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International Coffee Day All over the world, on the first of October, the "World Coffee Day" is celebrated. A day to enhance the benefits and customs associated with this drink. A day to raise public awareness of fair trade (ICO's objective). This day was established for the first time in 2015 by the ICO (International Coffee Organization), an intergovernmental organization that deals with the import and export of coffee.…
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Il Giro 2020 **The Giro d'Italia**, postponed for the first time in its centenary history (103 years) in autumn (from 3 to 25 October), is about to begin. **What Giro will it be?** The route covers 3,496.8 kilometres of novelties, confirmations (departure from Sicily), surprises (the magic of Matera and the uphill finish in Roccaraso) and great classics (the Stelvio, with its 2,758 metres, Piancavallo and Sestriere). The great mountains are confirmed. Three individual…
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Europa League Preliminaries: Rio Ave-Milan **Rio Ave-Milan, after 24 penalties, AC Milan qualified for the group stage of the Europa League.** **RIO-AVE MILAN 10-11 (2-2)** Rio Ave (4-2-3-1): Kieszek; Ivo Pinto, Borevkovic, Santos, Nelson Monte; Tarantini (30′ st Jambor); Filipe Augusto; Piazon, Diego Lopes (21′ st Geraldes), Carlos Mané (4′ sts Gabrielzinho), Moreira (41′ st Gelson Dala) (22 Vieira, 24 Pedro Amaral, 77 Andrè Pereira). All.: Silva. Milan (4-2-3-1):…
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Film and TV series: Teen Wolf Teen Wolf is a 2011 fantasy TV series by Jeff Davis, starring Tyler Posey and Dylan O'Brien. Teen Wolf is six seasons old. Scott McCall is a high school student, a teenager like many others who lives in the city of Beacon Hills. When bitten by a werewolf, his life changes dramatically. Scott quickly discovers that he is a werewolf, but he fears what he might become now that his powers can make him lose control. After discovering that he has…
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Myths & Legends: The Celts The Celtic world is the history and culture of a people, which remains for many sides mysterious, yet it enters as an essential component of the European civilization. In the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. it was possible to cross the whole continent, from Ireland to Asia Minor, without ever leaving the territory occupied by the Celts; even afterwards, rejected or tamed by the Romans on the continent, the Celts developed their great civilisation in…
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Humanism The term humanism derives from the expression "Studia Humanitas" (studies relating to humanity), which in classical antiquity designated an education aimed at the overall formation of the individual through literary and philosophical studies. Humanism came to life culturally in Italy in the last years of the 14th century and developed in Europe in the 15th century. The characteristic element of this cultural movement was the rediscovery of the culture of classical…
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Myths and legends: stories of pirates To arouse the jealousy of the Spanish Roderigo, who does not want to know about her love, the beautiful Venetian Lorenza becomes in Palermo, in the absence of her husband, the Spanish captain Alonso de Contreras, the lover of a family friend: Juan Cabrerà. On his return, Alonso is informed of everything by Roderigo. The Spanish captain surprises the lovers and hits them with a dagger and then escapes abroad. Roderigo, for his part,…
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Film e Serie Tv: Dexter Dexter is a TV series in the genre Drama, Crime, Thriller created by James Manos Jr. and Jeff Lindsay with Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, broadcast in the USA since 2006. Dexter finished production in 2013 (eight seasons and 96 episodes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeUmSD1c3g The TV series is a crime drama about Dexter Morgan, a Miami forensic police haematologist who hides a terrifying secret: behind his friendly smile, Dexter is a…
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Sleep sweet sleep In Vitruvius' Rome, there was a rudimentary alarm clock: the water clock. The water clock was equipped with a mechanical arm that threw an egg into the air, or threw a pebble, depending on the sleeper's taste. Those who did not appreciate it could opt for a string tied to the base of a lighted candle that held a weight that plunged into a metal bowl when the lamp had worn out. In later periods the sleepers would have at their disposal the so-called English…
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Myths and legends: pirate stories 2nd part Henry Morgan succeeds the pirate Mansfeldt at his death. The corsairs acclaim him as their leader in recognition of his courage and skill. After joining a relative of his in marriage, Morgan studies a plan of attack against Port Prince. The news that the famous pirate is about to run over the city with his pro-brokers runs fast and alarms the garrison. When, after having divided them into several teams, Morgan reaches the beach with…
