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The first Europeanist An immigrant son of the Mediterranean whose family is fleeing the civil war and poverty arrives in France at the age of 9. They mock him as a "foreigner". He manages to attend an excellent school, where he learns many things. He makes his way thanks to merit. He became the Frenchman, or rather the most famous European in the world. How many books have been written about Napoleon? More than two hundred thousand as I have read elsewhere? But I think there are at least twice as many books about Napoleon. Of course, he is by far the most illustrious of the French: even though his mother carried him in her arms when he ran away from the French who fought the Corsican revolt, and as an adult, his opponents always treated him with the contempt reserved for Corsican foreigners. He is still the most painted Frenchman, who has made more films, on which they have written more novels. Napoleon is a character who finds himself in his acts, in the things he does. He was born as the son of the Revolution, a sort of Robespierre on horseback. The reforms he brought to the rest of Europe, starting with the Civil Code, were undoubtedly democratic for the time, a monarchic continent. But then he too was crowned by the Pope. He preached the absolute ethics of action, the triumph of the will over reality: *"I want and therefore I can". And if you can, you must"*. But at the same time it is also the genius of political compromise. He is keen to present himself as neither right-wing nor left-wing. *"Neither red cap in the red heel"*, he says, that is, neither with revolutionaries nor with aristocrats. But he himself realised the contradiction, the difficulty of reconciling opposites and his own limits, when he confided to Metternich in 1813: *"I wanted to unite present and past, medieval prejudices and the institutions of our century. I was wrong!".* Indeed, the idea of a united Europe can be traced back to Napoleon, even though he was a Europe of French hegemony. In a way, it is precise since the 19th century that two contradictory tendencies tend to branch out, the idea of a single European civilisation, from the Vistula to the Atlantic, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, and, at the same time, nationalisms. As long as there is a balance between these two opposing trends, things are fine. Instead, it ends in catastrophe every time one or the other of these tendencies tries to prevail over the other. As in the case of Europeanist forcing. I would not take it for granted that there is another Europe, neither that of Napoleon nor that united Europe founded on the German model - central bank plus federalism.
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Golden Team Hungary dreamed of being free, but it did so too soon compared to the times of history, in the false noise of the hypocritical western world that pretended not to know that the planet was divided into two hemispheres, governed politically and culturally by two masters who looked at each other gnashing their teeth and sharpening their weapons: it was the Europe of the fifties. Greater Hungary or Aranycsapat (Golden Team) was in the 1950s what Holland was to the 1970s. Both teams expressed the best football of their time, both came very close to winning the world title, both went down in history as unfinished greats. Although the System cannot be compared to total football, both Greater Hungary and the Netherlands have been able to count on an exceptional number of champions who, with their class and eclecticism on the pitch, have exalted the project, making it go down in history. The Honved of Puskas, Bozsik, Czibor and Kocsis was an incredible reservoir of a generation of champions like Cruijff's Ajax. The Honved was more than a club, it was the bearer of an offensive and the highly spectacular idea of offensive football, in short, modern, ahead of the times of Dutch football. Talking about Honved and Greater Hungary is basically the same thing since the national team was mostly composed of players from the armed forces, to be precise from the infantry, it is no coincidence that the first half of the fifties for both was marked by international victories and awards. The classic system provided for an M defence and a W attack, a scheme also adopted by Hungary led by Ct Sebes and composed for the most part of Honved players. The Hungarian coach, however, making a virtue out of necessity, i.e. not having a breakthrough striker and having two old-style "Method" insiders such as Puskas and Kocsis (exceptional goal scorers) on the team, though he had to deploy a manoeuvring centre forward, more inclined to suggest than to conclude. The choice fell on Hidegkuti, an amazing wing of Voros Lobogo, who, however, was struggling to show his skills on the national team, so much so that his every call was harshly criticized by the specialized press. Sebes' intuition to make it a manoeuvring centre forward, or backwards that say yes, was decisive for himself, for Hidegkuti and for Hungary, which thus inaugurated the M-shaped module (or M-System) that exalted the sense of goal for the two points, Puskas and Kocsis. Greater Hungary was also the first team to invent the pass into the void, that is, not directly to a teammate, but in an area of the pitch where it was assumed (according to a well-oiled mechanism) that the teammate would be there ready to receive it. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/calcio-sport-squadra-sostenitore-3607229/
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When the English stopped Napoleon On 21 October 1805, off the Iberian peninsula, one of the battles that changed the balance of the world was fought: the battle of Trafalgar. But what happened at Trafalgar 200 years ago? Yes, it was at the height of the Napoleonic era and England felt the risk of an invasion by French troops ruling over the whole continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turner,_The_Battle_of_Trafalgar_(1822).jpg#/media/File:Turner,_The_Battle_of_Trafalgar_(1822).jpg Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had decided to attack Great Britain, which had remained the last great enemy. The task of defending the island rested entirely on the shoulders of the navy, commanded by the valiant Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. To defeat the very strong English fleet, Napoleon had given orders to Admiral Pierre Vìlleneuve to reach America, to reunite with the rest of the French-Spanish fleet (at that time also Spain had fallen under French rule) and to attack the English counting on an overwhelming numerical superiority. But when Villeneuve tried to cross the Atlantic, Nelson forced him to take refuge in the port of Cadiz, keeping him practically in check. Intolerant of this humiliation Napoleon ordered his admiral to force the English blockade. The clash took place in Trafalgar. Nelson, embarked on the flagship Victory, personally led the British and was mortally wounded during the clashes. He had remained faithful to the signal he had given from Victory to his soldiers: *"England expects every man to do his duty"*. He paid the price of his life for this loyalty. But England has not forgotten one of the greatest heroes of its history.
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First Blood America is a country that struggles with its short past, but when the sense of death becomes too distressing, yesterday's wounds begin to bleed again. There are many wounds, but only one has never healed: Vietnam. For American cinema, Vietnam is synonymous with guilt. It doesn't happen for all wars. On the contrary: The United States is a country that has never apologized to the Africans for having deported them as slaves, nor to the Native Americans for having exterminated them, nor to the Japanese for having bombed them with the atomic bomb. They are a country proud to have defeated Nazism (and this is right), to have beaten Saddam Hussein, to have saved half of Korea; they are a country where, if you go to the deep South, you will still find people proud of their great-grandparents who fought the North at General Lee's orders. America does not deny its wars and does not question its military class. With one exception: Vietnam. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/giorno-veterani-l-anzac-day-anzac-4653841/ Of course, they understood that it was an unjust war. In many cases it is true. But in many cases the problem is another: it is the only war they have lost. So the sense of guilt is twofold: the horror of an invasion war overlaps with regret for the defeat, and burning pain for having demonised those who fought it. If you think back to the whole filmography on Vietnam, there are not many films that “apologize” to the Vietnamese, but there are many that “apologize” to the veterans. The American pain can be shared: boys sent to Vietnam without even explaining to them where it was, what it was and why it had to be destroyed, returned home and found themselves facing a country that accused them of being murderers. The trauma must have been very strong and it is no coincidence that films about veterans are psychologically distressing, often very violent. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/vietnam-memorial-day-3465475/ It was 1982 when Rambo arrived in the cinemas, starring Sylvester Stallone, already loved by the public for his famous performance as the boxer "Rocky". The film is an adaptation of the novel "First Blood" by David Morrell. The real film about the return from Vietnam is therefore Rambo. The first Rambo, that of Ted Kotcheff (1982), exciting: Hollywood launches a new kind of hero, the one who fights a personal war against society. Stallone is a former marine who has been transformed by training into a war machine, capable of responding to external stimuli only with violence, fighting the same society he defended in Vietnam. The society that humiliates and marginalises him, forcing him to fight to survive. Never has the cinema been so clear about the fact that war creates misfits who, faced with the difficulties of civil life, will be irresistibly inclined to recreate another home warfare, using the only weapon they have: their military training, their ability to kill.
