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ELISA
TOFFOLI IS IN TOWN - ONE HIGHT ONLY
Elisa, on her first North America tour
from Italy, will perform in the St. Louis nightclub “Off Broadway” at 3509
Lemp Avenue (see
map), at 8:00 pm, doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets are only $12
- buy at the door or via Ticketweb
($3.75 Fee). Click on title for Elisa's official web site. |
THE
ARCH IS 40 YEARS OLD
 St.
Louis' most famous landmark is featured in an Italian news agency article
by Lino Manocchia , also mentioning Bologna as our Sister City of which
this web portal creator had been an official delegate and one of the original
board members. Among many more accollades the writer also credits our city
for being the birth place of the ice cream cone, ice tea and the "Dr. Pepper"
drink. Read it in "Notizie", in Italian. |
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Fast
Social Networking Slow to be Adopted by Italians
Fast Social Networking is not making
any Faster progress than the Fast Food Movement in Italy.
The
Great Earthquake of Messina 1908, and US Assistance
When it was over, the city of Messina,
which only had a population of 150,000, had been entirely destroyed, along
with the nearby city of Reggio di Calabria, and other outlying areas. It
is estimated that the combined earthquake and tsunami killed almost 200,000
people. Because of the advent of World War I, just 6 years later, much
of the area never had a chance to fully recover.
Italy
Calls US- E.Europe Missiles Plan "Provocative"
Someone also explain to me why the
US fought a CIVIL war to prevent Succession, and yet we are attempting
to intervene in Ukraine and Georgia, that are "breakaway" former Russian
states?
Itay's
Role in WWI by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle in his book in
1916 "A Visit To Three Fronts" documented the unfairness of the derogatory
reports after visiting all three fronts
Swiss
to Return 4,400 Stolen Antiquities to Italy After 7 year Battle
Switzerland is returning 4,400 ancient
artifacts stolen from archaeological sites in Italy, including ceramics,
figurines and bronze daggers dating as far back as 2,000 B.C., and originating
from Puglia, Etruscan Villanova and Sardinia.
Six
Brothers Serve US in WWII, While US Raids Father's House...He was from
Italy !!!
One day while the brothers were serving
their country, five of them overseas, government officials raided Antonio
Santella's house. Tony Santella said the officials were suspicious of his
father because he was from Italy. They took a shotgun away from him that
the brothers retrieved after the war.
Other
European "Gaffesters" Outdo Berlusconi re Obama Election
"Africa Conquers the White
House," read a headline of the National Democratic Party of Germany, a
political party that sympathizes with neo-Nazi groups.J|rgen Gansel, party
leader and a lawmaker in the German state of Saxony, blamed Obama's victory
on "the American alliance of Jews and Negroes."
Italy's
Financial Discipline Pays Off
Despite increasingly bleak outlooks,
the international financial panic did not hit Italy as hard as other European
nations. Unlike France, Britain or Germany, there have been no major bank
failures or rushed bank rescues south of the Alps or the Pyrenees.
Italian
Nobel Prize Winners
Since 1901 there have been 21 Italian
and Italian Americans that have won the prestigious Nobel Prize award,
which is given annually to people for their achievements in physics, chemistry,
medicine, literature, peace and economics.
Obama
Election Dominates Italian Press
In its editorial entitled DREAM AND
LIFE Corriere della Sera wrote ''Barack Obama, hailed at the start of the
election campaign as the 'new Kennedy', has crossed the finish line as
the 'Black Roosevelt', the man who can save America with a new New
Deal''.
Cast
Your Vote For New Jersey Hall of Fame Inductees
You can help by visiting www.NJHallofFame.org
and 1. casting your vote in all five categories. 2. giving special consideration
to Guglielmo Marconi in the "Enterprise" category. And 3. Forwarding this
request to your friends and suggest they cast their votes as well.
Other Italian Americans on the ballot
include Jon Bon Jovi (Arts & Entertainment); Lou Costello (Arts &
Entertainment); and Phil Rizzuto (Sports).
Obama-mania
in Europe Reports Stars and Stripes
There is no question that the U.S.
presidential election is important to Europe."In a society ever more globalized,
the role of the President of the United States is absolutely decisive,
because the influence of the country he governs determines all the large
issues that interest the planet, and involve not only all of the world
governments, but also the citizens."
Italy
PM Craxi Warned Libya of 1986 US Bombing
The Italian Government in 1986 told
the U.S. that its planned bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi ``was an uncalled-for
initiative, an error in international affairs'', and informed Qaddafi two
days before the attack.
Erica
Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark Civil War"
Erica Jong told "Corriere della
Sera" that there is GREAT FEAR that Voter Machine Fraud, perpetrated
by Republican operatives which is relatively simple, by the surreptitious
replacement of one computer chip, in a voting machine, and could rob Obama
of the US Presidential Election.
Italy
Banks Say: Give Us The Money, and No Questions! Similar to US
The Banks don't want any Regulation,
and any Government Interference, EXCEPT when the GREED of the Banks has
put them in a HOLE, then the Banks want a BAILOUT, (non dare call it Corporate
Welfare or Socialism), AND the Banks tell the Government that just because
the Taxpayers are giving them Treasury Money, that The Government has NO
RIGHT to Put any STRINGS on this Money.
Life
for Italians is so Different from Ours in US
How do Italians seem to live such
healthy lives so effortlessly when Americans have to battle our bulges
by working out, dieting, carrying water bottles everywhere and eating energy
and protein bars by the ton?
Italians
Caution About Debt Will Help lt Through Financial Crisis
Italy will perhaps ride out the current
financial storms better than some for two very obvious reasons linked to
the "real economy". Firstly, Italy has a relatively low level of private
debt, and secondly there has been no significant real estate boom here
in recent times.
Amanda
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Indicted in Karcher Murder
On Tuesday, Amanda Knox, 21, of Seattle
and Raffaele Sollecito of Italy were indicted on charges of murder and
sexual violence in the stabbing death of Meredith Kercher of England, with
the trial to start on December 4. Italian law permits suspects with sufficient
evidence to be held up to a year in jail before having to release or indict
them.
Italian
Speeders Get Stopped in Style, with Lamborghini Gallardo
 I
want to grow up to be a Lambocop!!
A uniform and this car, I'd have
to fight the women off.
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