The figure of lighthouse keeper is imprinted in everyone’s mind: thanks to films, books and TV series we all have in mind the image of an elderly man with a thick white beard who lives alone in a tower in the middle of the sea, making sure that the light from the lighthouse continues to shine during the stormiest nights. ...
The DDA (District Anti-Mafia Directorate) of Milan brought out a unprecedented spy system against Italian political figures – among them Ignazio La Russa (President of the Senate), Matteo Renzi (Senator) and even the President of the Republic in office, Sergio Mattarella – which he allegedly involved in espionage 800,000 people in everything. The investigators identified a well-organized hacking system that ...
Let’s immediately clarify that vortices and eddies are synonymous and are phenomena that can affect both air and water. Let’s start with the formation of vortices in lakes. To better understand how vortices form in lakes, imagine two currents of water traveling in opposite directions. When these meet and cannot find a way to continue freely, they begin to revolve ...
Ballon d’Or photo credit: Ank Kumar The Golden Ball (Ballon d’Or in French) is the award given by the magazine France Football to the strongest footballer of the year and the edition of 2023-2024 is scheduled for the evening of Monday 28 October at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Parisstarting at 6.45pm (with the actual ceremony at 8.45pm). Big favorites ...
In the field of aeronautics and radio communications, the word “Roger” is one of the most common terms. It is used to confirm that a message has been clearly received (instead of the word “received“). But why this word? How did it spread and why is it still used today? Origins and evolution The use of the word “Roger” in ...
If you have ever been to Türkiye you may have seen the so-called “whirling dervishes” (in Turkish semazen), dancers in traditional clothes whose steps essentially lead them to continuously turn around, as a form of active meditation. Watching them rotate, you may have wondered how they can continue for minutes or even hours without feeling sick. Is there a possible ...
There march on Rome it was one armed demonstrationoccurred between 27 and 30 October 1922through which the National Fascist Partyled by Benito Mussolinigained power. Fascism, despite being born only in 1919, became a mass movement in a few years thanks to the crisis in which Italy found itself after the First World War. Between 1921 and 1922 the fascist teams ...
Credit: China Diary The Shiziguan floating bridgeis located in Hubei, the central-eastern province of People’s Republic of China. You will surely have seen it in some video reel on social networks, while cars pass through it, and perhaps you will have wondered whether it was true or not: well yes, it’s all true. More than a bridge, however, it is ...
Learning a new language is always a challenge, but the level of difficulty can vary greatly depending on the learner’s native language. Have you ever wondered if learning Japanese is more complicated for an Italian or a Chineseconsidering aspects such as grammar, phonetics, writing systems and cultural similarities? We will analyze the structural differences between languages and how these influence ...
The damage of the Vaia storm in the Asiago Plateau, in Veneto. Credit: Nordavind, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons There Vaia storm which hit central-northern Italy between Saturday 27 October and Tuesday 30 October 2018 was undoubtedly among the most disastrous meteorological events of the last decades in our country, with very violent rains especially in the North-East, gusts ...