Missile system in South Korea

In Seongju, South Korea, the military is stationing weapons near where people live,provoking irritation and fear. The country is installing 4 rocket launchers made by the USA,which are to protect the country from possible missile attacks. 

People are worried that the system's powerful radar will bring health hazards. They are worried that North Korea will want to attack them.

Protesters and police have been fighting and a lot of people have been hurt.

  

Mosaic

The stair of the good humor

Place: The 16th Avenue Tiled in S.Francisco

Artists of the work: Aillen Barr and Colette Crutcher

Year: 2005

The stair of the good humor is a mosaic realized from Aillen Barr and Colette Crutcher. The stair un S.Francisco is inspired to the various stairways of all the world, especially the stair of "Santa Maria del Monte" in Caltagirone, Catania.

In fact the inagural ribbon  of the staircase of S.Francisco was cut by the mayor of the city of Caltagirone.

The job of the two artists has lasted one year and half and it counts around 2000 handmade tiles and 75000 very colorful fragments of tiles, glasses and mirrors ; 220 names of donors have been entered among the tiles To advertise the city.

                        THE EARTH OF THE FIRES

The Earth of the Fires is the territory among the province of Naples and the province of Caserta. In these places a lot of unauthorized dumps exist, and when these dumps need to make space for other garbage, they hang some fires. These garbage are defined "special refusals". These "special refusals" were buried under earth provoking various catastrophes. The Campania has become the region more unproductive in Italy; more often thousand of people always die of tumor. These fires provoked by the unauthorized dumps were also increased by the presence of the Camorra, who arranges for the disposal of special refusals from the years 80. One of the reformed bosses is Schiavone, which has declared that the toxic garbage, nuclear waste, and chimical compositions coming from the North Europe have been burned along the costline Domizio. A lot of associations were born for defeating  this danger, like the association "Us parents of everybody": this association has been founded by parents that have lost their own children because of the Earth of fires, and the job of the association founds him on the search of the various consequences of the Earth of fires. 

   People who read live longer

People who read live longer and the books are better than newspapers and magazines. Scientists looked at the lifestyles and reading habits of 3500 men and women for 12 yaers. Everyone was over 50 years old at the start of the research. People who read for up 3 hours are 17% less likely to die than people who don't read. Older people live longer when they read.

            Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are a rock group from Sheffield in the North of England. The group is composed by Alex Turner, the guitarist and the singer, Matt Helders, the drummer, and Nick O' Malley, the bassist. The group got together in 2002 while while they were all still at school. They started practicing at home but after they found a new place to practice. After their 1st  concert, their fans created a fan-page in Myspace and they became even more famous. The group signed a contract with the Dominio label after having refused a lot of offers. Their 1st  single " I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor " and after the band has won a lot of prizes. 

        

Climate changed the shape of our nose

Why is everyone’s nose a different shape? A recent study says that the Earth’s climate could change the shape of our nose, in fact people with wider noses live in humid areas,  while people with narrower noses live in colder places, and so our nose is like a temperature controller. The scientists have obtained this answer analyzing the noses of Africans, Asians and Europeans and the research could help people with the heat or cold, and the humidity if they go to other countries.
   

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DojKS2I2Jr

All roads lead to Rome

With the death of  Thomas Becket, people make the pilgrimage to Canterbury where he was buried. Canterbury is the starting  point of  the Via Francigena, a medieval route of trade and pilgrimage. But the route was born by the Archbishop of  Canterbury Sigeric The Serious, that in 990 went to Rome to meet  the Pope. On his return  to Canterbury he noted all of his steps. And so the Via Francigena runs from Canterbury to Rome.

                                   

                            the most common                                     errors

that italians do in

english

The most common errors that the Italians do in English derive from the so-called “False Friends”,that are very similar Italian words to other English that however they have a different meaning. Some are:

To Pretend: that it doesn’t mean “to expect”but to pretend (fare finta);

Annoyed: that it doesn’t mean “bored”but annoyed (infastidito);

Firm: that it doesn’t mean “signature” but firm (azienda).

Others errors that Italians committed in English are:

The use of singular and plural, the difference of the use of the verbs Make and Do, and the use of the adjectives.

an internet phenomenon

A new social phenomenon that is depopulating on internet is Instagram. It is a social network used for the more from teenagers. The social network allow the people to take photo, to apply filters and to share it on numerous other social networks like facebook, twitter,Tumbler etc... 

The app has been created by kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger ,and it has been online for the first time in 2010, available only for the devices IOS while in 2012 also for the devices android.

                                   

    Chili Peppers

Red chili peppers can help you live longer. Researchers in the US found that capsaicin, an ingredient in red chili peppers, may boost the metabolism, strengthen the heart and help with blood pressure and obesity. People who regularly ate chili had a 13 % lower risk of dying early. Researchers said hot red chili pepper was associated with reduced mortality.  

 

Fifth November

The UK uses to celebrate the Gunpowder Plot, happened in the afternoon of November Fifth when a group of Catholics, driven by Guy Fawkes planned to make to jump the center of the Parliament to Palace of Westminster containing King Giacomo the first of England. Guy Fawkes, with some friends take the shot in a room next to the saloon where the Parliament would be gathered to the presence of the King: the explosion would have been able to reduce in rubble many of the buildings of the complex of Westminster and the abbey, but the attempt faults. On January 31 Guy Fawkes and other people implicated were hung. The Fifth November of every year the English celebrate this historical story and the children manufacture a puppet whit old suits, they drag him for the roads picking up money for the artificial fires. The puppet is finally hoisted on top of the wood pile that will serve for the bonfire.