The altar stone, in horizontal position, on the left. Credit: Pam Brophy The big stone Altar Stone (“altar stone”), a 6-ton sandstone block at the center of the megalithic sanctuary of Stonehengewould come from the North East Scotlandto good 750 km from the Stonehenge construction site in southern England, much further away than previously thought (about 200 km). The discovery ...
This morning, around 5:00 am, a nautical accident occurred off the coast of Little Portin the province of Palermo: the Bayesan, a sailing yacht approximately 56 meters flying the English flag, was shipwrecked and sunk due to the bad weather conditions (perhaps due to a whirlwind over the sea). Currently some 22 people present on board 16 they were rescued ...
The research vessel JOIDES Resolution. Credit: IODP In the context of the Ocean Drilling Project Expedition 399an international team aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution he managed to pierce the Earth’s mantle to a depth never reached before on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridgethe very long underwater relief that crosses it. The sample ...
When we talk about “America Latin“we refer to a large region of South, Central and North America (from Mexico in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south) that includes the countries of the American continent where the main languages are spoken languages derived from Latinthat is, the Spanish and the Portugueseand to a lesser extent the French. Historically, ...
We often hear that “women are always colder than men”, but in reality things are much more complex and even if there are differences related to factors organic, hormonal And physicistsrecent studies highlight how it’s not just a gender issue. What most influences body temperature and the preference between cold and heat are the body composition and basal metabolismthat is, ...
It is a story with sad overtones but deeply human that of the young man Joseph Merrickknown in nineteenth-century Victorian England in London as “Elephant Man” due to the genetic disease that deformed much of his body since he was a child. Thrown out of the house by his austere stepmother, he ended up by chance in the area of ...
In the song The Watusi of gender Hully Gullywhich nowadays we actually perceive as stereotypical and at times racist, Edward Vianello presents us in music a specific population of theAfricacalled precisely the Watusifamous for their height and for living at the foot of Kilimanjaro. The “real” Watussi, known as Tutsi, however, live far from Kilimanjaro, they are not very tall ...
Credits: NASA. After the spectacular Perseid meteor shower, the “shooting stars” of the night of San Lorenzo, and the Northern Lights spotted in Northern Italy on August 12, here is a new fascinating astronomical event appearing in our skies with the Moon as the protagonist, the August 19, 2024 at 8.26pm Italian time. They call her “Super Sturgeon Moon”or even ...
The double surname in Spain (the children of a couple inherit both the first paternal surname and the first maternal surname) is a consolidated tradition that dates back to 19th century and which was formalized with the Civil Code of 1889. This practice was aimed at identify people with greater precisionreflecting both the paternal and maternal lines. The system became ...
Image for illustrative purposes only, does not represent the Pan Am Flight 914 aircraft. According to an urban legend that is popular on the web – repeatedly cited by UFO conspiracy theorists – the flight Pan Am 914 would be took off in 1955 from New York with 57 passengers on board and landed in Caracas only in 1985, disappearing ...