Author: Adventures in History
Last year, Polish scientists analysing a mummy discovered in 1826 and kept in the National Museum in Warsaw for decades, discovered that the embalmed body was hiding a secret: It belonged to a pregnant woman with a fetus still in her womb. The discovery, the first of its kind, has impressed archaeologists ever since. In January, another article about the mummy was published, focusing specifically on her stillborn son. According to the report, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the fetus was between 26 and 30 weeks old when its mother died and was buried in her in good…
American researchers investigating artistic expression in a cave in Alabama, USA, have discovered an impressive cave painting made by Native Americans (that is, made of stone). The 10-foot-long drawing, which appears to depict a rattlesnake, was made by locals in the area a thousand years ago, according to the team’s scientific article published Wednesday, April 4 in the journal Antiquity. The drawn snake can only be identified using photogrammetry, which uses hundreds of images of the same location to create a 3D model. This is because, as reported by Live Science, the paintings were not only made with mud, which…
This is a story that demonstrates what the future of lost luggage will look like in a world where everything can be traced. It involves passenger Elliot Sharod, who was just married back from South Africa and was unlucky enough to discover that his luggage had been lost by the Irish airline Aer Lingus. NEWLY MARRIED It was supposed to be a smooth ride home to Surrey, UK, but expectations were shattered at the time of baggage claim at Dublin airport. The three suitcases traveled with him and his wife on a complex route that started in Johannesburg and ended in the Irish…
The new move shows President Putin doesn’t appear interested in ending his offensive anytime soon, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appeared to be waning, with the Russians abandoning much of their occupied territories and focusing on specific areas. . In the past few days, there have been new bombings in the Kyiv region of the capital, and an officer of the Polish Air Force reported that the alarm situation in the country has worsened over the past week, with Russian fighter jets more frequently, according to the Air Force Magazine portal. Approaching the border reinforces this. Su-35, Su-27 and MiG-29…
Russia plans to produce 10 Tupolev Tu-214 planes a year by 2025. Currently, about two to three of these planes are manufactured annually, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said on Thursday, the news agency reported. TASS _ The information comes after the country announced last week that it had started production of 20 units of the same model. “To provide a safety net for the MC-21 medium-haul aircraft, we are increasing production of the well-known Tu-214 aircraft manufactured by Kazan Aviation Plant. We expect to reach a volume of 10 planes per year by 2025 and then gradually increase production of the…
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With the resumption of Gostomel Airport, northwest of Kiev, the owners of the Antonov jets were able to return to the main headquarters of the Ukrainian manufacturer and airline. The airport was retaken after the departure of Russian troops from the Kiev region, in a reorganization of the Russian military, which now concentrates its actions in the most eastern, southern and southeastern parts of Ukraine, especially in the separatist regions. Since then, the airport has gradually been opened for the original operators to visit the facilities. In a recent moment, the main pilot of the then largest plane in the world,…
An engineer with a sensitive soul or a master who made art with physics and mathematics? The Italian Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the owner of a creative, prototypes, eclectic and multitasking mind, a fact that immortalized him in the history books. Sculptor, engineer, scientist, anatomist and, of course, painter, da Vinci went far beyond the Mona Lisa. A visionary, he designed prototypes that challenged the technological possibilities of his time. Hang gliding The difference between the Leonardian dream of flying from the other dreamers that preceded him is in his sentence: “A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical laws”. He was the first to…
Perhaps no person has ever represented a period of history as well as Leonardo da Vinci. Called “the man of the Renaissance” (a time characterized by the appreciation of man and nature), he, throughout his 67 years of life, was involved up to his neck in the scientific and artistic experiments that marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. Da Vinci was brilliant in practically every activity he got into: he was a painter, engineer, inventor, musician (composer and played the lyre), architect, sculptor, astronomer and writer. And he did it all in an innovative, revolutionary way – really brilliant. For this reason, and…
The war between Russia and Ukraine is approaching 50 days and the same time since Ukrainian airspace was closed to civil aircraft flights, due to the very high risk associated with such takeoffs. Thus, since February 24, the skies over the country are completely empty of passenger plane, but this “routine” has been silently broken. On 2 April, an ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft of the Ukrainian airline Windrose, branded UR-RWB , left the country at war in the most discreet way possible, having taken off from Lviv with the transponder off and followed at low altitude to the border with Poland. In the morning…