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🇺🇸 #Midterm, in Idaho si sta votando anche per un referendum che stabilirà qual è l'arma da fuoco ufficiale dello stato. Sta vincendo il Winchester 1873.
#MaratonaYoutrend
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Breaking News: Deb Haaland, the former congresswoman and interior secretary, will be the nation’s first female Native American governor after winning in New Mexico, according to The Associated Press. nyti.ms/4BFGoHo
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Perché internet funziona peggio di una volta
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As of today Voyager 1 is one light-day from Earth - 25.9 billion km (16.1 billion miles) away.
A radio signal now takes 24 hours to reach it. In ~50 years, it has traveled about 1/1500th of the way to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star at 4.27 light-years.
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Not today. Voyager 1 will reach one light-day away from Earth, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2026, at 5:16:07 a.m. EST.
science.nasa.gov/mission/voyage…
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Sta per rompersi Internet?
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Trump: "He's worse with Blacks than he is with Jews. If you're Black -- if you're African American -- I said to a lot of my Black friends, 'Let me ask you, would you prefer to be called African American or Black?' And it's pretty much a mix. In other words, you're in trouble no matter what you do."
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Patrick Stewart took “Star Trek” as seriously as any Shakespearean role—and his performance turned Jean-Luc Picard into a valiant lead for the ages, @emmasarappo writes: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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UPDATE: We just added 700 more Trump appointees to our database of financial disclosure records, bringing the total to 2,300+ appointees.
Explore the database:
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Patrick Stewart on Trump (2017): “You might say to me, well, you’re not an American, what has it got to do with you? The fact is when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. America I think is on the edge of a very bad flu infection and it’s because of the man who’s in the White House”
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Here is Pope Leo XIV’s recent voting history.
He’s voted in both Democratic and Republican primaries.
He hasn’t voted in a primary since Trump was first elected.
NEW: Pope Leo XIV is set to become the first sitting pontiff in the Catholic Church’s two-thousand-year history to vote in a secular election.
Leo requested an Illinois mail ballot on Oct. 3, and it was sent to his brother John’s home in New Lenox, Ill.
John Prevost visited the pope at the Vatican on Wednesday and may now be carrying the ballot back to the Will County clerk by hand. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…
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Happy 35th Birthday HTML tags!
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
The document contained a description of the first 18 HTML tags: <title>, <nextid>, <a>, <isindex>, <plaintext>, <listing>, <p>, <h1>…, <address>, <hp1>…, <dl>, <dt>, <dd>, <ul>, <li>,<menu> and <dir>.
ALT On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
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Patrick Stewart, attore inglese celebre per essere stato il capitano Jean-Luc Picard nella serie televisiva Star Trek: The Next Generation e poi il professore Charles Xavier nei film degli X-Men, è morto a 86 anni
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Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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La storia delle armi missile, ovvero armi che feriscono o uccidono a distanza
Preistoria
1. Pietra lanciata: non databile, probabilmente già con Homo erectus (oltre 1 milione di anni fa).
2. Lancia da getto e bastone da lancio: Schöningen, Germania, circa 300.000-200.000 anni fa (la datazione è discussa).
3. Arco e frecce: punte da freccia a Sibudu, Sudafrica, circa 64.000 anni fa. Gli archi conservati più antichi risalgono a circa 9000 a.C.
4. Boomerang: Obłazowa, Polonia, in avorio di mammut, circa 30.000-23.000 anni fa.
5. Propulsore (atlatl): Francia, circa 23.000 anni fa.
6. Fionda: proiettili d'argilla nel Vicino Oriente, almeno 7000 a.C.
7. Cerbottana: Sud-est asiatico e Amazzonia, data non determinabile.
Antichità e Medioevo
8. Arco composito: steppe e Vicino Oriente, circa 2000 a.C.
9. Balestra: Cina, almeno V secolo a.C.
10. Catapulta (gastraphetes): Siracusa, 399 a.C.
11. Artiglieria a torsione: Macedonia, circa 350 a.C.
12. Trabucco a trazione: Cina, IV-III secolo a.C.
13. Fuoco greco: Bisanzio, 672 d.C.
14. Polvere da sparo: Cina, IX secolo.
15. Lancia da fuoco: Cina, circa 950.
16. Trabucco a contrappeso: Mediterraneo orientale, XII secolo.
17. Razzi militari: Cina, assedio di Kaifeng, 1232.
18. Cannone: Cina, circa 1288. In Europa compare nel 1326.
Età moderna
19. Archibugio a miccia: circa 1450-1470.
20. Acciarino a ruota: circa 1500.
21. Canna rigata: fine del XV secolo.
22. Moschetto: circa 1520.
23. Acciarino a pietra focaia: circa 1610.
24. Shrapnel: 1784.
25. Razzi in ferro di Mysore: anni 1780. Il razzo Congreve è del 1804.
Ottocento
26. Accensione a percussione: 1807, poi capsula negli anni 1820.
27. Revolver Colt: 1836.
28. Fucile a retrocarica Dreyse: 1841.
29. Proiettile Minié: 1849.
30. Cartuccia metallica: anni 1850-60.
31. Mitragliatrice Gatling: 1862.
32. Siluro autopropulso Whitehead: 1866.
33. Mitragliatrice automatica Maxim: 1884.
34. Polvere senza fumo: 1884.
35. Cannone a tiro rapido da 75 mm: 1897.
Novecento
36. Lanciafiamme moderno: 1901.
37. Bombardamento aereo: Libia, aviazione italiana, 1911.
38. Mitra (MP18): 1918.
39. Lanciarazzi controcarro (bazooka): 1942.
40. Bomba guidata (Fritz X): 1943.
41. Fucile d'assalto (StG 44): 1944.
42. Missile da crociera (V-1) e balistico (V-2): 1944.
43. Arma nucleare: 1945.
44. Missile aria-aria a infrarossi (Sidewinder): 1956.
45. Missile balistico intercontinentale (R-7): 1957.
46. Bomba a guida laser: 1968.
47. Testate multiple indipendenti (MIRV): 1970.
48. Munizione circuitante (Harpy): 1989.
49. Bomba a guida GPS (JDAM): 1997.
XXI secolo
50. Drone armato (Predator con Hellfire): 2001.
51. Laser navale operativo: 2014.
52. Armi ipersoniche manovranti (Kinzhal, Avangard): 2018-2019.
53. Droni FPV kamikaze su scala di massa: Ucraina, dal 2022.
54. Laser antidrone in uso operativo: Israele, 2024-2025.
L'evoluzione segue una logica unica. Aumentano la distanza tra chi colpisce e chi è colpito, l'energia trasferita al bersaglio e la precisione.
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Cosa funziona davvero contro il raffreddore
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Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."