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The Grumman F4F Wildcat was a single-engine fighter embarked to media wing developed by the US Air Force Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the late thirties; produced between the end of the decade to the early forties was the main fighter, usually embarked on aircraft carriers, the United...

The Lockheed P-38J Lightning aircraft was revolutionary, extremely innovative, thanks to double-girder fuselage, the two Allison V-engines with turbochargers within the tail beams and landing gear in tricycle.   The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine fighter produced by the US to low-wing Bell...

Bonsai is the art of creating miniature trees, cultivating them for years in a small vase. With this particular technique directs the plant during the growth process, to assume the shapes and dimensions required, while respecting balance completely vegetative and functional. There is talk of bonsai...

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, nicknamed "Jug" was an American fighter comes with an extremely powerful engine, 2,000 hp or more, and it was fast, especially at high altitude. It was also heavily armed with eight 12.7 mm machine guns, and its strength allowed him to return to base even if...

U-Boot is the German term to refer broadly to submarines, and is short for Unterseeboot, literally "submarine boat". The objectives of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the convoys carrying supplies from the US to Europe. The term U-Boot, followed by a number, such as U-Boot 47 indicates...

The Macchi M.C.200 "Saetta" was a single-engine low-wing fighter aircraft developed by the Italian aeronautical company Aeronautica Macchi in the 1930s. He made his first flight on December 24, 1937 and entered online in 1939. Although equipped with a low-powered engine and armed with only...

From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the last desperate defense in the face of massive Allied bombings and suicide attacks against the enemy squadrons, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (baptized "Rei-sen", ie hunting zero with reference to the year 2600 calendar Japanese, 1940 AD) took part in almost...

The De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British military aircraft of great versatility during the Second World War. He was affectionately nicknamed "Mossie" by his crews and also had like other nicknames: "The Wooden Wonder" or "The Timber Terror", since the cell was made...

The Boeing B 29 Superfortress will be remembered as the apparatus to have made use of the atomic weapon in war action; in fact, airplanes of this type that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender in August 1945. Apart from that, however, the Boeing B 29 was an...

Pure fighter par excellence, shared with the Focke Wulf 190 the first line of the Luftwaffe throughout the second world war. Continuously updated and upgraded, it represented an irreplaceable element in the Luftwaffe's arsenal, staying in line with the Battle of England until the last day of war. The...

Astrology is a complex of beliefs and traditions that believes that the positions and movements of celestial bodies relative to Earth on events affecting human collective and individual. Who practices astrology is called an astrologer and his divination is called horoscope. The zodiac is a celestial...

New updated edition. The Chakra (translated as "wheel", "hard", "circle") is a concept of their own religious traditions of India, related to yoga and Ayurvedic medicine originated from taking tantric traditions, Hinduism is both Buddhism. In the most common it is usually...

Fish and rice are undoubtedly the pillars of Japanese cuisine, and for good reasons. First, Japan is an archipelago, and has a special relationship with the sea. The meat has been banned for a long time, even for religious reasons, and most of the arable land are devoted to rice and tea. Rice has,...

New Edition. Hatha Yoga is a form of yoga based on a series of psychophysical exercises of ancient origin, originated in the initiatory schools of India and Tibet. Hatha Yoga teaches to dominate the cosmic energy in man, manifesting as breath, and then to achieve a secure control of the most unstable...