The Communist Party of China: 20% of the world population still under the regime.

POLITICS

Heavily influenced by its proximity to the country where it originates ideology, communism emerged in China after the fall of Tsarism in Russia. Another new stage of the class struggle between rural and urban aristocracy. Twenty-five years were necessary for the party to reach popular enough to displace the ruling government. As World War condemned the tsarist Russia, the war with Japan meant the end of the Nationalist party in China. Today the CCP is the main focus of communism in the world, but now much more moderate than in origin.
The Chinese Communist Party is the political party that governs the PRC. With over 71 million members is one of the largest political organizations mundo.Tras its founding in 1921, the Communist Party of China became one of the most influential political groups in China. In 1949, the army of the party, called the People's Liberation Army defeated the Chinese Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War. CPC leader at the time, Mao Zedong proclaimed the new Republic, under the leadership of the Communist Party.
The stage where Mao took power of the Communist Party and the People's Republic was characterized by intense campaigns and ideological economic reforms as the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution. After Mao's death in 1976, his successor Hua Guofeng would easily be able to, you end up in the hands of Deng Xiaoping, pragmatic leader would alter the ideological base of the party allowing a number of institutional and economic reforms that would encourage the adoption of economic models capitalistic development. These reforms would intensify with the successors, Jiang Zemin and then first Hu Jintao, the current Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the Republic of China.
The Communist Party of China is one of the largest political organizations in the world and currently has over 70 million members. The Party has a presence in all areas of Chinese life, controlling the different levels of government and workplaces and educational institutions.

Mirror: A look at the world upside down

SCIENCE

The man was endowed with the gift of sight. Through our eyes we see the outcome of life on earth. Even with telescopic technology, we are apt to see far beyond our celestial body and observe the development of the universe itself. However, we are naturally unable to see ourselves. The mirror (which in its broadest sense includes surfaces such as water), is the "instrument" oldest, albeit inverted, allowed us to satisfy our curiosity.
A mirror is a polished surface on which the light strikes is reflected following the laws of reflection. In a plane mirror, a beam of parallel light rays can completely change direction together and remain a beam of parallel rays, and can produce a virtual image of an object with the same size and shape as the real one. The picture is right but reversed on the axis normal to the mirror.
There are also concave mirrors and convex mirrors that distort the real picture.
The mirrors and toilet utensils and manual were widely used object in the Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman. They were made with burnished metal always, usually copper, silver or bronze. In the thirteenth century invented the manufacture of glass and rock crystal on metal foil. The mirror like room furniture begins with the sixteenth century. It comes with stylish frame and standing artistic and occupies a distinguished place in the lounge as movable object and reduced dimensions. By the late seventeenth century Venetian factories fail to build large mirrors and since then served as singularly decorative objects in the classroom, in which figure prominently.
Modern mirrors consist of a thin layer of silver or aluminum deposited on a glass plate, which protects the metal and causes the mirror more durable.
Did you know ... With the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, for the first time the man is able to see exactly what is in reality, because unlike a mirror, does not reverse images?

UN: Achieving peace

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The human race need not one, but two (or maybe more?) World wars, millions of deaths and monumental economic loss to understand that armed intervention may be far from the best solution to resolve political differences, religious or trading between nations. A group of men believed that countries could organize and reach an agreement on their disputes peacefully. The reality is that sometimes it does and sometimes not that many more. However, the United Nations today represent the best human effort to preserve world peace.
The United Nations Organization (UNO) or simply United Nations is the largest international organization exists. It is an association of global governance that facilitates cooperation on issues such as international law, peace and security, economic and social development, humanitarian affairs and human rights.

It was founded on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco (California), by 51 countries after the Second World War, with the signing of the United Nations Charter.

Member states of the United Nations provides advice and decide on significant issues and administrative regular meetings during the year. The main public figure is the Secretary-General UN. The current is Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, who took office on January 1, 2007, replacing Kofi Annan.

As of 2010, the UN has 192 member states, virtually every internationally recognized sovereign countries. There are exceptions such as the Holy See, which has observer, and the Republic of China-Taiwan. While the headquarters is in New York, there are other locations in Geneva, The Hague, Vienna, Montreal, Copenhagen, Bonn, Nairobi, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Addis Ababa, Sevilla and Buenos Aires.

Sistine Chapel: Heart of Catholicism

PLACES

There are few architectural works which witnessed many momentous events and shelters many notable figures. As Sarnath is for Hinduism and the mosque Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca) for Islam, the Vatican City is the center of the Catholic religion. The Sistine Chapel is the heart.

The Sistine Chapel is the most famous chapel in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, the official residence of the Pope. It is located to the right of the Basilica of St. Peter and originally served as Vatican Fort Hood. It was built between 1477 and 1480, by order of Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, to restore the former Chapel Magna.