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No-man's land In August 1914 in Italy and the rest of Europe a war of a few weeks, at most a few months, was expected. The military had the Franco-Prussian War as a model, while civilians thought it was not possible to sustain a conflict that, by calling millions of men to arms, would have limited industrial and agricultural production. The generals obtained from the government extensive powers to intervene in the country, according to the principle that all matters concerning the war were the exclusive competence of the military authorities. Paradoxically, the political autonomy of the military leadership decreased as the war continued and the difficulties at the front increased. The high commands were unable to develop a suitable strategy to overcome the barrier of the trenches which, with the armaments of the time, gave an overwhelming superiority to defence. Technological innovations were not enough to change the situation; chemical weapons were unreliable because they were too variable from weather conditions, tanks and aeroplanes still in a pioneering phase. Only the submarine played a substantial role, but the First World War was above all a land combat, where artillery and machine guns were decisive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#/media/File:Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916.jpg The supreme commands were surprised by the evolution of the conflict: since the initial war of movement, the western and Italian-Austrian fronts stabilised in a position war. The hell of trench life began. Hygienic conditions did not exist, waste and corpses rotted in "no-man's land" (the territory that separated the opposite trenches). The moment of maximum tension was dawn when the risk of an enemy attack or one of your own was greater. In this case, the soldiers had to climb over the parapet and run without shelter towards the enemy fire. When there were no attacks, the soldiers spent the day in the company of small animals with which they shared the trenches, especially mice and fleas, waiting for mail and food from the rear. At night, protected only by the darkness, some patrols would go out into no-man's-land to repair the protection of the trenches, place explosives or perform small actions. These living conditions had a profound effect on the psychology of the fighters; they developed a sense of detachment both from the soldiers stationed in the country or the high commands far from the front and from their families at home, to whom they were unable to communicate the traumatic experience. After intense bombardment, the infantry came out of the trench under enemy artillery fire. If successful, usually, the conquered territory was very small, a few hundred meters, at most a few kilometres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#/media/File:Canadian_tank_and_soldiers_Vimy_1917.jpg In June 1916, on the Somme, the British discharged over 1,500,000 shells into german trenches, but on the day of the offensive 60,000 men were lost, including 21,000 in the first hour. There was no way to overcome the well-established enemy. The exception was the Austro-German breakthrough at Caporetto, which cost the Italian army the loss of more than half a million men, including dead, prisoners and stragglers, and about half of the artillery, but even this offensive had stopped due to the logistical and movement difficulties of the large cannons. The replacement of Cadorna after Caporetto's defeat marked a turning point in the management of the Italian army. Diaz remained in constant contact with the government; put an end to the great offensives; he maintained the harsh disciplinary regime, but no more decimations; above all, it improved living conditions at the front: shorter shifts on the front line, better food, safe licenses, service for the morale of soldiers and officers. The defensive victory over Piave in June 1918 and the offensive of Vittorio Veneto led to the armistice with Vienna and, on November 11, with Berlin. The war for Italy was won, it remained to be won after the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Piave_River#/media/File:The_Battle_of_the_Piave_River,_June_1918_Q19081.jpg
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Vesuvius Scholars claim that the volcano has been silent since 1944 (it had been a limited eruption in the middle of the American occupation) and that it is preparing for an explosive awakening in the centuries to come. Their convictions were developed by studying previous eruptions of Vesuvius. Volcanologists have collected a lot of data: volume of emissions identified the area where the gases deposited, analysed the ashes and studied the extent of the destruction. The studies and investigations are fundamental to understand the precise nature of the volcano's hydraulic system, thus giving researchers the tools to accurately predict the dynamics and risks associated with the next eruptions. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/napoli-panorama-campania-italia-2663371/ The results are not very reassuring for those who live and work around the volcano: an avalanche that should radiate for seven kilometres around it is likely to destroy in less than 15 minutes. The chances of raising the alarm in time and preventing the risk are, of course, linked to the research still underway. It was 24 August 79 AD. Twenty kilometres away Pliny the Elder witnessed the explosion: the burning cloud of gas, ash and pumice stone rolled down the sides of Vesuvius and destroyed Pompeii and its surroundings. Later he buries Herculaneum and his inhabitants. Catastrophic. Terrifying. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/pompei-napoli-2593001/ But the Vesuvius risk is not in that cloud of fire that in the 15 minutes following the next eruption will destroy within a radius of seven kilometres, no, the risk is for the million and more people living on its slopes and without historical memory. The explosion could have devastating effects not because of the unpredictable strength of the volcano, but because of the well-known weakness of prevention. The reason is written in the history of the last seventeen thousand years of Vesuvius and laboriously but effectively reconstructed by volcanologists. In the second half of March 1944, the volcano carried out its last, spectacular eruption and closed the cycle inaugurated in 79 A.D. and lasted about 2000. And he entered indefinitely into that phase which he defined as “dynamic rest”. While outside everything is silent, in the volcano has accumulated from 50 to 100 cubic kilometres of magma ready to be violently expelled outside in the “maximum expected event” that could be an eruption similar to the one that destroyed Torre del Greco in 1631 or a real Plinian eruption, like the famous one of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in any case, the next eruption of Vesuvius, that could happen in a few years or in a few centuries, will open the ninth cycle in the activity of the volcano documented in the last 17 thousand years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius#/media/File:Vesuvius_crater_wall.jpg The risk for the million people who, forgetting the past, have invaded the slopes of the volcano will be much earlier, when days and perhaps weeks in advance Vesuvius will launch the first, unmistakable signs of its next awakening. Then the rats and snakes will leave the mountain, the waters of the wells will become turbid (as in 1631) and the experts of the Vesuvius Observatory will detect the resumption of seismic activity and the variation in the composition of gases, magnetic, electric and even gravitational fields. To put into practice a serious evacuation plan for the Vesuvian area, it will be necessary to warn with great tact those millions of people with no historical memory and little risk education.
