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 ...
The Islamic veil (often known in the West by the term hijabeven if in a simplistic way) is the garment that covers, often starting from the age of 10/13, some parts of the body of Muslim women (head, shoulders, face), taking on profound social and religious meanings. Today some of the main countries that require wearing it mandatory (both at ...
Do you know the T-Rex “toy” that is proposed to you by the browser Google Chrome when you don’t have access to the Internet? Well, the game – developed in 2014 – is called Dinosaur Game (and is also known as Chrome Dino) and lets you drive a pixelated T-Rex in a side-scrolling landscape. Who knows how many times you ...
The Runit Dome – or Cactus Crater Confinement Structure – is a dome-shaped structure on the Marshall Islandsin Enewetak Atoll, Oceania, built between 1977 and 1980. Sometimes picturesquely described as “tomb” or “sarcophagus“, this concrete structure with a diameter of 115 meters contains within it more than 80 thousand m3 of radioactive material produced during atomic tests carried out on ...
The police forces Italian They are divided first of all into state (who work throughout the country) and local (specific to a specific territory). The first, the state ones, are divided into 4 official bodies: two with military order, Carabinieri And Financial Policeand two under civil law, State Police And Penitentiary Police. The various bodies have been reorganized over time ...
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