Puppies abandoned in a taped box [in 110+ heat]
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| FLORENCE, SC (WMBF) A college student home for the summer came across a strange box in the middle of the road in the Florence, only to find two abandoned puppies. When Florence resident Dani Ball opened the taped box she found two puppies, left to die on the side of the road. Ball says instinct took over and she was determined to save the small animals. "I've been crawling around in dog cages since I [could] crawl," laughs Ball. Dani was babysitting when she got a call from a neighbor about a mysterious package sitting on the side of the... |
Letters detail Tennessee man's terrorist plans (Abdulhakim Muhammad - Arkansas recruiter shooter)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| <p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man charged with killing a soldier at a recruiting station in Arkansas says in letters to a newspaper that he had planned a larger-scale attack before his arrest.</p> <p>Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad says he was planning multiple attacks including sites in Nashville and Florence, Ky.</p> |
Black bear captured in Florence (SC)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| FLORENCE – A bear that spent much of Friday eluding law enforcement officers from a handful of agencies was finally caught Friday night after leading Florence Police on a final chase through one of Florence’s busiest intersections. A motorist spotted the juvenile bear walking across Darlington Street at about 7:30 p.m. and called police, Florence Police Maj. Carlos Raines said. Police contacted the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, but had to hold the bear at bay until wardens could make it to the scene. The bear walked through All-Star Lanes bowling alley parking lot on Cashua Drive and into... |
What does Christianity all mean? Renaissance Italy offers an idea!
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Pico della Mirandola was a thinker who lived in 15th century Florence. The notion of the world he nurtured was somewhat differing to the one we favor today. Not to speak of the ideas of the unforgiving clerics of that time. Despite this, Pico della Mirandola's ideas on the image of man are relevant. This is how educated inhabitants of Renaissance Florence interpreted God's one and only message to man: ``We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select,... |
CUE VIOLINS: 'LETTER FROM ISMAIL ROYER "I AM GOING TO SUPER-MAX"'
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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SNIPPET: "...let's get back to the woeful tale of Bro. Ismail Royer, as presented at the Umar Lee blog:" SNIPPET: "Mr. Royer, formerly associated with CAIR, is currently serving a 20 year sentence for his work on behalf of designated Terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba. Lashkar e Taiba is notable among other things for having killed 171 people in Mumbai in 2008, among many other atrocities."
Italy Arrests Seven Red Brigades Suspects
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| ROME - Police raided homes across Italy before dawn Friday and arrested seven alleged members of the radical Red Brigades suspected of the 1999 killing of a Labor Ministry consultant. Authorities said the arrests struck at the heart of the left-wing terror organization, which sprang back into action a few years ago after more than a decade of silence. The suspects, officials said, might also have had a role in the slaying of another government adviser last year. Police arrested three men in Rome and one in Florence, prosecutors said. A woman was picked up in Pisa and another near... |
Deadly shoot-out on Italian train
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| One policeman was killed and another injured during a shoot-out on an Italian passenger train involving a suspected Red Brigades member, state television reported. The trouble started when an officer asked a passenger on the Florence-bound train for his identity documents. "The passenger put a gun to the head of one of the policemen and fired," a witness said in an interview with state radio. "Then he fired several more shots [at the other officer]," the traveller said. The injured man suffered a serious lung wound. A third policeman rushed to the aid of his colleagues, firing several shots, one... |
Remains of temple of Isis found [ Florence Italy ]
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for a new water cistern for the courthouse's anti-incendiary system... Palchetti said the remains were ''comparable'' to others found over the last three centuries in the immediate area that have also been attributed to the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and... |
Italian authorities carry out raids against "Islamist radicals" across country
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| April 2, 2009 Italian authorities carry out raids against "Islamist radicals" across country SNIPPET: "Rome, 2 April (AKI) - Twenty-six foreigners suspected of links to international terrorism as well as aiding and abetting illegal immigration are being investigated by Italian police, after raids carried out on Thursday in various Italian cities. The raids were carried out in properties around the northern cities of Vicenza, Venice, Padova, Brescia, Como, Cuneo and Trento, the central city of Florence and the southern city of Caserta. The anti-terrorism and organised crime investigators in March 2007 began probing alleged Islamic fundamentalists attending the Via Dei... |
Could the Western World of today develop anything resembling a new renaissance?
