Febbraio 2, 2014 | 0 Comments
Parliamo di “Saving Mr Banks”, un film non-animato della Disney in uscita in Italia a febbraio.
Not everyone knows that before Julie Andrews made her into a singing heroine with tunes like “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “Feed the...
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Dicembre 30, 2013 | 0 Comments
Parliamo questo mese del gioco di ruolo più famoso al mondo che quest’anno compie 40 anni: Dungeons & Dragons Dungeons & Dragons (D&D in short) is a game in which each player takes on the...
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Dicembre 1, 2013 | 0 Comments
The Big Bang Theory is at the moment the most-watched TV Show in the U.S. and the most popular comedy in the entire world. The show centers around a group of 4 nerdy physicists (Sheldon,...
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Ottobre 31, 2013 | 0 Comments
Novembre è il mese di Thanksgiving negli Stati Uniti e quindi parliamo di una delle ricette più famose associate ad esso: il turkey gravy.
The turkey gravy is a sauce that generally gets served together with...
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Ottobre 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
Despite its name the idea to create the dictionary wasn’t born at Oxford but in London and, more precisely, within the Philological Society of London. The members of the society decided, in 1857, that the...
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Settembre 3, 2013 | 0 Comments
The term Oxbridge to indicate Oxford and Cambridge together derives from two people that never actually graduated from either of them. The first use was reported in a novel called Pendennis by William Thackeray who...
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Luglio 2, 2013 | 0 Comments
Parliamo questo mese dell’evento più atteso dell’estate: la nascita del figlio di William e Kate.
What will happen in the middle of July when UK will have the new heir to their centuries-old monarchy? This is...
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Maggio 31, 2013 | 0 Comments
Parliamo questo mese di uno dei festival musicali più importanti del mondo: Il festival di Glastonbury che si svolgerà quest’anno dal 26 al 30 giugno a Pilton, in Inghilterra.
In describing this festival, The Daily...
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Maggio 1, 2013 | 0 Comments
Adele’s full name is Adele Laurie Blue Ad-kins and she was born in Tottenham a district in North London from a mother that was just 18 years old. Her father abandoned the two women when...
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Aprile 2, 2013 | 0 Comments
Have you ever asked yourselves why we celebrate April Fools’ Day exactly on April 1? The answer is not straight-forward. There are many versions of the origins of this tradition. We know that a similar...
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