We the Italians’ Ambassador in the Washington State is Randy Aliment, successful lawyer, is the Chair of the Board of Directors of USA Bobsled | Skeleton. His grandparents were born, raised and married in Piedmont, immigrating to Seattle in 1905. Randy worked with Abby Slenker, Digital Media & Communications Manager of USA Bobsled | Skeleton, to gi...
READ MOREOn Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the Florence American Cemetery hosted a unique event to honor the 80th anniversary of the Northern Italian Campaign during World War II. This solemn ceremony, organized by Be the Difference – Never Again, in partnership with the American Battle Monuments Commission and the U.S. Consulate General of Florence, stood as...
READ MOREEurope and the United States have allied very often, on various issues and challenges. One fine alliance is the one we present that concerns innovation in education. In Europe, pedagogical structures and methodology went through several reforms since the beginning of the last century in the direction of making education more active and putting stud...
READ MOREMy name is Sergio Di Veroli. And today I am 87 years old. When the Anglo-Americans arrived in Rome, on June 4, 1944, I was 7 years old. But in those seven years I had experienced all kinds of harassment that the Fascist regime first, and the Nazi regime later, had inflicted on me because I was born a Jew. In this continuous chaotic succession of ev...
READ MOREAccording to the most recent survey (the 18th “Rapporto Italiani nel mondo” by the Fondazione Migrantes), published at the beginning of 2023, the Italian expats are now almost 6 millions, +91% vs 2006; and these are only the expats enrolled in the AIRE (“Albo degli Italiani Residenti all’Estero”) as there are many more Italians expats that are not...
READ MOREThe establishment of the first U.S. Consulate General in Leghorn in 1794, closely followed by another in Naples in 1796, marks the beginning of consular relations between the USA and pre-unitary Italy. Yet, the roots of this connection delve deeper into the rich soil of intellectual and scientific exchange that predated that institutional connectio...
READ MOREMarche is the only Italian region whose name is pronounced in the plural, where the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea seem to look at each other in the eyes: a region of a hundred theaters, with an infinity of natural, cultural and historical beauty. In addition, Marche has been the birthplace, in history, of as many as ten popes as well as some of th...
READ MOREOn May 14, 1864, a reward was published in a newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, for the capture of Henry, a runaway Black slave. On the same day, Pasquale Falvella posted a reward in a New York tabloid for an eleven-year-old Italian harpist named Antonio Pricolo. The boy had escaped from Falvella, who was a cruel padrone. Although Antonio’s fate is u...
READ MOREAs you may know, Italy has played the World Baseball Classic with a national team composed mainly of Italian American players. If the WBC had existed say roughly 75 years, we would have been a kind of DREAM TEAM. I looked a little bit at all those faces of Italians who are no longer there. I saw the Italy of 1948 and told about it on Che Palle! blo...
READ MOREThe Bee Cave Arts Foundation 501(3)(c) has embarked on an extraordinary collaboration with Paestum, Italy. Paestum was the first landing location on the continent of Europe by the Texas 36th Infantry Division, who along with allied forces, led the invasion to liberate Italy from the Nazi regime in WWII. Selected American and Italian student and v...
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