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Ligurian cuisine The food of the Ligurians is ancient, aristocratic and practically inimitable. The Genoese, when they dominated the seas, imposed their food in their dominions. The cuisine of the Genoese and Ligurians is simple, but never miserable. Ligurian cuisine is unmistakable from the first taste: sweetness, delicacy, softness on the nose and palate; simplicity, the nobility of the materials treated. The Genoese beaten sauce or "pesto", is the realization of the alchemical dream: green, sweet, delicate, fragrant from the vile garlic, from the common basil, from the wild pine nuts, from the foreign cow and sheep cheeses. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/pesto-aglio-dell-orso-le-erbe-2152210/ If you remember pesto as a sauce, spicy and rough, it means that you met him in the wrong place, or worse, you tried to prepare it yourself. The same goes for the walnut sauce used to season lean ravioli, a pasta filled with wild vegetables and ricotta. Pasta filled with fresh or preserved meat, eggs and cheese: these are the ravioli. Pansotti with walnut sauce is certainly not the classic raviolo stuffed with meat and seasoned with "red sauce", but rather a raviolo stuffed with herbs and ricotta cheese, served with a delicate and creamy walnut sauce. For Ligurians suffering from "Saudade" and for non-Ligurians eager to try a unique dish, here is the recipe: pansoti with walnut sauce. *PANSOTI* https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansoti INGREDIENTS FOR THE SAUCE FOR 6 PEOPLE: a kilo of walnuts, half a pound of macaroons, cooking cream, cognac, a little butter, salt, white pepper. INGREDIENTS FOR THE PANSOTI FOR 6 PEOPLE: 6 eggs (three whole eggs and three yolks) flour enough, a kilo and 300 grams of borage, 700 grams of escarole, 800 grams of spinach, two handfuls of Parmesan cheese, a clove of garlic, a pinch of marjoram. PREPARATION OF PANSOTI: make a normal dough of eggs and flour and cut the pastry into half-moon shapes. Then fill them with the dough obtained by cooking the vegetables mixed with Parmesan cheese and mixed with the egg yolks. PREPARATION OF THE SAUCE: peel and blend the walnuts with the amaretti biscuits and brown them with butter, adding cooking cream and cognac. When seasoning the pasta add a little melted butter. Cook the pasta and dress it with the sauce. Come on, it's not difficult. **By Kork75!**
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Portable Personal Computer One of the many merits acknowledged to the “Big Blue” (International Business Machines Corporation) is that it invented the definition of PC: “The Personal Computer”. A marketing gimmick probably by an unknown copywriter. Because the computer that came out of the IBM factory on 12 August 1981 was a revolutionary machine, but it was by no means the first "personal computer". To the IBM industry, thanks to its extraordinary ability to condition the global market in those years, we must acknowledge the undoubted merit of having given a decisive impulse to the diffusion of an instrument that was then more esoteric than exotic. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/portatile-gadget-portable-computer-35570/ When 5155 (this is the official abbreviation) came out of the factory, the era of the “personal computer” began; this was a very modest machine if compared to today's standards, and extremely expensive compared to these same standards. The processor was an Intel (capable of working at 4.77 MHz.), the same manufacturer that now supplies processors to almost 80 per cent of the world's personal computers. IBM "personal computers" sold more than half a million of them in just one year, five times more than initially forecast, but most of them ended up on the desks of corporate employees and not in people's homes. The idea of "personal" was more related to its size and relative ease of use. The first PC of "Big Blue" cost about two thousand dollars. But the American weekly magazine "Time", that year had understood the scope of the novelty and its disruptive capacity for innovation, had dedicated the cover it usually reserves to the "Man of the Year" to 5155. The IBM computer was by no means the first desktop computer or for personal use; before him, there were several attempts, more or less rudimentary, but they were essential and primitive machines. The first real personal computer was built in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was called Apple II (the Apple I was little more than a prototype) and arrived on the market in 1977. It's no coincidence that, at the end of its press releases, Apple reports this sentence: "Apple started the personal computer revolution in the 70s with the Apple II and continued on this path reinventing the personal computer in the 80s with the Macintosh". The Apple II was also the most long-lived computer ever built in the world. It only went out of production, after endless modifications and improvements, in 1993, sixteen years after the first model. Compared to the first IBM, the Apple II had cutting-edge features, such as the ability to handle graphics, even in colour. Despite IBM's impact and enormous financial strength, Apple will remain the most innovative company in the industry for many years to come. It will always be Apple that in 1992 with Lisa will bring to the public the concept of the graphic interface (created years earlier in Xerox's Stanford laboratories, but remained experimental), which became popular two years later thanks to the Macintosh revolution. So, even if it is right to remember the 5155 “personal computer” if only for its symbolic value, the revolution in the personal computer industry was made by Apple, which had proposed certainly more original and innovative solutions, such as its “operating system”. The software, which is the brain and the heart of the computer, is what makes it work and makes all the other programs we install there work. Because IBM had, yes, built the machine, but the software that made it work "Big Blue" took it from a company then completely unknown: Bill Gates' Microsoft. It was MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). It was a minimalist system, where the commands were not iconic and symbolic as in the computers we know today and of which the Macintosh was the absolute and recognised progenitor, but had to be handwritten using often obscure terms (DOS). The graphic interface for IBM-compatible computers did not arrive until November 1985, more than four years after the so-called "first" pc and two years later than its announcement. At a famous press conference in New York, Bill Gates nodded his Windows operating system, which came out of Microsoft's laboratories. And Windows was also a resounding success. **By Kork75!**
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Our ancestors, better men than we thought they were They say that in the days of cavemen life was short, brutal and beastly, yet, the fossil evidence suggests a very different picture. For the last 50,000 years or so of the Ice Age (the total duration of the Ice Age was one and a half million years) the truth is that "primitive" man in Europe was more long-lived and better nourished than his successors until more recent times. Only in the last century has a fraction of humanity reached a point where the demography of the late Ice Age is outdated. As for brutality, the weapons of Ice Age man were used for hunting, which at least in European latitudes was the main means of subsistence, while evidence of warlike aggression is rare and uncertain. Speaking of bestiality, the Ice Age man had a remarkable cultural capacity and some of the works that came to us are among the most beautiful that have been badly created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveman#/media/File:Le_Moustier.jpg The Neanderthals had lived in Europe for at least 100,000 years and are the pinnacle of the European evolutionary line that began perhaps a million years earlier. Over such a long period, and across a whole continent, it is fair to suspect that many different communities have flourished, including some that would arouse our admiration and others that would seem detestable. Some of the early Neanderthals were certainly cannibals, but the