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 We enjoyed this travelogue on the quality control team that vet restauranteurs and ensure that their menu is in keeping with the standards...

Courtesy of Strange Company , we are directed to the curious lay brotherhood charged with allievating the spirits of those facing immi...

An avid mountaineer, hence his motto “Verso l’alto”—toward the top—and social justice activist and leading member of several charitab...

Via Nag on the Lake —and reminiscent of the magical realism of the painter Rob Gonsalves though a bit over-articulated by AI—we enjoyed ...

Traditionally made for bottling Chianti, the style of glass vessel from Tuscany with a rounded body and wrapped tightly in a straw baske...

A recently excavated domus of an elite family in Pompeii ( previously )—so named above for a fresco in one room depicting a part of the m...

A series of AI-generated memes featuring a cast of surrealist chimeric characters, usually a visual portmanteau of animals with vehicles or ...

The cinephiles of the Flop House with a special guest deliver a very thoroughgoing treatment of the Italian murder-mystery film genre calle...

isolated dictatorship : Canadian MP urges citizens to avoid travel south of the border   sykkelinfrastruktur : an amazing bike tunnel in Be...

👀 : a “half-swipe” feature that allows recipients to screen messages with them being marked as read is exacerbating dating anxiety amongst ...

Courtesy of our faithful chronicler , we learn that the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte eluded his guards and escaped aboard a Sylphe-class brig...

Via Messy Nessy Chic (not attributing the source as it’s Faebook—sorry, no thanks) we are turned toward the “wonderous pool,” an ancien...

Deutsche Welle has a pair of interesting profiles of the cities—three actually—that will serve as the 2025 European Cultural Capitals . ...

In a speech given on this day in 1925 in the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei deputat, the lower house of the bicameral Italian parliament),...

year of the snek : designer Japanese greeting cards for 2025—see previously from Spoon & Tamago world record for tiny window inchoatenes...

Language Log featured recently a duo of Christmas confections from Italy and Germany and while the latter in the Stollen might have a mor...

Created by dint of a cartographical error in redrawing the border between the Papal States and the Republic of Florence (heavily in...

Having visited the efforts of scholars to survey the domains of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy beforehand, we enjoyed coming back to th...

this is all i’m asking for : Mariah Carey’s ubiquitous Christmas song in the style of classical composers   anti-slapp legislation : lawma...

Fêted on this day, following the sainted Milanese archbishop’s death in 1538, Carlo Borromeo, is celebrated for his reforms and the introd...