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- -Awesome Library in Italian (La Libreria Impressionante)
Provides the entire Awesome Library in Italian. La libreria impressionante organizza il Web con 28.000 risorse con attenzione riviste, compreso i 5 per cento principali nella formazione. 8-05
- Pronunciation of Italian (fonetiks.org)
Provides the pronunciation of words, as well as a dictionary. Click on the dialect, sound, or language of interest and a box will open. On some browsers, you will hear the sound by just moving your mouse over the word. For other browsers, each sound will need to load before the program will begin and each sound must be approved (by clicking) before it will download. Watch for the "done" message at the bottom of the small box that opens to download the sounds. 4-01.
- Spelling Checker for English, Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese (SpellOnline.com)
Checks for proper spelling and suggests correct spelling. 7-02
- -See and Hear Web Pages in English, Italian, or Other Languages (Awesome Library)
Awesome Talkster allows you to hear Web pages. You can, for example, set the voice to Italian and start with www.awesomelibrary.org/italiano.html to see and hear the Web in Italian. By adding a voice to Web pages, children and teens can learn to pronounce words as they read them. Awesome Talkster includes an animated character, providing synchronized highlighting so that children can follow along even more easily. This multi-sensory approach is a powerful method for improving reading skills. Online books for children and teens to practice their reading skills are available in the Awesome Library. 1-03
- Italian Flash Cards (StudyStack.com)
Provides flash cards to help the language. 10-04
- Italian Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org)
Provides a small encyclopedia. 10-04
- -03-04-05 Italian Journalist on Way to Freedom Wounded (BBC News)
"Italy has closely followed the fate of Giuliana Sgrena since her capture a month ago." "Journalists at her newspaper, Il Manifesto, burst into cheers as the news that she was set free came through." "Then came the news that US troops had shot at Ms Sgrena's car, killing an Italian special agent. 'Someone must take the responsibility,' said Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi." 03-05
- -04-14-05 Italian Journalist: U.S. Lied (CBS News)
U.S. troops fired at a car carrying an Italian journalist who had been captured and was on the way to the airport after being rescued. Her rescuer was killed in the assault.
"...the Army issued this statement on the night of the shooting: 'Vehicle traveling at high speed refused to stop at a check point.' [The soldiers] 'attempted to warn the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing warning shots…when the driver didn’t stop the soldiers shot into the engine block which stopped the vehicle.' ”
" 'I think that is a lie,' says Sgrena [the Italian journalist]."
"Sgrena says that as the car rounded a turn, driving no faster than 30 miles an hour, it was hit by gunfire and at the same time, a bright light."
"60 Minutes Wednesday wanted to better understand what happens in these shootings, so it turned to a Marine, former Capt. Nathaniel Fick, who has a lot of experience with checkpoints in Iraq." "He told [60 Minutes reporter] Pelley he learned the hard way that standard checkpoint tactics don’t work." " 'The hand and arm signals are hard to see, they’re hard to interpret. The warning shots are difficult to see, almost impossible to see in daylight,' says Fick. 'Almost impossible to hear in a speeding car at a long distance. Usually, the last resort for us was attempting to fire into the engine block.' "
"Fick told 60 Minutes Wednesday that after struggling with the Pentagon’s checkpoint procedures, he improvised; he stole an Iraqi stop sign."
" 'And at every checkpoint we set up after that, we put the stop sign down the road near the wire, and it was hugely successful,' says Fick. '[It] worked very well.' "
"Throughout Sgrena’s kidnapping, [Italian Prime Minister] Berlusconi refused to consider pulling out [of Iraq]. But after the American shooting, the Italian government says it’s looking at a schedule for doing just that." 4-05
- -06-30-05 Italians Deny Working With CIA on Abductions (International Herald Tribune)
"Facing growing embarrassment and louder questions, the Italian government broke a week of silence on Thursday and denied that it played any role in kidnapping a terror suspect from Milan and flying him to Egypt in 2003." 6-05
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- -Language Translator for Web Pages (Systransoft)
Translates your Web page into another language, including German, French, Italian and Spanish. Limit of 10K in size of file. 9-05. educacion
- Western European Languages Literature Online (ALA and University of Virginia - Campbell)
Provides literature by language. Includes Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Fnnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse and Modern Icelandic, Portuguese, Provençal, Spanish, and Swedish literature. Part of the Western European Specialists Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries. 2-00
- Dogs - Toys Group (Planet-Pets.com)
Provides descriptions and pictures of the Affenpinscher, Brussels, Griffon, Chihuahua, English Toy Spaniel, Italian Greyhound, Japanese Chin, Maltese, Toy Manchester, Miniature Pinscher, Papillon, Pekingese, Pomeranian, Poodle, Pug, Shih Tzu, and Silky Terrier. Visitors may misspell words as Chiwawa, Peckinese or Pekinese, Sure Zu, or Pincher. 06-07
- Editor for Text Files (ASCII) (Textpad.com)
Edits files that are in simple text format. Dictionaries included in English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. 9-00
