Potlatch ritual The potlatchwidespread among the native tribes of the Pacific Northwest coast (Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Salish and others) is a traditional ceremony where generosity is rewarded with social prestige. The name potlatch derives “gift” in the Chinook language. During these events, participants compete in donating goods, creating a cycle of reciprocity and status. Marcel Mauss called it “gift economy”, proving ...
It has become viral on social media a video showing seven suns at sunset Chengduin the Sichuan province of China, taken on Sunday, August 18 by a resident of the city. It is a seemingly amazing video, which shows several images of the Sun aligned and with different brightness. In the center there is a main image, brighter, surrounded by ...
Today, around 1:00 pm, a four-seater plane crashed in the Maratta area near Ternia short distance from the “Alvaro Leonardi” airstrip causing the death of the two people on board, the pilot and the passenger, two men of about 60 years old. According to initial reconstructions, the accident occurred shortly after take-off from the airstrip, where it had made a ...
With morbid curiosity it refers to a particular type of curiosity that It manifests itself in situations of tragedycatastrophes or shocking events that can cause physical or emotional harm. We can observe it for example in the phenomenon of rubbernecking (stop and look at road accidents). It is something that we all experience, in different forms and degrees. In recent ...
In an ancient wreck over 600 meters deep in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea between Elba and Pianosa the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has discovered amphorae and other precious finds from the Roman era thanks to deep sea robots made available by the Azionemare Foundation, which had identified the wreck together with ...
Open Google Earth, enter the coordinates 54°43’04″S 71°39’03″W or 46°20’36″S 51°44’49″E and press the enter key. We are in Chilenear the Alberto de Agostini National Park or on thePossession Islandthe island of the sub-Antarctic archipelago of the Crozet Islands. Now zoom in a bit and try to answer the question: what are those ribbon-like things that seem to float on ...
The Yacht Bayesian, long 56 meters and made of aluminum, sank off the coast of Porticello, in the province of Palermo, at dawn on August 19, 2024, causing 7 victims including the British billionaire Mike LynchThe luxury sailing ship was built by Perini Ships In the 2008 in the shipyards of Viareggioin the province of Lucca, with the name of ...
Perhaps not everyone has noticed, but in Italy all (or almost all) of the new films at the cinema they come out on thursday. But why? The explanation has its roots in the 70’s: at the time in fact the greats American blockbusters they usually went out on Friday. Obviously this posed a significant problem for Italian cinema which, certainly ...
Jannik Sinnerwho recently became the number one in the world of tennis, had tested positive for clostebol twice in a row during doping tests in March. Clostebol is a anabolic steroid present in a common over-the-counter drug for the treatment of cracks and small wounds of the skin, which you may also find in your medicine cabinet. Since it is ...
Who knows how many times in life we have expressed ourselves with a “Wow!” to express surprise and wonder. But where does it come from? this curious three-letter onomatopoeic interjection that is also found in comics and films? From Scottish Gaelic well well from the distant sixteenth century, and already then the expression indicated amazement and incredulity. The first time ...