Credit: Estero 24H and Khamenei.ir You’re watching GeopolitiX Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Friday September 27around 6pm (Beirut local time) the F-15 fighters of theIDF (the Israel Defense Forces) dropped several bombs that razed six buildings on the southern outskirts of Beirutin Lebanon. Inside the buildings, in underground bunkers, a battle was underway meeting secret of the ...
There piracy represents a gigantic problem in itself for the entertainment industry. A problem that turns into a catastrophe for the world of sports rights, which in Italy itself is experiencing a less than prosperous season due to a Serie A football championship that is increasingly less attractive for investors. You therefore understand well how the institutions have been forced ...
During an archaeological study on the territory of Nazca lines in the hinterland of Peru (about 450 km south of the capital Lima), promoted byYamagata University and fromUniversity of Michiganthe researchers, thanks to the use ofartificial intelligence in the analysis of aerial photographs of the terrain, they managed to identify well in six months 303 new geoglyphs. A geoglyph, from ...
The oldest forms of writing known to date pictograms: these are sets of signs that directly represent the concept ol’object that you want to express. Pictographic systems are, for example, that Egyptian hieroglyph (in its early stages) and that Sumerian protocuneiformborn in ancient times Mesopotamia (current Iraq). The oldest written documents in our possession, consequently, originate precisely from this part ...
There Wuppertal suspended monorail (in German Wuppertal Schwebebahn) holds the record for being the first in the world of this typein which the cars travel suspended under the track instead of above. Inaugurated in 1901, is located in Wuppertal, Germany, and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area: think that every day these suspended carriages are ...
THE Big Men and the Big Women they are not physically very large men and women, as one might think; instead they are leader of great influencetypical of some companies in the Pacific (particularly in the archipelagos of Melanesia and Micronesia), which, without possessing any formal official power, obtain prestige through their charisma and theirs generosity. Their status is in ...
The matriarchy it is an organization of society within which the women they maintain a higher degree of power compared to men in all or almost all aspects of social and political life. It’s the opposite of patriarchy (in which power is predominantly in the hands of men) e it should not be confused with the matrilineality. In matrilineal societies, ...
Between August and October an increasingly higher number of people are affected by a respiratory allergic syndrome caused by ragweed pollen (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), a non-native and weedy plant from North America. It’s one alien species invasive that it creates health problems with very severe allergic symptoms in sensitive subjects: sneezing, rhinitis, eye irritation and asthma attacks. Furthermore, the Ambrosia genus ...
A rainbow on the water surface of a swamp? It almost seems like the setting of a fairy tale, but instead it is a phenomenon that actually occurs. They are the so-called “rainbow swamps” or “iridescent swamps” with colored stripes ranging from blue, to green, to purple, up to golden yellow. The origin of this temporary phenomenon of iridescence it ...
Photo credits of the two leaders: kremlin.ru Since the African state ofEritreaformer Italian capital colony Asmarait became formally independentThe May 24, 1993was continuously governed with an iron fist from the same party, the Popular Front for Democracy and Justiceand by the same man, the now almost eighty-year-old president Isaias Afwerkitransformed over the decades from a hero of independence to an ...