Friday, December 30, 2005
ECO Home ecology----Ecosustainability and Bio-architecture -----L'Associazione Italiana Biocostruire (A I B) è un'associazione “ no profit ” che intende essere garante dello sviluppo sostenibile attraverso una costante ricerca, valorizzazione e utilizzo di tecnologie e materiali sani, naturali e riciclabili, il risparmio energetico e il ricorso ad energie alternative----ANAB - Associazione Nazionale Architettura Bioecologica - nasce nel 1989, prima Associazione nazionale del settore, dalla spinta principalmente ideale di un gruppo di architetti di diverse parti d'Italia accomunati dalla sensibilità per le tematiche ambientali e preoccupati dal progressivo degrado culturale, etico e materiale della loro professione, dalla devastazione inarrestabile del territorio e dalla sempre maggiore pericolosità dei materiali e delle tecniche costruttive utilizzate in edilizia per la salute dell'ambiente e dei suoi abitanti-----Associazione Bioarchitettura Italiana----bioedilizia----
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Space impact 'saved Christianity'......
Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history?
About the size of a football field: The impact crater left behindA team of geologists believes it has found the incoming space rock's impact crater, and dating suggests its formation coincided with the celestial vision said to have converted a future Roman emperor to Christianity.
It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and attributed his subsequent victory to divine help from a Christian God.
Constantine went on to consolidate his grip on power and ordered that persecution of Christians cease and their religion receive official status.
Civil war
In the fourth century AD, the fragmented Roman Empire was being further torn apart by civil war. Constantine and Maxentius were bitterly fighting to be the sole emperor.
Constantine was the son of the western emperor Constantius Chlorus. When he died in 306, his father's troops proclaimed Constantine emperor.
...a most marvellous sign appeared to him from heaven...
Eusebius But in Rome, the favourite was Maxentius, son of Constantius' predecessor, Maximian.
With both men claiming the title, a conference was called in AD 308 that resulted in Maxentius being named as senior emperor along with Galerius, his father-in-law. Constantine was to be a Caesar, or junior emperor.
The situation was not a stable one, however, and by 312 the two men were at war.
Constantine overran Italy and faced Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber a few kilometres from Rome. Both knew it would be a decisive battle with Constantine's forces outnumbered.
'Conquer by this'
It was then that something strange happened. Eusebius - one of the Christian Church's early historians - relates the event in his Conversion of Constantine.
"...while he was thus praying with fervent entreaty, a most marvellous sign appeared to him from heaven, the account of which it might have been hard to believe had it been related by any other person.
"...about noon, when the day was already beginning to decline, he saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the Sun, and bearing the inscription 'conquer by this'.
"At this sight he himself was struck with amazement, and his whole army also, which followed him on this expedition, and witnessed the miracle."
Spurred on by divine intervention, Constantine's army won the day and he gave homage to the God of the Christians whom he believed had helped him.
This was a time when Christianity was struggling. Support from the most powerful man in the empire allowed the emerging religious movement to flourish.
Like a nuclear blast
But what was the celestial event that converted Constantine and altered the course of history?
Jens Ormo, a Swedish geologist, and colleagues working in Italy believe Constantine witnessed a meteoroid impact.
Drill rig: Sampling the craterThe research team believes it has identified what remains of the impactor's crater.
It is the small, circular Cratere del Sirente in central Italy. It is clearly an impact crater, Ormo says, because its shape fits and it is also surrounded by numerous smaller, secondary craters, gouged out by ejected debris, as expected from impact models.
Radiocarbon dating puts the crater's formation at about the right time to have been witnessed by Constantine and there are magnetic anomalies detected around the secondary craters - possibly due to magnetic fragments from the meteorite.
According to Ormo, it would have struck the Earth with the force of a small nuclear bomb, perhaps a kiloton in yield. It would have looked like a nuclear blast, with a mushroom cloud and shockwaves.
It would have been quite an impressive sight and, if it really was what Constantine saw, could have turned the tide of the conflict.
But what would have happened if this chance event - perhaps as rare as once every few thousand years - had not occurred in Italy at that time?
Maxentius might have won the battle. Roman history would have been different and the struggling Christians might not have received state patronage.
The history of Christianity and the establishment of the popes in Rome might have been very different.
Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history?
About the size of a football field: The impact crater left behindA team of geologists believes it has found the incoming space rock's impact crater, and dating suggests its formation coincided with the celestial vision said to have converted a future Roman emperor to Christianity.
It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and attributed his subsequent victory to divine help from a Christian God.
Constantine went on to consolidate his grip on power and ordered that persecution of Christians cease and their religion receive official status.
Civil war
In the fourth century AD, the fragmented Roman Empire was being further torn apart by civil war. Constantine and Maxentius were bitterly fighting to be the sole emperor.
Constantine was the son of the western emperor Constantius Chlorus. When he died in 306, his father's troops proclaimed Constantine emperor.
...a most marvellous sign appeared to him from heaven...
Eusebius But in Rome, the favourite was Maxentius, son of Constantius' predecessor, Maximian.
With both men claiming the title, a conference was called in AD 308 that resulted in Maxentius being named as senior emperor along with Galerius, his father-in-law. Constantine was to be a Caesar, or junior emperor.
The situation was not a stable one, however, and by 312 the two men were at war.
Constantine overran Italy and faced Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber a few kilometres from Rome. Both knew it would be a decisive battle with Constantine's forces outnumbered.
'Conquer by this'
It was then that something strange happened. Eusebius - one of the Christian Church's early historians - relates the event in his Conversion of Constantine.
