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Sounds like a good collective noun. But there's definitely something going on. When I hover over the "Community Home - La Piazza" it turns into "Country Homes - restored". I think elicat has got at it already!!!

Mon, 05/18/2009 - 16:51

Trying to upload something, so have chosen my description of my train trip to Ancona, previously published in the old forum. Don't know if it will work, as I've had to use the "video" button as that seems to be the only upload at the momentA

Sun, 05/17/2009 - 15:02

I won't do it any more

Sun, 05/17/2009 - 12:28

I've clicked on ~"create a post", then given it a title. I've highlighted the topics "Introductions" and "Weddings", just to see where it ends up. I've put in my location, and tagged it "testing" and "posting".

Sun, 05/17/2009 - 12:19

Heeello - anybody there? I seem to be able to post even though my request to join is pending. A glitch, a back door, or my c*ck up?? Anyway, hope I'm in and I'll check back tomorrowAnne

Fri, 05/15/2009 - 18:37

Not sure if this is the right place for this but anyway..... I've managed to subscribe to posts and am now getting masses of emails. I can't find how to unsubscribe again. Can someone talk me through it?

Thu, 05/14/2009 - 20:27

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Thu, 04/29/2010 - 08:53

If you don't already know of it, you might be able to advertise them here???: http://www.maceratamonthly.com/ Benvenuto dalle Marche del Sud!

Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:38

I don't know how to attach files here - but I recently discovered an account of the only occasion where partisans directly and victoriously attacked a Jewish concentration camp.  It happened at Camp 59, Servigliano in S Marche in May 1944, which had been a PoW camp up to the Armistice in Sept 43    The partisans called in Allied bombers who breached the walls and they then evacuated the Jewish internees who were then looked after by the local "Committees of Liberation"   If anyone wants a copy of the account given by the Jewish-Italian leader of the Monte San Martino resistance, Vito Volterra,  pm me.  Or someone tell me how to attach it here!

Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:17

Thankyou poeta You might be interested in this book "In the Prison of His Days" by Norman Davison http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-His-Days-Memoirs-Captured/dp/0956007589/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271772553&sr=1-1 and http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/gunner-g-norman-davisons-memoirs/ which recounts Norman's capture, imprisonment and then assistance by partisans to get over the border into Switzerland. His son John has written to a local resistance organisation: http://www.vigevanoeresistenza.it/site/home/una-mail-dal-regno-unito-15-3-10 If you're in the area, you might look them up.  If you'd like to speak to John - who would I'm sure love help with his research - let me know   All the best   Anne

Fri, 04/09/2010 - 20:00

Hi Geoff Not your prison camp, but for a mass of info regarding PoWs and their Italian helpers you could look here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/ and this more general site: http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/frames.htm and this: http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/ There will probably be Italian sites regarding the Resistance in and around Milan. You could try writing to the Milan section of the National Association of Partisans: Comitato Regionale ANPI LOMBARDIA - via San Marco 49 - 20121 Milano.  tel. 02 76020620  Fax 02 784675. e-mail: info@anpilombardia.191.it  BTW "Duomo" is the Italian for Cathedral - it seems your father was sheltered in Milan Cathedral

Sun, 04/04/2010 - 17:48

Good luck Brian Where in Italy will you be looking?

Thu, 04/01/2010 - 07:42

 Thanks Mark. I had a couple of hours to spare before flying out of Rome Ciampino, so though I'd give  my son and his friend a bit of exposure to ancient Rome in the form of a walk along the Appian Way as reached from the airport. As we walked along, with me expounding as to ancient tombs of Roman nobility, it was soon clear they were seriously distracted by all the ladies of the night plying their trade in the middle of the afternoon. Sounds like Ostia Antica would have been a better bet!

Wed, 03/31/2010 - 09:50

  WOT! So evolution really IS only a theory????

Tue, 03/30/2010 - 15:54

and doors Joy??

Sun, 03/28/2010 - 09:52

 ...so I use this as a workaround. Which isn't ideal, but I'm afraid I can't get too worked up over something so trivial