Neanderthals would later bury their dead. Also, they were long-lived and cared for the elderly and the disabled. Not even the successors of the Neanderthal man in Europe, the so-called Cro-Magnon (Homo sapiens) were particularly warlike. They left thousands of paintings for posterity, showing the important things in their lives. Look at the so-called early civilisations of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon: endless processions of warriors, the carnage of defeated enemies; the victorious hero who defeated his opponents by subduing him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveman#/media/File:Caveman_1.jpg The art of the Ice Age moves in a completely different field: its subjects are animals, plants, hunters, women, erotic activity. There are also heroes, but the adversary with whom they clash and who can kill them is the great "game" of life: survival (in a famous scene of the paintings discovered in Lascaux, the hunter falls victim to a wounded bison). The weapons used are those of the hunter, like the spear and the harpoon, and not those of the warrior, like the sword, the shield and the bat. So we can conclude that wars are not at all "natural" for man. In the myths currently in vogue, the first men have been described as killer monkeys, or as harmless shellfish gatherers, to name just two of the alternatives. Whatever crumb of truth there may be in such suggestions refers to a much earlier stage of human evolution. The men of the late Ice Age were human beings and we can expect to find in them the whole spectrum of humanity, from foolish to wise, from bad to holy. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/arte-rupestre-pietra-arte-astratto-375225/ They lived within the restrictions imposed by their environment, their beliefs and customs, yet they always pressed against these limits, seeking shortcuts to happiness. Love and hate, daring and cowardice, vanity and modesty, strength and weakness: everything was there because those people were of our flesh and blood. The Neanderthal man, with his dragging gait, clumsy movements and general bestiality, originated from the first palaeontologists, who saw what they wanted to see: a creature recently emerged from the monkey kingdom, which made a pleasant contrast with our superiority. We now know that the chronology of human evolution goes much further back in time and that man was already a perfect biped almost four million years ago, as fossilized footprints prove. Therefore, it is presumable that the Pliocene man moved with the grace and precision of a perfectly trained athlete. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/uomo-di-neanderthal-preistorico-96507/ We know nothing about the language of these Ice Age populations. Their highly organised culture and anatomy (which, as far as the Sapiens were concerned, was identical to ours) suggest that it was as structured and expressive as the language of any hunter population today. For this reason, they, of course, spoke the language of their time. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/grotta-pittura-arte-rupestre-libia-154308/
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The complexity of the cartoon characters What's behind the Disney characters? Many have tried to give philosophical or moral meaning to Disney's masterpieces, also studying the appearance of its characters. Let's think of Winnie the Pooh, that cute teddy bear who carries his hand on his forehead and hisses *“I think, think, think, think...”*. Now, it is clear that Winnie the Pooh, with his incredible optimism, never held back by anything, is a new Candido (we mean Voltaire's), as well as his friend, Ih Oh the Donkey, is specularly the existentialist of the group: sure and absolutely certain that every event can only be interpreted in the worst way. Note that almost all the dialogues are surprising paradoxes and joyful syllogisms: *“I lost a hammer and I lost friends. So if I find the hammer, I find my friends too...”*. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/winnie-the-pooh-pittura-murale-437940/ The Madagascar series is also absolutely philosophical, all centred on the labile concept of identity: the scene in which the zebra Marty, who happens to be with his friends in Central Africa in the second episode, loses himself in a forest of other zebras just like him, so much so that not even his closest friends, including the lion Alex (who is accused by his father of not being a real lion), recognise him anymore. Other than Jung! And what is the meaning of cats? The numerous Disney short films and in various cinematic masterpieces cats are the protagonists, but it is a fact that in Disney fairy tales while praising dogs and mice, cats are all unpleasant. Negative heroes, like Gambadilegno, bad subjects like Lilli's Siamese and the vagabond, cruel and vermin like Cinderella's Lucifer and whoever has more of them. Well, there is a resounding exception: the Aristocats, nice, jazz lovers, intelligent and sensitive, vaguely psychedelic during the party scene in the attic that is home to the kitty Romeo. This is the last Disney film made under the supervision of the great Walt: a resounding homage to the feline world son of dying repentance? Who knows. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/cartone-animato-cat-viso-felino-1296508/ We want to talk about the erotic aura of both Cinderella (she showers naked!) and Snow White. Many give their Marxist reading of the relationship between Donald Duck and Donald Duck: the eternally exploited poor and the unscrupulously rich. Robin Hood has a revolutionary matrix of his own: it is no coincidence that the deeds of the archer who steals from the rich to give to the poor are a clear hymn to subversion. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/biancaneve-fairy-tales-risveglio-913740/ Equally obvious is that Snow White reflects the spirit of her era (1937): well, the relationship between the princess and the seven dwarfs is set in the sign of a representation of the relations between the dominant and subordinate clauses. In short, Snow White's condescension towards the seven dwarfs (who, we remind you, acquire name and personality only starting from this version, before being downgraded to garden furniture) is chilling. Don't worry, it is still a masterpiece. And that ferret is Captain Ahab. He has a wounded eye and is obsessed with what he calls "the great white beast". He is willing to do anything to continue his duel indefinitely: it is in this eternal challenge that the very meaning of his life takes place in the abyss. Do you remember anything? For example, Moby Dick of the great Melville? Of course, I do. But it is also the main story of the third chapter of the Ice Age saga, and the hero we are talking about is Buck, who helps the herd composed of a pair of mammoths, a sabre-toothed tiger and two possum brothers to save their sloth friend in an underground valley where, miraculously, dinosaurs survived in the middle of the Ice Age. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/il-mammut-ghiaccio-animale-4863513/ And the biggest and most terrible of them all, the one you see and don't see for the whole duration of the cartoon, is its "great white beast" just like the white whale of Melville. And let's overlook the fact that the rest of the film is a parable about motherhood, from the birthing mammoth to the mother dinosaur, passing from the desire to have children of a sloth suspected of homosexual tendencies. Mothers always present or even deceased at a young age and replaced by a stepmother identical to Frankenstein's bride, Cinderella's, as well as Snow White's, while Pinocchio's mother is absent. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/gepeto-geppetto-disney-svg-1475528/ Still, on Pinocchio, shall we talk about poor Geppetto? He is Swiss. By the way: why on earth did Disney transfer Pinocchio, Geppetto to Switzerland, dressing him up as a Tyrolean and filling the house with cuckoo clocks? Just Hollywood-branded historical-geographic squint or is there something else going on here? We can go on endlessly examining them all, starting with Mickey Mouse and Goofy, having fun finding the thousands of implications behind the Disney characters and a thousand other cartoons.