"...while he was thus praying with fervent entreaty, a most marvellous sign appeared to him from heaven, the account of which it might have been hard to believe had it been related by any other person.
"...about noon, when the day was already beginning to decline, he saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the Sun, and bearing the inscription 'conquer by this'.
"At this sight he himself was struck with amazement, and his whole army also, which followed him on this expedition, and witnessed the miracle."
Spurred on by divine intervention, Constantine's army won the day and he gave homage to the God of the Christians whom he believed had helped him.
This was a time when Christianity was struggling. Support from the most powerful man in the empire allowed the emerging religious movement to flourish.
Like a nuclear blast
But what was the celestial event that converted Constantine and altered the course of history?
Jens Ormo, a Swedish geologist, and colleagues working in Italy believe Constantine witnessed a meteoroid impact.
Drill rig: Sampling the craterThe research team believes it has identified what remains of the impactor's crater.
It is the small, circular Cratere del Sirente in central Italy. It is clearly an impact crater, Ormo says, because its shape fits and it is also surrounded by numerous smaller, secondary craters, gouged out by ejected debris, as expected from impact models.
Radiocarbon dating puts the crater's formation at about the right time to have been witnessed by Constantine and there are magnetic anomalies detected around the secondary craters - possibly due to magnetic fragments from the meteorite.
According to Ormo, it would have struck the Earth with the force of a small nuclear bomb, perhaps a kiloton in yield. It would have looked like a nuclear blast, with a mushroom cloud and shockwaves.
It would have been quite an impressive sight and, if it really was what Constantine saw, could have turned the tide of the conflict.
But what would have happened if this chance event - perhaps as rare as once every few thousand years - had not occurred in Italy at that time?
Maxentius might have won the battle. Roman history would have been different and the struggling Christians might not have received state patronage.
The history of Christianity and the establishment of the popes in Rome might have been very different.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Bed & Breakfast in Rome:
Arco de' Tolomei
Via dell'Arco de' Tolomei
2700153 Roma
related; Arco de' Tolomei Guest House, located in an ancient Roman building, has been lovingly restored by its owners to maintain all the charm and style dictated by its original romanesque architecture...---Residenza Arco dei Tolomei: Deals and Reviews--- L'arco de' Tolomei (nella foto), situato tra la via omonima e via dei Salumi, risultava già esistente nel 1358, quando tutto il complesso di cui fa parte era di proprietà dei Tolomei, un'antica famiglia senese stabilitasi a Roma. -----A sinistra della Torre si apre l'Arco de' Tolomei, esistente già nel 1358 (quando era già di proprietà dei Tolomei, una importante famiglia senese) e restaurato "in stile" nel 1928------
Arco de' Tolomei
Via dell'Arco de' Tolomei
2700153 Roma
related; Arco de' Tolomei Guest House, located in an ancient Roman building, has been lovingly restored by its owners to maintain all the charm and style dictated by its original romanesque architecture...---Residenza Arco dei Tolomei: Deals and Reviews--- L'arco de' Tolomei (nella foto), situato tra la via omonima e via dei Salumi, risultava già esistente nel 1358, quando tutto il complesso di cui fa parte era di proprietà dei Tolomei, un'antica famiglia senese stabilitasi a Roma. -----A sinistra della Torre si apre l'Arco de' Tolomei, esistente già nel 1358 (quando era già di proprietà dei Tolomei, una importante famiglia senese) e restaurato "in stile" nel 1928------
Saturday, March 05, 2005
UIL-Unione Nazionale Scrittori e Artisti Via Lucullo 6, 00187 Roma Tel/fax: 06 47 53 287 Cell.: 335 6921962 - 339 138 34 3
e-mail: uns@uilcultura.it oppure info@uilcultura.it
e-mail: uns@uilcultura.it oppure info@uilcultura.it
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
San Lorenzo, roma
Sorto negli ex-locali di una sala d'incisione, il Balic è un nuovissimo locale che fa della ricercatezza e dello stile due veri cardini. Del resto con una festa di capodanno che ne ha segnato quasi l'inaugurazione, non poteva essere altrimenti... L'ambiente è curato in ogni particolare, arredamenti tra l'etnico ed il minimale segnano i percorsi visivi dei sensi, rendendo unico quest'angolo di piacere. La settimana del Balic è sempre diversa, ogni giorno un evento nuovo ed irripetibile, pronto a soddisfare anche i desideri più particolari.
roma 2 night
Sorto negli ex-locali di una sala d'incisione, il Balic è un nuovissimo locale che fa della ricercatezza e dello stile due veri cardini. Del resto con una festa di capodanno che ne ha segnato quasi l'inaugurazione, non poteva essere altrimenti... L'ambiente è curato in ogni particolare, arredamenti tra l'etnico ed il minimale segnano i percorsi visivi dei sensi, rendendo unico quest'angolo di piacere. La settimana del Balic è sempre diversa, ogni giorno un evento nuovo ed irripetibile, pronto a soddisfare anche i desideri più particolari.
roma 2 night
dd EGYPTIAN RESTAURANT
Via Adolfo Venturi , 14/16 (Nomentano) tel.06/8611334 Roma - Aria condizionata. Aperto tutte le sere.
aRANCIO bLUE WINE BAR AND VEGETERIAN FOOD
Via Adolfo Venturi , 14/16 (Nomentano) tel.06/8611334 Roma - Aria condizionata. Aperto tutte le sere.
aRANCIO bLUE WINE BAR AND VEGETERIAN FOOD
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