That the iconic Italian city of Venice is in danger of being submerged in the Adriatic Sea is known to everyone, but there are also other major problem plaguing the city: the global sea level rise and subsidence (the process by which the sediment on which the city is built is being compacted).
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28 December 2011
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Google is on a quest to recreating the world inside Google Earth. It’s not satisfied with just the oceans and mountains, it wants everything to be in 3D. For a while now, cities have gotten some of the attention as well and Google, with the help of the community, is recreating the cities of the world in three d... |
28 May 2010
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The Italian city of Venice is one of the most beautiful, culturally rich and endangered places in the world. With its homes built atop petrified trees, and directly on water, it stands to reason that any change in water levels has the power to significantly damage the 1,300-year-old town. It is located in the largest... |
21 September 2009
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Ubisoft has announced that Jade Raymond, who has served as the public face of the Assassin's Creed project, has been chosen to head the newly opened Toronto studio.The producer is set to report directly to Yannis Mallat, who is also overseeing the Montreal studio of the French publisher. The new development stud... |
2 September 2009
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Archaeologists discovered a few years back an ancient metropolis located on the outskirts of Venice, which may very well have been the precursor of the modern city. The old trading center, which was about as large as Pompeii, most likely flourished between 100 and 500 AD, and represented a beacon of civilization in t... |
31 July 2009
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Scientists from the University of Florence, in Italy, claimed to have found some of the earliest human remains to have given birth to the myth of vampires. The skeleton, found in a mass grave near Venice, had a brick in its mouth, so as to prevent the dead from chewing on its shroud or veil, and to suck the blood of ... |
7 March 2009
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Assassin's Creed was one of the most innovative games of 2007, giving players a truly innovative freedom to move and to interact with other characters. In it, you played an assassin named Altair during one of the many crusades waged in the Middle East. Through ways traditional to killers and thieves you needed t... |
27 February 2009
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If we were to judge Keira based on the things she's been saying lately, then you'd say she's one of the most miserable people alive. I mean, she hates being famous, she hates some of her fellow celebrities and she hates people holding her as a role model and wondering about her (virtually non-existent)... |
6 September 2007
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Guess what? The end of the week is here, so it's my job to give you another game review. At least for those who play this stuff. This week we have a new entry in our "charts". Brand new from the PopCap labs, "Venice Deluxe" comes to enchant us, or at least to kill our time.So do I have your attention now? Yes, P... |
14 July 2007
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Why don't we leave aside "cold" and shallow titles lacking a great storyline and characters, and which focus mainly on violence and primary instincts, and talk about a more retro-action kind of game, set in the dampness-filled canals of Renaissance Italy's famed Venice. This PC title launched by PopCap Game... |
22 June 2007
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