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Poor but beautiful On TV, they sometimes take us back in time with the nostalgia of old movies, where “the poor but beautiful” have mini briefs, striped sandals and sculpted physique. The girls have violent lipstick, lush body, chubby face, long hair and swollen breasts. The youth of the 50s were still full of hope; the 60s, with their conscience and morals, were yet to come. That generation just wanted to forget the bad memories of the previous decade.…
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Lisbon beyond the Pillars of Hercules The last frontier of the Old Continent overlooks Africa and the Atlantic: this is where Europe ends. The land is all behind it, in front of it and on each side there is only the sea. The sea breaks on the rocks between the ocean waves and flights of white, rough, deaf and hurried seagulls. The history of Lisbon starts from Praca do Commercio. The steps of the square lead to the river. The Tagus is the river that acts as a bridge between…
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The sailors You can recognise sailors from afar: knee-length trousers, bare feet and an unshaven beard. At sunset, they set sail on their boat and go fishing. They take a few things with them: an old blanket, a bottle of wine and a piece of bread. It is a difficult life to face: broken nets and hands full of calluses for rowing. How many times in the morning you see them return to the harbour tired, humiliated and with little catch. In the afternoon you find them on the…
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Every so often I think about my past, I would like to relive certain beautiful moments ... Or make different choices. Then you realize that you can't relive the past then you have to go ahead and try to give your best in every opportunity ... If you make bad choices it's because you are free to decide your future ... If this is already a good one thing. By kork75.
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Smart animals Animals (proportionally) are smarter than us when they have to approach their prey without being recognized. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/lion-maschio-mane-predatore-1734800/ Birds bury food reserves in hundreds of different places and remember them with absolute precision even after a year. https://pixabay.com/it/vectors/animali-uccelli-volano-oche-oca-2030018/ Fish that show altruistic behaviour, looking after the offspring of fish of other species…
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The unfortunate queens of the seas: the Mafalda A tragedy was the shipwreck of the "Princess Mafalda" on 25 October 1927, eighty miles off the Brazilian coast. She was considered the first transatlantic liner in the world and had 1259 people on board who enjoyed the last hours of the voyage. In the afternoon, the propeller broke due to the breaking of an axle. There was a leak in the stern of the ship.…
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From helicopter to scooter The name of Corradino D'Ascanio (Popoli, 1 February 1891 — Pisa, 5 August 1981) has gone down in history as the man who in the early postwar years designed the “Vespa”, the two-wheeled motorbike of the Italians, which became the symbol of popular motorisation in the world. D'Ascanio was an aeronautical engineer. The “father” of the scooter, in the encyclopaedias of science and technology, is the “father” of the helicopter.…
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Oh, Dear... Fletcher Christian was not the kind of Englishman who came from the sea to impose his rule, killing natives like a crazed shark. Yet Tahitians killed him with the violence he reserved for sharks onshore and for revenge that did not even concern him directly. After a long escape in the Pacific, the young gentleman who had snatched the Bounty from Captain William Bligh set fire to the vessel and took refuge with his men on the deserted island of Pitcairn,…
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Tutto cambia A volte rivivo i bei ricordi di quando ero bambino con nostalgia, come un'illusione per sfuggire al presente. Sono consapevole che non troverò mai la felicità incondizionata di quando ero bambino, ma a volte ci penso. Alcuni sono lontani ricordi sbiaditi di momenti trascorsi in famiglia (feste o compleanni) o con gli amici (ricordo infinite partite di calcio). Guardo dentro e indietro nei miei ricordi, capisco che devo rinunciare a certe cose che ho acquisito…
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Trail running Quando decido di uscire a correre nel bosco vicino a casa valuto sempre il mio stato di salute. Sono consapevole dell'impegno e dell'intensità che chiederò al mio corpo. Negli anni mi sono reso conto che il trail running è sconsigliato, ad esempio, a chi ha problemi cardiovascolari (ci vuole cuore e polmoni in perfetto stato di funzionamento), a chi ha più di 59 anni ea chi non fa esercizio da molto tempo tempo , o per chi ha molto eccesso di peso: per loro è…
