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Lamborghini: A “Bull’s Eye” of Supercar Luxury!
July 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the high performance luxury super sports cars that bear his name, was born on April 28, 1916 to grape farmers in the village of Renazzo di Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region. His Zodiac sign, Taurus the bull, is...
Italian American Mayors of NYC
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
New York City’s 99th mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, the “Little Flower,” was not only the first of four Italian Americans, but probably the most colorful and dynamic of all to occupy the city’s highest office. The 5-foot tall...
Space Probe Named After Italian Astronomer Continues Mission with Saturn
June 2017 | Danielle Selvaggio
Unmanned spacecraft Cassini-Huygens is continuing to record data from Saturn. There are two parts to the craft: the Cassini orbiter, named after Giovani Cassini, and a lander for Titan, named after seventeenth-century Dutch scientist Christiaan...
Frank Sinito’s Heritage and Family Life Propel Mission of the Millennia Companies
June 2017 | Joe Marinucci
The First in a series focused on Italian Americans in Cleveland’s Business Community
This is the first of a bi-monthly column that will highlight key Italian-Americans in the Cleveland business community, both men and women who are making an...
"Learning Never Exhausts the Mind." Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Leonardo, born in a farmhouse near Florence in the village of Anchiano and later raised by grandparents and uncles in Vinci, was a leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance who had little formal education.
Born out of wedlock to a...
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
One of the world’s largest and finest art museums is The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City. It has more than 2 million works of art representing over 5,000 years from every corner of the world. The extensive collection is...
An American Italian: “Rosie the Riveter”
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
How about the power and strength of an Italian woman, Rosina Bonavita of Peekskill, NY who gained fame during WWII? Her high school sweetheart and husband-to-be, Jim Hickey, was serving in the Navy in the Pacific aboard the battleship USS...
Sylvester Poli (1858-1937) - Waxing an Empire!
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
There’s a story that Sylvester Zefferino Poli once worked a street corner collecting pennies as his pet monkey danced to organ grinder music. While this may not be 100 percent true, Poli did, in fact, emigrate to New York in September 1881....
Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso
June 2017 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Known for its wildlife and geothermal features such as Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, 96% of which lies in Wyoming while the remaining 4% crosses the boarders into Idaho and Montana, was signed into law in March of 1872 and was the first...
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