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#France: Penalties and fines in the championship.

It’s not a good period for French Volleyball. The DNACG (Direction Nationale d’Aide et de Controle de Gestion) has decided to sanction several clubs from the professional divisions. In the … Continue Reading #France: Penalties and fines in the championship.

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Prague: the penguins at Kampa Park which share a serious message about the environment.

We are in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic and one of the most beautiful city in the world, a place which has long attracted artists and wandering spirits. The city has a magnetic appeal for visionaries, scientists and astronomers, and displays every branch of architecture and art across the last thousand years. The […]

The Viking diet: surely better than that of many others medieval people

The Vikings are famous in the common imagination for their large banquets of meat and beer, but what did they actually consume beyond alcohol and meat? The peoples of the North had a varied diet, rich in wild and bred animals, fruit, cereals, poultry and fish and many other foods that they collected in the […]

The forgotten story of the Radium Girls and the Toxic Radioactive Products marketed in the 1920s

In 1917, lot of patriotic young girls counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was fantastic, roughly three times the average working girls’ wage, and the work was light: the main job the young ladies were given was to apply glowing paint to […]

Centro Ceremonioso de Pamashto: a mysterious circle of stones in Peru

We are above the village of Pamashto, a short ride from the historic town of Lamas near the city of Tarapoto, Peru, a high-jungle city that was an unmarked town until the completion of the Carretera Marginal de la Selva (Jungle Highway) in the late-1960s. The small archaeological site know as Centro Ceremonioso de Pamashto […]

Tanzania: the lake Natron and the petrified animals

Don’t let the ring of salty marshes along the edge of Lake Natron fool you: this body of water is one of the most inhospitable areas on Earth! We are in Monduli, Tanzania. Even if the salty red hell is a beautiful sight for eyes, unfortunately conceals a terrible secret. Colored a deep red from […]