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La Casa Museo di Joe Petrosino è stata selezionata tra le 10 opere digitali Europee che saranno presentate al meeting dell’European Network Association che si volgerà il prossimo 6 dicembre a Milano presso il Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica alla presenza del Ministro dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo Dario Franceschini. European...

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After a time it became just a matter of course for the more established southern Italian hoodlums to walk their newly arrived countrymen to a point near Police Headquarters and point out to them the short, squat, derby-hatted detective, so that in the future they might recognize him on sight and accord him wide berth. Petrosino was his name, Joseph...

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All’inizio del ventesimo secolo, è cosa nota, gli italiani negli Stati Uniti non godevano di buona fama. Eppure, fu proprio in quel periodo che cominciarono ad assurgere a una notorietà internazionale due italiani destinati a rimanere nella storia, anzi, a entrare nel mito. Due italiani come il tenore Enrico Caruso e il poliziotto Giuseppe "Joe" Pe...

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Strap yourself in for one roaring, ring-tailed ruckus of a read: Master craftsman Stephan Talty uncorks a spectacular story with exhaustive research in “The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 298 pp., $28). And not the least remarkable thing about...

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Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and executive produce a movie about an NYPD detective killed in the line of duty in Italy more than 100 years ago while on an undercover mission to fight the mafia in America.  Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino, the first Italian-American of his rank in the NYPD, was also the first member of the department to be killed on dut...

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Talk about ethnic profiling. Early in the 20th century, the New York City Police Department’s highest-ranking Italian-American officer estimated that perhaps one-fifth of his fellow countrymen in Manhattan were involved in criminal activity. And no one was more determined to reform the image of his fellow immigrants than he. In “The Black Hand: The...

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The Italian American Museum in association with the Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino Association in America, Inc. cordially invite you to attend a book presentation and signing for "The Black Hand. The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History" by Stephen Talty, and a screening of "Mysteries at the Museum:...

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The terror might come in the mail, or in an envelope slipped under the door. Or a note tacked to the wall. Pay up, it would say. Give us the money. Or your child dies. Go to the police, your child dies. The letter would be unsigned. But everyone would know who had sent it: the dreaded Society of the Black Hand, a shadowy criminal organization that...

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Una casa a due piani, dalle stanze piccole distribuite quasi una dentro l'altra, che guarda Padula dall'alto. Un tempo vi abitava con la famiglia Joe Petrosino, il poliziotto padulese naturalizzato americano, ucciso dalla Mano Nera a Palermo il 12 marzo 1909. Ora, piacevolmente 'avvolto' da fotografie, arredi e oggetti simbolo, ad aprire le porte d...

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L’11 e il 12 marzo prossimi, in occasione dell’anniversario dell’omicidio del poliziotto italo-americano Joe Petrosino, l’Ersu di Palermo e l’Associazione “Joe Petrosino Sicilia” promuovono il Joe Petrosino Celebration 2017, giornata commemorativa nei luoghi che videro ospite il celebre poliziotto durante il suo soggiorno nel capoluogo siciliano, 1...

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