Venice News
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A team of Italian scientists recently suggested Venice could gain relief from frequent flooding and gradual sinking, messes worsened by rising seas, through a project centered on pumping seawater into a circle of 12 aquifers under the canal-crossed city.
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An elderly Italian couple turned to the law to evict their 41-year-old son who refused to leave their home. The parents had enough of cooking his meals and washing his clothes, they told journalists.
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The city of Venice hopes to get at least 50 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by the year 2011. It plans to use algae to generate electricity.
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Archaeologists have exhumed the body of a 16th Century woman near Venice. The woman was found to have a brick between her jaws.
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Mayor of Venice is preparing a law measure to ban throwing rice at newly weds in order to fight against pigeons soiling at its famous squares and damaging the marble statues and buildings.
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Venice - Brad Pitt and Woody Allen shared the limelight at the Venice Film Festival and talked about what their movies showing at the event mean to them. Pitt, 43, always thronged by fans at the Lido, stars in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Cowar
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Venice - The 64th Venice Film Festival formally opened Tuesday to the flashing of cameras, applause of thousands of fans, and a touch of star glamour in the form of Vanessa Redgrave, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
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How do you make the oldest known copy of Homer's Iliad available to scholars without subjecting it to wear and tear and the dangers of light, heat, and humidity? With a 39-megapixel digital camera and a 3-D laser scanner on a robot arm. And lots of care.
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Venice wants to keep Saint Mark's Square clean and tidy, no fast foods or drinking outside.
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Italian lagoon city with all its charm
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Venice Headlines
Could rescuing Italy's economy sink Venice?
Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller will represent Britain at the 2013 Venice Biennale, the British Council announces.
The BBC's Chris Morris reports from Venice on how the economic reforms of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti are affecting the iconic Italian location.
 Canadian director Deepa Mehta hopes to debut her long-anticipated adaptation of Midnight's Children at the Toronto or Venice film festivals later this year.
Researchers describe a completely new way to pack information into radio, TV, and wi-fi signals - shown off at a public experiment in Venice.
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Venetians and tourists cross an elevated walkway over flood waters in St. Mark's Square in frequently flooded Venice, Italy.
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Venice Blogs
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A couple of weeks ago I blogged about actress-turned-painter Laurel Holloman and her first ever solo art show that will...
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As many of you are aware, I have succeeded in getting my transfer to return to my hometown. When the new academic year...
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About Gregory Earls When Gregory Earls isn’t eating at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles, he pays the bills...
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Ever since I started teaching Malaysian University English Test (MUET) for Pre University program students, I have lost...
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The crisis that started in 2008 is a banking crisis and it is still going strong. Banks all over the world...
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