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Movies and Film: A Few Good Films

A Few Good FilmsMovies and FilmItalian Film HistoryTurnin' to TurinRinging the White TelephoneA Few Good FilmsThe Past 20 Years The great cinema scholar Ephraim Katz, author of The Film…

Brewer's: Improvisators

Persons who utter verses impromptu. The art was introduced by Petrarch, and is still a favourite amusement of the Italians. The most celebrated are: ACCOLTI (Bernardo, of Arezzo, called…

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi was an Irish-Italian inventor and entrepreneur who popularized wireless telegraphy early in the 20th century. One of the founding fathers of radio communication, Marconi got…

Movies and Film: Ringing the White Telephone

Ringing the White TelephoneMovies and FilmItalian Film HistoryTurnin' to TurinRinging the White TelephoneA Few Good FilmsThe Past 20 Years Over the course of the 1930s, large sectors of the…

Giuliana Sgrena, 2005 News

Italian journalist, was fired at by U.S. troops in March, shortly after she was released from captivity by Iraqi insurgents. Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, who was traveling in…

World War I: Major Theaters of Battle

Read about the areas that saw the most fighting German soldiers fighting at the First Battle of the Marne Related Links World War I Primer World War I Timeline…

Silvio Berlusconi

Billionaire and media baron Silvio Berlusconi dominated Italian politics from 1994 until he resigned in 2011, having served three times as prime minister (1994-95, 2001-06 and 2008-11). A native of…

Ethnicity and Race by Countries

Find the ethnic and racial composition of every country in the world, listed alphabetically. Afghanistan Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimaks 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, others 4…

August 2018 Current Events: World News

Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world…