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Il primo incontro nella Luna piena è con “Sergio Spina. Storie della mia vita da licantropo”, presentato da Luigi A. Santoro.
Sergio Spina è uno dei personaggi più creativi e innovativi che la televisione italiana abbia avuto.
Nato a Milano un po’ di anni fa. Ha avuto tutto il tempo per vedere la sua amata/odiata RAI nascere, crescere, suicidarsi o essere ammazzata. Nella sua pluriennale esperienza nella Tv di Stato (è in rai dal 1954) è stato il regista di uno dei primi programmi andati in onda (Strapaese),di Mixer (special tv condotto da Giovanni Minoli), Festa Farina e Forca (scritto con Rina Durante), l’Addio a Berlinguer e di numerosissime altre opere tra documentari, inchieste, film… fare un elenco del lavoro di Sergio Spina sarebbe lungo e inutile. Inutile perché Sergio è prima di tutto un amico e compagno di mille battaglie. Nel Salento ha trovato la sua dimensione più originale. Militante partigiano e fieramente comunista. Spina parlerà sotto la luna della sua carriera e dei mille intrecci che lo hanno visto attraversare in lungo e largo i crateri salentini”.
L’incontro è trasmesso in diretta su internet lunedì 9 febbraio 2009 alle ore 21, all’indirizzo web http://www.oistros.it/lunapiena – si consiglia di spegnere le luci, accendere gli altoparlanti del computer e godersi la diretta.
Buona luna piena a tutti!

“We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”

-Bill Gates, June 2008

Rock And Roll – The Early Days – Media Against Rock ‘N Roll

Napoleon I (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte)[1] (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.

Particularly he created the Kingdom of Italy ( Regno d’Italia, but also Regno Italico; 17 March 1805–11 April 1814), which just in nearly ten years created the premises for the italian reunification and modernization. Napoleon established the lira as the currency of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy between 1807 and 1814.

Here you can see a documentary video that represents the incoronation of Napoleon as Imperator on december 2th, 1804.

The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew. The team was returning from a friendly match for José Ferreira against Benfica in Lisbon.

The victims:
Players
* Valerio Bacigalupo
* Aldo Ballarin
* Dino Ballarin
* Milo Bongiorni
* Eusebio Castigliano
* Rubens Fadini
* Guglielmo Gabetto
* Ruggero Grava
* Giuseppe Grezar
* Ezio Loik
* Virgilio Maroso
* Danilo Martelli
* Valentino Mazzola
* Romeo Menti
* Piero Operto
* Franco Ossola
* Mario Rigamonti
* Julius Schubert
Club officials
* Arnaldo Agnisetta, manager
* Ippolito Civalleri, manager
* Egri Erbstein, trainer
* Leslie Lievesley, coach
* Ottavio Corina, masseur
Journalists
* Renato Casalbore, (founder of Tuttosport)
* Luigi Cavallero, (La Stampa)
* Renato Tosatti, (Gazzetta del Popolo)
Crew
* Pierluigi Meroni, captain
* Antonio Pangrazi
* Celestino D’Inca
* Cesare Biancardi
Others
* Andrea Bonaiuti, organiser

A professor at MIT, Edward Lorenz was the first to recognize what is now called chaotic behavior in the mathematical modeling of weather systems. In the early 1960s, Lorenz realized that small differences in a dynamic system such as the atmosphere–or a model of the atmosphere–could trigger vast and often unsuspected results.

These observations ultimately led him to formulate what became known as the butterfly effect–a term that grew out of an academic paper he presented in 1972 entitled: “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”

Lorenz’s early insights marked the beginning of a new field of study that impacted not just the field of mathematics but virtually every branch of science–biological, physical and social. In meteorology, it led to the conclusion that it may be fundamentally impossible to predict weather beyond two or three weeks with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Some scientists have since asserted that the 20th century will be remembered for three scientific revolutions–relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos.

In 1991, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences. Lorenz was cited by the Kyoto Prize committee for establishing “the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.” The committee added that Lorenz “made his boldest scientific achievement in discovering ‘deterministic chaos,’ a principle which has profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton.”

Bernie Boston, a newspaper photographer best known for his iconic 1960s picture of a Vietnam War protester placing flowers in soldiers’ gun barrels at a rally, has died last tuesday. Boston’s photograph, “Flower Power,” took the picture at an anti-war protest in Washington on Oct. 22, 1967. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a 1987 photograph of Coretta Scott King unveiling a bust of her late husband, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in the U.S. Capitol.