- Fonts - How to Include Accent Marks (Everything2.com)
Provides instructions for adding accent marks using HTML code. 03-06
- Botticelli, Sandro (Artchive.com)
Provides a biography of the Renaissance Italian painter, as well as copies of some of his more famous works. 3-01
- Translator (Alta Vista)
Provides word translations between English and eight other languages, without the use of language fonts. Included are French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. educacion 4-01
- Code for Translating a Web Page (Alta Vista)
Provides word translations between English and four other languages, without the use of language fonts. Included are French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. educacion 4-01
- Hunger - Lessons on Ending World Hunger (Future Harvest)
Provides lesson plans by grade level in Italian to help students understand what is needed to help end world hunger. 10-01
- Language Translators (SearchEnginez.com)
Provides translations between English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. 7-02
- -Online Translator (WorldLingo.com)
Provides online translations between English, Greek, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Japanese for up to 150 words. 04-08
- Multilingual Text-to-Speech Engines (Microsoft)
Provides free programs that convert online text to speech in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and British English. The free voice engines vary in their quality. Some are not very good. For instance, the Korean voice does not seem to recognize the Korean fonts. The Spanish voice, however, reads text written in Spanish in an understandable way. Requires software to connect the voice programs with a browser. Such a program is available for free here. 9-02
- Pope John Paul II Biography (CBC - Wiese)
"To some, John Paul is a revolutionary. He takes strong stands on human rights, criticizes dictators, seeks reconciliation with the Jewish world, opens dialogue with other faiths, and tries, mostly in vain, to bring unity among Christians of the world. Many argue his support for the Solidarity movement in his native Poland helped bring down communism in Europe. He has also turned his eye toward the growing gap between the rich and poor, criticizing the excesses of capitalism and the empty materialism of the West."
"To his detractors, he is a reactionary trying to turn back the clock on modern reality. Some harshly criticize his ultra-conservative theology, which prohibits female ordination and prohibits birth control and abortion. He brands the notion of over-population a myth and says the use of condoms as a precaution against AIDS only encourages the behaviour that leads to the spread of the disease."
"John Paul II is known worldwide as The Pilgrim Pope. Since elected Pope in 1978, he has travelled to more places in the world and has spoken to more people than any other pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic Church."
"He became the first non-Italian pope since the 15th century and his charisma – people who meet him describe it as a 'luminescence' – draws adoring crowds wherever he goes." 12-02
- 06-03-04 President Bush Meets With Pope (Bloomberg.com)
"This is Bush's third visit with the pope as he tries to bolster support among U.S. Catholics before the November elections. Bush used the meeting to defend the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq, saying that there are times when war is necessary to achieve peace, an administration official said. Bush's arrival in Italy triggered anti-war protests and 10,000 Italian police and soldiers stood guard against terrorist attacks."
"The pontiff, 84, who was too frail to get up to greet the president, in January called the war in Iraq a 'defeat for humanity.' He had urged the U.S. to seek a United Nations endorsement for any military action." 6-04
- -03-06-05 Different Stories on U.S. Attack on Journalist (Guardian Unlimited)
"Sgrena, 56, a journalist for the Communist newspaper Il Manifesto, was hit in the shoulder when US soldiers opened fire on the car she was travelling in as it approached a checkpoint less than a mile from Baghdad airport. The Italian secret service officer who had negotiated her release was killed as he shielded her from the gunfire. Two of his colleagues were also hurt."
"The US Army claimed the Italians' vehicle had been seen as a threat because it was travelling at speed and failed to stop at the checkpoint despite warning shots being fired by the soldiers. A State Department official in Washington said the Italians had failed to inform the military of Sgrena's release."
"Italian reconstruction of the incident is significantly different. Sgrena told colleagues the vehicle was not travelling fast and had already passed several checkpoints on its way to the airport. The Americans shone a flashlight at the car and then fired between 300 and 400 bullets at if from an armoured vehicle. Rather than calling immediately for assistance for the wounded Italians, the soldiers' first move was to confiscate their weapons and mobile phones and they were prevented from resuming contact with Rome for more than an hour." 03-05
- Sgrena, Giuliana (BBC News)
"Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena never thought she would be taken hostage telling the story of the people she deeply cared for."
A toughened war correspondent, her reports filter the impact of conflict through the lives of ordinary people - precisely what she was doing in Baghdad on 4 February when she was seized by gunmen." 03-05
- -03-06-05 Allegation: U.S. Attack on Journalist "No Accident" (BBC News)
"Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has said she cannot accept US troops accidentally fired on her car after her kidnappers freed her in Baghdad."