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Ready player one (movie) In 2045 the Earth is polluted, overpopulated and many take refuge in a virtual world called Oasis. Its millionaire creator, dying, decided to bequeath it to the first to overcome a series of challenges: a treasure hunt inside the Oasis. A young outcast named Wade Watts is determined to compete, but he will have to deal with the men of the IOI, a ruthless society ready to do anything to win. Even to kill. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/cubi-scelta-uno-giallo-luce-2492010/ The film is the film adaptation of the 2010 novel Player One written by Ernest Cline, who also contributed to the screenplay of the film. If you had to spend your days in a miserable slum or a virtual world full of wonders, what would you choose? Probably the second option. The virtual world is the condition in which most of humanity will soon live, according to the disturbing scenario outlined in Steven Spielberg's new film "Ready player one". With a surprising touch: the imagery of the future will be full of references to the mythical 1980s! https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/il-cubo-di-rubik-cubo-rubik-puzzle-3347244/ *THE RUBIK'S CUBE* Launched on the market in 1980 and called "Zemeckis' Cube" in the film, it will give the protagonist a decisive help. *I VAN HALEN AND "JUMP"* The film's opening sequence echoes the hymn song by Van Halen (1984). *CHUCKY, THE KILLER DOLL* The fantasy universe of Oasis could not miss Chucky, the terrifying puppet from "The Killer Doll", a horror film (1988) that had six sequels. *THE "BACK TO THE FUTURE" CAR* The DeLorean DMC-12, the only model produced by the house with the same name, was the "time machine" of the film "Back to the Future" (1985). Parzival (the virtual nickname of the protagonist) will use it in a wild race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM But why all these references to the 80s? Perhaps because that decade also marked the consecration of the great director (from “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” to the Indiana Jones saga)? The fact is that much of the story takes place in the virtual universe of Oasis, created by a kind of newcomer Steve Jobs, the inventor James Halliday. Halliday grew up in the 80s and from there come the countless ideas for the creation of his virtual world. A film, therefore, that is aimed at least two audiences: those who grew up then (like Halliday) and the very young. The protagonists are all teenagers, starting with Wade (Tye Sheridan), who lives in a slum in Columbus. In the real world, Wade is shy, insecure and awkward, but on Oasis he turns into Parzival, a sort of fearless knight. His friends are virtual too. From the gigantic Aech, half-ogre and half-machine, to the fascinating Art3mis. And the discovery of the real identities hidden behind the other "avatars" will bring new surprises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48 **Ready player one** Actors Tye Sheridan, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke Duration. 140’ Director Steven Spielberg Release: 2018 (United States)
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Television The first cathode ray tube dates back to 1927, but a primitive electromechanical system was invented in 1884 by a Russian (Paul Nipkow). In 1929, Alessandro Banfi and Sergio Bertolotti had transmitted the figure of a cloth doll at a distance in the Uri (Italian Radiophonic Union) studios in Milan. To film it they used a perforated disk that rotated quickly: the light passing through the holes described the object in the form of a series of light impulses. A battery of photocells had transformed the whole into electrical impulses, ready to be sent by cable. The image, as big as a couple of stamps, was later reconstructed with another disc equipped with a neon tube. The electromechanical television system used by the two Italian engineers is the result of Paul Nipkow's research. Already in 1884, Nipkow invented the rotating disc system! (which would later bear his name), which was later developed by the Scotsman. John Logie Baird, Thanks to the latter and his Radiovision equipment, in 1927 the BBC produced the first television station. But the story of the birth of modern television speaks Russian. Born in Murom, 300 kilometres east of Moscow, the physicist Vladimir Kosma Zworykin is the father of television as we know it today. The meeting with Boris Itosing, his professor at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, who has been using a primitive cathode ray tube as a receiving device since 1907, was fundamental. Forced to emigrate for political reasons, Zworykin arrived in the United States in 1919. And it was in a research laboratory in Pittsburgh that the prototype of electronic television was born: the iconoscope and the cathode ray tube, ancestors of television cameras and TV screens. The iconoscope was a cathode ray tube (which "shot" electrons), modified to explore the object to be transmitted. A series of photocells converted it all into current sent through the cable. On the other side, there was the cathode ray tube, what today we would call a screen. Here the electrical impulses become images, hitting photosensitive elements that can illuminate themselves for long enough to transmit a complete frame. Thus, the human eye sees a whole image and not a succession of light spots. Zworykin's research alternated with the brilliant discoveries of Phil Taylor Karnsworth, who had designed an electronic television system. In 1926, not yet twenty, he founded a company to develop his ideas, which led to a first patent and public demonstration of television in 1934. Two years later, he was able to broadcast to about fifty television sets in Philadelphia. In the meantime, Zworykin, who moved to Rea, presented television to the public in 1939. It was 30 April 1939, a few months later Hitler invaded Poland and in Europe, it was the beginning of the Second World War. But an epochal event was about to take place. Among great ceremonies, the Universal Exhibition of New York opened. The great American corporations aimed to amaze the world with something extraordinary. Some presented Elektro, a sort of robot attached to the power socket that could do many funny things, even smoke a cigarette; General Motors, queen of cars, presented an animation of the motorways of the future, with rivers of cars that, controlled from a distance, ran fast along with the great spaces of the American continent; even further on, there was Rotolactor, a bizarre valve device able to wash, dry and milk 150 cows. Half a million people were there that day at the inauguration of the great Fair. Some with their mouths open, others a little perplexed. RCA, the company that owned the radio chain NBC, had chosen the 1939 Fair to present the last wonder of wonders, a "thing" called TV. A primordial camera, mounted on a structure as bulky as a crane, had been installed on a platform just under 20 metres from the speaker stage. At 12.30 p.m. it was lit to frame the mayor of New York, the mythical Fiorello La Guardia, who, very curious, had come down from the stage to approach that strange banger. Immediately afterwards, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was framed as he delivered his inauguration speech. There were only 200 televisions on that day in the New York metropolitan area, most of them owned by NBC executives or eccentric billionaires, but there were also several monitors in the large atrium of the RCA headquarters in Manhattan, in some department store windows and the exhibition stands reserved for companies. All those who saw the first shots of La Guardia and Roosevelt were impressed by the sharpness of the images. From that day on, regular broadcasts began in many countries. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/tv-televisione-retr%C3%B2-classico-1844964/ In Italy, in the same year the "radiovision service" began from Rome Monte Mario and at the Milan Radio Show. It will be the war that will delay the success of TV, which is why many believe that it was only born in the 1950s.