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Cambiare percorso Penso sia utile darsi una metà del viaggio, conoscere la propria strada, sapere a chi rivolgersi, avere indicazioni precise, quindi pianificare prima di agire. Ma è altrettanto bello godersi il viaggio anche senza sapere come arrivarci. Le strade possono essere diverse, ma tutte portano le proprie esperienze. Le nostre esperienze di vita ci aiutano a capire se siamo nel posto giusto e sulla strada giusta. Basta avere il coraggio di intraprendere una nuova…
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Out loud I have always wondered why some people scream instead of talking. These people use their voice as a form of expression to intimidate or express anger. Yes, because anger is the main driving force behind the screams, which are, among other things, a means of poor control. So raising your voice is only an indication of emotional instability. We shout to show ourselves stronger than we are and to dominate the situation. However, we only show that we do not have enough…
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Finding yourself The need to be alone, away from everything and everyone to find yourself. Sometimes we have to learn to live with our loneliness. Loneliness is a word that over the years is losing its negative meaning and gaining a positive one: it is easy to use it to mean almost a luxury. We live in a society that has super stimulated us with messages of all kinds, both visual and auditory. Our senses are so gratified that the real holiday is really to stay away from…
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Tierra! On 12 October 1492 the sailor Rodrigo de Trina shouted: Tierra! But for the landing in the “New World”, he waited for dawn. To Christopher Columbus, and him alone, we owe the discovery, and the subsequent conquest, of the American continent, an event that shook the world. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoforo_Colombo#/media/File:Gustav_Adolf_Closs_-_Die_Schiffe_des_Columbus_-_1892.jpg Leaving Palos on August 3, 1492, with three caravels (Nina, Pinta and Santa…
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A Million Stairs Born in Genoa on 12 October 1896, Eugenio Montale was a poet, writer, translator and critic who contributed to enriching our cultural heritage. Montale was the last of the five children of Domingo, the manager together with the cousins of a small commercial company, and of Giuseppina Ricci, who came from Nervi. His father was also Ligurian, originally from Monterosso, in the Cinque Terre, where the Montale family had a house, the place of Eugenio's childhood…
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Five Lands "Cinque Terre" A strip of terraced hills that, depending on the points, descend gently or fall to the sea from a height of even more than five hundred metres are the Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre, the poetry of the sea: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. Cinque Terre, the poetry of the sea of the places dear to Montale, wine and the via dell'Amore Monterosso is the capital. Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore the other “clods”,…
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The ketchup in pills Ketchup, as we know it, is a sweet and sour tomato sauce. This much-loved sauce, although it is often considered a US product par excellence, the origin of ketchup is oriental. Ketchup is one of the most used sauces to accompany fries or stuff sandwiches, but did you know its ancient use in the medical field? https://pixabay.com/it/photos/pomodori-ketchup-triste-alimentari-1448361/ In the past, it was a medicine, even in pills. For a time, in the 19th…
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Little Big Man (movie) In Little Big Man, the glorious pioneers, the conquerors of the West, who are not shown as men all in one piece, but seen in an ironic and deforming light, which gives them an unusual dimension. The film wants the rehabilitation of the redskins, while one of the Indians' most famous adversaries, General Custer, is derided as never before. The film tells the story of Jack Crabb's life: a 121-year-old Methuselah. The man tells a journalist about when he…
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The Great Dictator (movie) *"... In Tomainia the dictator Adenoid Hynkel unleashes repression against the Jews. The beautiful Hannah and her lover, a barber who bears a striking resemblance to Hynkel, flee. The barber, first captured, escapes from the concentration camp and by chance bumps into the real dictator and is arrested on his behalf. From the Führer's microphones, the barber gives the world a long message of peace and hope..."*…
