LF\Projects Archive

Building big - Dams

With the exception of the Great Wall of China, dams are the largest structures ever built. Throughout history, big dams have prevented flooding, irrigated farmland, and generated tremendous amounts of electricity. Without dams, modern life as we know it would simply not be the same. Read More

Carnival Cruising

Carnival Cruise Lines (NYSE: CCL) is a cruise line operating a large number of cruise ships. It originally was an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison. Read More

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND LATERAL THINKING

A good school, among all the other things, should help children to develope their own creative problem solving capability. Creative problem solving is the mental process of creating a solution to a problem. Read More

Dishdogz - Skateboarding

Predating the first skateboard, the New York Times reported on May 21, 1893 in an article entitled: "DANGEROUS SPORT IN BROOKLYN: Coasting on Lincoln Place May Sometime Lead to Loss of Life". Read More

Droit de Parole: a pirate radio ship

Propaganda for Peace (by Keith Spicer). Hate campaigns on Serbian and Croatian television helped brew Bosnia's horrors. The Hutus' Radio Mille Collines ordered half a million murders and a death march of two million Rwandans. Read More

Eastpak

Eastpak is a popular brand of packs, bags, luggage and clothing owned by VF Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies. Read More

Eurelectric

Extract from the brochure: "The Union of the Electricity Industry - EURELECTRIC is the professional ... Read More

Galleria Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is the Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Modena. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari Spa. Read More

Genova 04

The metamorphosis of culture. The aim of the event ... Read More

Gérard Janichon’s books

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Graphiti series

The first title of the Graphiti series was "The Mannequin Man" (L'impagliatore), a novel by Luca di Fulvio: a voyage around and inside the dark side of the human soul. Read More

Guida Sicura

Guida Sicura has been written (mainly) by Formula One driver Siegfried Stohr, ... Read More

Il viaggio del presepe

Crib on the boats of the maritime museum is an happy tradition that - in Cesenatico (see the map) - has been renewed for years. The floating section of the Maritime Museum is illuminated with lights and animated with artistic statues which tell the Nativity story in marine style. Read More

International Kite Festival

A kite is a flying tethered man-made object. The necessary lift that makes the kite ... Read More

Le Navi

L’Acquario di Cattolica si trova all’interno di edifici, risalente agli anni ‘30, le cui forme richiamano una flotta navale. La struttura era stata originariamente concepita come colonia marina per ospitare i figli degli italiani residenti all’estero. Read More

Leaves of grass

When Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass on or around the ... Read More

Levity II

The sky is torn and the rain gives the earth an ancient languor of perfumes and sighs, like irreverent music that pays no attention to the twined voices chasing each other, but fills with the breath of the grey air around it... Read More

Libera-mente Abili

Bioenergetic Analysis is an important part of body psychotherapy (body-oriented psychotherapy) based on the expression of feelings and the re-establishment of energy flow in the body. Read More

Mappe di sensibilità ambientale

Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. Environmental Science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. Read More

Marina di Rimini

Marina di Rimini is a modern harbour, appreciated by the seamen for its services that meet the expectations of the Italian and foreign sailors, either local or just in transit. Marina di Rimini has a stretch of water of over 100,000 sq.m., and can offer hospitality to approximately 650 boats and assures a wide space for the mooring manoeuvres. Read More

MeieAurora

MeieAurora Navimeteo is a private weather service specialized in custom marine forecast for sailing and ... Read More

Meteolog

Observe, understand, evaluate, make good decisions. Navimeteo Log was designed to provide the mariners with useful information about the weather and navigation. Read More

Migrazioni’s travel journals

A travel journal, or road journal or travelogue , is an initially blank book carried by a traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or tickets may be included as they are collected. Read More

Moitessier

Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994) was born in Saigon (in those days French Indochina) son of a French import/export entrepreneur. Read More

Movimento Centrale

The artistic and cultural project of Movimento Centrale, Rimini, through the efforts of Claudio Gasparotto to promote a culture of dance as art. Read More

Movimento n° 1

Claudio Gasparotto is a dancer, choreographer and former. In 1988 he won the Prix Volinine in Paris and the next year he was guest at the Gala Laureati Prix Volinine with his FFTD Company. Read More

Mursia Sea Library

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Museo della Marineria di Cesenatico

Cesenatico is an example showing like history and marine tradition can coexist in a modern tourist resort. The ancient sailing boats are wharfed next to modern motor trawlers that still mark the rhythm of the Leonardesque Canal Harbour’s life and the old but still running fish market is just close to a modern wholesale Fish Market. Read More

Music of Tangier

Morocco is inhabited mostly by Arabs along with Berbers and other minorities. Its music is predominantly Arab, but Andalusian and other imported influences have had a major effect on the country's musical character. Rock-influenced chaabi bands are widespread, as is trance music with historical origins in Muslim music. Read More