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The destiny of men We are all tied to the thread of our destiny. Sometimes things happen and it cannot be avoided. Other times things happen because we have done nothing to avoid it. In the second case it has nothing to do with destiny, but this is the negative side. The positive side?Sometimes things happen without us doing anything. Other times we do everything wrong but the universe (fate or luck) leads us to a favourable solution. Morality is always the same anyway: things that have to happen happen the same. But that doesn't mean that we can stand still and do nothing, complaining that it doesn't happen the way we want it to. Why? Because we cannot know the plans of the universe on our own account. But we can understand what we want personally. And start moving in that direction. *Greetings by Kork75!*
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The Great Dictator (movie) *"... In Tomainia the dictator Adenoid Hynkel unleashes repression against the Jews. The beautiful Hannah and her lover, a barber who bears a striking resemblance to Hynkel, flee. The barber, first captured, escapes from the concentration camp and by chance bumps into the real dictator and is arrested on his behalf. From the Führer's microphones, the barber gives the world a long message of peace and hope..."* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zroWIN-lS8E The Great Dictator, the film directed by Chaplin in 1940, a lashing and comic satire of Nazi-Fascism, Hitler and Mussolini who were attacking Europe at that time, was to be called “The Dictator”, but Paramount owned the rights to that title and did not intend to deprive itself of them. Besides being a beautiful and funny film, it was a unique phenomenon: the most famous and beloved clown of his time openly defied the man who had caused the most horrors and suffering in modern times. And something was alarming and strange in the physical resemblance between Chaplin and Hitler. The great dictator was Chaplin's first spoken film. It was his first political, propagandistic film: no one in Hollywood had made a film so openly, explicitly anti-Nazi until then. The United States had not yet entered the Second World War and was home to many fascist movements; there was a widespread belief in the country that it should not participate in the war. The “premiere” was on October 14, 1940, in Los Angeles, on October 15 in New York. The Great Dictator is one of the masterpieces of the history of cinema. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/charlie-chaplin-charlie-pagliaccio-2754059/ The great dictator: directed by Charles Chaplin. With Jack Oakie, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner. Comedy, USA, 1940, duration 126 minutes. **By Kork75!**
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Little Big Man (movie) In Little Big Man, the glorious pioneers, the conquerors of the West, who are not shown as men all in one piece, but seen in an ironic and deforming light, which gives them an unusual dimension. The film wants the rehabilitation of the redskins, while one of the Indians' most famous adversaries, General Custer, is derided as never before. The film tells the story of Jack Crabb's life: a 121-year-old Methuselah. The man tells a journalist about when he was a child and how the Indians killed his parents. Saved by another tribe of Indians, Jack was raised with love and renamed by them "Little Big Man". Among a thousand adventures, Jack then returned among the whites, among whom he found his gunslinger sister, becoming a gunslinger himself. He then enlists as a muleteer under General Custer and starts looking for his wife kidnapped by his Indian friends. Jack passes between the two civilizations with ease, thus experiencing advantages and disadvantages, without choosing which side to take. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/dreamcatcher-opere-d-arte-modello-1030769/ Nauseous from the horrors he saw during his time in the army, he became a hermit and took the cause of the Indians in his heart, to rejoice when the cocky Custer was won at the Battle of Little Big Horn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K4l5ZZe4-k Original title: Little Big Man Country: United States of America Genre: Western, Adventure Year: 1970 Duration: 140′ Director: Arthur Penn Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Ray Dimas **By Kork75!**
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The ketchup in pills Ketchup, as we know it, is a sweet and sour tomato sauce. This much-loved sauce, although it is often considered a US product par excellence, the origin of ketchup is oriental. Ketchup is one of the most used sauces to accompany fries or stuff sandwiches, but did you know its ancient use in the medical field? https://pixabay.com/it/photos/pomodori-ketchup-triste-alimentari-1448361/ In the past, it was a medicine, even in pills. For a time, in the 19th century, ketchup was used as a medicine, as Dr John Cook Bennett saw it in 1835. He thought that tomatoes could cure diseases such as diarrhoea, jaundice, and indigestion. Although weird and without scientific basis, the new “drug” was quite successful, until someone discovered the laxative effect of tomatoes. The ketchup medicine empire collapsed in 1850. **By kork75!**
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Five Lands "Cinque Terre" A strip of terraced hills that, depending on the points, descend gently or fall to the sea from a height of even more than five hundred metres are the Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre, the poetry of the sea: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Cinque Terre, the poetry of the sea of the places dear to Montale, wine and the via dell'Amore Monterosso is the capital. Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore the other “clods”, imbued with a dry pride. These are the Cinque Terre, Riviera di Levante, worthy of an immortal song, according to Petrarch. About ten kilometres between Punta del Mesco and Portovenere. It is a magical area of about twenty kilometres that starts from the east, from Riomaggiore to Manarola, from Corniglia to Vernazza and Monterosso, and this is the land that produces the famous white wine that takes its name from the region. These people have erected dry stone walls, built stone on stone, to create a small flat space to stop landslides and put their rows or low pergolas. Fields cultivated with difficulty to defend themselves from the libeccio and to get the most out of the stony ground. Here men have tamed nature without offending it and bent it to their needs. By Kork75!
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A Million Stairs Born in Genoa on 12 October 1896, Eugenio Montale was a poet, writer, translator and critic who contributed to enriching our cultural heritage. Montale was the last of the five children of Domingo, the manager together with the cousins of a small commercial company, and of Giuseppina Ricci, who came from Nervi. His father was also Ligurian, originally from Monterosso, in the Cinque Terre, where the Montale family had a house, the place of Eugenio's childhood holidays and which in the poet's sentimental geography is an important place. Monterosso had been a very formative season. He spent his youth in Liguria in contact with the most remarkable poets of the region. He published the collection “Ossi di seppia” in 1925. In Florence, in 1927 he became director of the Gabinetto Vieusseux, a position that was taken away from him in 1938 because he did not join the Fascist party. Of this period is the collection of poems “Occasions” and some translations (Eliot, Shakespeare) later gathered in the “Quaderno di traduzioni”. He was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic on 13 June 1967: for very high merits in the literary and artistic field. After the war, he worked in the editorial office of “Corriere Della Sera” and resumed his poetic activity only after the death of his wife. Montale received the world's highest award in the field of literature from the Swedish academy in 1975, winning the Nobel Prize. The poet of the words “rough and essential”, once considered difficult to read due to the density of its meanings, today he is recognized as the author of works that have never lost sight of man's deepest values. He died in 1981. "***Ho sceso dandoti il braccio***" is one of the most beautiful and famous poems by Eugenio Montale dedicated to his wife, Drusilla Tanzi, who died in 1963. The poem is in Montale's last collection: Satura, published in 1971. Ho sceso dandoti il braccio Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale E ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad ogni gradino. Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio. Il mio dura tuttora, né più mi occorrono Le coincidenze, le prenotazioni, le trappole, gli scorni di chi crede che la realtà sia quella che si vede. Ho sceso milioni di scale dandoti il braccio Non già perché con quattr'occhi forse si vede di più. Con te le ho scese perché sapevo che di noi due Le sole vere pupille, sebbene tanto offuscate, erano le tue. Eugenio Montale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Montale) I tried to translate it, sorry. ***A Million Stairs*** *"With your arm in mine, we have made at least a million stairs. And now that you're not here, there's a gap at every step. Even so, our long journey was short. I'm still on the road, I don't need any more... of reservations, connections, stratagems, the constant contempt of those who think that reality is what you see. I came down millions of stairs giving you my arm, certainly not because four eyes see better. I came down those stairs with you because I knew that the only true eyes, no matter how dark, were yours".* By Kork75!
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Tierra! On 12 October 1492 the sailor Rodrigo de Trina shouted: Tierra! But for the landing in the “New World”, he waited for dawn. To Christopher Columbus, and him alone, we owe the discovery, and the subsequent conquest, of the American continent, an event that shook the world. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoforo_Colombo#/media/File:Gustav_Adolf_Closs_-_Die_Schiffe_des_Columbus_-_1892.jpg Leaving Palos on August 3, 1492, with three caravels (Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria) Columbus thought he was heading towards the Indias. Christopher Columbus sailed for 33 days, before landing on a new continent, which later took the name America in honour of another great Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The explorer did not touch the continental part, but an island on the continent of today's Central America which he christened San Salvador. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoforo_Colombo#/media/File:Portrait_of_a_Man,_Said_to_be_Christopher_Columbus.jpg The character Christopher Columbus, historically decipherable only when he moved from his native Genoa to the most promising Portuguese shores, remains one of the most fascinating in history. Nothing, or almost nothing, is known about him as a young man, and not even a portrait has remained in which it is possible to catch at least the expression of that singular man. His bibliography tells us that Christopher Columbus was born and raised in Genoa, he was well-off, and his father, who had always been a Catholic by profession, had misadventures, and so he moved to Savona. The Europe where Columbus lived was a Europe where the Genoese dominated the Mediterranean when the Muslim conquest, first of all Turkish, and then of the Ways of the Indies, made it difficult to supply the voluptuous goods to which Europeans had become accustomed: pearls, silks, spices, gold. The Venetians did not understand that the closure of those markets was irreversible. The Genoese sensed that the West was the future of European trade. When Columbus left Genoa, he found first in Portugal, and then in Spain the financing that helped him to realise his plan: to sail west to reach the Indias. At the end of the 15th century, they knew that the world was spherical and Columbus studied the routes of his navigation on the maps of his brother Bartholomew (well-known cartographer). Welcomed with all honours on his return to Spain, Columbus made three more journeys to the Americas, still under the crown of Ferdinand the Second of Aragon and Isabella of Castile: financiers of his enterprises. By Kork75!
