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Heroes, revealers of a society
The common points between these heroes are obvious. They all have their text(s), and are therefore well known to the cultured public of the time.
They are warriors, conquerors, sovereigns, with whom the aristocrats of the time can identify.
Their exploits take place almost exclusively on the battlefield: there are no scientists, artists, inventors.
We have not yet reached the technological prowess of Tony Stark or the cunning of Ant-Man: at the time, heroism is warrior.
What these heroes are not is just as revealing. The last Avengers gives pride of place to women: the Scarlet Witch, Okoye, the Black Widow and of course the all-powerful Captain Marvel.
Totally unthinkable in the Middle Ages? Well no, because around 1370 a French author (Jean Le Fèvre) proposed Neuf Preuses, bringing together several heroic female figures, such as the Amazon Semiramis or the legendary queen Tomyris, adversary of the Persian Cyrus...
A model that also enjoys great public and artistic success, even if it does not rival that of the Preux.
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Games from Roman times to the 18th century!
Following the Roman invasion, the Games were opened to non-Greeks.
The prestige of the Games was such that several emperors took part.
On the advice of Bishop Ambrose of Milan, Emperor Theodosius I banned the Games in 393-394 because of their pagan character.
This ban does not specifically target the Olympic Games but in general the Circus Games of which these are a particular event.
The Olympic Games underwent some timid attempts at renovation between the end of the 18th century, when the ruins of the Olympia sites were discovered, and the end of the 19th century.
Let us cite the Olympiad of the Republic which was held in Paris in 1796, 1797 and 1798.
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Atacama Desert (Chile)
Blocked between the ocean trench and the Andes mountain range, the Atacama Desert is known to be one of the driest regions on Earth.
Certain areas can in fact be completely deprived of precipitation for more than 50 years.
This natural barrier is made up of active volcanoes reaching 6,000 meters, surrounded by turquoise lagoons, geysers and deep valleys.
The Atacama Desert is renowned for its starry nights due to its location in the intertropical zone, combining extreme drought, altitude and very little light pollution.
Several international astronomical observatories have been established in this “extraterrestrial” desert where NASA tested small vehicles before they went to explore Mars.
The four-wheeled robot called Zoë found colonies of bacteria and lichens on two distinct sites in this desert, which nevertheless has the lowest density of organic activity on Earth.
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*Photo by Naxsquire.
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Mount Roraima (Venezuela)
Mount Roraima is a mountain in South America shared between Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela.
Discovered and explored late in the 19th century, Mount Roraima was not climbed until 1884 by a British expedition.
An account of one of these expeditions largely inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to write his adventure novel The Lost World in 1912.
Its highlight is the Maverick Stone. Inside the plateau there are numerous caves and chasms.
The watercourses which run through the plateau and which do not escape directly in the form of waterfalls end up disappearing into the rock through the network of caves
This water which flows from Mount Roraima in the form of waterfalls, such as Salto Roraima, or underground gives rise to numerous streams at its feet, some temporary, others permanent.
To the east of the mountain is the source of the Rio Cotingo, a river flowing into Brazil and a sub-tributary of the Amazon.
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*Photo by Paolo Costa Baldi.
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Torres del Paine National Park (Chile)
Torres del Paine National Park is a national park in Chile located between the Andes mountain range and the Patagonian steppe.
Between 3.5 million years ago and 14,000 years ago, glaciations shaped the landscape to remove the upper layers of rock and give the park its current appearance.
Covering an area of 181,414 hectares, its main function is the conservation of landscapes, ecosystems, species and genetic diversity of the Paine massif.
Its surface is characterized by its landscape heterogeneity, where mountains, glaciers, valleys, ponds and large lakes converge.
It takes its name from three emblematic granite formations of the del Paine massif: the Torres (Towers) del Paine.
12 million years ago, in the Miocene, the northward movement of the boundary between the Antarctic plate and the Nazca plate caused the intrusion of a 10 km by 20 km laccolith with a thickness of 2,000 mr.
This intrusion created the heart of the Paine massif. The territory also has some small, older intrusions dating from 29 million years ago.
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