Navimagazine

Download the Navimagazine (PDF) Download Navimagazine n° 18 Download Navimagazine ... Read More

Navimeteo

Navimeteo is a private service of Migrazioni Srl and supplies personalised marine meteorological forecasts for yachting and professional maritime activities. Read More

North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is world-renowned for the many musical genres which it offers each year, ranging from traditional New Orleans jazz, swing, bop, free jazz, fusion, avant garde jazz and elctronic jazz to blues, gospel, funk, soul, hiphop, r&b, world beat and latin. Read More

Pancia di Stella. La spiaggia

Poster for the theatrical performance "Pancia di stella. La spiaggia" from Paolo Volponi's novel "Corporale". Actors: Eugenio Allegri, Anna Amadori, Michele Andrei. Read More

Pantaenius

Pantaenius has more than 100 years of insurance brokerage experience. Pantaenius, named after the company founder Johann C. Pantaenius, was entered in the Hamburg register of companies in 1899. Shortly thereafter it made a name for itself in marine and transport insurance. Read More

Ricordi

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Roald Amundsen’s Gjøa

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – c. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was also the first person to reach both the North and South Pole. He is known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage aboard Gjøa. Read More

Save the children

Save the Children is a leading international organisation helping children in need around the world. First established in the United Kingdom in 1919, separate national organisations have been set up in more than 28 countries, sharing the aim of improving the lives of children through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict. Read More

Solo

Solo = single-handed sailing. In traditional marine terms, a hand is a member of a ship's crew. Single-handed therefore means with a crew of one; ie. only one person on the vessel. Read More

Spirito di Stella

"Lo Spirito di Stella", designed by Andrea Stella, 28, represents a unique achievement in the boating world and is the first sailboat that allows a person in a wheelchair to move freely around the vessel and sail. Read More

Swaziland

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a country located in Southern Africa, centred at approximately 26°49'S, 31°38'E. It is relatively small in area, similar in size to Kuwait. Swaziland is a landlocked country, bordered by South Africa on three sides except to the east, where it borders Mozambique. The country, inhabited primarily by Bantu-speaking Swazi people, is named after the 19th century king Mswati II, from whom the people also take their name. The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Swaziland is the highest in the world at 38.8%, and is much higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa overall (7.5%) and globally (1.1%). Life expectancy at birth in Swaziland is little above 30 years. King Sobhuza II, who died in 1982, was one of the longest reigning monarchs of all time.   History Artifacts indicating human activity dating back to the early Stone Age 200,000 years ago have been found in the kingdom of Swaziland. Prehistoric rock art paintings date from ca. 25,000 B.C. and continue up to the 19th century. The earliest inhabitants of the area were Khoisan hunter-gatherers. They were largely replaced by the Bantu tribes during Bantu migrations. Evidence of agriculture and iron use dates from about the 4th century, and people speaking languages ancestral to current Sotho and Nguni languages began settling no later than the 11th century. The ruling Dlamini lineage had chiefships in the region in the 18th century. An enlarged Swazi (occasionally also written as Suozi[citation needed]) kingdom was established by King Sobhuza I in the early 19th century. Soon thereafter the first whites started to settle in the area. In the 1890s the South African Republic in the Transvaal claimed sovereignty over Swaziland but never fully established power. After the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, Swaziland became a British protectorate. The country was granted independence within the Commonwealth of Nations on 6 September 1968. Since then, Swaziland has seen a struggle between pro-democracy activists and the monarchy. Swaziland has been under a State of Emergency since 1973.   Politics The head of state is the king or Ngwenyama (lit. Lion), currently King Mswati III, who ascended to the throne in 1986 after the death of his father King Sobhuza II in 1982 and a period of regency. Read More

Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems

Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts to Aurelia Schober Plath, a first-generation American of Austrian descent, and Otto Emile Plath, an immigrant from Grabow, Germany. Read More

Tall Ships Race 2007

The Tall Ships' Races are races for sail training Tall Ships (sailing ships). Between 1973 and 2003 they were sponsored by Cutty Sark and called "The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races". They are currently supported by the city, province and port of Antwerp. Read More

Those of Cape Horn series

Despite the opening of the Suez and Panama Canals, the Horn remains part of the fastest sailing route around the world, and so the growth in recreational long-distance sailing has brought about a revival of sailing via the Horn. Read More

Travel guides

A travel guide, or guide book, is a book for tourists or travelers that provides details about a geographic location, tourist destination, or itinerary. Read More

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia) is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it, as is the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is held in even years. A dance section, the "International Festival of Contemporary Dance", was established in 1999. Read More