual motorcyclewe mean that bike that yes it would raise attempt without the need to provide further energy. If it really existed, it would be a revolutionary gimmick: this would in fact allow to produce unlimited energy, solving one of the greatest problems of humanity. In reality this is not possible and the explanation is only ...
Thanks to Dangerous maps ofIspra (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) through Hydrogena multilingual and updated platform in real time it is possible to view, interrogate, download and share maps and data on hydrogeological instability in Italy. There are several regions of our country subject to this risk including Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Sardinia, Campania, Veneto, Calabria, Lombardy and Liguria. How ...
The value of a coinlike the euro, dollar or yen, in reality It is not decided by a central authoritybut it is the result of the trend of the economy. Every day, this value is established in the change market, also known as Foreign Exchange or, more simply, Forexwhere currencies (euro, dollar, yen, etc.) are exchanged. In this market, each ...
Credit: Melkov Often indicated as “Atlantis of the Giapponand ”for its position on the seabed, the Yonaguni monument It is an imposing rock formation submerged inPacific Oceanabout 40 meters long and 27 meters high, discovered in 1986 by the Kihachiro Aratake diver. His morphology a steps And terraces parallelthe flat topography and the walls almost vertical They were frequently used ...
Museums can be pleasant, but also particularly difficult places: maps, corridors, large rooms (often without seats) full of dozens or hundreds of works of art that they all ask for our attention… leading us to try the Museum Fatigue O “museum fatigue” a phenomenon already studied in the 1920s that explains a state of physical or mental fatigue induced by ...