“It’s been Christmas since the end of October. The lights come on earlier and earlier, while the people are more and more intermittent. I would like a December with the lights off and the people on…”, words of Charles Bukowski. The date is not certain, but it is nice to think that it was Christmas Eve: in 1882 Edward H. Johnson, friend and partner of Thomas Edison, decorated his Christmas tree with the first string…
Interview with botanist Lorenzo Peruzzi: “Asphalt prevents water from penetrating the ground and excavations cut the roots, which weaken them”. We place them next to the streets as if they were street lamps. They act as a silent backdrop to our cities. “But trees are living beings. Too often we don’t think about them, forcing them to live in unsuitable environments.” Lorenzo Peruzzi teaches botany at the University of Pisa, is the director of the…
On December 23, 1992, Scent of a Woman, directed by Martin Brest, was released in American theaters. The interpretation of Colonel Slade earned Al Pacino the only Oscar of his career: the final scene of the “trial” in the college assembly hall – it must be said – deserved a statuette. The film is the successful remake of the 1974 film of the same name, directed by Dino Risi. Today’s almanac, December 23: smell of…
The interview: “That boy wasn’t resigned to the end of the story, he even threatened to kill himself saying he couldn’t stay away from her” Martina’s father “I told her: if he exaggerates, let’s report him but she was afraid of ruining him” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/23/news/intervista_padre_martina_accoltellata_oslo-423903113/?rss
MILAN — A breath is enough for the test. “Fill your lungs with air, then exhale as much as you have,” recommends Angela Sabalic, biologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. A woman blows into a mouthpiece and fills two clear bags with air, connected to a box full of chips slightly larger than a bar of soap. The electronic nose that detects tumors. Tests with scientists: “One breath is enough” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/23/news/naso_elettronico_tumori_come_funziona-423903144/?rss
Martina Voce stabbed in Oslo by Indian ex-lover who wouldn’t take no as an answer in a crazy attack for being dumped. Martina Voce, the 21-year-old girl stabbed by her ex in the Italian fast food shop where she works, left Florence for Norway about two years ago. She was stabbed, on Friday in Oslo after her stalker tormented her on WhatsApp and followed her to an Italian takeaway where she was attacked. She was…
ROME – Giovanni Russo, the prison man of the Meloni government, has resigned. He did so with a letter to the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, after months of silent tensions with the undersecretary, Andrea Delmastro, and the very powerful head of cabinet of the ministry, Giusi Bortolozzi. Carceri, change at the top: tensions with Delmastro behind Russo’s farewell https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/22/news/giovanni_russo_capo_dap_dimissioni_lina_di_domenico-423901719/?rss
In Today’s Almanac we unravel the origins of the Dreyfus case. On December 22, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life in prison for high treason and sent to Devil’s Island. An army officer, he had been found guilty of espionage in the service of Germany. He was clearly innocent, but had been chosen as a scapegoat by the military leaders because he was Jewish. The real person responsible was someone else, a Catholic. The…
In a declining sector hit by video games, it is the 30-40 year olds who are sustaining sales Christmas becomes the celebration of kidults: the games market saved by adults https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/22/news/giocattoli_regali_natale_mercato_dati-423901601/?rss
Explosion in a house in Sassi, in the municipality of Molazzana (Lucca) in Garfagnana: two people are being sought. Around midnight the house collapsed, probably due to a gas leak. Firefighters, paramedics, mountain rescue and Carabinieri were on site. The firefighters have put out the flames and the intervention is still underway. Rescuers are removing the rubble by hand. The house is located in an isolated area, outside the town: it was purchased a few…
Autumn ends and winter begins. The night is the longest, but then the days start to get longer again. The winter solstice falls today: it is the shortest day of the year, the one in which we can enjoy a few hours of light, instead of many hours of darkness. The solstice 2024 The new season begins at 10.21am (Italian time) on Saturday 21 December. It is the day of the solstice, when the Sun…
There is naturally the name of the camallo who crushed his colleague Giovanni Battista Macvò on board the tractor. But in addition to Patrizio Randazzo, on the list of the first seven investigated for the accident in the port on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, on charges of manslaughter, six “technical” figures also appear: the Culmv consul Antonio Benvenuti, several managers with responsibility for safety in the Psa terminal (Roberto Coglio, Paolo Casali, Marco…
Rome — «We cannot help but feel profound disappointment after this sentence. Five years have passed, but the memory of the unnecessary suffering to which the people on board were subjected is very vivid.” President of Emergency, Rossella Miccio, in August 2019 was on the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, which was blocked for nineteen days awaiting authorization to disembark, repeatedly denied by the Interior Ministry at the time in the hands of…
