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Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 6pm The Barese Ice Men of New York (2015), 80 min. Carlo Magaletti, dir. The Barese Icemen of New York follows the story of the Italian immigrants from the region of Apulia who from the 1920s to the 1960s dominated the making and delivery of ice in New York City. Interviews with former icemen and their families as well...

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Let’s start our tour of the languages and dialects of Italy with one of the most spoken, especially abroad: Sicilian. Since 2010, Sicilian holds the official status of language and is spoken mostly in Sicily, which is in the south of Italy. According to the UNESCO, in fact, Sicilian is a “mother language” and it could be even older than Italian! Ye...

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di Giampaolo Colletti   Nel 2015 sogno di ripartire da quell'Italia che ho ammirato anche nel corso del 2014. Quante strade, quanti viaggio, quante persone ho avuto il piacere di incontrare nell'anno che sta per chiudersi. Un futuro che si prova a disegnare a immagine e somiglianza della propria comunità locale, cercando nelle nuove tecnolo...

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  WTI Magazine #57    2015 April, 3Author : Italia.it      Translation by:   A visit to Italy during the Easter holidays is an experience of a lifetime: from north to south, cities and towns throughout the Peninsula are celebrating during this time, with processions, religious rites, holy representations, sagre or food fairs, and folkloristic tr...

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by Elisabetta Povoledo   Looking for a home? One Sicilian town is making an offer that is hard to refuse: It is giving away houses. There is a catch, naturally. The properties in Gangi, a picturesque central town that straddles the Madonie Mountains, are generally dilapidated, some abandoned generations ago.    The structure...

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Sponsored by the Madonna Della Cava Society August 9th—11th, 2013 - Hanover and Battery Streets   Madonna Della Cava Society - 3 Battery Street - North End, Boston, MA 02109 (617) 523-8842   Come celebrate the 93rd Annual Grand Religious Feast in Honor of the Madonna Della Cava, Patroness of Pietraperzia, Sicily Sunda...

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This weekend more than 6,000 people were rescued in several operations on the Mediterranean sea while making the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe. Three hundred and sixty nine of those were rescued by the M.Y. Phoenix a search and rescue vessel run in partnership by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and MOAS (Migrant O...

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The Commission for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and the United States – the bi-national agency that on the behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Department of State has been managing since 1948 the Fulbright Program in Italy promoting study, research and teaching opportunities in Italy and the U.S. through a program of...

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Did Roman women wear bikinis? It would seem so, according to late-imperial mosaics of Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina (Enna), Sicily. The mosaic floor of one of the rooms of the Villa depicts 10 girls participating in an athletics competition and wearing something very similar to our two-piece costume. Swide is here to tell you about the beauty...

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The Sicilian regional government in Italy has revoked permission for the United States to build a military satellite station on the island, its governor said on Friday, after protests by residents who said it could pose a health risk.   The planned ground station is part of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), an ultra high-frequency sat...

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