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A new way to read the Herculaneum papyruses has been introduced by an Italian physicist: the X-ray technique will allow users to read the papyruses, which still exist besides the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD.   The techniques in new in the way viewers can virtually 'unroll' and read the papyruses from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, a 25-...

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di Alessia Marsigalia   La chiamano la "Pompei del 900" anche se il suo vero nome è Roscigno Vecchia, uno dei cosiddetti "paesi fantasma" d'Italia, dopo che nel 1902 fu investito da una frana. Oggi, grazie ad un gruppo di italo-americani, che avevano antenati in queste zone e che hanno costituito la Roscigno Vecchia Foundation, questo borgo...

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by Barbara Heins   Hundreds of people visit Greenwich Town Hall every day. But it's not every day that the mayor from an Italian village drops by. First Selectman Peter Tesei spent part of Monday with Dr. Pietro G. Mariani, the mayor of Morra De Sanctis. Morra De Sanctis is one of two sister cities in Italy that Greenwich has forged a c...

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Nocera Inferiore tributa il giusto onore alla famiglia Cuomo. La giunta comunale all'unanimità ha varato l'intitolazione ad Andrea Cuomo dell'ex IPIA Trani. L'autonomia della scuola nocerina dalla sede di Salerno, raggiunta dopo 50 anni, è stata l'occasione per ricordare l'impegno per la propria terra profuso dall'illustre famiglia nocerina emigrat...

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"Le aziende americane stanno iniziando ad investire in Italia ma è vero anche il contrario: dieci anni fa nessuno avrebbe mai scommesso sul fatto che la Fiat potesse salvare la Chrisler e invece è successo". Parola del viceambasciatore degli Stati Uniti in Italia, Kathleen Doherty.   In visita all'ombra del Vesuvio, la diplomatica ha incontr...

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On the occasion of 2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the USand Giuseppe Verdi's Bicentennial Celebrations,the Consul General of Italy Mauro Battocchi requests the pleasure of your company to   VIVA L'ITALIA A gala to benefit an anticipated once-in-a-lifetime performance ofthe Verdi Requiem at the War Memorial Opera House on October...

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Ciao Napoli.  A Scrapbook of Wandering in NaplesAuthored by Antoinette Carone, Photographs by Jim Mauro Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 7:00 PM   When Antoinette Carone and her husband hatched a plan to relocate to Naples, Italy, they had no inkling that every trip to the market would be a sojourn dating back as far as 2500 years....

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by Alice Philipson   A 2,000-year-old laundry where ancient Romans brought their brilliant white tunics to be dyed and washed was among six newly restored buildings in Pompeii opened to the public on Thursday. Spectacular brightly coloured frescoes and intricate mosaics were revealed across the walls and floors of almost all of the buil...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com      Translation by:   Welcome to 2016! For the beginning of this new year we tackle some of the lesser discovered regions of Italy and they're all to the south starting with Basilicata. I've always appreciated all wines and of course I have some f...

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When: Sunday, April 14, 2013 — 4 p.m. Where: Orsogna Plaza, 316 Main St., Everett MA [map] Join the Federazione Associazioni Italiane e Italo Americane New England in celebrating music and food from four Italian regions during its "Pomeriggio Regionale."   Read more   Fonte: Bostoniano  

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