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Having had the honor to become the subject of one of Normblog Friday blogger profiles, may I redirect you to my own Normblog profile. A very good way, in my opinion, to get to know the owner of this weblog.
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In a statement released this evening, Buck McKeon, chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, blasts the Obama administration's decision to
drawdown...
Facebook may get more D.C. scrutiny
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The bigger the social networking giant gets, the bigger the stakes may be
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Ron Paul: Hispanics used as ‘scapegoats’
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*M...
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Similar variations of this adjusted unemployment rate make headlines now
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the sam...
Hiring Spree in NYC
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Mitt's Scorched Earth Win
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While Mitt Romney may have taken a step closer to the nomination Tuesday in
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Rivolgersi ad un Giudice per domandare Giustizia costa caro: in base al
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unificato”...
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*La prossima volta coi sottotitoli. *Qui è quando Umberto Eco scambia lo *show
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d...
Iraq's occupier
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L’odore dei soldi
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Una notizia davvero inattesa sul Fatto Quotidiano di ieri: David Riondino
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Ireland’s Biggest Mistake
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The BBC reports: The Irish government is to take action over the soldiers
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Les machines à sous
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mécaniqu...
Estonia gunman dead
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Via RIA Novosti:
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Aclaración veraniega
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Sé que prometí no volver a escribir pero hay algo que me gustaría dejar
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ART FOR LABOR’S SAKE
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I will not be blogging for a while. This means that this blog will be going
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blogging...
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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
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and im...
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outlook affec...
On not being stupid
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4th Week OT (W)
Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP
St. Dominic Church, NOLA
The crowds who witness Jesus' miracles recognize that he is preaching and
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That's why we call him the socialist president
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The *First Amendment to the United States Constitution *states:* *
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Diamond Jubilee Prayer
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A new find in Turkey promises to be as wonderful as Ostia Antica is in
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Catholics and the Press
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*It's no secret that the Media hates us but if we are to be honest...it's
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Recently I happened to witness an exchange between a repor...
Snow days! Schools Closed!
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They say that we are getting the coldest winter spell in 30 years.
Time to make soups!
my little backyard
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Neve – Snow
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Although much of north west Italy has already experienced heavy snowfalls
over the last few days and the forecast is for snow in Lazio it was still a
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How Ministers Were Selected In Italy
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TweetI think I have finally worked out the method used by Italy’s political
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system,...
It's cold. It's January. We're boring.
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Just a quick post to apologize for the lack of posts lately. If we're to be
honest, it's been cold, we're renewing a bunch of our annual bureaucratic
stu...
A Yummy Treat for World Nutella Day
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Doing business in Italy
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[image: Business]
Doing business in Italy: some cultural conventions to know
Doing business
Anna De Filippo
Friday, January 20th, 2012
*Doing...
Monti, The Full Version
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The version in question is an interview with the Financial Times. A summary
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If yo...
“A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto” at Academy Galleries
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exhibition “A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto. Paintings from the Hermitage at the
Academy Gal...
Chocolate Tycoon Ferrero Dies
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machines...
About removing the Cross
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*From **the web**, about removing the Cross:*
Summary of possible arguments: 12 Theses
The right to religious freedom can only mean its exercise - not...
«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada»
1752
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
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It's a bell of freedom» Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
William Shakespeare
«Julius Caesar»
Act 3, Scene 2