In 1922, Benito Mussolini gained control of Italy and introduced the world to fascism, a political movement that eventually brought the world to war. Mussolini didn't invent the fascist movement, but he coined the term and defined the Italian fascist movement. In 1932, Mussolini wrote that fasc...
So how did a humble grain get to play center stage in Italy’s anti-Fascist resistance? It’s thought that rice was first domesticated in China’s Yangtze River valley around 10,000 years ago. Before that, locals had harvested wild rice for a couple more thousand years. The Romans impor...
Italian television showed several hundred protesters gathered Monday night outside the Soviet Embassy in Rome in response to a call by the tiny Radical Party to demonstrate. Communists also announced plans to take to the streets in Bologna to demand Gorbachev’s reinstatement, and the country’s ...
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Britain’s Industrial Revolution was stressful and might have faded out, in the same way as the 15th century Italian Renaissance bogged down and faded into mediocrity. Britain also had to fight for world dominance, and the consequences of the rival powers of Spain or Holland or France ...
In Italy, land of Galileo Galilei, Michael Angelo and Leonardo Da Vinci there is a populist right-wing government who have declared that Italian children no longer need to be vaccinated against those age-old childhood diseases that have been almost eradicated in modern times. These vaccines are ...
“The whole Fascist [association] of the heads really disturbs her,” Mr Owens says. “And my explanation is that I’ve always been kind of fascinated by that whole movement because, at the beginning, the Italian Futurist movement was utopian. And, in any kind of any utopian movement, t...
Even during the Great Depression, Portuguese immigrants found opportunity in America. As Capt. Joseph Captiva, a Provincetown fisherman,told a government interviewer in 1938, …it’s a good place to live. Good money an’ chances for th’ young people. They say it’s bad times now, but we...
The headline was "St. Louis Arch For Memorial Called Fascist." In fact, the Rome exposition was explicitly billed as commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Fascism in Italy, and Mussolini's "March on Rome" in 1922. The poster features an arch designed by the Italian architect Adalberto ...
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