There Sardinia it’s aMediterranean island (second only to Sicily in size) with a past that has yet to be fully deciphered, but well known since the time of ancient Greece, during which it was known by the name of Ichnussa. Its capital is Cagliaria resident population of 1.5 million people (constantly decreasing) and it is a suggestive land with about ...
Blind photographer João Batista Maia da Silva in action. Credits: Leandro Martins CPB Maybe you have never asked yourself this question: but How do blind and visually impaired people take photos? Well, after seeing the shots of the blind photographer John Batista Mayan of Silva at the Paris Paralympics many people asked themselves this question. In order to photograph people ...
The Dalai Lama is the greatest exponent of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and is among the most prestigious religious figures in the world, also from a political point of view. The term Dalai Lama derives from Lamawhich in Tibetan means “spiritual master” and Dalai (word of Mongolian origin) meaning “ocean”. Dalai Lama could therefore be translated as “ocean master”The current ...
Credit: INGV Today Saturday September 21, 2024 at 5:00 in the morning an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 It happened off the coast of Trapaniin eastern Sicily, about 15 km north of the island of Levanzo, the northernmost of the archipelago EgadiIt was a very shallow earthquake with a hypocenter at a depth of 1 km, which was not followed by ...
Surely it happened to you to walk through the alleys of some city or town and see some plastic bottles filled with water at the edges of the roads, on the sidewalks or near the house doors. One urban legend He wants these bottles to serve as a deterrent for dogs and catsdiscouraging them from doing so pee near the ...
Some of us can remember just a few events of theirs childhoodothers instead do not remember anything. Still others remember things that never happened. memory linked to the events of our childhood is like a dark room where, at times, it seems to glimpse something that is not clear whether it is reality, the fruit of our imagination, or a ...
In 2024 theOktoberfest will be held in the Theresienwiese, a park in Munich, Germany, from September 21st to the October 6th. The popular festival takes place every year in the Bavarian city between the end of September and the first days of October. Oktoberfest in Italian literally means “October Festival”, but the celebration begins in September to take advantage of ...
Credit: Team Luna Rossa The boats that compete in America’s Cup belong to the class AC75which takes its name from the seventy-fifth edition of the America’s Cup held in 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. Luna Rossa, in particular, was built in Italy at the Persico Marine shipyard in Nembro; its construction required 40 people for the design and 35 people ...
Have you ever wondered why the train tracks rest on cobblestones and stones? Some might think that they are there to prevent weeds from growing, but in reality those without the right maintenance would grow anyway. Let’s see what all the functions of the gravel found on the tracks. What is railway ballast? The pile of stones you see around ...
The flood in Emilia–Romagna in September 2024. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco The damage from the floods that are hitting Emilia-Romagna continues just over a year after the floods of 2023. The situation is still critical in Crossingfraction of the municipality of Bagnacavallowhere the embankment of the Lamone river collapsed and at the moment there are two missing. The day still ...