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An unsolved mystery dating 2.144 years. Was Scipio Aemilianus Murdered?
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (185–129 BC), also known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger or Scipio Africanus-minor, was a great general and a open minded...
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Winners and Losers according to Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1957, the son of a veterinarian. Having graduated from Cambridge University in modern languages, he went into journalism, principally with the...
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Lead Poisoning in Ancient Rome and in Hong Kong
The scandal of the pipes illegally soldered with lead at Kai Ching Estate, which has caused great alarm in Hong Kong, was certainly over-blow. I am not a doctor but it seems that the ingested quantity...
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PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN HONG KONG
This short essay was drafted by Margot Errante and Angelo Paratico in 2012 with the intention of having it included in the book “500 Years of Italians in Hong Kong and Macau” published by the Society...
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A Wonderful Neronian Villa Discovered under Positano
Positano, is a pictoresque village on the the Amalfi cost, in South Italy, which was thought to have medieval origins but an extraordinary discovery is changing this impression. Positano was probably...
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A Review in Chinese on Leonardo Da Vinci. A Chinese Scholar Lost in...
Yang Sun is a young writer from Hangzhou, China and a Leonardo Da Vinci’s fan. Here follows her review written after having read my book. 达·芬奇完美主义镜像中的恋母情结（伊谛普斯情结） 意大利历史学家、小说家Angelo Paratico...
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Immortal Blue Jeans
I am in charge of sales in Asia for my company, TRC Candiani, in Asia, a leading world producer of denim. TRC was founded in 1938 and it is located 25 miles far from Milan and very close to Malpensa...
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The Galtellì Literary Prize e Father Nicosia, the Angel of the Lepers: in...
Dopo un intero mese in Sardegna, eccomi qui stranito all’aeroporto di Olbia, sentendo ancora una volta di non essere né da una parte né dall’altra del mondo, sperso in qualche bolla di discontinuità...
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The Literary Galtellì Prize – comments
I’d like to comment the Literary Galtellì Week and Prize through the words written by some of our guests. I’m going to use an anonymous form for obvious reasons of privacy. I think that these comments...
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The earthquake that never happened
He deceived them all. And they, like fools kneeling before his big eyes, nodded in unison. After his usual cup of milk, he would open his mouth and lick his whiskers. Everybody would gather in a circle...
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Ring Roads, by Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. The cover of Ring Roads (Les Boulevards de Ceinture, in its original version and language) has a statement...
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Father Nicosia, the Angel of the Lepers
Cardinal Zen Straordinario successo e commovente partecipazione per la prima proiezione ufficiale a Hong Kong del documentario ‘Father Nicosia, the Angel of the Lepers’. Piu’ di cento persone, molte...
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A Novel Use for Microwave Ovens.
A 1978 Model in a Museum Microwave ovens are a common kitchen appliance present in all our homes and which are used to heat and cook food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiations in the form of...
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Father Nicosia, The Angel of the Lepers: our journey between Hong Kong and...
The making of this film resulted, in many ways, in a remarkable experience. B39 started the process in Hong Kong, talked to Father Nicosia and collected his tales of an incredible life while sharing...
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The death of Bruno Giovanni Lonati. Was he Mussolini’s executioner?
Two days ago Bruno Giovanni Lonati died in Legnano, Italy. He was 94 years old. During the war he had been fighting in Russia, then he joined the communist resistence after the 8th of September 1943...
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Are the masterpieces stolen in Verona an act of Terrorism?
Pisanello’s ‘Madonna of the Quail’ A colossal theft was carried out in the evening of 19 November 2015 in Verona, at the Castelvecchio Museum. A well organised band of criminals had just a cashier and...
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Long Live the Book Club
I confess that I’m really hit by the recent events and by the reaction of so many people. The social media are full of shouts and insults as never. A lot of writers use the online space not for...
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Economia (nostra) e Finanza (loro)
Scommetto che non avete notato (era sfuggito anche a me) l’ultimo discorso del presidente della Banca Centrale Europea, il nostro Mario Draghi. Col piglio vagamente bellico che va usando da un paio...
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A Muslim France? Historically, it nearly happened.
A dear friend of mine rightly mentioned that we Europeans have a great historical responsibilities in the Middle East, due to the havoc brought about by the Crusades between the XII and the XV...
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Li-Young Lee on writing poetry, listening to the unknown and mastering silence.
On Saturday 21st of November 2015, during one our classes of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Hong Kong, we had the honour to welcome the renowned poet Li-Young Lee. It was an...
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