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The Commission for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and the United States – the bi-national agency that on the behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Department of State has been managing since 1948 the Fulbright Program in Italy promoting study, research and teaching opportunities in Italy and the U.S. through a program of...

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Did Roman women wear bikinis? It would seem so, according to late-imperial mosaics of Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina (Enna), Sicily. The mosaic floor of one of the rooms of the Villa depicts 10 girls participating in an athletics competition and wearing something very similar to our two-piece costume. Swide is here to tell you about the beauty...

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The Sicilian regional government in Italy has revoked permission for the United States to build a military satellite station on the island, its governor said on Friday, after protests by residents who said it could pose a health risk.   The planned ground station is part of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), an ultra high-frequency sat...

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The Italian American Museum presents SICILIAN TREASURES: Major Developments in the Architecture and Literature of Sicily. From Beginnings to the Present. Presented by Prof. Santi V. Buscemi   You are cordially invited to attend a lecture and power point presentation on the architecture and literature of Sicily at the Ital...

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La Sicilia dice no al Muos, sistema di comunicazione satellitare della marina statunitense. La decisione era nell'aria dopo gli scontri tra manifestanti e polizia dei giorni scorsi nell'area antistante il sito di installazione del sistema. La presa di posizione del governatore siciliano Rosario Crocetta spariglia le carte di un gioco più grande dei...

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by Andrea Carli   Cakes and candies, cakes and candies and more cakes and candies, and the diet can wait. At the end of the Easter holidays, families will have taken €400 million out of their pockets to buy confections, estimated Codacons, a consumer association.   Six out of ten Italians will serve the Colomba cake (shaped like a dov...

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By Alice Philipson It was home to a young Sicilian prince, a symbol of an aristocratic world in decline that was bombed during the Second World War and has lain in ruins ever since. Now a palatial white stone building in Palermo that inspired classic Italian novel The Leopard has been restored to its 19th century glory and is available for re...

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Gole Alcantara are in the valley of the same name in Eastern Sicily (between Messina and Catania). Some have reported seeing here "the local Loch Ness Monster [...]. Around here, we call it 'u Sugghiu', perhaps because its shape resembles the sturdy wooden cylinder (called 'subbio', in Italian) used in old looms, around which the threads of the war...

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by Andrew Bagley   The San Diego Sicilian Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this Sunday, May 19, in Little Italy. Beginning at 10 AM until 6 PM, India Street and surrounding thoroughfares come alive with people, culture, color, food, live music, entertainment, dancers, a car show, wine and beer garden, kids' zone, games, arts and craf...

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La prima parola che ha imparato da bambino è stata "Chianti". Quel profumo del vino e del cibo italiano è entrato in maniera profonda e indelebile nella sua mente. Sin da quando, da ragazzino, nella scintillante Los Angeles, andava ad aiutare il padre Emilio nel suo ristorante. Nato ad Hollywood, da padre emigrato dall'Abruzzo e da mamma inglese,...

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