CASTELBUONO, Sicily (AP) — When my wife and I bought a hectare (about 2.5 acres) of countryside with three buildings on it in the mountains of Sicily four years ago, I didn’t expect – or want – the work to be done quickly.
He Was the Only Solicitor Ever Executed in Britain, Hanged for Poisoning His Wife. but Was the Dapper Major Really the Innocent Victim of Vicious Small Town Rivals? It Was One of the Most Sensational Murder Trials of the Century, but Was the Hay Prisoner Set Up? Newspaper article from ...
On Dec. 28, 1908, a double catastrophe reduced Reggio Calabria and Messina, Sicily's second-biggest city, to rubble. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake was followed by a tsunami, which claimed 80,000 lives. On Jan. 13, 1915, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Avezzano, in the central...
isStand by Me. Early career-makers for Kiefer Sutherland and River Phoenix, and the basis for director Rob Reiner's Castle Rock company name, as the fictional Oregon town in which four boys decide to go on a hike to find a dead body. ...
A grand, cosmos-spanning epic that’s set mostly in ... the smallest town in New Mexico?Thorhas its issues, but it’s also the first Marvel movie where incredible casting and charismatic performances were able to overcome structural and screenplay issues, which soon became a Marvel trademark....
Synopsis: Two young men (Sean Penn & Nicolas Cage), about to join the Marines in early 1943, spend their final days in town finding out about love and growing up. Penn falls in love with the new girl in town (Elizabeth McGovern), who works part-time at the local public library. In...
“I like my fresh eggs fried,” Major --- de Coverley remembered. “In fresh butter.”“I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty-five cents a pound,” Milo answered. “Twenty-fivecents a pound for fresh butter is a good buy. There’s enough money in the mess...
In the month of April alone there were 470 Sri Lankans in Bossaso town, many of them surprised to find themselves in an obscure Somali port, rather than in the Italian coastal town they had been told to expect. "I do wonder why our agents brought us here when they told us that the...
Dinaric Alps, CroatiaThe Dinaric Alps rising from the Dalmatian coast at Makarska, a resort town south of Split, Croatia. The interconnected system of mountain ranges and intermontane plateaus that lies between the stable areas of Africa,Arabia, andIndiaon the south and Europe and Asia on the...
Dinaric Alps, CroatiaThe Dinaric Alps rising from the Dalmatian coast at Makarska, a resort town south of Split, Croatia. The interconnected system of mountain ranges and intermontane plateaus that lies between the stable areas of Africa,Arabia, andIndiaon the south and Europe and Asia on the...