Characters in the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet, considered to date to be the oldest alphabetic system, dating back to between 1900 and 1800 BC A group of archaeologists from the Johns Hopkins University made a discovery that could rewrite the story of the origins of alphabetic writing. During an excavation at Tell Umm-el Marraan ancient Syrian city, gods have been found clay ...
Today, November 25, 2024like every year, is the World Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Day was established in 1999 by the UN on the anniversary of the killing in 1960 of the Mirabal sisters, political activists, ordered by the then dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujilo. Let’s see some significant data relating toItaly. According to ...
Dive Pro Liveaboard The tourist cruise ship Sea Story And shipwrecked in the Red Sea today 25 November 2024 at 5.30 am after sinking off the Egyptian coast of Marsa Alam, near the Ras Satayeh coral reef. They were on board 45 people at the time of the accident, of which 31 tourists And 14 crew membersbut despite the timely ...
Credits: Abell 370 from NASA/ESA, Einstein from Wikimedia Commons. The November 25, 1915 Albert Einstein presented the theory of General Relativityone of the pinnacles of the history of science that forever revolutionized our way of conceiving the Universe. General Relativity is a theory of gravity, and is based on the idea that this is not a force that manifests itself ...
What is our Dena kneading in this reel? No, he’s not making pizza… he’s doing an experiment that has to do with glutenthe protein complex that gives consistency to the pasta. As you can see, after having worked the dough thoroughly (composed of semolina, salt, water), Dena placed it in a colander and washed it under water to remove the ...
Today, at 5:28 (in Italy 4:51), a cargo plane Boeing 737 DHL coming from Leipzig yes crashed against a two-storey residential building in which 12 people, a short distance from Liepkalnis hill, in Lithuanianear theVilnius airportcausing a fire, one victim (one of the two pilots of the plane) and three injuries (the other crew members), one of whom is in ...
An apparently harmless letter delivered by the postman, which appears to come from an authoritative body such as the Italian Post Office, contains a QR code, i.e. a square identification code made of black and white “pixels”. Known as “postman scam”this fraud uses social engineering to trick users into downloading a fake app containing malware by scanning the malicious QR ...
The floppy disk containing the Morris Worm, at the Computer History Museum. The evening of November 2, 1988an unprecedented event shook the Internet. A malicious program, known as Morris Wormsquickly spread through thousands of computers around the world, crashing systems and dramatically slowing digital communications. It was one of the first worms distributed via the Internet and the first to ...
Imagine a world where i colors are grouped together and reduced to a few categories: “light”, “dark” and, at most, red. Here, this world is not fantasy, but a real reality in some cultures. In fact, even if the people who belong to these peoples (like the Dani of Papua New Guinea or the Inuit, for example) are able to ...
Between the mid-fourteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century (but these extremes can vary greatly) the average temperatures, especially in some regions of the world such as Europe, saw a substantial decrease, so much so that agricultural harvests were difficult and some rivers such as the Thames froze. or the Tiber – this climatic period in the history of our planet ...