Berlusconi tried really, really hard, but I have to say that he's still only the second most embarrassing Italian leader of the last 100 years.
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Hey; anyone who finds a principality that will elect me Prince wins a free LGM t-shirt.
I have a review of Vincent O'Hara's Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.
From the "subplot excised from The Road for being too disturbing and creepy" file:Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.The gang allegedly targeted people on...
We're all liberal fascists now.
In May 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in an effort to detach and seize several mountain provinces, as well as Trieste and portions of the Adriatic Coast. Since the.
This is probably the best NYT correction ever:Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the number of girls younger than 18 who were allegedly invited to a villa by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. Mr. Berlusconi is alleged to have invited about 40...
Huh.Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing.
Is this what we're heading toward here in the U.S.? In Naples last week, police stormed into a hospital based on an anonymous tip that doctors there had performed an.
The Senussi religious order was founded in 1837 as an antidote to what amounted to the perceived liberalization of Islam. It's founder, Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, was born in Algeria but studied in Cairo, Mecca, and elsewhere in the Arab world. He attempted to...