031July 24, 2017

In 1910 the Società Anonima Miniere Scisti bituminosi di Meride e di Besano started its commercial activity with the opening of the oil factory Spinirolo close to Meride, a small village situated on the southern slop of the Monte San Giorgio, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

007August 29, 2015

The history of the Earth, which began with the formation of the planet approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is divided into named units of unequal ranks like «Mesozoic», «Triassic», «Jurassic», «Cretaceous» and so on (see below).