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Italian Pride - A book due to be published in 2000 on the culture, history, people, places and food of Italy by Federico and Stephen Moramarco: sample chapters on-line.
H-Italy Art and Architecture - Links to sites on these subjects.
Multicultural Graffiti - Available in English, Italian and Spanish, this magazine created by students deals with multiculturalism, internationalism, social and economical issues.
Generic Art History and Promotion - Looks at the relationship of art, history and tradition. Details of its project 'Art and Saints' aiming to establish the patron saints of different artistic groups.
Mercante in Fiera - Antiques and collectibles: Internet fair featuring the exhibitors of Parma's international fair.
Thais - Ranging from sculpture and architecture to Italian cities, botany, entomology and malachology.
Italian Holidays, Festivals and Street Parties - Searchable database of events, festivals, markets, and celebrations.
Triennale di Milano - Triannual exhibition of Italian design, architecture and visual arts with permanent collection of design. News and selected images of permanent collection.
International Flaiano Prizes - Annual awards event for literature, theatre, television and cinema in Pescara. Brief descriptions of categories and list of past winners.
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Arts and Entertainment Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Arts and Entertainment A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Arts and Entertainment your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Arts and Entertainment If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Arts and Entertainment "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Arts and Entertainment It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Arts and Entertainment By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Arts and Entertainment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
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