Google Earth Reconstructs for Ancient Rome in 3D
Region: ItalyEveryone knows Google Earth because it help us a lot .The virtual taveller can now see every building as it stood in Rome at that time in reality may have been in 320 AD.In reality just 300 buildings of classical Rome have survived, in most cases in ruins. The 3D model is visible on the website as a layer.The layer floats a few meters above the satelite image of present-day Rome so that unsers can ha... more
Views: 1554Italian Christmas Cookie Recipes
Region: Italy
For the Americans, a cookie is a small biscuit that is more of a bread than a pastry.In Italy,biscotto is "a generic term for small, sweet, dry, crumbly and simply made pastries baked at length in the oven." Surprise your family with the best Christmas cookies and their recipes! 1.Italian Cream Cake-Torta biscotti Makes 5 servings 1/2 cup butter 1 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup but... more
Views: 5864Ancient Burial ground discovered in Rome.
Region: Italy
Rome: In Rome beneath the ancient Via Labicana in the St Peter and St.Marcellin catacombs bones were discovered recently. Nearly 20,000 to 25,000 bodies where buried in the catacombs during the third and fourth centuries. more
Views: 1268Saviano's Mob Threats Add Him to List of Persecuted Authors
Region: Italy
Roberto Saviano, hunted by the mafia, joins the ranks of authors Salman Rushdie and Hirsi Ali in seeking freedom through exile. Though his book exposing activities of the Naples, Italy mafia has sold more than a million copies, Roberto Saviano is miserable. The success of the book, “Gomorrah,” (a word play on Camorra, the name of the Naples crime family) drew the ire of the crime family when it was... more
Views: 1536Wife Swapping: A Common Hobby in Italy
Region: ItalyA published article in the La stampa Newspaper 'The Lunch Time Swingers', discloses that almost 500,000 Italian couples are officially swapping partners at private sex clubs, and thousands more doing it in a more ad-hoc fashion in car parks, specially designated beaches or even in the cemeteries. Hope dead ones do not get up to witness the detail of their new found passion. The statistics suggest that a quarter of all... more
Views: 5179Military Joins Berlusconi's Crime and Immigration Campaign
Region: Italy
Posted by Anne Szustek to findingDulcinea Expanding a stated broad offensive against crime and illegal immigration in Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has ordered 3,000 troops to the streets of some of the country’s largest cities. Deploying several hundred troops to Rome, Bolonga, Palmero and Naples, among other cities, the Prime Minister announced that there will be a broader presence in the coming day... more
Views: 1782‘Italian Vogue’ Seeks to Outmode Racism
Region: Italy
Posted by Anne Szustek to FindingDulcinea The issue, which hit European newsstands on Thursday and is due stateside the first week of July, features more than 100 pages of spreads celebrating pioneers among models of color, such as Iman, as well as newcomers including America’s Next Top Model contestant Toccara Jones. Italian Vogue editor-in-chief Franca Sozza told Britain’s The Daily Telegraph that she... more
Views: 2442Euro 2008 Quarterfinal Preview Italy vs. Spain
Region: ItalyTwo high profile soccer teams meet in the Soccer Betting Euro 2008 quarterfinals on Sunday as Italy takes on Spain. The Italians will not be at full strength on Sunday as Andrea Barzagli is out with a knee injury while midfielders Andrea Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso are suspended due to accumulated cards. "That neither of them are there is the best news for Spain," Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas said. Italy captain... more
Views: 2136Romanian woman enslaved for a year by 75-year old Italian
Region: ItalyA 54-year old Romanian housekeeper was sequestered and abused for an entire year by the 75-year old Italian woman she was working for. The Romanian was turned into a slave, Corriere della Sera informs, quoted by Realitatea TV. The Italian forced the Romanian to live in the basement, fed her poorly and allowed her to shower only once a month, with cold water. Even more, she often beat the "slave" and threatened to denou... more
Views: 1222New trend in Italy: arranged weddings between Romanian women and non-EU citizens
Region: ItalyItalian media reports the emergence of a new wave of arranged weddings in the country - this time between Romanian women and men from North Africa, in an attempt to dodge the national legislation on immigration. As Romanian women are EU citizens, they thus offer non-EU men the possibility to stay in Italy legally, La Repubblica newspaper reports, quoted by Romanian monitoring agency Rador. The peak came when four su... more
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