Topic: Mantua

An Irishman's Diary

THE POETIC place-names of Ireland have a wide variety of origins, as noted here recently. But crossing Dublin's Rialto Bridge the other day, I...
A southern New Jersey man who was under the influence of heroin when he led authorities on a chase in a stolen car has been sentenced to six years...

New Jersey fossil dig endangered by development plan

MANTUA TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (Reuters) - Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara is looking deep in a New Jersey silt mine for the exact moment, 65 million years ago, when all dinosaurs perished.That secret could be harder to uncover if the fossils here can no ...
This plate is typical of the gastronomy of Mantua or Ferrara, in the North of Italy
A few years ago, in 2008 to be exact, in the city of Mantua there was an exhibition, very beautiful. This exhibition was a tribute to those two ancient civilizations who held in great regard this value, Greece and Rome .So this ...

An Eternal Embrace

The world has just learned, coincidently just before Valentine's Day, of the discovery in Italy of a 5,000 - 6,000 year old grave of two young adults locked in each other's arms. Just as teenagers have a difficult time ...

5 Ways to See Italy

Bespoke travel agent Andrea Grisdale leads the way to the area's best shopping.. Andrea Grisdale has visited just about every corner of Italy, yet the place that the Lake Como-based CEO of IC Bellagio keeps returning to is the Sorrentine Peninsula ...

Cuban Mining Explored

Cuba has a history of mining extending over a period of three hundred years. During the period 1900 to 2002, mining was a permanent activity, and during WWII the mining of manganese, some copper, and nickel was most important. The nickel resource ...

Total War Italy Campaign Guide

This guide offers help and advice for anyone attempting to win the Italy Campaign in Napoleon: The first campaign Napoleon undertook in Italy in 1796 is the focus of this chapter of Napoleon: You'll begin with Napoleon on the right and ...

Arabesque

arabesque, style of decoration characterized by intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs. Human figures often were integral to Western arabesque designs. Though the word had meant simply "Arabian" in 16th-century France, it was defined in a dictionary of 1611 as "rebesque work ...