While I was in Italy teaching earlier this month, many Italians — consumed, like their America counterparts, by this watershed cultural moment — asked me about it. When I got home to my wife Tracie in Texas, we spent a lot of time talking about it over the holiday weekend (the allegat...
Then head to the massive structure that Romans haveunaffectionatelydubbed “the Wedding Cake” since it’s a monstrous white building on Via del Corso. It’s also known as the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument and the Altar of the Fatherland. While Italians might not love it, I happen...
But generally, I’ve always felt safe in Italy. Thanks to the Italians’ often intellectual curiosity about and reverence for Jews (a trope that stretches back to Dante and Boccaccio), I’ve even felt more welcomed in Italy than I did in certain circles here at home. This year, everythin...
Thanksgiving; the day when my fellow Americans gather over a nationwide banquet, when expats lament the lack of canned pumpkin and cranberries, and when friends and family inevitably, innocently ask us, “What do Italians do for Thanksgiving?” The answer is, nothing. Thanksgiving is not a ...
Arrange a gastronomic tour of glorious Rome, trying all Italians signature dishes. 9 Top-4 original cheeses in Milan Oddviser prepared a guide with famous Milan cheeses for you, that are very tasty and have unusual flavour. You should certainly try it!
Scientist Medal Lecture– proud Italians receive IAAM medals Retraction Watchdogging Made-up rubbish– Scott Geyer’s lab at forefront of green energy innovation Science Breakthroughs Magic pill– Eat what you want while losing weight! COVID-19 ...
【2】 They can talk with other people as they go along. Venice grew out of small islands in saltwater lakes when some Italians escaped from a war more than 1,500 years ago, and build houses there. 【3】 Once, people used too much underground water. This made the city get lower ...
They give their city high marks for cleanliness and safety—subways are pristine (洁净的) and unfailingly arrive on time, and police are seen as helpful and good at their jobs. What’s more, they feel they can count on their neighbours—all 5.1 million of them.Arhus, DenmarkThe residents ...
This year’s entry allows kids to track Santa in 3Dusing Google Earth and play games at the North Pole using the Kids Countdown Section, and it even offers Santa Cams which are only operational on the night before Christmas. 36.Why did children keep calling Henry Shoup?
But I have also been dismayed by the many pejorative and degrading stereotypes of Italian-Americans and Italians that have been employed by mainstream media in describing Scaramucci’s regrettable but sadly unavoidable — given the tenor and timbre politics today — approach to American politics and...