10 English words that we invented in Italy or that we use in the wrong way

10 parole inglesi che non esistono o usiamo nel modo sbagliato
THE’English it is a language that now pervades our daily lives: from social media to films, from songs to work ...

What is the Louvre Abu Dhabi? And where did Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi” that was to be exhibited there go?

louvre abu dhabi
When you think about the Musée du Louvrethe tree-lined avenues of Paris immediately come to mind, the queue to see ...

Are we really “suited or not suited” to learn foreign languages? And if so, why?

apprendimento lingue straniere
The ability to learn a new language it is often perceived as a natural gift: some people seem to absorb ...

Dreamtime, what is the Dream World of the Australian Aborigines

mondo tempo del sogno australia aborigeni
The Dreamtime (or Dreaming), in Italian called “Dream Time” or “Dream World”is one of the foundations of Australian Aboriginal cosmologystudied ...

What does the law of supply and demand say? How the market works in summary

come funziona la legge della domanda e della offerta
There request el’offer are two fundamental concepts ofeconomy whose relationship explains the behavior of consumers and sellers on the market: ...

The chilling sound of the Ehecachichtli, the “Aztec whistle of death”

fischietto azteco della morte
The native populations ofCentral America (like the Aztecs hey Maya) had a great tradition linked to the creation of whistles ...

In Ancient Egypt they used psychotropic substances in rituals: discovered in a 2000 year old vase

vaso dio bes egizi sostanze psicotrope
Recent analyses, carried out by a research group from the University of Trieste led by Henry Greekon a vase ofancient ...

Do you say hammock or hammock? 10 Italian words that we almost certainly pronounce wrong

10 parole italiane che sbagliamo a pronunciare
There Italian languagedespite being phonetically regular (it is pronounced “as it is written”, although with exceptions), has some words whose ...

Why is “Black Friday” called that and what are the origins of “Black Friday”?

perche black friday si chiama cosi e quali sono origini venerdi nero
The Black Friday (literally “Black Friday”) falls every year on the day following the feast of Thanksgiving in the United ...

The figure spotted in the Pacific last January is not Amelia Earhart’s plane: that’s what it was

Immagine
The image captured by a sonar at 5 thousand meters deep in the Pacific that we saw in all the ...