Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 03:48
The lifehand Italian medical scientists working on the Lifehand Project have created the first bionic hand which is capable of communicating with the…
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 04:14
If you are going to be in or near Brescia between this Friday and next June you have a chance to see an unusual and impressive exhibition at the city’…
Wed, 12/02/2009 - 03:56
Italian police have crashed the pride and joy of their transport fleet – a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 which is said to have been the world’s most ex…
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 03:33
What influence does the cinema have on today’s lovers? This is the question that the Osservatorio sull’Amore , on the dating and chat site Meetic.it,…
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 03:27
A translation company which has researched the use of English words in Italian business documentation has found that the use of English terms in the I…
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 06:01
Italians who do not desire a break, at Christmas, from Mr Berlusconi and the scandal surrounding him can purchase, for their nativity scenes, figurine…
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 05:02
For once Italy is about to introduce a law on which there is an all-party consensus - Northern League Senator Piergiorgio Stiffoni has proposed an ame…
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 05:03
Giorgio Barone or Giorgio 1, Prince of Seborga, otherwise known as “la sua Tremendità” [“your Tremendousness”] departed his “princedom” and this world…
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 04:09
In an unexpected development in the Crucifix story we have been covering – in which the European Court of Human Rights ruled that crucifixes should be…
Thu, 11/26/2009 - 04:40
Italian utility companies are not usually super-efficient at disconnecting the services of late payers but this week a water company acted quickly and…
Thu, 11/26/2009 - 03:43
Words by Pat Eggleton Meeting Mariaelena Lorefice and her husband Fabrizio Poidomani is both a pleasure and an opportunity for a fascinating lesson in…
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 05:18
The first museum of contemporary arts on a national level in Italy, the Maxxi Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome opened for a weekend…
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 03:34
Most Italians seem to think that Minister Gianfranco Rotondi has, at the very least, been daydreaming and many have declared him mad, for he has had t…
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:52
You are not hallucinating if you see enormous fuchsia pink snails whilst in Milan these days for the twelve plastic molluscs have been placed at strat…
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:29
If you had to choose the rock star of the year on the basis of outrageous lifestyle, who would you vote for?Ozzy Osbourne, Jackson, Jagger, Keith Rich…
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 05:07
A private art collector who recently purchased a seventeenth-century box containing unidentified “artefacts” must have had a gruesome surprise when he…
Mon, 11/23/2009 - 04:45
Vatican researcher Dr Barbara Frale has claimed in a new book, La Sindone di Gesù Nazareno, that there is faint text on the Turin Shroud. The Shroud,…
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 05:01
Before that fateful day in AD 79 the dogs of Pompeii, like dogs everywhere, had been either guard dogs or pets. But they sensed that all was not well…
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 04:42
If you have been disturbed by our stories about the “death” of the lovely city of Venice, you may like to know that there is a way of seeing its beau…
Thu, 11/19/2009 - 04:21
The Mayor of Vigonza, near Padua [Veneto] has come up with an original idea for dealing with graffiti writers: he intends to make them replicate their…