Per vedere la bellezza dell’arte e della cultura orientale, il medium non deve necessariamente essere l’architettura, la pittura o la musica. Ecco a voi un ottimo esempio di arte digitale turca.

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As a (Swedish) colleague just told me “This is an expensive country, salaries are low, Alcohol costs more than gold (yet we drink a lot)” so I ask, why are people so happy around here? is Sweden the living proof that money doesnt make you happy?

Answer by Fabrizio Bianchi:

Ravioli is an Italian kind of filled pasta, typical of the region surrounding Genoa, where it is originally called Agnolotto. Its history spans from the Medieval times and it is named even in the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, published in Italy in 1351-1353. The name Raviolo is interesting as it could be the name of a family originally from Gavi, in Piedmont, that was the last town that merchants and traders met before getting finally to Genoa. There the family offered a first version of the dish that later would have taken their name, but that, as I said, in Genoa keeps being called in another way as most probably the meat originally used is lamb meat (agnello in Italian).

Answer by Fabrizio Bianchi:

I think the answers to the “what for?” and “why now?” bits of the question are best answered by this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_and_allegations_involving_Silvio_Berlusconi

As you can see, conspirators who would have wanted to invest in the demise of Berlusconi are anyway spoilt for choice, and indeed many of those have been brought on during the period in which he was premier, when, as Erik said, he was legally immune for prosecution.

Strategy is now to delay final condemn (there are ways, indeed) and to get elected in 2013. The day after the sentence he already organized a press conference to talk bad against magistrates, Monti and, of course, to shoot a couple of jokes.

Answer by Fabrizio Bianchi:

Although the population of Rome reached a peak of about one million people under Augustus, the surface defended by walls (therefore the one within which you would want to move freely) had its peak with Aurelianus with 14 square km (5.4 square miles for the Imperialists among you). Such a small area never helped create the demand for any kind of public transportation in the urban area.
Moving out of the walls was mostly something you would do for trade or as part of an organized travel, for which expert escorts existed.

Answer by Fabrizio Bianchi:

I can’t seem to find any reliable sources on such topic.
Nonetheless, it would be very strange to offer such show in an amphitheater since it would be very difficult to follow the action since even the Imperial seating could be at a distance of more than 10 m from the arena.
For those who would have wanted to satisfy such prudings it would have been easier to explore the possibilities of the varied world of Roman prostitution were such entertainment would have been easily possible and legal since there is no hint of punishment for zoophilia in the Roman Law.