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1 giorno fa · Secondo la tesi più diffusa, il continente americano prenderebbe il nome dall'esploratore fiorentino Amerigo Vespucci: la teoria sostiene che fu un cartografo tedesco, Martin Waldseemüller, a suggerire tale nome per il Nuovo Mondo, traendolo dalla forma latinizzata Americus (Vespucius), in una carta del mondo disegnata nel 1507 e contenuta nella Cosmographiae Introductio.
2 giorni fa · Explore the diversity of life on Earth, its importance, and efforts to conserve it.
23 ore fa · Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right.
2 giorni fa · Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.
3 giorni fa · 07R01, an integrated circuit by Motorola.Integrated circuits were an essential enabling invention allowing the creation of software. A host of earlier inventions were necessary for the creation of software, including mathematics—especially binary and decimal number systems, and zero—alphabets, writing, mechanical calculators, boolean algebra, transistors, integrated circuits, and plastics.
4 giorni fa · The polar bear was given its common name by Thomas Pennant in A Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771). It was known as the "white bear" in Europe between the 13th and 18th centuries, as well as "ice bear", "sea bear" and "Greenland bear".
1 giorno fa · War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
