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The birth of the euro The 1st January 1999 is a day that will remain mentioned in all history books and the manuals of economic and financial sciences. In fact, with the beginning of the last year of the second millennium, the third and final phase of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) began and, with it, a new currency was officially born: the euro. First of all, the euro was born at the same time in eleven states of old Europe; which, another unique fact in history, had…
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Outlaw winning and satisfied They didn't know how to draw or write, and they knew very little about comics, but the Giussani sisters (Angela and Luciana), with a stroke of genius, were inspired by a crime story that took place in Turin in 1954, where, following the discovery of a FIAT worker, a series of letters claiming the murder, signed under the pseudonym Diabolik, reached the newspaper La Stampa in 1962, creating a key character in our recent history, translated in…
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The tragic end of a poet In the early hours of the night of Sunday 2 November 1975, a carabinieri patrol on duty on the Ostia seafront stopped a car going the wrong way, Pino Pelosi was driving. At dawn near the Ostia waterway, the lifeless body of Pasolini was found by some residents, tortured and almost unrecognizable for the blows suffered. A heinous crime for which they accused Pelosi, indicating a sexual motive. Pasolini was certainly not the victim of a single person,…
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The bra In 1903 Mr Otto Titzling of Hamburg had horrendous difficulties with the laces of his wife's guépière and dressing her was like arming a sailing ship. But Otto was an ingenious man and to free himself from this task he did some geometric research and invented the bra, but all this is not very credible. However, if the invention is not the Germans', it is their wittiest advertising slogan for the bra: *"It contains the strong, supports the weak, collects the lost"*.…
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Italy - 4th November, National Unity and Armed Forces Day This commemoration was established in 1919 in memory of the victims of the First World War. On 3 November 1918 with the armistice of Villa Giusti in Padua, Italy ended the war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The armistice sanctioned the victory of the Triple Entente (United Kingdom, France and Russia) to which the Kingdom of Italy was allied and granted it the territories of Trentino-South Tyrol and the city of…
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Monopoly I remember when I was a child that at parties at one point someone would bring out the Monopoly. The green board folded in four came out of a square box, the place cards were a candle, a green pear, a flask, a vase with a plant, they were made of wood like houses and hotels: it was The old dear Monopoly the most famous box game in the world. Then we would all sit around the board and spend our hours doing business, buying and selling property, hoping for luck…
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Songs that are poetry **Piero Ciampi** (Livorno, 28 September 1934 – Rome, 19 January 1980) was an Italian singer-songwriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Ciampi Young people may not even know its name, but its strength, its sincerity of expression, bring its song back to the most dramatic line of 1950s poetry, and its memory has remained in the hearts of the most mature generation of Italian songwriters. A bitter, ironic and sweet poet, he lived his story of words and…
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Hand with Rings The study of cathode rays in the physics laboratory at the University of Wurzburg led to another major discovery, that of X-rays, made in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). Rontgen observed that when cathode rays hit a metal, radiation of unknown nature was emitted (hence the name X-rays). The emission of these rays, invisible to the eye, was revealed by the fact that they caused luminescence in certain substances. Subsequent observations allowed…
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The Wall In Berlin, shortly after midnight on 13 August 1961, soldiers of the National Volks Arms, the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic, were frantically at work at the Brandenburg Gate: thousands of bales of barbed wire had to be unrolled. So began, at one o'clock in the morning on a quiet Sunday, Operation Pink, the codename of the most dastardly architectural project in history, conceived by the communist regime of Erich Honecker and Walter…
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The reformer History remembers him as the man of the schism, who with his revolutionary ideas marked the destiny of Christianity, giving life to a second way towards the salvation of the soul. But in 1516 Luther was an Augustinian friar and professor of theology at the small Saxon university in Wittenberg. He was born in Eisleben in northeastern Germany and died there in February 1546 from a family of peasants. He completed his studies by graduating in theology and training…
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Asbestos The term asbestos is used to indicate the fibrous form of certain minerals that have been commercially exploited in the past for their peculiar physical-chemical characteristics. Asbestos is virtually indestructible: it resists fire and heat, chemical and biological agents, abrasion and wear. It is so flexible that it can be spun or woven and yet has very high tensile strength. It has sound-absorbingAsbestos (tremolite) capabilities and is a good electrical…
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The silicon Silicon Valley is known almost all over the world, but what determined the fame of this Californian place was the birth and mass diffusion of the computer. There, in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, due to a strange combination of fate, the largest industrial concentration of semiconductors, the basic material for the manufacture of integrated circuits and therefore microprocessors, has arisen, and there, today thrives the largest business in the…
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That lazy (pigro) rocker Ivan Graziani was born in Abruzzo, in October '46, he moved to Urbino where he studied graphic arts, but then he chose a musical career. Vocation for music? Rather, he answered ironically, for a question of money, because being a guitarist helped him make ends meet. But then he got serious. Ivan Graziani was anti-star par excellence, despite the fame and popularity he had acquired, he didn't often go on television, to say the least; he didn't call…
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Along the river Don As in 1940 during the German advance on Paris, when he declared war on France on his knees, so in the summer of 1941, on the occasion of the Nazi aggression against the Soviet Union, Mussolini wanted to participate and sent the Italian army to fight alongside the Wehrmacht, to participate in the spoils of war after the victory. In August 1941 the CSIR, the Italian expeditionary corps in Russia (62,000 men) under the command of sixty-year-old General…
