The great wave of Kanagawa kept at the British Museum. Credit: Katsushika Hokusai, via Wikimedia Commons. The great wave of Kanagawa It is an Ukiyo-E-style woodcut, made by the Japanese painter Katsushka Hokusai (1760-1849) around the 1830. It is the first and most famous print of the series Thirty -six views of Mount Fujiin addition to being the most famous ...
That the music It is an omnipresent background in human life is a fact and that is that simplifying over time, as well. This is at least the conclusion to which the study conducted by a team of researchers from theLa Sapienza University of Rome and of theUniversity of Paduawhere something like 20,000 compositions of various genresincluding classic, jazz, rock, ...
In the world exist Thousands of volcanoes And some of these are known for their violent eruptions. But can you recognize them from a photograph and locate them precisely? To stimulate your curiosity and make you test your knowledge, we offer you a fun quiz with 4 images of these extraordinary volcanoes. Your job will be: Identify the name of ...
Sansone and Dalila exhibited at the National Gallery in London. Credit: Peter Paul Rubens, via Wikimedia Commons Is it possible that a painting exposed to the National Gallery in London is actually a fake? It would seem so: this is the case with Sansone and Dalilapicture attributed to the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. The work, dated 1609 and preserved ...
All crazy about Sanremo. But why? Because it is the celebration of the pop musicthe most popular and most popular genre. There history of pop music, a musical genre belonging to the set of popular musicThrough decades of cultural changes, technological innovations and artistic influences. The major representatives of this kind, from the Beatles to Michael Jackson, from Queen to ...
THE bridges depicted on the back of each euro banknote They did not exist in reality when the euro was introduced in 2002: years later, in 2011 a Spijkenissenear Rotterdam in the Netherlands, by the Dutch designer Robin Stam with the project Europonti (The Bridges of Europe). THE’European Union In fact, initially he decided to represent imaginary bridges inspired by ...
Credits: NASA. A mysterious accumulation of Beerillium-10a radioactive isotope of Beerillium, was discovered in two areas of thePacific Ocean from a team of German and Australian researchers: its explanation could be geological or climatic, or also astrophysicsdue to cosmic events successes about 10 million years ago. The study, published in the magazine Nature Communicationsexplains how this anomaly was found in ...
The official investigations on theAirplane crash in Toronto occurred yesterday 17 February when a plane Bombardier crj-900 Started from Minneapolis and operated by Endeavor Airlines, a subsidiary of Delta Airlines, he overturned and set on fire during the landing at Pearson international airport. Fortunately, of the 80 people on board Everyone was saved: There are 18 injured, 3 of which ...
Credit: Ingv. On February 18, 2025 The INGV has published the new weekly bulletin on the Flegrei Campi, in a period in which the area is hit by a seismic swarm with magnitude earthquake shocks up to 3.9 felt distinctly also in Naples. Within this document, the report of the monitoring made in the Last 7 dayshighlighting (if present) any ...
SantoriniIn the Aegean Seais part of the Christian-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic fieldone of the most dangerous volcanic areas globally. This volcanic field also includes the extinct volcano Christianathe volcano Kolumbo And 24 other submarine volcanoes. The Kolumbo, the largest of these submarine volcanoes, is located at approx 8 km north-east of Santorini and has a diameter of about 3 km with a ...