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 ...
In the age of social media, gossip is never lacking. A recent example is the dissing in progress between Fedez And Tony Effewith musical tracks and stories on Instagram, which is setting social media on fire and filling the pages of websites gossip. While on the one hand there is curiosity for a controversy between celebrities, on the other hand ...
How many times, in front of a camera, have we heard someone say “say cheese“? Cheese in Italian it means “cheese”, but in reality dairy products have nothing to do with it: there is a precise and quite obvious reason why it is used. When we pronounce “cheese“, in fact, our mouth automatically takes on a shape similar to that ...
Receiving unwanted messages on WhatsApp It is a growing problem and more and more users would like to learn how to block spam And report user and group that haunts them. But why do spam messages arrive on WhatsApp? Often the numbers are collected from public databases, forums or even through phishing techniques, to then be used by unscrupulous malicious ...
Credit: Gianluca Masi, via The Virtual Telescope We are now close to the moment of truth for the comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)renamed “comet of the century” due to the great expectations surrounding the brightness it could reach in our skies. The comet is close to perihelion (the point in its orbit at its minimum distance from the Sun), which will ...
Artist shit by Piero Manzoni. Credit: Jens Cederskjold Would you ever pay a can of excrement the figure of 275,000 euros? This is what happened in 2016, when a small box with an unmistakable label on it was sold for this exorbitant sum at an auction house: “Artist shit. Net content gr. 30. Preserved in natural. Produced and canned in ...