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Polenta The polenta was the first hot food, the first soup, the first act of the great prehistoric food revolution. A search for the origins of polenta could take us a long way and its cooking and seasoning technique is reminiscent of the Roman *“puls”* of spelt. The etymology is obvious: from *“pactus”*, dense, compact. A poor dish that can be seasoned in many different ways, a typical dish for the cold season. The cold season has its particular gastronomy, linked precisely…
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Nivola Born in Castel d'Ario (in the province of Mantua) on 16 November 1892 and died in Mantua on 11 August 1953, he was a motorbike and car driver from 1920 to 1950. The press has created various nicknames for him, "Mantovano volante" and "Nivola". He entered the history of sport, not only Italian, and few, like him, in the 30's fascinated fans, crowds, fans, newspapers, government men, ministers. Nuvolari, before the Second World War, managed to represent, in the hearts…
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The Suez Canal A gigantic work in the service of humanity. Scholars of geology believe that a million years ago, where the Suez Canal now stands, there was a natural strait between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. They have been able to establish that the terrain of the isthmus is of Quaternary origin, i.e. recent. That ancient strait could not serve the men who had not yet appeared on earth; when they appeared and invented navigation, a little bit the maritime deposits, a…
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Armed train At the outbreak of the First World War Italy along the Adriatic coast appeared immediately vulnerable and so at dawn on 24 May 1915 six Austrian naval teams fired undisturbed on the Italian peninsula from north to south (the cities of Rimini and Barletta were hit). The Regia Marina, which was entrusted with the surveillance and protection of the coast, even though it had an excellent naval fleet, found itself caught off guard in defending the maritime cities from…
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The contemporary alibi Stress, the contemporary alibi for every malaise: nervousness, dissatisfaction with the world or horror of oneself. Some people attribute this malaise to tiredness, to illness (stress, precisely) the lack of meaning of one's existence, hostility towards society and those who come to terms with it. Stress in English means "difficulty", "adversity", "pressure", "tension". In the collective imagination, then, this word triggers representations linked to…
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The Rif rebels Abd-el-Krim, the legendary Rif warrior, has spent 36 years in exile since the day he was taken prisoner after six years of bloody war with the French and Spanish colonialist armies united against his Berbers in northern Morocco. Abd-el-Krim was born in 1883 into a family of Berber nobles with a great following and influence among the tribes of the Rif mountain range. The French occupation of central and southern Morocco and the Spanish occupation of northern…
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History notes The Second World War, fought from September 1939 until August 1945, was the bloodiest conflict in history and saw the deaths of over 50 million people, both civilian and military, on the battlefields, in the cities or the lager. It was a conflict that changed the history of the 20th century and determined the world's political order up to the present day. At the origins of the war, there was the deep world economic crisis of '29. From the crisis, which affected…
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The challenge: 2050 In the latest report by Irena, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), entitled *"Rise of renewables in cities: Energy solutions for the urban future"*, it is clear that large urban centres are responsible for 70% of the world's climate-altering emissions linked to energy production. According to Irena, the city of the future must pay more attention to urban planning and energy systems, so large cities (cities with a population of between 5 and…
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Chronological disorientation To Pope Gregory XIII we owe the first chronological disorientation of the modern era, and Gregory's reform caused quite a bit of it. Here are the facts. In the 16th century A.D., which began with the year 1501, things are not going so well in Europe with the count of time. The fact is that Holy Easter, year after year, presents itself in an increasingly hot season. After consulting the astronomers, the pope realises that the reason for the…
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Tri-car On 29 January 1886, Karl Benz obtained the patent for the combustion engine: he went down in history as the father of the first car. Three years earlier, in 1883, Benz founded Benz&Cie. Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik, to design and build two-stroke gas engines and thus lay the foundations of what would later become the automobile industry. Thus the famous Motorwagen was born in 1886: an eventful tricycle powered by petrol.…
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Work in progress Christmas 2020 Presepio 2020....New extras: woman with rabbit and Roman soldier... soon Christmas 2020 🎄 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIFzdcHAi5--o6_IP0XuFtbx9Lf-hh4hUyR8vI0/?igshid=1wmidkd1fe8az
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The savage of music Johnny Allen Hendrix (Jimi) the wild savage of music, half Afro and half Indian Cherokee, was the greatest guitarist of all time for critics and insiders, a record also recognized by the prestigious Rolling Stone magazine in 2001. Despite the poverty, he suffered during his childhood and his miserable social and economic condition he managed to cultivate his great passion for music (as a child he built himself a guitar with a cigar box and a rubber band).…
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The origins of the division In February 1947 the British government decided to disengage itself from the Palestinian situation which had become impossible to govern, thus creating the conditions for the international definition of the Israeli-Palestinian question. And the partition plan approved by the UN through Resolution 181 provided for the birth of an Arab state and a Jewish state (placing the Jerusalem area under international mandate). The conclusions of the…
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Pink The Wall: a historical album, the one with the cover shaped with white bricks, surrounded in black with the name of the band and the title of the album written on it in block letters, of those that remain in time and are part of the collective imagination. The story of The Wall, as we know, is partially autobiographical and comes after a long psychoanalytic work, twenty years of therapy, by Waters. The leader of Pink Floyd said that the anger and fear he had had to face…