March 2014

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On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee distributed a proposal for the creation of a new system for the distribution of information, a web of notes with links between them. This was the original concept of the World Wide Web. On this anniversary, its creator calls for the creation of a Magna Carta for the web, the equivalent of one of the basic documents for British democracy to protect the freedom of the people from surveillance.

Astronaut Mike Hopkins and cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy assisted by the ground crew after their landing (Image NASA TV)

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A few hours ago, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy and American astronaut Mike Hopkins returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft, which landed without problems in Kazakhstan. They spent nearly six months on the International Space Station, where they arrived September 25, 2013. Initially, they were part of Expedition 37, in the second half of their stay they were part of the Expedition 38 with Oleg Kotov as the Station commander.

The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

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The novel “The Night Eternal” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan was published for the first time in 2011. It’s the third novel in the Strain trilogy and is the sequel to “The Fall”.

The Master’s plan to seize power worked. It used atomic weapons to cause a nuclear winter with an almost perennial night. In two years it took control of most of the world creating a society in which humans survivors are divided between his servants and the “cattle”, used to provide blood and for breeding.

The group formed by the epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather, his colleague Nora Martinez and exterminator Vasiliy Fet keep on trying to form a resistance against the Master. They’re helped by the mysterious Quinlan, who served the other ancient vampires and now keeps on looking for the Master’s weakness in a fight that seems hopeless.

Postcard celebrating Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino, in the then USSR. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made ​​the first historic human journey into space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft orbiting the Earth. On March 27, 1968 Yuri Gagarin died when the MiG-15UTI he was flying on crashed to the ground.

Yuri Gagarin received many honors during his life and many other were posthumous. The posthumous tributes have been made over the years in important moments such as the first landing of humans on the Moon and the 50th anniversary of his flight. Even today, flying in space carries risks, in 1961 a it was a truly amazing achievement. For this reason, despite the Cold War, Yuri Gagarin was always highly respect beyond ideology.