Ecology

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The history of the lost city of Ubar, the Atlantis of the sands: when archeology meets the myth

Ubarcalled “Atlantis of the sands”, He is the protagonist of a myth Surprisingly real real. It was a Shining and rich cityfulcrum of ancient trade, crossroads of cultures overlooking the historic Via dell’Avinenso. A place that, like the legendary Atlantis that was submerged by the waters, It vanishes into thin air, swallowed by sands and silence. Also known as “Iram ...

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What is totem and what its meaning was for Native Americans

Credits: Dietmar Rabich We all have in mind a more or less clear image of the term “totem“, But what the word” totem “actually means, by whom and why this has actually been made are much less known circumstances. Investigating the profound meanings related to these High wooden columnswe discover that for many indigenous communities, native Americanthese wooden objects depicting ...

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Accident on the cable car of Mount Faito: 3D reconstruction and possible causes

A terrible accident hit the cable car of Mount Faito Which connects Castellammare di Stabia (NA) with Monte Faito, Thursday 17 April 2025, causing the death of four people, three foreign tourists and the operator of the plant. Following the rupture of the driving rope and of the Failure to operation of the emergency brakeone of the two cabins of ...

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On WhatsApp, new options are coming for the transcription of vocal messages for iOS

WhatsApp is preparing to introduce an interesting novelty for i iOS devices and users iPhone: one more flexible management of the transcriptions of voice messages. In this case whatsapp is testing new transcription options of the vowels in his Beta version for iOSthe one that brings the number of version 25.12.10.70which offer the possibility of deciding whether to activate the ...

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The tragedy of the Mottarone: the disaster of the cable car that upset Italy

The cabin precipitated in the disaster of the Mottarone cable car. Credit: Fire Brigade The accident of the Faito cable car returned to memory the most recent cable car unfortunate in Italy: theaccident of the Stresa-Alpine-Mottarone cable caron the Piedmontese bank of Lake Maggiore, where the May 23, 2021 they lost their lives 14 people And the only survivor was ...

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As the Comic Sans was born, the history of the most loved and hated font of all time

The word “Geopop” in Comic Sans The Comic Sans it is probably the most controversial typographic character in the history of digital graphics. Born in 1994 in the workshops of Microsoft Corporation from an idea of ​​the designer Vincent Connza, the Comic Sans Mt It was designed for a specific audience: novice users, often children, who approached the computer for ...

The incredible story of the "drama of Normalmstorg", the robbery that gave rise to the Stockholm syndrome

The incredible story of the “drama of Normalmstorg”, the robbery that gave rise to the Stockholm syndrome

Clark Olofsson (standing) and the hostages during Normalmstorg robbery. Credit: User3201, cc by –a 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons There Stockholm syndrome It is an expression used to describe the development of positive feelings by the hostages towards theirs kidnappers during episodes of kidnapping. The term was born following the robbery at the Kreditbank of Stockholm of 1973, during which four ...

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The first accident at the Faito cable car: what happened in the 1960s midfielder

The accident at the 1960 Faito cable car. THE’Accident at the Faito cable car of April 17, 2025, in which the breaking of the traction cable precipitated a cabin with 5 people on board causing 4 victims and one injured in serious conditionis not the first in the plant that connects Castellammare di Stabia to Monte Faito, in Campania: the ...

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What does the expression “go” and because it is said like that

Encyclopedia suggests that “go” – Vat | you | La | Pé | SCA – it means” goes to find it; goes to guess it; goes to know it “, and therefore” who knows it! “. This phrase, very frequent in informal and family contexts, is irreverent, apparently ungrammatical, ironic and curious. It is a clearly contracted form of the ...