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Netflix's new period drama, The Law According to Lidia Poët, follows Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis), the first woman attorney in Italy. Did Lidia Poët really exist? Is the Italian show a true story? The answers: Yes and kinda! Poët was born in 1855 in Traverse, Italy, the youngest of four brothers and three sisters. She attended the University of...

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Turin, 1931. A few feet from where Antonio Carpano was said to have invented vermouth nearly 150 years prior, the Taverna del Santopalato  — that’s the “Tavern of the Holy Palate” — opened with a braggadocious bang. If we’re to believe the contemporaneous report from Italian daily La Stampa, March 8, 1931 would remain “impressed in the history of t...

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Who was Lidia Poët? Lidia Poët endured humiliation and sacrifice to pursue her desire to be a lawyer, and she ultimately succeeded. From Turin, she was the first woman in Italy to register as a lawyer. She was disbarred precisely because she was a woman, but she found a way to continue her work. It was not until she was 65 that she was finally able...

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Speed skating for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics might be moved to the 2006 Turin Olympic oval or a temporary facility elsewhere after the IOC rejected plans to build an expensive roof over the outdoor track at Baselga di Piné. Costs for the roof were initially slated at $54 million, according to a project announced in November. But there were con...

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A new autism gene has been found in an Italian-led study, Turin university said Friday. The international study was led by the northern Italian university and its Città della Salute along with the university of Cologne in Germany. Published in the journal Brain, the study showed that mutations in the Caprini gene are responsible for alterations in...

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Val di Susa, a valley so beautiful it leaves one agape, alternates in a pattern of intensely-verdant fields and skyscraping, yet gently-rolling peaks. It is nature withdrawn, but not so remote as to be inaccessible: a swift, modern highway traverses it, connecting the Valley to both Turin and France, each less than one hour away. (The two countries...

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Man's adventure to the moon begins again. Nasa launched the SLS carrier rocket, the most powerful ever built, with the Orion spacecraft, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. This is the first mission of the Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon, so far only dummies are on board.  With Artemis 1, NASA will launch the Orion capsule, which...

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From an esoteric point of view, Turin is one of the most significant cities in the world. Today when we think of the Piedmontese city, we mainly think of the splendour of the Savoy era, Fiat and the Mole Antonelliana. However, not everyone knows that Turin is an esoteric place of great importance, recognised the world over. In fact, it is one of th...

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With Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, Turin and Piedmont become great harvesters of cultures from all over the world that show their regional food and wine specialities   “Through food, the Piedmont region has fostered encounters and interaction between cultures from all over the world. After all, when you come to Piedmont, you immediately feel attrac...

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ARIES – The first sign of the zodiac, these rams love to be number one and aren’t afraid to dive into challenging situations, no matter how hard they may be. The same is true of MATERA, a city dug into a rocky outcrop in Basilicata whose challenges are (quite literally) as hard as stone. Annoyed by excessive details and needless nuances, Aries woul...

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