Credits: W.carter, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The monocle it wasn’t just a bizarre accessory from dandy: born as one optical instrument of myopia correction, although certainly impractical, but it soon turned into symbol of status and refinement. Used in particular by German soldierswas targeted by satire in the nineteenth century and underwent the definitive decline after the world ...
It’s possible remove a tattoo? Short answer: yes, thank you picosecond laser. It is a laser that selectively hits the pigments that make up the ink, thus heating them and fragmenting them. The results can be truly impressive, leading to complete removal of the tattoo, but this is not always the case: successful removal depends on several variables such as ...
From the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022 – the start date of the Russo-Ukrainian War – to now, the Russian Armed Forces they are submitting theUkraine to constant fire pressure from their arsenal of long-range weapons, particularly ballistic and cruise missiles. Ukraine responded to this sustained offensive using both its own arsenal of anti-aircraft and anti-missile ...
Torture is a practice that consists of cause physical or psychological pain to a person. The purposes for which it is implemented are generally: to extract information during an interrogation; punish an enemy; simply exercising sadism. Torture exists since the ancient world and in the past it was regularly used by courts and armed forces, only since the Enlightenment have ...
Like every beginning of the year, the ThinkGeoenergy.com website, one of the most authoritative digital platforms globally for information and content production ongeothermal energy (transforms underground heat into electricity using hot fluids to move turbines), drew up and published the ranking of the first 10 nations in the world For geothermal capacity in 2025. THE’Italy maintains theeighth positionwith an installed ...
We are almost at the starting line now Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The event, recognized as one of the most important sporting events ever, will see athletes from all over the world compete in 16 various winter sports.In the history of Olympic GamesHowever, the disciplines that have taken turns are much more numerous: some have still remained in the games ...
Putting it on and taking it off smartphone from your pocket it is a gesture that we perform dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day. Whenever we do this, especially if we use an Android smartphone equipped with the so-called “pocket mode”, we trigger a series of hardware and software procedures that ensure that the display does not respond ...
An Italian woman exercising her right to vote for the first time. Credit: Chamber of Deputies On 1 February 1945, Italian women were granted the right to vote: after years of struggles, universal suffrage was extended to the entire female population – at least 21 years of age – thanks to the Lieutenant legislative decree n. 23. 81 years separate ...
A foot it is a unit of measurement used to measure lengths and is exactly equivalent to 0.3048 meters, i.e 30.48 cm. This unit of measurement, although it was in use in ancient Romeis no longer in use in Italy as it has been replaced by the meter which is the official unit of measurement for lengths in the International ...
Photo from above of the Viaduct Italy. Credit: Gunborgjakob, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons With beyond 120,000 bridges and viaducts above 6 metres, Italy boasts a world record for the number of infrastructures present in the area, a direct consequence of its complex orography. Among the impressive works that connect plains and mountainous reliefs together, guaranteeing the mobility of ...