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☆ The Super Rich No Longer Try To Support Their Societies - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Guido Alfani | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Nobody made this point better than the Tuscan humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Indeed, the rich merchants who were the main “victims” of forced loans were also the rulers of patrician republics and understood they were contributing their private resources to the public good. These loans proved to be a poor investment, as the interest tended to become negative in real terms because of hyperinflation. Of course, historically, wars provide the best possible motivation to ask citizens to contribute more: either with their blood or with their cash. For example, this was explicit in the fiscal package introduced in the United States as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Persons: Poggio Bracciolini, avaritia, Liberty Bonds Organizations: Liberty Locations: Europe, Italy, Venice, Ottoman Empire, United States, Britain, Franklin Roosevelt’s

☆ Italy's ski industry fires cannon against climate change
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Stefano Bernabei | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/7] Skiers pass on an artificial snow slope as end of the ski season nears, in Monte Cimone, Italy, March 31, 2023. "The ski-lifts were closed, the ski instructors and seasonal workers had nothing to do and we lost 40% of our revenue for the whole season," said Luciano Magnani, head of the local consortium of ski tourism operators. Some 90% of Italy's pistes rely on artificial snow, compared with 70% in Austria, 50% in Switzerland and 39% in France, according to data from Italian Green lobby Legambiente. Italy's ski sector directly or indirectly employs 400,000 people and generates turnover of 11 billion euros ($11.92 billion), according to Anef data, equal to about 0.5% of national output. Some economists and climatologists argue that trying to keep low-altitude ski resorts in business is destined to fail, and snow-making merely delays the inevitable.

☆ Van der Poel solos to emotional Milan-Sanremo victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 18 (Reuters) - Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won the Milan-Sanremo on Saturday to claim the first Monument of the season, 62 years after his grandfather won the race. However, Van der Poel launched his attack on the summit of the Poggio with 5.5km to go and stormed into the lead, extending it as they entered the city with the other three riders fighting it out for second place. The victory was Van der Poel's third after winning the Tour of Flanders in 2020 and 2022, following in the footsteps of his French grandfather Raymond Poulidor who won the race in 1961. It's one Monument every rider wants to win one day," Van der Poel said with a smile. Milan-Sanremo is the longest Monument race at 294 kilometres this year.

☆ Ancient bodies of 'vampires' were buried with rocks in their mouths to stop them returning from the dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many people thought this could be stopped by putting a stone or brick in the mouths, experts said. 'Vampires' were thought to eat their way out of the grave, unless something hard stopped them. These body were not completely dead and were captured by some demonic influence," said Borrini, describing the old beliefs. This one was buried in a child cemetery on the site of the Poggio Gramignano ancient Roman villa in Teverina, Italy. Borrini defines a "vampire" as a dead person rising from the dead as a body.

Soția fostului jucător, revenită de la ceremonie, a constatat că domiciliul său din apropiere de Florența a fost devalizat de hoți. Conform sursei citate, hoții au furat un ceas ce aparținea lui Paolo Rossi şi bani. Paolo Rossi şi familia sa au domiciliul la Poggio Cennina, pe o colină din Val d'Ambra, unde fostul mare jucător avea o afacere de agro-turism şi o fermă agricolă cu produse bio. Toți fotbaliștii italieni au purtat banderole negre la meciurile de sâmbătă, în memoria lui Paolo Rossi, decedat miercuri în vârstă de 64 de ani. Campioni mondiali din 1982 și sute de fani au adus sâmbătă, la Vicenza, un ultim omagiu lui Paolo Rossi, eroul celui de-al treilea titlu cucerit de „Nazionale", cu ocazia unor funeralii încărcate de emoţie în Italia.

Persons: Paolo Rossi Locations: Florența, Poggio, Val d'Ambra, Vicenza, Italia

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