Are you bored with bunga-bunga? We’ll talk about the things that count, beginning with these days when kids go back to school, and proceed on to child care and—why not?—a bit of culture.
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Yes, they are back. Visited annually by some 23 million visitors, Piazza Navona is perhaps Rome’s most beloved square after St. Peter’s. At 8:30 Saturday morning, while its cafes were serving cappuccini and corneti, a man of perhaps 45 years of age jumped into the Baroque-era Fountain of the Moor, one of the two side fountains in Piazza Navona. Cameras show that he first tried to strike at the central figure, but slipped and instead smashed at one of the marble masks that decorate the fountain border.
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Not many people know that Italian farmed caviar has made it to the top places of the worldwide caviar league. When you think of caviar you think of the Caspian Sea and of other lands, Russia being the first. Well, Italy is definitely fighting these countries for supremacy in caviar land.
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This week in history. On August 20th, 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an handyman from northern Italy stole the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, from the world's most famous museum, the Louvre. On August 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men. Historians have not reached a consensus on their guilt or innocence.
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As solutions to the Italian economic crisis surface by the minute, the country is afflicted by a serious disease that, if cured, could help it save millions. In only 7 months the Guardia di Finanza has reported 3000 people who declared being invalid and poor and has reported 4400 for frauds to INPS (National Institute for Social Security) that amount to more than 48 million euros.
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Summer vacation is a risky time for household pets in Italy. Vacationers are too busy thinking of splashing in the water rather than taking care of their pets and the easiest way out is to abandon them on the nation's highways.
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A small town's mayor, Roberto Avogadro, is getting rid of the statue of one of Italy's greatest actor simply because he was from a different part (the south) of the country. The decision has provoked many who see this as a threat to the unity of the peninsula.
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An interview with George Guida, president of the American Italian Historical Association: 45 years after its foundation, this organization of scholars, writers, artists and other public intellectuals is alive and well... and faces a new turning point in its life.
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On July 12 2011, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations held a celebratory lunch that recognized Francesco Maria Talò’s contribution to the Jewish community in Italy and in New York City.