"An Italian secret service agent, Nicola Calipari, who negotiated Ms Sgrena's release, died as he shielded Ms Sgrena from the shots." 03-05
- -04-09-05 Pope John Paul II's Legacy (MSNBC News)
"Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, a close confidant of John Paul and a possible successor, presided at the Mass and referred to him as our 'late beloved pope' in a homily that traced the pontiff’s life from his days as a factory worker in Nazi-occupied Poland to his final days as the head of the world’s 1 billion Catholics."
" 'Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality — our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude,' Ratzinger said in heavily accented Italian." 4-05
- -06-25-05 CIA Charged With Criminal Abductions (Observer International News)
"The abduction is alleged to be part of America's 'rendition programme', in which terrorist suspects are forcibly removed to their home countries or to a third nation, where they can be interrogated without legal protection."
"Earlier last week, an Italian judge issued arrest warrants for 13 people said to be CIA operatives involved in Omar's abduction. Another six people - all Americans - are also under investigation. It is the first time a foreign government has filed criminal charges against US citizens involved in counter-terrorism work abroad."
"Other nations have also begun to oppose Washington's forcible removal of terror suspects. Canada is holding hearings into the deportation of a Canadian to Syria for questioning about alleged ties to al-Qaeda. German prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the suspected kidnapping of a German man who was flown to Afghanistan. In Stockholm, a parliamentary investigator has already concluded that CIA agents violated Swedish law by subjecting two Egyptian nationals to 'degrading and inhuman treatment' during a rendition in 2001." 6-05
- -06-26-05 CIA Charged With Criminal Abductions (International Herald Tribune)
"The extraordinary decision by an Italian judge to order the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect here dramatizes a growing rift between American counterterrorism officials and their counterparts in Europe."
Milan's deputy chief prosecutor said "I feel the international community must struggle against terrorism and international terrorist groups in accordance with international laws and the rights of the defendant." "Otherwise, we are giving victory to the terrorists."
"Besides their objections to the American rendition policy, European counterterrorism officials also partly blame a lack of access to terrorism suspects and information held by the United States for their failure to convict a number of their own high-profile terrorism suspects."
" 'The American system is of little use to us,' a senior Italian counterterrorism investigator said. 'It's a one-way street. We give them what we have, but we are given no useful information that can help us prosecute people.' " 6-05
- -07-25-05 Italy Asks Interpol to Help Find Wanted CIA Agents (CBS News)
"Italian prosecutors want to extradite 13 purported CIA officials accused of kidnapping a radical Muslim cleric and transporting him to Egypt where he reportedly was tortured, and they've asked Interpol to help track down the Americans, a court official said Tuesday." 7-05
- -10-31-05 Samuel Alito, Bush Nominee for Supreme Court (BBC News)
Provides a profile. "The man President Bush has chosen to be a US Supreme Court justice, Judge Samuel Alito, is seen as a staunch conservative."
"Judge Alito, a 55-year-old Roman Catholic of Italian descent, was appointed to the federal appeals courts in 1990 by the first President George Bush."
"The following year he voted to uphold all restrictions on abortion in Pennsylvania law, requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion." 10-05
- ABC: Bush Administration Approves Water Boarding Torture (ABC News)
"CIA Director Porter Goss maintained this week that the CIA does not employ methods of torture. In doing so, he opened a new debate over exactly what constitutes torture — especially when it comes to the harshest of the CIA's six secret interrogation techniques, known as 'water boarding.' "
"The water board technique dates back to the 1500s during the Italian Inquisition. A prisoner, who is bound and gagged, has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown."
"Current and former CIA officers tell ABC News that they were trained to handcuff the prisoner and cover his face with cellophane to enhance the distress. According to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., himself a torture victim during the Vietnam War, the water board technique is a 'very exquisite torture' that should be outlawed."
" 'Torture is defined under the federal criminal code as the intentional infliction of severe mental pain or suffering,' said John Sifton, an attorney and researcher with the organization Human Rights Watch. 'That would include water boarding.' "
"The CIA maintains its interrogation techniques are in legal guidance with the Justice Department. And current and former CIA officers tell ABC News there is a presidential finding, signed in 2002, by President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and then Attorney General John Ashcroft approving the techniques, including water boarding." 11-05
- -03-30-06 Afghan Christian Saved by the Pope (TimesOnline.co.uk)
"The Afghan apostate threatened with execution finally found sanctuary yesterday when the Italian Government granted him fast-track asylum on the ground of 'religious persecution'." 03-06
- Columbus, Christopher (EnchantedLearning.com)
"Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to trade for spices). He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504."
