FILM: Venice Film Festival 2022 – The VENEZIA 79 Jury, chaired by Julianne Moore, presented the Golden Lion award for Best Film to Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
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Storms in Italy caused massive disruption on Thursday. Tornadoes battered Civitavecchia and the Verona-side of Lake Garda and torrential rain causing flooding and mudslides in the province of Como.
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The Most Serene Republic of San Marino, an independent state within Italy, was founded on 3rd September, 301AD.
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The 79th Venice Film Festival kicks off this evening when French screen diva Catherine Deneuve receives a career Golden Lion award. White Noise is the opening film.
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A Sicilian playground bans mobile phones. It has become the first public space in Italy to ban children and adults from using their smartphones.
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Tiziano Vecellio, the artist better known as Titian, died in Venice on August 27th, 1576. Regarded as the greatest painter of 16th century Venice, Titian is believed to have succumbed to the plague.
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Justice Minister Marta Cartabia is sending in inspectors to see whether prompt and appropriate action had been taken in the case of a woman beaten to death in Bologna on Wednesday.
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Traditionally, 24-25th August is the date of the deadly Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79AD. One of the worst in European history, it buried the ancient cities of Pompeii, Oplontis and Stabiae and Herculaneum.
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Thought to be the inspiration for Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Carlo Gambino was born on 24th August 1902 in Palermo, Sicily. He became one of the most powerful Mafia Dons in this history of organised crime.
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Another luxury yacht sinks off the Italian coast. On August 20th, MY SAGA, sank in the Gulf of Squillace, off the Calabrian coast whilst under tow.
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