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WTI Magazine #2    2013 Oct,25 Author : Paolo Battaglia      Translation by:   October 15, 1924 - Birth of Lee IacoccaLee (born "Lido") Iacocca (below) has demonstrated extraordinary skills, resilience, and fortitude in business and management. He became president of the Ford Motor Company in 1970, launching the popular models Mustang and Pinto....

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by Micheal P. Lombardo   I was asked by members of the Centennial Committee of the Christopher Columbus Lodge #216 Order of the Sons of Italy to write a history of the Lodge since its inception in 1913. In conducting my research I have discovered that few documents seem to exist, most having been lost, damaged or destroyed as a result o...

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Like many other immigrants, Adolpho and Rosaria Baldizzi struggled to keep their family together in the face of immigration laws tearing them apart. Policies put into place soon after Mr. Baldizzi arrived in the country made it illegal for his wife to follow him. Eventually, she did enter the U.S., though it's impossible to say how she managed it....

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Among the many fields that have seen the Italians emigrated in America and their following generations show talent, determination and success in their new country, the defense of the United States is particularly important. Italy has provided several heroes to the US Army, the Marines and the other branches of the United States Armed Forces.   In...

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by Caitlin Heaney West   Scranton chapter of UNICO hosts First Friday exhibit centering on Italian experience in NEPA. They came from thousands of miles away, leaving behind their families to cross the sea with little in their pockets beside their hopes.   This Friday, the Scranton chapter of UNICO National will celebrate the sac...

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di Natascia Lorusso   Oggi vi parlo di Simone Bertollini, avvocato di immigrazione a New York. Una storia interessante che evidenzia come l'Italia lascia scappare persone in gamba e meritevoli. Ma soprattutto come la caparbietà e la determinazione aiutano a raggiungere i propri obiettivi.   Simone, originario di Roma, dall'Italia si è...

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Chef Stefano Secchi—a Southern Methodist University and Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park graduate, youngest chef ever invited to cook at The James Beard House, and current consulting chef for America Airlines—has talent that thrives beyond the kitchen.   Two plus years ago, he traveled to the Sardinia homeland of his father to make a...

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"Storie di emigrazione lucana" è il titolo del concorso video rivolto ai singoli studenti, a gruppi di studenti e alle classi delle scuole secondarie di secondo grado della Basilicata, organizzato dalla Commissione regionale dei Lucani all'Estero e dal Consiglio regionale della Basilicata, in collaborazione con le Consulte studentesche di Potenza e...

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With an unbridled determination and little grasp of the English language, the equivalent of a fourth-grade education and $30, three Pasquini brothers — Domenico, Antonio and Ludwig, all in their teens — left their native Sassoferrato, Italy, in 1917 to discover a better way of life: The American Dream in a land of opportunity.   Their voyage...

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Si inaugura mercoledì 15 aprile alle ore 18 presso la Sala Gialla del Politeama "Partono i Bastimenti", la mostra a cura di Francesco Nicotra dedicata all'emigrazione italiana nelle Americhe. L'inaugurazione è preceduta dall'anteprima stampa alle 16.   Al centro il "grande esodo" definito dagli studiosi il più rilevante movimento migratorio...

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