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The destiny of men We are all tied to the thread of our destiny. Sometimes things happen and it cannot be avoided. Other times things happen because we have done nothing to avoid it. In the second case it has nothing to do with destiny, but this is the negative side. The positive side?Sometimes things happen without us doing anything. Other times we do everything wrong but the universe (fate or luck) leads us to a favourable solution. Morality is always the same anyway:…
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Television The first cathode ray tube dates back to 1927, but a primitive electromechanical system was invented in 1884 by a Russian (Paul Nipkow). In 1929, Alessandro Banfi and Sergio Bertolotti had transmitted the figure of a cloth doll at a distance in the Uri (Italian Radiophonic Union) studios in Milan. To film it they used a perforated disk that rotated quickly: the light passing through the holes described the object in the form of a series of light impulses. A…
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Ready player one (movie) In 2045 the Earth is polluted, overpopulated and many take refuge in a virtual world called Oasis. Its millionaire creator, dying, decided to bequeath it to the first to overcome a series of challenges: a treasure hunt inside the Oasis. A young outcast named Wade Watts is determined to compete, but he will have to deal with the men of the IOI, a ruthless society ready to do anything to win. Even to kill.…
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The complexity of the cartoon characters What's behind the Disney characters? Many have tried to give philosophical or moral meaning to Disney's masterpieces, also studying the appearance of its characters. Let's think of Winnie the Pooh, that cute teddy bear who carries his hand on his forehead and hisses *“I think, think, think, think...”*. Now, it is clear that Winnie the Pooh, with his incredible optimism, never held back by anything, is a new Candido (we mean…
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Our ancestors, better men than we thought they were They say that in the days of cavemen life was short, brutal and beastly, yet, the fossil evidence suggests a very different picture. For the last 50,000 years or so of the Ice Age (the total duration of the Ice Age was one and a half million years) the truth is that "primitive" man in Europe was more long-lived and better nourished than his successors until more recent times. Only in the last century has a fraction of…
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Portable Personal Computer One of the many merits acknowledged to the “Big Blue” (International Business Machines Corporation) is that it invented the definition of PC: “The Personal Computer”. A marketing gimmick probably by an unknown copywriter. Because the computer that came out of the IBM factory on 12 August 1981 was a revolutionary machine, but it was by no means the first "personal computer". To the IBM industry, thanks to its extraordinary ability to condition the…
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Ligurian cuisine The food of the Ligurians is ancient, aristocratic and practically inimitable. The Genoese, when they dominated the seas, imposed their food in their dominions. The cuisine of the Genoese and Ligurians is simple, but never miserable. Ligurian cuisine is unmistakable from the first taste: sweetness, delicacy, softness on the nose and palate; simplicity, the nobility of the materials treated. The Genoese beaten sauce or "pesto", is the realization of the…
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Vesuvius Scholars claim that the volcano has been silent since 1944 (it had been a limited eruption in the middle of the American occupation) and that it is preparing for an explosive awakening in the centuries to come. Their convictions were developed by studying previous eruptions of Vesuvius. Volcanologists have collected a lot of data: volume of emissions identified the area where the gases deposited, analysed the ashes and studied the extent of the destruction. The…
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No-man's land In August 1914 in Italy and the rest of Europe a war of a few weeks, at most a few months, was expected. The military had the Franco-Prussian War as a model, while civilians thought it was not possible to sustain a conflict that, by calling millions of men to arms, would have limited industrial and agricultural production. The generals obtained from the government extensive powers to intervene in the country, according to the principle that all matters…
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First Blood America is a country that struggles with its short past, but when the sense of death becomes too distressing, yesterday's wounds begin to bleed again. There are many wounds, but only one has never healed: Vietnam. For American cinema, Vietnam is synonymous with guilt. It doesn't happen for all wars. On the contrary: The United States is a country that has never apologized to the Africans for having deported them as slaves, nor to the Native Americans for having…