05-06
- Da Vinci, Leonardo (Wikipedia.org)
"Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, futurist and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal genius, a man infinitely curious and infinitely inventive. He is also considered one of the greatest painters who ever lived." 05-06
- -03-03-07 Italy Wants the U.S. to Assume Responsibility for Shooting Death (ABC News)
"Italy has raised the stakes in a spat with the United States over the killing by a U.S. soldier of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, saying Washington must set things right by assuming responsibility for the death." 03-07
- -04-16-07 U.S. Soldier to Be Tried in Italy for Murder (BBC News)
"A US soldier is due to be tried in a Rome court with the murder of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq in March 2005."
"The agent, Nicola Calipari, was shot dead on his way to Baghdad airport."
"He was escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist who had just been freed by kidnappers." 04-07
- Climate Change Puts Mediterranian Sea at Risk (Time.com)
"Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday. Warmer waters and increased salinity could doom many of the sea's plant and animal species and ravage the fishing industry, warned participants at a two-day climate change conference that brought together some 2,000 scientists and officials in Rome." 09-07
- 07-31-08 The LZR Suit and the Gold (Newsweek.com)
"Speedo's LZR Racer swimsuit is causing the biggest splash in and out of the pool. The rubbery full-body corset would look more at home in a Batman movie than on the pool deck. But since it was introduced in February, swimmers wearing it have set a stunning 38 world records. Rivals' suits have set just three world records during that time, which has them crying foul (while scrambling to come up with their own sci-fi suits). The coach of the Italian team calls the LZR Racer 'technological doping.' The second largest U.S. swimwear maker, TYR, filed a federal lawsuit in California, alleging anticompetitive practices, against Speedo's parent company, the coach of the U.S. swim team and even a TYR endorser, Olympic medalist Erik Vendt, who switched to the Speedo. A Japanese swimmer under contract to Mizuno just set a world record in a LZR (pronounced laser), which he'll wear in Beijing." 07-08
- -01-23-09 Why Europe Needs Russian Oil (Time.com)
"Moscow sent a chilly reminder, over the New Year, of the urgency behind Europe's quest to wean itself off a dependence on Russian natural gas. Millions of Germans, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Moldovans and Italians were left without heat for a week in sub-zero temperatures, as a result of a commercial dispute between Russia and Ukraine — Moscow had turned off the gas supply piped across the vast former Soviet Republic, hoping to turn up the heat on the Western-aligned government in Kiev by turning off the heat in Europe. Restarting the flow required urgent diplomatic shuttling by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders. But as much as the episode highlighted the problem of depending on energy supplies from an increasingly churlish Russia, finding alternative supply sources will be far from simple." 01-09
- -04-30-09 Chrysler Bankruptcy (CBS News)
"Chrysler will file for bankruptcy after talks with a small group of creditors crumbled just a day before a government deadline for the automaker to come up with a restructuring plan, President Barack Obama said Thursday."
"The Obama administration said it had long hoped to stave off bankruptcy for the nation's third largest automaker, but it became clear that a holdout group wouldn't budge on proposals to reduce Chrysler's $6.9 billion in secured debt. Clearing those debts was a needed step for Chrysler to restructure by the Thursday deadline."
"Chrysler will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, giving Chrysler time to galvanize a partnership with the Italian car maker Fiat Group SpA. The government, which has already poured $4 billion in loans into Chrysler, would provide up to $8 billion more to carry the company through bankruptcy, said senior administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The government will also help appoint a new board of directors." 04-09
- -011-04-09 Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions (New York Times)
"In a landmark ruling on Wednesday, an Italian judge convicted a C.I.A. station chief and 22 other Americans accused of being C.I.A. agents of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan."
"An enormous symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, the case was the first ever to contest the United States practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, presumably one more open to coercive interrogation techniques. The case was widely seen as an implicit indictment of the measures the Bush administration relied on to fight terrorism." 11-09
- Star Afterglow Viewed at the Edge of the Universe (ScienceDaily.com)
"An Italian team of astronomers has observed the afterglow of a Gamma-Ray Burst that is the farthest known ever. With a measured redshift of 6.3, the light from this very remote astronomical source has taken 12,700 million years to reach us. It is thus seen when the Universe was less than 900 million years old, or less than 7 percent its present age." 12-09
- -02-05-07 Village Provides a Medical Mystery (ABC News)
"In the foothills of the Italian Alps is a tiny village that may hold a clue to a medical mystery that has challenged researchers for centuries. Despite indulging in an artery-clogging diet that could make even an Italian grandmother cringe, the 400 or so residents of tiny Stoccareddo, Italy, have virtually no heart disease or diabetes, and often live into their 90s." 02-07
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