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Finding yourself The need to be alone, away from everything and everyone to find yourself. Sometimes we have to learn to live with our loneliness. Loneliness is a word that over the years is losing its negative meaning and gaining a positive one: it is easy to use it to mean almost a luxury. We live in a society that has super stimulated us with messages of all kinds, both visual and auditory. Our senses are so gratified that the real holiday is really to stay away from everything and everyone. Today we have entered an era in which people, much more than in the past, love to keep themselves company. Without anyone else around. I am one of those people, because being alone for me is regenerating. For some, loneliness is even the secret of their happiness, for me it is finding my inner balance, my mental serenity. But where do you start from? If you want to rediscover the pleasure of being alone but you don't know where to start do as I do, start with a walk surrounded by nature. At least once a week you should find yourself immersed in nature. Sea, mountains, hills, expanses of fields, whatever you prefer. Lie down on the ground, touch a tree, smell a flower or put your feet on the shore. To do what? you will ask yourself. Nothing, that's the beauty. Look, observe and listen to the solitude. By Kork75!
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Out loud I have always wondered why some people scream instead of talking. These people use their voice as a form of expression to intimidate or express anger. Yes, because anger is the main driving force behind the screams, which are, among other things, a means of poor control. So raising your voice is only an indication of emotional instability. We shout to show ourselves stronger than we are and to dominate the situation. However, we only show that we do not have enough control, not even over ourselves. Screams attack and upset those who receive them, but at the same time they subtract strength and reason from the speech of those who use them. I know that it happens to everyone, sooner or later, to be confronted with an irritable person and we are unable to maintain control. It is a real challenge, especially when this person is our boss, colleague or partner. The test is not to allow the other person to make us lose patience, and it is not at all easy. This is a difficult situation to control. The screams are offensive and make us easily alterable. To ask the interlocutor not to shout, the secret is to learn to react in the correct way. Keep calm by using a calm and contradictory discussion and try to lower the tone of the discussion. Why are we shouting then? To defend ourselves: the threat can be real or imaginary, many times it exists only in our insecurity. By habit: those who have been brought up to shout normally internalize this mode of communication. When upset or frustrated, he raises his voice to express disappointment or malaise. Let us remember that shouting brings nothing to the word and although raising one's voice is a great temptation, it is a mistake. By Kork75!
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Cambiare percorso Penso sia utile darsi una metà del viaggio, conoscere la propria strada, sapere a chi rivolgersi, avere indicazioni precise, quindi pianificare prima di agire. Ma è altrettanto bello godersi il viaggio anche senza sapere come arrivarci. Le strade possono essere diverse, ma tutte portano le proprie esperienze. Le nostre esperienze di vita ci aiutano a capire se siamo nel posto giusto e sulla strada giusta. Basta avere il coraggio di intraprendere una nuova strada quando ti rendi conto che non sei dove vorresti essere. Ovviamente devi anche avere il coraggio di accettare il fatto di aver sbagliato da qualche parte. Sbagliato, sì. E quindi devi rimetterti in gioco, ricominciare tutto da capo e provare qualcosa di diverso. Qualcosa che ci porterà nuove esperienze e nuovi sorrisi sulla strada per la nostra destinazione. Da Kork75!
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Trail running Quando decido di uscire a correre nel bosco vicino a casa valuto sempre il mio stato di salute. Sono consapevole dell'impegno e dell'intensità che chiederò al mio corpo. Negli anni mi sono reso conto che il trail running è sconsigliato, ad esempio, a chi ha problemi cardiovascolari (ci vuole cuore e polmoni in perfetto stato di funzionamento), a chi ha più di 59 anni ea chi non fa esercizio da molto tempo tempo , o per chi ha molto eccesso di peso: per loro è più salutare fare una bella passeggiata nei boschi immersi nella natura. Sbaglia, infatti, anche chi affronta il trail running nella convinzione di perdere troppo peso. Non vanno sottovalutate le sollecitazioni sulle articolazioni causate dal terreno irregolare, ecco perché servono scarpe da trail running. Attenzione anche alla sudorazione e alla perdita di sali minerali, è un momento per prendere un raffreddore, per questo mi vesto a strati e in base alle condizioni atmosferiche. Quindi è necessario ricordare la necessità di non correre a digiuno, ma di idratare il corpo almeno 20 minuti prima dell'allenamento. Di solito corro la mattina quando sono libero dal lavoro (due volte a settimana), quindi faccio colazione almeno due ore prima, con biscotti secchi, marmellata, un pezzetto di cioccolato, latte o yogurt. Il mio percorso è lungo una distanza di 12km e durante lo sforzo non prendo quasi mai liquidi e alla fine, quando torno a casa, un bicchiere d'acqua prima della doccia. Per sentirsi bene e prevenire gli infortuni, è anche importante fare esercizi di riscaldamento (un po 'di stretching) e esercizi di raffreddamento all'inizio e alla fine (una passeggiata di dieci minuti è sufficiente). Gli esercizi di raffreddamento sono utili per permettere al sangue di riequilibrare i vari distretti corporei e per rimuovere l'acido lattico, responsabile della sensazione di affaticamento, dai muscoli. Saluti da Kork75!