It is famous for its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament, and its decoration in fresco work of the greatest Renaissance artists including Raphael, Botticelli and Michelangelo. This last, by order of Pope Julius II decorated the vault (1.100 m²) between 1508 and 1512. A Michelangelo did not like this assignment, and thought his job was just to satisfy the need for grandeur of the Pope. However, today his work on the dome is considered the biggest achievement of Michelangelo in painting.

Since the time of Sixtus IV, the chapel has served as a place of various papal activities. Today is the seat of the conclave, the meeting at which the cardinals elect a new pope. During a conclave, a chimney is installed on the roof of the chapel, where the smoke acts as a signal. If white smoke, (fumata bianca), formed by burning the ballots from the election, means that it has elected a new pope. If no candidate receives a majority (two-thirds of the votes), black smoke (fumata nera).

Snow: Nature White Goddess

SCIENCE 

There is a strange and magical human fascination with snow. It will be for his slow and mesmerizing way of introducing, or their ability to accumulate in the ground forming a large white blanket that mutates every appearance of the landscape. The truth is that as few weather phenomena, snow is both so revered as hated as obstructive and dangerous trim.
 Snow is a meteorological phenomenon that is the precipitation of small ice crystals. These crystals adopt shapes with fractal characteristics and grouped into flakes.Snow is commonly formed when water vapor deposition undergoes high in the atmosphere at a temperature below 0 ° C, and subsequently falls on the ground. Snowfall varies depending on time and location, including latitude, elevation and other factors that affect the climate in general. At latitudes closer to Ecuador, there is less chance of falling snow. 35 ° is often referred to as a delimiter. Some mountains, even at or near the Ecuador, have a permanent snow cover on their upper parts, including Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the Andes in South AmericaAn interesting question is why the arms of snowflakes are symmetrical, and why no two snowflakes appear to be identical. The symmetry of the arms of the Ampos always six arms from the hexagonal structure of the ice crystals along with their regular basic plane. The arms of a snowflake independently grow in an environment that is thought to vary rapidly in their temperature, humidity, etc.. These differences lead to the observed lack of correlation between various forms of snowflakes.Sometimes unexpected snowfall deteriorating infrastructure and disrupt services even in regions that are accustomed to them. The traffic can see hampered or even stopped altogether. Basic infrastructure such as electricity, telephone and natural gas can be interrupted. A snowy day is often a day in which the school or other services are canceled due to rain.

Manhattan Project: Planning the destruction of the human race

HISTORY

There is no worse fate for the human effort that creating weapons. Is it logical case that thousands of men, companies, governments and scientists pool forces to plan, prepare, recruit and deploy the annihilation of millions of people? Obviously enough proportion of people thought so. Millions of dollars and over two years of work focused on killing as many people as quickly as possible. The Manhattan Project, another mistake of the human species.
 
The Manhattan Project was the code name for a science project conducted during World War II by the United States with partial support from the UK and Canada. The ultimate goal of the project was the development of the first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany got it. The scientific research was directed by physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer while security and military operations were the responsibility of General Leslie Richard Groves. The project was carried out in numerous research centers being the most important of them the Manhattan Engineering District located in the place now known as Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The project brought together a large number of eminent scientists (physics, chemistry, computer science). Since, after testing in Germany before the war, it was known that atomic fission was possible and that the Nazis were already working on its own nuclear program met several brilliant minds who were also pacifists and leftists mostly. Many Jewish exiles, made ​​common cause in the struggle against fascism contributing their bit to the cause: get the bomb before the Germans. The first successful nuclear test occurred in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

IMAGES OF HIROSHIMA BEFORE (photo left) and AFTER EXPLOSION (right)


 
 

Pato: Argentine National Sport

SPORTS 

Thousands of men and women practice it, millions follow him on the court, on radio and television. Maradona Argentina = football = (or Messi?) For 95.5% of world population. But football is a sport ... Argentino English by adoption. Our real national sport includes homo sapiens mounted on elegant equestrian revolean a "bird" to give to the network. If this is the Pato, Argentine national sport. 

The course is perfectly flat and covered with grass or turf. Rings with a diameter of one meter, are located in the bottom line, vertically mounted on poles. The "duck" itself is leather (for environmentalists ... not an animal), with air chamber, and has six handles, is usually white.The eight riders start the game in presets. The team with the duck moves toward the finish line to throw the ring and thus realize somewhat. Players from both teams are entitled to collect the duck when it is in the ground, requiring a mastery of the horse and great physical strength. Whoever makes the duck can pass it to a teammate or riding toward the hoop. Every time the duck is deposited in the network, the somewhat.During the ride, you must observe certain rules to avoid accidents and maintain competitiveness. Notably, there is an obligation to grab the duck with the right hand and extend the right arm and the duck is "offered" the opponent, you can try to grab the duck and steal by "webbing." La cinchada is the characteristic feature of duck, and the most exciting. Two horsemen ride at speed duck taking a handle each, using clean pulls, trying to grab the duck.

