Hello guys! Today I’ll unlock one of my childhood memories for you. Ready? Last night I was surfing the Net and checking my social media when I bumped into a few videos from a TV series I used to see as a child, like many other children at that time.
Marie Curie
Bad luck, extreme courage,
underestimation of danger: inventors’ life is not always paid back with
success. There have been a few who we’ll always be remembered for their
inventions, but there are some other we’ll remember because of their tragic
deaths related to their own work. Let’s see some.
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Automaton is a Greek word, meaning “acting of one’s own free will”. Today it’s used to refer to some kind of mechanism or machine that does something automatically. The concept of a self-operating machine is actually fairly ancient: in Greek mythology, the god Hephaestus often created living machines, like the giant defender of Crete, Talos. In China the legendary artificer Yan Shi is said to have created flying mechanical reproductions of birds for the Emperor.
There are 15 winter Olympic disciplines, the Olympic Games are held on ice or snow and are held every four years. In 2022 the Winter Olympics will take place in Italy between Milan and Cortina. That will be awesome!
The safety of the workers is the main
thing to watch out, because no one would like to shoot a film without any care for their safety.
Injuries and accidents usually don’t happen, because there are several rules to respect and nowadays the equipments are safer and more reliable, but perfection doesn’t exist and sometimes injuries can happen. But not always the bad comes to hurt and the injuries I would like to list fit in the scene and are so perfect that they were put in the film, making the film more realistic and gripping.
The golden retriever is a big, sweet dog that with a long interesting history behind. Its first appearance was in Scotland, in the mid-17th century, when hunting was very popular among the aristocrats. The characteristics of the Scottish environment make it necessary to have a dog that was able to retrieve game both in water and on land. The prey often fell in inaccessible places, so they tried to train some English Setters, but, unfortunately , the results were rather poor. So, in order to obtain the perfect dog with the features they needed, the first retrievers were crossed with Water Spaniels, and the Golden Retriever we know was born.
Guerrilla is a kind of warfare consisting in small skirmishes between a big army and a small, mobile and often non-professional army which harass his opponent using his knowledge of the territory to make the other unable to fight. It is also called “hit and run” warfare.
Maybe it is a forgotten car now, but history doesn’t
lie. The Lancia Delta was born in 1979
as a normal, mediocre car. Giorgetto Giugiaro, a famous Italian designer and
engineer, who had already projected the legendary Fiat Panda, created a new car
with Lancia, that at first was unsuccessful but time has proven him right.
Between 1979 and 1987 Lancia produced 4 generations of the car, and every year the engineers introduced many upgrades of the engine, suspensions, inside quality and also of the body of the car. Actually, the legendary Delta HF integrale was born only in 1986. The last generation of Delta was the more successful. Producer added another powerful engine (in addition to the 1.3 68HP, 1.5 85HP Gasoline), the new 1.6 liter engine, supercharged by a turbo and with about 170 HP.
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| Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre (2011) |
Jane Eyre is a book published in 1847 by Charlotte BrontĂ« aka Currer Bell (she chose a male pseudonym to publish her books since it was considered improper for women). It is a Bildungsroman novel with Gothic elements. The original title was Jane Eyre: an autobiography. Actually, in the novel, there are many autobiographical elements and Jane Eyre’s life has some features in common with the author’s life.
Big petrochemical companies aiming at Africa
Petrochemical companies are producing more and more plastic but they have to face two problems : the first is that many trades are already saturated and the second is that only few countries are willing to become the dumps of multinational companies . A solution for the sector would be Africa and, actually, the American chemistry council is trying to influence Kenya in order to make the government renounce the severe limitations imposed on the usage of plastic.