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Tutto cambia A volte rivivo i bei ricordi di quando ero bambino con nostalgia, come un'illusione per sfuggire al presente. Sono consapevole che non troverò mai la felicità incondizionata di quando ero bambino, ma a volte ci penso. Alcuni sono lontani ricordi sbiaditi di momenti trascorsi in famiglia (feste o compleanni) o con gli amici (ricordo infinite partite di calcio). Guardo dentro e indietro nei miei ricordi, capisco che devo rinunciare a certe cose che ho acquisito inconsciamente negli anni per ritrovare quel senso di libertà infantile, ma poi pensarci osservando i miei nipoti e rispondendo alle loro domande (zio perché?) Ho voglia. Ma una cosa che di certo mi manca da piccola è vivere il presente inconsciamente. Il bello di quando ero bambino è che non mi preoccupavo di essere perfetto, con me stesso e con gli altri, forse è per questo che mi dicono che ero un po 'canaglia (arrogante e presuntuoso, come lo sono tutti i bambini). Non avevo certo l'ossessivo bisogno di oggi di avere tutto sotto controllo, non conoscevo il significato della parola colpa (chi non ha mai rubato caramelle alla nonna o disobbedito alla madre?). Ogni esperienza è stata un'avventura, una continua ricerca di cose nuove da imparare commettendo errori. A pensarci ora, tutto ciò che da bambino pensavo fosse negativo, come un nuovo tentativo era in realtà un pezzo di vita costrittivo, una lezione per il mio futuro. Solo da adulto, quando sono maturato e ho capito, ho sostituito la parola colpa con responsabilità. La vita è un cambiamento costante. Il cambiamento è spesso associato alla crescita, ma quando resisti al cambiamento, resisti alla crescita e quindi anche da adolescente o ventenne ero un bambino eterno. Ma tutto cambia. Questo è il motivo per cui do sempre a mio figlio il mio consiglio: Divertiti, impara sempre qualcosa di nuovo, incontra nuove persone. Conclusione, hai bisogno del passato per vivere meglio il presente. È utile ricordare e rivivere il passato per capire il presente e modificarlo momento per momento ... Kork75
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Oh, Dear... Fletcher Christian was not the kind of Englishman who came from the sea to impose his rule, killing natives like a crazed shark. Yet Tahitians killed him with the violence he reserved for sharks onshore and for revenge that did not even concern him directly. After a long escape in the Pacific, the young gentleman who had snatched the Bounty from Captain William Bligh set fire to the vessel and took refuge with his men on the deserted island of Pitcairn, south-east of the Tuamotu. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/nero-pearl-caraibi-maledizione-1602436/ They're some of the drunken mutineers had savagely whipped their Tahitian travelling companions and tied them up, their wounds sprinkled with salt. It was after this act of absurd sadism that the Tahitians stole muskets and accepted and sowed the fields. The sailor Wiliams fell first, then Christian, then the gunner Mills and the sailor Martin, finally Brown the gardener. https://pixabay.com/it/photos/haiti-panorama-montagne-piante-85873/ Williams and Christian did not have time to understand what was happening. The last words of this Englishman who went down in history for taking possession of a useless vessel during an insignificant mission on the most remote seas were: "Oh, Dear...". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Christian **By Kork75!**
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From helicopter to scooter The name of Corradino D'Ascanio (Popoli, 1 February 1891 — Pisa, 5 August 1981) has gone down in history as the man who in the early postwar years designed the “Vespa”, the two-wheeled motorbike of the Italians, which became the symbol of popular motorisation in the world. D'Ascanio was an aeronautical engineer. The “father” of the scooter, in the encyclopaedias of science and technology, is the “father” of the helicopter. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ditta_G._Camplone_%26_Figli,_elicottero_DAT_2,_Pescara_1926_-_san_dl_SAN_IMG-00003402.jpg In 1930 he proved his ingenuity by designing the helicopter, or rather, he was the first to create a vertical flight vehicle: the model took off in Ciampino on 13 October 1930. Corradino D'Ascanio, was an unheard prophet, in more mature times and under more favourable circumstances, the helicopter would go into industrial production. The D'At3 was a helicopter equipped with articulated blades (it had two for each stacked rotor) and control surfaces similar to ailerons, which allowed it to go up and down vertically. For forward and backward movement, a propeller placed horizontally in the tail tilted the entire unit forwards and backwards, thus generating a propulsive component in the desired direction. Similarly, for transverse stability, there was a propeller placed horizontally on a structure to the left of the fuselage. A third propeller arranged symmetrically concerning the previous one, but with the axis parallel to the aircraft axis, controlled the direction of motion in the horizontal plane. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=dat+3+elicottero&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:DAT3_1.jpg The complexity of the manoeuvring system, which highlighted the seriousness of the problem of controllability in the first machines, should come as no surprise: ten years later, a Sikorsky prototype, during the presentation to the top management of United Aircraft, moved elegantly in all directions: except forward! The D'At3, on the other hand, was well controllable and, piloted by Major Marinello Nelli, between 8 and 13 October 1930 established three world records, rising to a height of 18 metres, flying for 8 minutes and 45 seconds over a distance of 1078.60 metres. D'Ascanio received no support from the Italian government. The Italian Air Force and the Navy were for the fixed-wing. In 1936 Piaggio was looking for a propeller designer, and D'Ascanio accepted the job. And between one propeller and another, he designed a new helicopter based on a new formula, the same one that would be adopted almost simultaneously in the United States by Sikorsky and Bell. After the war, Piaggio decided to concentrate all its efforts on motor scooters. D'Ascanio recounted the birth of the most popular vehicle in Italy at the time: "Peace had just returned and everyone was trying to do something to rebuild the country. Enrico Piaggio called me in Biella, where he had a factory. It was an aluminium saucepan factory, but I started to design a practical motorbike to get the Italians to move around", but this is another story of his. **By kork75!**
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The unfortunate queens of the seas: the Mafalda A tragedy was the shipwreck of the "Princess Mafalda" on 25 October 1927, eighty miles off the Brazilian coast. She was considered the first transatlantic liner in the world and had 1259 people on board who enjoyed the last hours of the voyage. In the afternoon, the propeller broke due to the breaking of an axle. There was a leak in the stern of the ship. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principessa_Mafalda_(piroscafo)#/media/File:Principessa_Mafalda.jpg The watertight bulkheads are not working and cannot stop the water. The sea was calm and "cats also save themselves", as the sailors say, but the lifeboats were in bad condition and overturned causing casualties. Onboard there was panic. Someone killed himself with a revolver. The "Mafalda" sinks at dusk. The commander Simone Gulì sinks with the ship. The dead were 314. **By Kokr75!**
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Smart animals Animals (proportionally) are smarter than us when they have to approach their prey without being recognized. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/lion-maschio-mane-predatore-1734800/ Birds bury food reserves in hundreds of different places and remember them with absolute precision even after a year. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/animali-uccelli-volano-oche-oca-2030018/ Fish that show altruistic behaviour, looking after the offspring of fish of other species while their parents are absent. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/animale-di-pesce-ocean-mare-1299691/ Ants use particular movements to communicate with other ants which task to perform. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/pericolo-direzione-puntamento-44575/ Although these behaviours do not happen very often, they have led ethologists to ask themselves: ***"Do animals really possess what we call intelligence? Can animals lower than the man on the evolutionary scale have what we call mind?"***. The heron using bait to fish seems to be able to make predictions, "study" a project and "understand" what the result will be. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/acqua-uccello-ali-uno-gamba-45844/ According to some researchers, these apparently cognitive abilities may exist in many animal species. In Africa, guenons use different alert signals depending on the type of predator that they spot and emit alarm sounds specific to eagles, poisonous snakes and leopards. The companions who hear the sound respond with a "calibrated" defensive behaviour, depending on the animal, climb a tree to avoid snakes, or hide in the bush to escape eagles. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/scimmia-macaco-scimpanz%C3%A9-pensavo-4699290/ Experiments on parrots contradict common belief in the purely Imitative character of the language of these animals. There are some mysterious aspects of “Animal Mentality”, from the social traditions of the community to how to teach chickens to dance. So the hen is an intelligent animal. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/africa-animale-animali-1300602/ **By Kokr75!**
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Every so often I think about my past, I would like to relive certain beautiful moments ... Or make different choices. Then you realize that you can't relive the past then you have to go ahead and try to give your best in every opportunity ... If you make bad choices it's because you are free to decide your future ... If this is already a good one thing. By kork75.