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When the English stopped Napoleon On 21 October 1805, off the Iberian peninsula, one of the battles that changed the balance of the world was fought: the battle of Trafalgar. But what happened at Trafalgar 200 years ago? Yes, it was at the height of the Napoleonic era and England felt the risk of an invasion by French troops ruling over the whole continent.…
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Golden Team Hungary dreamed of being free, but it did so too soon compared to the times of history, in the false noise of the hypocritical western world that pretended not to know that the planet was divided into two hemispheres, governed politically and culturally by two masters who looked at each other gnashing their teeth and sharpening their weapons: it was the Europe of the fifties. Greater Hungary or Aranycsapat (Golden Team) was in the 1950s what Holland was to the…
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The first Europeanist An immigrant son of the Mediterranean whose family is fleeing the civil war and poverty arrives in France at the age of 9. They mock him as a "foreigner". He manages to attend an excellent school, where he learns many things. He makes his way thanks to merit. He became the Frenchman, or rather the most famous European in the world. How many books have been written about Napoleon? More than two hundred thousand as I have read elsewhere? But I think there…
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Grazing cows *"Even if you give a cow cocoa to drink, you won't milk any chocolate".* *(Stanisław Jerzy Lec)* (Photo taken in Castione della Presolana Bg 🇮🇹) By Kork75 😉👍
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When rich America plunged into misery The Wall Street apocalypse came on 24 October 1929 with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange which caused the closure of very powerful banks. Suddenly *"the roaring years"* of cyclopean industrial development came to an end. He called it *"Black Thursday"* and made millions unemployed. Hundreds in the following days killed themselves in debt, thousands of families ended up living in shacks or under bridges. The ruin was so rapid,…
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An art genius In the course of his life, he has been a real sign of contradiction, often at the centre of violent polemics, and this has happened because his activity has never been that of a *"neutral"* artist, both from a character point of view and from a political-social one, which is why his painting has found itself deeply involved in history. An artist and a man of alarm and emergency, who with his painting has been able to address the great issues that worry millions…
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Autumn thoughts *🌰🍂🍁"autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower" by Albert Camus*🍁🍂🌰 Greetings by kork75!
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The winner of Giro d'Italia number 103 is Tao Geoghegan Hart Tao Geoghegan Hart wins the Giro d'Italia number 103. In the most exciting final stage in the history of the Giro d'Italia, the 25-year-old Briton from INEOS Grenadiers is radiant after beating Australian Jay Hindley in the last time trial. Hart finished thirteenth in the Cernusco Sul Naviglio time trial in Milan and 39 seconds behind Jay Hindley (Jai Team Sunweb) in the pink jersey, winning the "Endless Trophy":…
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The litigation Italy Yugoslavia (Trieste) The memory of 26 October 1954, the day when the return of the Italian troops to Trieste put an end to eleven years of separation from the country, is rooted in the collective memory of the Italians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste#/media/File:Triest_1885.jpg Annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1918 (officially after the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920), the city of Trieste ended up in foreign hands after the armistice of 8 September…
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Pride The 4th of April to which the well-known *"Pride"* of U2 refers is that of 1968, the life, that of the Reverend Martin Luther King. An ordinary day, for a man who was no ordinary man and who was preparing to face another battle like so many others he had already fought and won. The Memphis scavengers, who had been asking the mayor for months in vain for recognition of their rights, were waiting for him that evening for a rally: they expected words of encouragement,…
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Ritorno a Kasiha - Seconda Parte Capitolo Primo **Ritorno a Kasiha - Seconda Parte** **Capitolo Primo** **Il club** Giada ci mise molto di più dei cinque minuti previsti per affidare le nipotine alla baby-sitter e questo fece spazientire Jo, che nell’attesa del ritorno della donna restò seduto in macchina in compagnia dell’ammiraglio Gerison. I due uomini discussero del più e del meno e John si dovette sorbire anche un barbosissimo soliloquio del suo interlocutore, relativo…
