Springtime Strawberry Rhubarb Cheesecake Ingredients Crust: Crushed Graham Crackers: 9 crackers (one full sleeve) Melted Butter (salted): ½ cup Sugar: 1 tablespoon Cheesecake Filling: Softened Cream Cheese: 16 ounces Thawed Cool Whip: 8 ounces Powdered Sugar: 1 cup Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon Fruit Topping: Chopped Rhubarb: 2 cups, in ½-inch pieces Chopped Strawberries: 2 cups Sugar: ¾ cup Cornstarch: 3½ tablespoons Lemon Zest: From 1 lemon (about 1½ tablespoons) Lemon Juice: 1½ tablespoons Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon Instructions For the Crust: Grease an 8×8-inch baking pan with non-stick spray. Mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, ...

Oh mio dio, non mi era mai successo di non vedere i palazzi di Lewisham. What a fog!

Easy No-Bake Pistachio Cheesecake Recipe Preparation Time: 30 minutes Chilling Time: 4 hours Total Time: 4 hours 30 minutes Servings: 8-10 Ingredients: For the Crust: 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/3 cup melted unsalted butter 1/4 cup sugar For the Filling: 1 cup unsalted, shelled pistachios 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon gelatin powder 1 1/2 cups cold heavy cream 1 cup powdered sugar 8 ounces softened cream cheese 1 teaspoon vanilla extract For the Topping: Whole or chopped pistachios Optional: Whipped cream Instructions: Crust Preparation: Mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, and sugar until well blended. Firmly...

The name Paracas derives from the Quechua para (rain) and acco (sand), meaning rain of sand. The area where this important Peruvian culture arose is in fact a huge desert located in the south of Lima, where there were probably frequent sandstorms in the past. It was precisely the exceptional aridity of the climate that allowed the conservation of an immense archaeological treasure whose study led us to reconstruct the life of this ancient people. Cemeteries known as Cavernas and Necropolis were found in the Cerro Colorado area. But when does this culture date back? The French archaeologist Federico Engels found the remains of some cultiva...

Quipu were a set of cords connected by knots used to store information by the Incas. They can also be defined as a kind of accounting registers. The first scholars who tried to understand, in a scientific way, how the Incas used the Quipu were Leland L. Locke of the Natural History Museum in New York and Erland Nordenskiold. From 1923 to 1925 they assembled and analyzed 68 Quipu specimens. Following information obtained from historians of the 16 th and 17 th centuries, it is clear that the Incas used a decimal numbering system made up of simple and compound nodes. The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in his Royal Commentaries (1609), reported th...

In the 1950s, the Belgian archaeologist Jean de Heinzelin completed a series of excavations near the village of Ishango, in what is now Congo, near the border with Uganda. He found various tools dating back to the Paleolithic, such as chipped stones, as well as remains of human bones and ancient hearths (charcoal), but the most important object that was recovered was a baboon bone bearing three sets of engravings on three sides. At the top of the bone, just ten centimeters long, there is a quartz crystal set. When the bone was subjected to carbon 14 testing it was discovered that it was carved 23 millennia before Christ. Initially, not mu...

Nowadays no serious scholar doubts that Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. However, there are still many pseudo-researchers who, based on false information or conjectures, claim that the famous navigator had a completely different origin. Let's first see what the great Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo wrote in his Historia General y Natural de las Indias: Cristobal Colon, according to what I was able to learn from men of his nation, was born in the province of Liguria, which is in Italy, and in which the city of Genoa is located: some say that he is from Savona, and others from a small village which i...

After the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the debate on the distribution of the discovered lands was gaining momentum in Europe. The Portuguese, dissatisfied with the previous treaties, pressured the government of Castile to take possession of more lands. In fact, in 1493, upon returning from Columbus's first voyage, the Spanish Pope Alexander VI had decreed in the bull Inter Cetera, that all lands located west of a meridian distant one hundred leagues (about four hundred and twenty kilometers) from Cape Verde They should belong to Spain, while those that were discovered and conquered to the east of that line, and that were not subje...

The first European to explore the area where the city of Manaus is today was Francisco de Orellana on his mythical trip in 1542. The area was inhabited by indigenous Manaus, Barés, Banibas and Passés, who lived in harmony with nature in an environment completely uncontaminated. The area was completely abandoned to its fate for almost a century, until the Portuguese Pedro de Teixeira explored it again, commanding an expedition heading to Quito. In those years, the Portuguese, taking advantage of the ownership of the Crown of Spain and Portugal over the entire South American territory, slowly but steadily advanced westward, colonizing, in e...

During my third trip to Peru I had the opportunity to visit the city of Ica, approximately four hours away from Lima. It is a very noisy city, as taxi drivers have the terrible habit of honking to try to get customers and almost everywhere you can hear typical mountain music at full volume. Sellers of canchita serrana (toasted corn) and corn with cheese are crowded in the streets. The next day, I decided to travel to the town of Ocucaje, located approximately 30 kilometers from Ica, to see up close one of the most important fossil cemeteries in the world. I was accompanied by Juan Aparcana, one of the expert guides of the immense desert w...