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American citizens living in southern Europe should now find it easier to meet and talk with recruiters about a career in the Air Force. The service on Friday reopened its recruiting office in Aviano, which was shut down more than eight years ago. The Aviano office, which will get a permanent recruiter later this year, will be temporarily staffed by...

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You might imagine an Italian Easter revolves around going to mass, exchanging chocolate eggs and sitting down to roast lamb. But there's more to it than that. In towns and cities across the country, Easter celebrations involve quirky traditions of sometimes mysterious origins. Here are some of the strangest, which you should definitely try to check...

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Dopo le tappe dell’India e del Sud Africa, continua l’esperienza all’estero del poeta monfalconese Alessandro Lutman, che si troverà negli Stati Uniti d’America per una serie di incontri nelle città di San Francisco e di New York. Lutman sarà prima ospite del Fogolar Furlan Nord California, la cui associazione ha organizzato il 20 marzo una serata...

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White jackets were swirling around my wife in the blue light of an antiseptic room in the village of Tarare, near Lyon. A village I had never heard of, nor planned to visit. I had expected to be seated, at precisely that hour, at my favorite restaurant, some 220 miles away in Turin. I had expected my favorite white jacket, Andrea, to greet us with...

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A town in the northeastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia has broken the world record for the longest tiramisù, making more than 250 metres of the iconic Italian sweet. Measuring 266.90 metres in length, the tiramisù was made in the town of Villesse, near Gorizia.30,300 litres of coffee and more than 300 kilograms of cream were used in the...

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As we approach the holidays it's the perfect time to pop some bubbly in celebrations, although do we really all need an excuse for bubbly or wine for that matter? Plus, they're highly versatile wines to pair with food. I recently tried some samples from the Bervini 1955 winery including their prosecco and rose spumante that I'm sharing with you tod...

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Domenica 5 novembre, presso lo storico Mark Hopkins Hotel a San Francisco, si è tenuta la 101esima serata annuale dell’istituzione Italian Community Services. L’organizzazione, presieduta dall'avvocato Donald Parachini, offre risorse per lo sviluppo della lingua e della cultura italiana oltre ad attività di assistenza e supporto per la comunità ita...

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La missione della delegazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia a New York è cominciata nel segno dell’enogastronomia con una serie di appuntamenti da Eataly Downtown a New York. La delegazione è composta da: Debora Serracchiani - presidente della Regione FVG; Cristiano Shaurli - assessore alle Risorse agricole e forestali della Regione FVG; Carlo Fortuna...

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Semplice, morbida, senza decorazioni e ispirata al romanticismo delle onde, uno dei trend forti di questo autunno/inverno in fatto di capelli assieme al ritorno del frisé. L’acconciatura da sera più bella del mondo l’ha realizzata una parrucchiera 23enne di Collalto di Tarcento, in provincia di Udine. Si chiama Arianna Petrocchi, lavora nel negozio...

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People often say that Halloween is completely foreign to Italian culture and folk traditions. This is both true and false: rites, traditions, legends scattered throughout the peninsula cover the night of All Saints' Day, which coincides with that of Halloween... but it is much older.

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