In recent years we have heard the term “rather than» with value disjunctivereplacing “or” or “or”. This use of the phrase – to give an example “we can eat pizza rather than sushi” – however, it is a mistake increasingly widespread, also thanks to its widespread use on TV and in newspapers. The “rather than”, in fact, is a conjunctive ...
There banknote from 10,000 francs of Burundi measure 40 x 28.8 centimeters: this makes it the more big in terms of size. Its introduction in February 2025 is linked to the 50th anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and, for this very reason, the cut depicts a lion, a giraffe, ...
There black box in the car it serves first of all to extrapolate from the guide in a sequence of objective datameasurable and verifiable, especially useful when an accident occurs. It is an electronic device equipped with GPS that records physical parameters of the vehicle, such as speed, acceleration, braking and geographical position, with the aim of scientifically reconstruct what ...
THE smart traffic lights they are devices capable of adapting to traffic in real time, reducing congestion, limiting emissions and making daily travel smoother. In cities that have already adopted them, improvements have been observed in the fluidity of vehicular flows, a reduction in unnecessary stops at traffic lights and, consequently, significant energy and environmental savings. The idea behind their ...
Credit: Auckland Museum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons THE cameos they are jewels – in some cases real artistic artefacts – created throughengraving of a shell or layered stonesuch as agate, onyx or sardonic stone, but also other materials such as coral and mother-of-pearl, from which a figure emerges in high or low relief. Made with a simple engraving ...
There trinacria it is perhaps the symbol of Sicily par excellence, but what not everyone knows is that this figure does not only appear on our regional flag, but also on that of another country – or rather, another island. I am referring to theIsle of Manbetween England and Ireland, where the trinacria version appears “battleship”, with three legs in ...
The New Century Global Center, compared to the Sydney Opera House. Image generated with AI. The New Century Global Center («Global Center of the New Century»), inaugurated on 1 July 2013 in Chengdu, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, is the largest building in the world per useful surface. With his 1.7 million square meters – 500 meters in length, ...
Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards in Calgary in 2017. Credit: Orville Barlow via Wikimedia Commons “Eddie the Eagle”, aka Michael David Edwards he is the Englishman who defied gravity, short-sightedness and common sense to realize his five-circle dream. With no money, makeshift equipment and a less-than-athletic physique, Eddie managed to qualify for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics in ski jumpingbecoming the ...
Anyone who has kept earphones in their pocket knows this: a wire left loose in a confined space has a natural tendency to form knots. This “Murphy’s law” of the threads does not even spare the Christmas decorations: we challenge anyone who has decorated their Christmas tree with the classic Christmas lights not to have cursed to unravel the tangle ...
For all of us, the traditional Magi are three: Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior. But there is also the legend of the fourth Wise King, Artabanus (in English Artaban), Persian sage and astronomer like the other three. If most people have never heard of it, it’s because it’s one legend of modern origin, and is therefore a story from uniquely symbolic ...