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How would you imagine traveling between two ancient villages perched high in the mountains? Most people think of winding roads or steep hiking trails. But in one remarkable corner of southern Italy, people do it a very different way - by flying. That’s right: no bridges, no tunnels - just a single steel cable stretched across a wide mountain valley...

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The spark that helped ignite the modern world came not from Detroit or Berlin, but from Lucca—a charming Tuscan city better known for its medieval walls than for its revolutionary inventions. In 1853, two Italian visionaries, Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci, patented what is now recognized as the first internal combustion engine. Though their...

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