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My uncle in Italy during WWII

Sixty-five years ago this week my Uncle Bill had a terrific headache. While touring through the Italian countryside near Santa Maria Infante, a piece of metal that would have killed him hit his helmet instead. I am glad for that. I came across some Life magazine pictures being hosted by Google, and I asked him [...]

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The Italian campaign in WWII

If history is written by self-flattering victors, then ambiguous and unfortunate battles are in danger of being forgotten altogether. We Americans never tire of the story of D-Day, of the great carnage on the beaches of Normandy that eventually put Allied troops across the Rhine and into the heart of Germany. But what do we [...]

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La bella scienza

Galileo gives posterity the finger, and other revelations from an Italian science museum.

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