According to a report prepared by the International Association of Gays and Lesbians, with data updated until 2016, there are currently 72 countries where homosexuality is criminalized. In 13 of them, the crime can be punished with the death penalty…
(/) To understand why, it is necessary to explain where the expressions come from. The origin of thanks is obscure, but there was a time when, when someone received a favor or a gift, it was obligatory to reciprocate. Thus…
ILLUSTRATIONS Alexandre Jubran Writing hieroglyphs was an art form. Meet some of them In classical Egypt (between 2575 BC and 1630 BC) there were about 700 different hieroglyphs used for communication. It was a complex language: each of them could…
There are several factors that explain these attacks, but experts believe that perhaps the main one was the construction of the port of Suape, south of Recife. It was inaugurated in the mid-1980s, but started to operate at full speed…
To face the cold and food scarcity of the winter in the northern hemisphere, they take the team out of the field, spending time without drinking, eating, urinating and defecating. In the case of black bears, this period varies between…
There are dozens of different positions in the three institutions that take care of the country’s defense – the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. Let’s focus on one at a time. Army There are 19 different positions in…
It was a Hollywood star! Austrian Hedy Lamarr (1913 – 2000), who starred in films such as Samson and Delilah (1949) and The History of Humanity (1957), created the base technology for the global positioning system (GPS) during World War…
QUESTION Humberto Carlos Andrade, Sao Paulo, SP ILLUSTRATES Juliana Caro Because they are mutants. In fact, the clover, which is common in Europe, North Africa and North and West Asia and the United States, has only one leaf, subdivided into…
ILLUSTRATES Felipe Cachopa SUGGESTION Bruna Leme de Araújo, Mogi Mirim, SP 1. A oak island (“Oak Island”) is located in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has 570,000 m2 (about 60 soccer fields). In 1795 rumors began to circulate that, prompted by…
– (Disclosure/Reproduction/Wikimedia Commons) Like so many other complex machines, it was the result of a long, slow evolution. Still during the Renaissance, in the 15th century, the Italian painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci designed a rope-powered tricycle, like a…