In different parts of Europe where it is practiced pole, are sometimes done horseball powers, which happens to be a game adaptation Argentine Duck introduced in France in 1930 by Captain Key. The latter modifies the rules and invents Duck horseball.

Steel: support for modern civilization

INDUSTRY

When the surface is insufficient to support the demographic, civilization grows in height. When the blood drive is not fast enough, the traction civilization hydrocarbon develops. When many hands in the dish done scribble civilization replaces them with a machine. But what links this progress? Steel is the backbone of modern civilization.

Commonly called an alloy steel of iron and carbon, wherein the carbon is not more than 2.1% by weight of the composition of the alloy, usually reaching percentages between 0.2% and 0.3%. Ratios greater than 2.0% carbon results in foundries, which, unlike steels are brittle and can not be forged, but which are molded. Iron alloys between the metal and any other not improve its physical properties also called steel.

Components: Iron is a metal, relatively hard and tough, with a melting temperature of 1,535 ° C and boiling point 2740 ° C. Carbon is a nonmetal, soft and fragile in most allotropic forms (except the diamond in its crystal structure makes it the hardest known materials).

As already noted the variety and availability, its two primary elements are abundant in nature facilitating their production on an industrial - steels are alloys used in the construction of machinery, tools, buildings, automotive and civil engineering, having contributed the high level of technological development of industrialized societies.

Cebiche: Eternally in vogue

Food

The cuisine was born with the need of man power. This, insatiable in the research of new taste experiences searches combining ground elements the opportunity to satisfy their culinary curiosity.

In Argentina, the import in recent years in our neighboring countries. In Peru and other Andean countries long ago consumed much more than that ... What is ceviche?

The dish consists of beef marinated in citrus dressings, the most common preparations of fish, shellfish, or both. Different versions of ceviche culinary part of the Latin American countries of the Pacific Ocean coastline, such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru.

The basic ingredients of any ceviche are pieces of fish (or other meat), onion, lemon juice, pepper and salt. You can add other ingredients like red onion (purple) into strips, chopped cilantro, corn and celery. To prepare, mix in a fish bowl with the other ingredients, leaving it to marinate according to taste (the longer, more cooking).

The dish is named in Peru was declared "Cultural Patrimony of the Nation" by a Supreme Decree of the National Institute of Culture, published in the official gazette "El Peruano" in 2004, the historically regarded one of the main dishes of that country.

World War I: Power struggles in Europe

HISTORY

There is perhaps a more inefficient solution to a dispute that a war? European center of culture and development, land of philosophers. But fools ruled by ambition and pride inexhaustible unalterable, succumbed in the worst delivery decisions million of his men to die in a war where everyone lost. At least the human race learned his lesson ... or not?  

The First World War or Great War was an armed conflict that took place between 1914 and 1918 and produced more than 10 million casualties. Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized from 1914 to 1918.Originado in Europe by the rivalry between the imperialist powers, became the first military conflict to cover more than half the planet. Was once the bloodiest in history. Before the Second World War, this war used to be called the Great War or War of Wars. War was the most damaging in history after the Second World War

The war began as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia for the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne (Author's note: at least that's the official version). Russia joined the conflict, it was considered the protector of the Slavic countries and wished to undermine the position of Austria-Hungary in the Balkans. Germany responded to the war with Russia, bound by a confidentiality agreement entered into with the Habsburg monarchy, and France moved to support its ally.

Volcanoes: Power in Nature

SCIENCEMan evolves, grows and develops, and he grows his vanity and feeling powerful. Nature takes care to remind us of the fragility of our existence in a world whose age multiplied several times the existence of our species. Volcanoes are perhaps one of their most spectacular tools, destructive and creative life while architects of ancient terrestrial geography.
 A volcano (the mythological god Vulcan) is a conduit which connects directly the top of the solid crust with the lower levels of the same. It is also a geological structure which emerge by magma (molten rock) as lava and gases inside the planet. The rise usually occurs in episodes of violent activity called "flares", which may vary in intensity, duration and frequency; ducts being from lava flows to extremely destructive explosions.Acquiring a characteristic generally conical shape is formed by the pressure of underground magma well as the accumulation of material from previous eruptions. On top of the volcano can find its crater or caldera.Generally, volcanoes are formed at the boundaries of tectonic plates, although there are exceptions called hot spots or "hot spots" located in the interior of tectonic plates, such as the Hawaiian Islands. There are also volcanoes that could expel enough material to form volcanic islands.

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