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Traveling out of town can be very expensive. Have you ever been to Disney World? Would you like to know how to save money at Disney World? Well you don't have to look any futher. The Disney Wo... ... leggi tutto (read all)

Nobel laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel talked Monday for the first time since his attack in a San Francisco hotel, saying that he " feared for my life in a way that hadn't happened to me since 1945." ...Comment ... leggi tutto (read all)

"I'm not protecting him. I don't know if he has protections from some Italians. He might have, I don't know. I will of course look into this case now. If there are some illegal protections, you will see their end." If there are some illegal protections, you will see their end: Giuliano Amato PHOTO: N. RAM Italy's Minister of Home Affairs and former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato is seen off by Italy's Ambassador to India ... via The Hindu ... leggi tutto (read all)

There was a time when Florence was the place for leather,but then people sold all their shops to foreigners make big money. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Italian family history, collective and personal - and the fault lines that distance people united by blood - is at the heart of "If You Eat, You Never Die: Chicago Tales." ... leggi tutto (read all)

With a searing ancient Near East focus, Hicham Aboutaam, the 30ish Lebanese antiquities dealer sweeps into the back of his Phoenix gallery showroom in Manhattan to greet me.Comment ... leggi tutto (read all)

In WWII, the Allies had defeated the Axis in North Africa in the spring of 1943. Americans now wanted to take the shortest route to Berlin. with an invasion of France, but the Allies felt they would not be logistically prepared for 15 months. ... leggi tutto (read all)

La Gazzetta dello Sport.it has decided to invest in its international readers, those passionate fans of Italian sport all over the world who seek an authoritative website that keeps them up-to-date and informed of the latest sports news. We are therefore delighted to announce the launch of La Gazzetta dello Sport.it International, a website within a website, entirely produced in English. ... leggi tutto (read all)

"Lambrusco", is out just this month. While interspersed with stories of Italian partisans and what it was like in Italy in WWII when bombs were raining down every day from American planes--and the place was under German occupation, the subject is not the war, but how all those people didn't lose heart, how they coped, how they interpreted the meaning of resistance in personal ways. How they held onto their spirit. ... leggi tutto (read all)

In my previous writings I spoke about my Myrtle Beach and Disneyworld golf vacations, which are two excellent choices for golf and vacation destinations, no two ways about it. I had been alternating b... ... leggi tutto (read all)

Lucille Campilongo penned an 85-page manuscript in two weeks in 1980 for her 19-year daughter Gina who was departing for her Junior year of college study in Italy. ... leggi tutto (read all)

It's what comes out from a survey drawn up by the main Italian farmers' organization Coldiretti. ... leggi tutto (read all)

When an Italian Fashion house charges $1,470 for a purse, is it too much to expect them to pay Italian workers a decent wage, when there is a high unemployment rate? How greedy can a company be, to not only ... ... leggi tutto (read all)

Although Bernard Madoff's Fraud was at least $ 50 BILLION so far, about ONE THOUSAND times more than Charles Ponzi whose NET take was 7 Million, Ponzi is likely to retain his Infamy. ... leggi tutto (read all)

"Mafia For Tourists" is authored by Philosophy professor Augusto Cavadi, a lecturer on the Mafia at Palermo University, and is seen as an expert on the Mob. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Of course 4 Black GIs didn't win WWII, But Spike Lee Might like you to think so, in his latest Film. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Filmmaker Spike Lee, unveiling the first outtakes of his new drama "Miracle at St. Anna", said Monday it would show the forgotten contribution of African-American soldiers in World War II. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Lee's original intention in making this film , he says sprang from his anger toward Clint Eastwood, and the lack of depiction of Blacks in WWII movies. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Daniele Luchetti's 1960's drama "My Brother is an Only Child" is an unsettling film. The tale of two brothers who take Italian stereotypes of emotional disputation to new levels will ring true for anyone who know that special blend of sibling rivalry which blends animosity with deep unquestioning love. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Padre Pio's shrine has become a bigger attraction than Lourdes now that the saint's body has been put on show, According to an Italian business magazine. ... leggi tutto (read all)

While it took a long time for the Internment of Italian Americans during WWII to come to light, the Italian Canadians took even longer, but Canada has produced a critically well received play. ... leggi tutto (read all)

150 objects and paintings from the Italian Renaissance that celebrate love and marriage, dating from 1400 to the mid-16th century, is scheduled for Nov. 18 through Feb. 16 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... leggi tutto (read all)

California State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge, an apparently proud Italian American, has introduced AB 1863, which would require the state school board to "include the role and contribution of Italian Americans" in social studies courses. ... leggi tutto (read all)

Left: Burnt cars lie on the road at the site of twin car bomb attacks at Shorja market in Baghdad February 12, 2007.Comment ... leggi tutto (read all)

The Chicago Sun Times may have finally overcome its singular obsession with an nearly extinct, and at its best merely petty Italian American crime involvement, and faced up to the other CURRENT THREATS. ... leggi tutto (read all)