Northeastern part of Italy hit by strange shapes of hail grains
Region: Italy
In the hours between Monday, July 9th and Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 a heavy and long hailstorm fell down in the North-Easter part of Italy, it hit especially the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia in the areas of Udine and Gorizia. The weather phenomenon is not unusual for the zone, but the shocking facet of the event is that the hail had very strange shapes; in fact the experts of the Osmer, the Osservatorio Meteorolog... more
Views: 2594A blogger is running from Imola to Venice for a bet
Region: Italy
An evening with your friends drinking a famous beer can bring about a bet to win. Some evenings before May 21st, a 25 y.o. guy from Rome, Gianluca, was sure the upcoming Heineken Jammin' Festival will take place in Imola as every past years, but his friends strongly disagreed and rather confirmed Venice from June 14th to 17th. This was the reason who generated the most followed bet among the Italian bloggers. Gianlu... more
Views: 9324GroundReport Awards $1,000 to Italian Citizen Journalist
Region: Italy
International citizen journalism website GroundReport.com announced today the winner of its first monthly $1,000 competition. The grand prize went to Desi Zavatta Musolino of Italy, whose report garnered the highest number of unique views in April. Responding to the award, Ms. Musolino said, “it was simply amazing.” For Ms. Musolino, a shop assistant who writes in her spare time, the award came as a shock... more
Views: 236410 Today
Region: ItalyToday's Ten People are the ex-flatmate breezing lazily in to lift a saucepan as if it is a nest-egg left to mature, now required to be invested somewhere else; the dizzy girl in the supermarket balancing breakfast biscuits on her head (cream-filled); the pensioner with unexplained mud-streaks on his trousers who walks straight through me; the brooding student shuffling by a single light on floo... more
Views: 1489Reasons why Rome is better than Paris
Region: Italy
Everyone knows someting of these 2 world-class cities, but when it comes down to it, Paris is clearly inferior. The reasons are many, and some of which follow here: 1. Rome does not have the class issues of Paris. The trashmen in Rome shine their shoes before lunch, which they take in a cafe next to politicians. 2. Rome is twice as old as Paris and has one third the population. 3. Italian is a mu... more
Views: 3261Mortadella? Molto Bella!
Region: ItalyThe nun with the baking tray covered in aluminium foil came over to the stop where we waiting to catch the bus from Catania to Taormina in Sicily. A teenage girl instantly stood up and offered the nun a seat, ... more
Views: 1307Alessandro Piangiamore
Region: Italy
Galleria Paolo Bonzano - Rome November 16 - 20, 2006 For the occasion of his first solo gallery exhibition, Alessandro Piangiamore created his own wall text that announced the title of the show: Sfidando la verità con la gravità (Challenging truth through gravity). But rather than a conventional typeface neatly adhering to the wall, the text was sculpted as a set of three-dimensional cement letter blo... more
Views: 3327Hotels one cent error proves costly
Region: ItalyA hotel which is situated near Venice has made a costly mistake after advertising it's rooms on line for just a fraction of what they are worth. The rooms should have been charged at around 150 euros per night. It's reported that approximately 230 people made the most of the extra special offer and some booked a stay which would last around six days at the hotel which is called the Crowne Plaza. The Intercontin... more
Views: 1558Berlusconi's Victory in Italian Elections: Deserved or Not?
Region: Italy
During the night between April 13th and 14th, 2008 Italy knew its destiny: Silvio Berlusconi won the Politic Elections with his Party of People of Freedoms, with large majority both at the Chamber of Deputies and at the Senate. This is the third time for the right wing in power with Mr Berlusconi, this year also thanks to the strong alliance with the Northern League, which received relevant votes. In oppositio... more
Views: 2394Amanda Knox Case: What Are The Italian Authorities Hiding?
Region: ItalyIn an earlier article, I wrote about some of the troubling aspects of the prosecution of Amanda Knox and Raffeale Sollecito in Italy. The failure to tape the interrogations, the arrest and prolonged imprisonment of Lumumba, the destruction of critically important computer hard drives, and mistakes in the handling of evidence and in crime scene control are just a few of the more important ones. ... more
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