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Don Felipe and Doña Letizia presented the awards at the Premios Macael gala / 20 years ago, TV journalist Letizia Ortiz was herself the presenter at the event
“El Desierto Florido“ (The blossoming Desert) is a phenomenon in Chile’s Atacama when it has rained there. During October 2022, the driest place on Earth was in color again
“The Planets!“ is a 2000-piece puzzle set featuring 8 celestial bodies of our solar system. They range in size from Mercury at 7“ up to Saturn with rings of 39“
The vocational competition’s umbrella organization withdrew the event from the original host St. Petersburg as a city in Putin’s Russia
Vesuvius‘ last major eruption was in 1944, and this could be the beginning of a longer period of quiescence with only minor volcanic events, scientists at ETH Zurich suspect based on studies of the magma chamber under the mountain
For sandcastles, you need sand, summer, and water. In the Netherlands, there is even a World Sand Sculpting Academy (WSSA)
It is the meteor shower caused by the tail of the comet Swift-Tuttle, through which the Earth flies every year
The Southern Ocean’s seafloor is shown with unprecedented accuracy in the updated version of the International Bathymetric Chart IBCSO v2
Federico Fraccaroli of Fraccaroli e Balzan Spa company was elected President of the Italian Natural Stone Association Confindustria Marmomacchine for 2022 to 2024
Carn Brea Castle in Cornwall deserves admiration for the way the builders made use of local circumstances
Researchers from Switzerland and Australia have published a study on “ore-sand”
Slate rings from hunter-gatherers in northeast Europe 6000 years ago may have served for social relations between distant Stone-Age communities
In younger history, the eruption power of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the South Pacific on January 15, 2022, was only reached by Krakatoa in 1883