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| - YES! To begin with, let's try and fully understand what Renaissance Florence actually has accomplished, apart from making tourists feel like this: "I was in a sort of ecstasy, from the idea of being in Florence, close to the great men whose tombs I had seen. Absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty ... I reached the point where one encounters celestial sensations ... Everything spoke so vividly to my soul. Ah, if I could only forget. I had palpitations of the heart, what in Berlin they call 'nerves.' Life was drained from me. I walked with the fear... |
U.S. Zapping Al-Qaeda? - Bin Laden disciple claims irradiated food on "supermax" prison menu
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| AUGUST 4--An Osama bin Laden disciple serving life in the United States's only "supermax" federal prison believes that jailers are putting his health in jeopardy by X-raying all his food trays and commissary items in search of contraband items. Convicted terrorist Mohamed Al-Owhali alleges that the Bureau of Prisons security measure unreasonably increases his "daily exposure to potentially carcinogenic radiation," which the al-Qaeda operative claims violates Eighth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The 31-year-old Al-Owhali, who is being held at the "supermax" lockup in Florence, Colorado, was convicted of conspiring to bomb a U.S. embassy in Africa, an... |
ICRSS Ordinations by Archbishop Burke in Florence (Extraordinary Form) (Catholic Caucus)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| There are now images up of the priestly and other ordinations of the Institute of Christ the King (ICRSS) that took place inside the beautiful Santi Michele e Gaetano church in Florence, Italy. The ordaining bishops were Bishop Basil Meeking, Emeritus of Christchurch, and Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. |
150 National Guard troops return home
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| One hundred fifty soldiers with the Arizona Army National Guard's 259th Security Force Company returned home Saturday. Members come from across the state, including Tucson, Casa Grande, Sierra Vista and Florence. Dozens of families were in Phoenix Saturday to welcome home their loved ones who spent a year of service in Iraq. But the Security Force Company did not return in full, something people couldn't help but think of. "Because although all of them are coming back, there's still some that we've lost, some that have gotten injured, and we're thinking of them as well in this time," Renate Garcia... |
Florence (Italy) putting squeeze on squeegee men (causing "great danger" to drivers and pedestrians)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| FLORENCE, Italy - Florence, Renaissance city of art and history, is trying to clean up its streets by cracking down on squeegee men, saying they were causing "great danger" to drivers and pedestrians alike. Mayor Leonardo Domenici issued a decree last week to force the squeegee men — people who wash drivers' windshields and demand payment — off the streets, imposing fines and detention of up to three months. The decree, which is valid through Oct. 30 but can be renewed, alleged the squeegee men were hindering traffic, inconveniencing pedestrians and abusing drivers, particularly women. While the measure was applauded... |
Calcio Storico Fiorentino: Bare Knuckle Football
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Calcio Storico Fiorentino: Bare Knuckle FootballBy: Bob | April 10th, 2007 Before football became the civilized and tidy sport that it is today it was Wild in the Streets in both England and in Italy. By some accounts, the early form of Italian football began in the 59 BC in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. The sport of giuoco del calcio fiorentino - a mix of soccer, rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and bare-knuckle fighting - was played by the aristocrats on every night between Eipiphany and Lent.According to the occasionally reliable Wikipedia: The official rules of calcio were published for... |
I Need Your Advice
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| My wife (repogirl)is planning to go Europe this summer, however the trip is not yet set in stone. She is worried about possible terrorist attacks while she is over there. I was looking some advice, perhaps by European freepers as well, about how dangerous Europe is right now. She is going on a "tourist" tour, which means no out of the way places. Any advice would be helpful. As this is a serious matter, I am only looking for constructive advice. Please do not post any sarcastic or stupid remarks. Thank you in advance. |
St. Mark of Ephesus and the False Union of Florence
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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St. Mark of Ephesus and the False Union of Florence Part III of His Life by Archimandrite Amvrossy Pogodin VI. THE CONCLUSION OF THE UNION TO THE OTHER afflictions which the Orthodox delegation suffered in Florence was added the death of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The Patriarch was found dead in his room. On the table lay (supposedly) his testament, Extrema Sententia, consisting in all of some lines in which he declared that he accepted everything that the Church of Rome confesses. And then: "In like manner I acknowledge the Holy Father of Fathers, the Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of...
