Italian Freestyle Takes Gold in Three Events
While there were no new world records tonight at the 2015 European Short Course Championships, there was still plenty of fast swimming. The Italians proved especially strong with wins in the men's 100 freestyle semi-final, the women's 200 freestyle final and the 4×50 mixed freestyle relay. One of several Italian's who won tonight was Marco...
Milan’s Piazza Affari is Europe’s best-performing stock exchange of 2015
by Corrado Poggi The last session was a flop, but Piazza Affari can still claim the title of "Queen of the European markets" in 2015 and even one of the best performances worldwide. With a rise in the FTSE Mib by 12.7% over the last session of 2014 -- which then rises to 15.4% for the FTSE All Share -- Milan's stock market clearly bea...
Athletes at Rio de Janeiro Olympic games will battle for the podium in Myrta Pools swimming pools
by Chiara Beghelli We are still far from August 5, when the stadium of Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro will celebrate the opening of the Olympic Games. But for some companies, that date is near. Just ask Roberto Colletto, CEO of Piscine Castiglione. The company, based in Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantova), and specialized in the desi...
Emigrazione, Nissoli: Nel libro “Il mondo nuovo” storia Italiana in America
Oggi, l'on. Nissoli (Circoscrizione Estera – Ripartizione Nord e Centro America), è intervenuta, per un saluto introduttivo, alla presentazione del libro di Vincenzo D'Acquaviva, "Il Mondo Nuovo – una testimonianza e un viaggio controcorrente attraverso storie di ordinaria migrazione: tra speranze, conflitti politico-sociali e delusioni". ...
The Site That Brings Italian Boutiques Right to Your Computer
"You can't find it here," she'd say of her body-hugging magenta dress with all the cutouts, encapsulating the entirety of these United States of America in a syllable — "here" — and a shrug. "It's from Italy." Some of her clothes were produced by big name designers, while others bore Italian-named labels we'd never heard of. But who made the garmen...
Italy in spaceport deal with U.S. FAA
Italian civil aviation authority ENAC and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) on Thursday signed an agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop a spaceport for sub-orbital flights somewhere in Italy. Sub-orbital flights cross in and out of the Earth's atmosphere without leaving its orbit. "It could take three to five years -...
What it's like to drive Lamborghini's most beautiful car
Lucca is an ancient walled city in Tuscany that has all the charms of Florence, but it is smaller, even more navigable by foot, and isn't as overrun by tourists. On this day in early summer, the Sun is sparkling on the cobblestones and the locals are sidestepping the gawping visitors. And then comes the noise. A racket of deep, burrin...
The Sicilian of the Sicilians: The Life and Works of Giovanni Verga
By Niccolò Graffio "To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The travesty that produced the modern country of Italy worked to suppress in no small way the native cultures of Southern Italy, but it could not destroy them. As the advocates of...
Rome's water clocks and Father Embriaco's talent
Giovanni Battista Embriaco (Ceriana, 1829 – Rome, 1903) was a Dominican friar from Liguria, with a penchant for clocks. Water clocks, specifically, or hydrochronometers, which he invented. Rome still keeps two of these sophisticated machines he made. The most famous one is on the Pincian Hill, from where you can overlook the city from a be...
American English
L'Ufficio per gli Affari Educativi e Culturali del Dipartimento di Stato americano ha lanciato il nuovo sito interattivo 'American English'. Il sito è un centro di risorse per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento della lingua e della cultura americana e fornisce una molteplice gamma di interessanti risorse e materiale per l'aggiornamento professionale...
Incontro con il Prof. Dominick Salvatore
L'American Chamber of Commerce in Italy ha organizzato un incontro con il Professor Dominick Salvatore, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics at Fordham University in New York City dal titolo "Stati Uniti, Europa, Italia: quando la ripresa? - Outlook 2013", tenutosi a Milano, giovedì 21 marzo 2013. Il dibattito è stata un'interessante occasio...
Italia-Usa, relazioni ad alto potenziale
di Marco Andrea Ciaccia All'incontro organizzato ieri dall'American University of Rome, dall'American Chamber of Commerce in Italy e dall'Associazione We The Italians si è fatto il punto sulle relazioni economiche tra i due Paesi. Secondo il presidente del National Italian american foundation John Viola, l'ottica cui la comunità d...