– (Lasca Studio/) The word “zeppelin” describes several airships developed by the company of the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. He designed a series of models and the first, the LZ1, took off in 1900. But it was after the…

ILLUSTRATIONS Estevan Silveira Harry Price ORIGIN London, England Born in 1881 and died in 1948, this Briton was considered the first investigator to employ scientific methods to identify supernatural phenomena. He became world famous for unmasking false mediums who «invoked»…

Here, there is no unified special force like in the United States, but several groups are trained to act in risky situations. Most are concentrated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, states that have better equipped police forces and…

Because they are much more aggressive than their European sisters. The Africans attack in greater numbers and in just 30 seconds are capable of injecting eight times more toxins into their poor victims. “For thousands of years, due to the…

They are immense masses of water vapor that, carried by air currents, travel across the sky and account for a large part of the rain that rolls in various parts of the world. The main flying river in Brazil rises…

The animals use different techniques to climb walls and walk upside down on the roofs of houses or on a wide variety of surfaces, such as leaves, trunks and tree branches. To overcome the force of gravity, some insects, such…

ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji 1) THE PARANOID HUSBAND (?) When I was 15 years old, bentinho fell in love with the neighbor Capitu. But his mother, Dona Glória, had promised that he would become a priest. The young man dropped out…

(/) reader question Robson Vilanova Island, Sao Sepe, RS Thanks to the Duchess of Bedford, an influential woman in English society in the 19th century. The drink was an old acquaintance, it had arrived around 1662, along with the Portuguese…

– (Márcio L. Castro) In addition to elongated canine teeth, they were heavier and had shorter tails and legs than today’s big cats. Despite being popularly called «tigers», these animals were part of families and subfamilies that derived from an…

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