Florence — And here it is finally, after eight years of work and many unsuccessful announcements, the new Vasari Corridor. Open from today as it had never been before: no longer extemporaneously and at exorbitant costs, but every day the Uffizi is open, a visit to which cannot be separated. From the Uffizi to Boboli: the unique walk in the world reopens in Florence https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/21/news/corridoio_vasariano_firenze_uffizi_turismo-423900216/?rss
The latest case was that of the keffiyeh: at the beginning of December Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene in the audience hall, which was donated to him by artisans from Bethlehem, in the West Bank, and at the time of the ritual photos, the little child was lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headdress. The nativity scenes of the Bergoglio era between surprises and diatribes. But it is no longer the era of…
On December 20, 1812, the Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales were published. The collection contains very famous stories, vaguely more gruesome than the Disney versions. For example, at the end Cinderella has her stepsisters’ eyes gouged out. Not that they didn’t deserve it, but maybe it’s a little too horror for today’s kids… The most famous Christmas story in the history of cinema, however, was released in American theaters on December 20, 1946. Overseas It’s a…
The Christmas turnaround is coming. Antonio Sanò, founder of the site www.iLMeteo.it, confirms that from the North Sea, passing through the Netherlands, 2 polar storms will change the Italian meteorological scenario in the next few days. Gale winds and cold In summary, the first polar storm has already approached Italy during the night and is causing extensive bad weather phenomena, in particular gale force winds off the coast of Sardinia, Bora gale force winds on…
castignano (Ascoli Piceno) — «We heard the ringing and no one opened the door, so we went. There were nurses and firefighters.” To anyone who met them, Emanuela Massicci’s two sons, aged just 11 and 12, told only this, only to then return to entrench themselves in a silence broken only by a disconsolate cry. Emanuela beaten to death by her husband. The children open the door to the rescuers https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/20/news/ascoli_femminicidio_emanuela_uccisa_a_botte_dal_marito_i_figli_aprono_la_porta_ai_soccorritori-423897693/?rss
RIPABERARDA (ASCOLI PICENO) – He killed his wife with a knife and then attempted suicide by cutting his wrists with the same blade. It happened this morning just before 7 in Ripaberarda (Ascoli Piceno). The man, an Italian, is currently hospitalized. The wife died following the stab wounds that her husband inflicted on her. The couple’s children were also present in the house at the time of the tragedy. The causes of the argument that…
Three deaths in one day: the “camallo” hit by a colleague on the quay of the port of Genoa, the mechanic crushed by the truck he was repairing in the industrial area of Cagliari, the worker hit by the tailgate of the truck being unloaded in the Salerno area.Continues The worker, the mechanic and the port clerk: endless massacre at work https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/incidente_genova_cagliari_lavoro_morti-423895382/?rss
The speleologist outside the cave at three in the morning after three days of travel in the tunnels. Friends: “We want you to come back and explore with us one day.” The volunteers: “Enough controversy about costs” Ottavia Piana, tears with her boyfriend and hugs to the rescuers: “I knew you would save me” https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/ottavia_piana_speleologa_bloccata_racconto-423895315/?rss
He takes the floor for the first time since Giovanni Toti, Aldo Spinelli and Paolo Emilio Signorini were arrested. Moreover, explains Genoa’s chief prosecutor Nicola Piacente shortly after the GUP’s approval of the plea bargains, with deputy Vittorio Ranieri Miniati at his side, «we have always tried to keep a low, sober profile. Plea deal Toti, the prosecutor Piacente: “Quick investigation. And not even a seized trowel” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/patteggiamento_toti_corruzione_il_procuratore_piacente_inchiesta_rapida_neppure_una_cazzuola_sequestrata-423895252/?rss
«Andrea and I arrived on November 8th together with a 40-foot container loaded with food for the families and children of Congo. We were supposed to stay until the end of December but he returned to Italy first because he had to close a company by the end of the year. Congo, the dead man’s partner: “We are traveling to the Equator, now he is patient zero” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/congo_febbre_emorragica_la_compagna_dell_uomo_morto_a_treviso-423893556/?rss
Two raids by the financial police in the Port Authority, passed almost in silence, certify that the investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Eppo (European Public Prosecutor’s Office), on the Genoa dam is in full swing. The financiers of the group that works exclusively for Eppo in the Turin office showed up at Palazzo San Giorgio on 10 October and 11 November to acquire various folders of documentation, partly downloaded from some computers…
Treviso, a 55-year-old found lifeless at home. ISS and ministry are investigating. African authorities: there is a serious form of malaria He returns from Congo with a fever and dies. “He looked after himself” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/congo_malattia_misteriosa_morto_treviso-423893301/?rss
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