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Crêuza de mä Crêuza de mä as a turning point in Italian popular music, as a foretaste experience of the "world" wave (or ethnic, if you like), but above all as a parable of the journey of dialogue between the peoples of the globe. It was 1984 when, Fabrizio De Andrè and Mauro Pagani (violinist, multi-instrumentist and composer already in the Premiata Forneria Marconi), published that record revealing themselves as two travellers or rather two explorers: theirs was a…
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The Mattei case It is the 27th October 1962, it is 6.57 pm. Eni's private plane, which brought back to Milan, from Catania, the president and founder of the National Hydrocarbons Agency, Enrico Mattei and the pilot and an American journalist, exploded on landing on Linate, falling on a field in Bascapè (Pavia), a small town of 1800 inhabitants. With him, the pilot Irnerio Bertuzzi and the American journalist William Mc Hale lost their lives. Forty years later, while an…
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Lady Liberty In the memory of desperate people from all over Europe (Poles, Russians, Irish, Greeks and Italians) who at the end of the 19th and half of the 20th century emigrated to North America to escape hunger and misery from political and racial persecution or just for the spirit of adventure, the immense and severe size of the Statue of Delta Freedom, which stands at the Port of New York, with that arm outstretched towards the sky to hold the jib, has remained forever…
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Signor Bonaventura The famous little man, tall, slender, with a crooked nose, egg-shaped eyes, red jacket, bowler hat and wide white trousers, born from Sergio Tofano's pen, before forging the contours with his imagination, seems to have existed. The little man seemed to have a name and a surname: his name was Ildebrando Bonaventura. When they told him about him in Tofano, it was 1917, in the middle of the world war. Sergio Tofano, a Roman, graduated in literature and…
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The mouse One of the key figures in the development of personal computing was Douglas Engelbart. Engelbart never got rich because he developed some of the innovations that transformed the computer from a hidden tool in the inner sanctuary of computer centres into a desktop object capable of supporting any activity from play to work. He was a shy and humble man. It was his invention of the mouse, patented by his research institute and then sold to Apple for $40,000, without…
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Conflict in the South Atlantic 1600 square kilometres for only 1800 inhabitants, all faithful subjects of Her British Majesty: but it was, on the other side of the ocean, that one could measure the density of Argentinean irredentism at the time when there was not a single schoolboy from Buenos Aires who, from the first class, had not learned the name of Las Malvinas by heart, thinking of when, when he grew up, he could take part in their liberation. Lonely, desolate and far…
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Like a Bull At the beginning of the 1960s, Ferrari had already dominated the international car scene for twenty years, thanks above all to the sporting triumphs of its driving champions (Tazio Nuvolari, Juan Manuel Fangio and Alberto Ascari). At that time (1963), twenty kilometres north of Maranello (Ferrari's historical headquarters), in the small town of Sant'Agata Bolognese Ferruccio Lamborghini founded his car company. Lamborghini, after collecting successes and billions…
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My photo of the day *"If you are looking for angels or on the run from demons, go to the mountains. (Cit.Jeffrey Rasley)"* 😁👍
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Trick or treating Halloween is celebrated on the night of 31st October and in the Celtic language it means “The Vigil of Every Saint”: feast of death and rebirth. It is generally attributed to countries such as England, Ireland, the United States, Australia, although it would be more appropriate to consider it a celebration common to the peoples of Europe. On the night between 31st October and 1st November, people dress up as gnomes, monsters, witches and walking around the…
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Between science and politics Today at least 1% of the population of the world's most industrialised countries are scientists or people working in the field of high and innovative technologies. Scientific research absorbs between 2 and 3% of the wealth produced each year in these countries, which make up the wealthy part of the world. Scientific knowledge is the source from which, for at least a century, the technological system has been systematically drawing on to produce…
