WHEN OPERA MEETS METAL ROCK

Hi guys, how are you? Francesco C. here! Do you remember my last post? I told you about my favourite kind of music and today I’d like to follow up and talk about one of my favourite albums, “Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a memory” by Dream Theater.

THE SIEGE OF MASADA

Hi everybody, I’m Francesco G. ; I love history and you must have noticed from my previous posts. Now, today I will tell you a story, it’s set during the famous Siege of Masada. I’ve written the story from the eyes of Faustus Hortensius Laevinus, a Roman legionary.  Enjoy reading!

NEW YEAR IN JAPAN

Hi guys! Welcome back to our blog! Since we have recently welcomed the new year and, as you know, I’m fond of everything Japanese, today I’d like to tell you what happens in Japan on  New Year’s Day.

The 31^st December and the 1^st January are very important days in Japanese culture, they correspond respectively to the holidays called Omisoka and Shogatsu.

Like any other important celebration there are traditional rites, in the Japanese culture there are many; 9 traditional rites!

ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

  One of the easiest intelligence tests is the “Mirror self-recognition test”, it’s on a very intuitive level and has something to do with self-awareness. The test is to put a red mark on your face, you pass if you recognize that it’s on your own face. Children begin to pass at around 18 months old. Chimps, dolphins, elephants and magpies: all of them passed the test. However, some monkeys don’t pass the test, even though they’re widely seen as intelligent animals.

WHY IS GLASS TRANSPARENT?

Hello everyone! With today’s post  I’m going to start  a series with the answers  to many common questions from everyday life which may seem predictable or obvious but are not .

 The first question I’d like to answer is “Why is glass transparent?” Have you ever wondered how something like glass can be so invisible?

MILLIONAIRE ACCOUNTS

Hello and Happy 2020, everyone! In this month’s post I’m going to list the most followed accounts on Instagram! Do you like IG? Who do you follow, celebrities or people with whom you share interests? Here are the most popular accounts with millions of followers. Are you ready?

THE WITCHES OF SALEM

                                                                         

Witch is a word that has been used in history  to refer to various kind of sorceresses, with various meanings,  depending on the time period and the cultural sphere it was used in. Today we usually use it to refer to a generic evil female magician, like the female antagonists in many fairy tales.

This way of seeing the witches come from the Middle Ages when, because of the centrality of the Christian religion in Europe, those who were considered capable of doing impossible things were called witches (or wizards if they were men) and considered followers of the Devil and, usually, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Today we use the expression witch trials to refer to the enormous number of trials led against the ones who were supposed to practice witchcraft over the course of time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!