'Mona Lisa' died in 1542, was buried in convent
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| An expert on the "Mona Lisa" says he has ascertained with certainty that the symbol of feminine mystique died on July 15, 1542, and was buried at the convent in central Florence where she spent her final days. Giuseppe Pallanti found a death notice in the archives of a church in Florence that referred to "the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, deceased July 15, 1542, and buried at Sant'Orsola," the Italian press reported Friday. Born Lisa Gherardini in May 1479, she is thought to have been the second wife of Del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant, with whom she had... |
Mona Lisa Grave Found, Claims Scholar
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| The woman behind Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting may be buried near a now derelict building in the heart of Florence, according to archival documents. The exact location of Mona Lisa's burial site, the convent of Sant'Orsola, was just a about 900 feet away from the house of the artist's father, according to the historian, Giuseppe Pallanti. "The mystery of Mona Lisa's identity is over. My study shows that she did exist indeed," Pallanti told Florence's daily La Nazione. he author of two books on the Mona Lisa, Pallanti has identified her as Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the... |
Hunt for Da Vinci painting will resume[Missing "Battle of Anghiari"]
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| A real-life Da Vinci mystery, complete with tantalizing clues and sharp art sleuths, may soon be solved, as researchers resume the search for a lost Leonardo masterpiece believed to be hidden within a wall in a Florence palace. Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli and officials in the Tuscan city announced this week they had given approval for renewed exploration in the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of power for various Florence rulers, including the Medici family in the 16th century. There, some researchers believe, a cavity in a wall may have preserved Leonardo's unfinished painted mural of the "Battle of Anghiari" for... |
Florence, Italy - A Sunday in the name of Oriana.
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Hallo FRiends. I want to know you that next Sunday (15th October 2006) in Florence will be the Public Commemoration for the Italian Writer Oriana Fallaci. It will take place in a great and important room of the "Old Palace" in the center of the City. It has been organized by the Italian Movie-Director Franco Zeffirelli and the Italian Journalist Enrico Mentana. Of course I will come. And of course I will report for you. A lot of people miss Oriana. God bless you all. Claudia |
Venice And Florence To Tax Visitors
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Venice and Florence to tax visitors By Malcolm Moore in Rome (Filed: 04/10/2006) Visitors to Venice and Florence will be taxed up to five euros (£3.40) each a day from next year. Every day almost as many people visit Venice as live there. The new tax is the only way to balance the books, says it mayor The cities, which attract 35 million tourists every year, have been given permission by the government to raise the tax to make up for sweeping cuts to their central funding. Massimo Cacciari, the mayor of Venice, said the new tax was the only... |
Terror Inmates' Mail Still Goes Unread
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| WASHINGTON — Federal prison officials aren't reading all mail sent and received by convicted terrorists and other high-risk inmates, a security gap that could prove deadly, a Justice Department review concluded Tuesday. Moreover, prison investigators read less inmate mail now than a year ago at seven of 10 prisons surveyed by the Justice Department's inspector general. "Consequently, the threat remains that terrorist and other high-risk inmates can use mail and verbal communications to conduct terrorist or criminal activities while incarcerated," concluded the inspector general's report of U.S. Bureau of Prisons facilities. The mail investigation was spurred, in part, after three... |
A Street for Oriana! HELP US!
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Hallo everybody! I write today in the name of some Italian web site (www.thankyouoriana.org and www.iostoconoriana.it). As you know, last week the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci passed away. You know for sure how much I loved and I still love her. Well, some people in Florence want to dedicate to her a Street or a Square. But the Major of the city (a commie, by the way) said no. I ask you to send him an e-mail asking to intitolate a Street with the name of Oriana Fallaci. We have already done it and we're asking to everybody to join... |
Italians in ADULT stem-cell advances
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 10:00:21 PM
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| Adult kidney, liver cells can repair organs, studies say (ANSA) - Florence, September 6 - Two teams of Italian scientists have made important advances in stem-cell research that could pave the way for new treatments for kidney and liver disease. What is more, the researchers say the cells appear able to turn into an array of other body cells. Importantly, amid controversy over the use of embryos for stem-cell research, both discoveries were made in adults. A Florence team led by top immunologist Sergio Romagnani has identified kidney stem cells that have proved capable of helping damaged kidneys repair themselves.... |
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