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SteO153 t1_jabowi4 wrote
Reply to comment by iTwango in TIL the deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. The poet Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians. by ALasagnaForOne
Money. They even digged catacombs and created saints or multiplied body parts. They could attract a lot of pilgrims and make money out of it.
SteO153 t1_jabbnkz wrote
Reply to TIL the deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. The poet Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians. by ALasagnaForOne
The (supposed) grill used to bbq him is in a church in Rome. You can visit it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Lorenzo_in_Lucina?wprov=sfla1
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urna_settecentesca_con_la_graticola_di_san_lorenzo_02.JPG
SteO153 t1_ja1y7l9 wrote
Reply to comment by Darryl_Lict in Amazon has a donkey meat problem by WildVelociraptor
>I'm under the impression that horse meat is relatively common in Europe
It is regional, but yes, it is common. Don't serve horse meat to a British, but in Iceland I found it served at a hotel buffet dinner.
SteO153 t1_ja01x65 wrote
Reply to comment by Southwestbesttest in Amazon has a donkey meat problem by WildVelociraptor
In some regions of Italy donkey meat is traditional. When in Verona I had nice pasta with donkey ragu. As usual, it is the classic "my culture is better than your culture, stop eating donkey meat".
SteO153 t1_j889m8p wrote
Reply to comment by Radical_Unicorn in [OC] What song did the Sailor Moon dub in each country use for its opening theme? by konaya
Mediaset/Berlusconi. Berlusconi's TVs had a massive role in importing and popularise anime in Italy (and other European countries, like in Spain), and the company responsible for the recording of the songs was owned by Berlusconi as well. So she simply worked for a single company that distributed hundreds of animated series. Mediaset even produced several albums with the theme songs from animated series https://i.discogs.com/LyMJAWm9_zjQl_o97lOogZv2NG1CsMLN5nItCM6VHuY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:350/w:350/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1NTY1/NzktMTM5NjQ2MTQ1/NC03OTAyLmpwZWc.jpeg
SteO153 t1_j884xh8 wrote
Reply to comment by katwoodruff in [OC] What song did the Sailor Moon dub in each country use for its opening theme? by konaya
I had to Google to watch them https://youtu.be/DrMyRBdaRU8
And they never represented Germany at the ESC? They would have been an easy win for Germany.
SteO153 t1_j884nwq wrote
Reply to comment by DJKaito in [OC] What song did the Sailor Moon dub in each country use for its opening theme? by konaya
Cristina D'Avena goes beyond just anime. What have Batman, the Smurfs, and One Piece in common? The theme song in Italian by Cristina D'Avena :-D
She also played the role of Licia/Yaeko in the live action of Love Me, My Knight/Rock ’n’ Roll Kids :-)
SteO153 t1_j856329 wrote
Reply to [OC] What song did the Sailor Moon dub in each country use for its opening theme? by konaya
Cristina D'Avena has recorded almost 400 theme songs of animated series in Italy.
SteO153 OP t1_j5oh7co wrote
Reply to comment by StillBurningInside in Swiss hacker from Lucerne hacks US no-fly list out of boredom by SteO153
Is the list public? Because that something can be accessed by many people doesn't mean that it can be accessed by everyone, nor that the information can be made public, or that there is no access control over it. It is the difference between public information and internal information.
SteO153 t1_j5og0og wrote
Reply to comment by DaveOJ12 in TIL that the first time the Albanian language was mentioned in History was a witness of a crime reporting he had heard someone yelling in Albanian. by alexmikli
>It makes me wonder about the first time other languages were documented.
The oldest document in Italian (or better in vernacular, because Italian didn't exist at that time) is about the ownership of some lands by a monastery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placiti_Cassinesi?wprov=sfla1
SteO153 t1_j5kf96v wrote
Reply to TIL the first known résumé was written by Leonardo da Vinci, when applying to be a military engineer for the Duke of Milan. It's mainly just a list of his designs for siege weapons (including trebuchets). He briefly mentions his art: "In painting, I can do everything possible." He got the job. by Pfeffer_Prinz
Well, it was Italy during the Renaissance, you don't keep your power with just paintings and party machines (Leonardo was also a great party organiser), they have much less business value than a giant crossbow.
SteO153 t1_j597fi2 wrote
Reply to comment by RedSonGamble in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis
Yes, the visa is the authorisation you get to enter a country. It is also what (charta) visa literally means in Latin "a paper document that has been checked". In Italian the term is visto which means seen/checked. There also is the exit visa, which has the opposite scope, the foreign country controls that you don't have anything pending (eg a fine) before leaving the country. But exit visa are rarely required.
SteO153 t1_j58zsh8 wrote
Reply to comment by RedSonGamble in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis
Visa policy is based on trust, I trust you, so your citizens can enter my country without the need of a visa. Then more countries you can visit without visa (or just visa on arrival, which is nothing more than a fee to enter, no background check as per normal visa), higher is the level of trust in your country.
SteO153 t1_j58z6i9 wrote
Reply to comment by grandlewis in TIL Japan is considered the world's most powerful passport, with visa-free access to 193 countries. Singapore and South Korea are close behind with 192 countries. Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the least powerful, all with visa-free access to 30 or less countries. by grandlewis
I would say the opposite, compared to similar cities, like NYC or London or Paris, Tokyo is "cheap". I'm going there for NYE and my hotel (4* in Ginza) is 140 USD/night. Find something similar in Manhattan and you would easly pay double. I'm paying something similar for a 3* in London, but not in the centre (zone 3), and my 4* in New Orleans will cost me 360 USD/night (!!!).
Then food is quite cheap, you can easily eat for 10 USD or less. Transport is expensive, but the Japan Rail Pass covers Tokyo as well.
SteO153 t1_j4i0g34 wrote
Reply to comment by devvraut in [OC] World Heritage sites by country by giteam
Because the Egyptian government hasn't proposed them. Unesco sites are not selected by Unesco, but the different governments must propose them, and then the Unesco member states will vote for them. So, to have more Egyptian sites on the list, first the Egyptian government must select (tentative list) and propose them for selection (nomination).
SteO153 t1_j1daytw wrote
Reply to comment by spiderzork in TiL it was Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that popularized the expression "Merry Christmas". by thewickerstan
British traditions as well, as most of the traditions are from the Victorian era. Even the idea of white Christmas seems to be from Dickens, because when he was a kid there was a sort of small glaciation and snow on Christmas day was very common.
SteO153 OP t1_j0aqgwz wrote
Reply to comment by CitizenCobalt in Berlusconi promises Monza players 'busload of hookers' if they beat big guns by SteO153
>Or are they getting hookers and pizza?
It's in Italy, of course pizza is included.
SteO153 t1_ivgh6to wrote
Reply to comment by skawn in Philadelphia Man Doesn't Recommend Eating 40 Rotisserie Chickens Due to Health Concerns by [deleted]
So after the Norwegian butter based diet, there is now the Philadelphia roast chicken diet.
SteO153 t1_iugyxjp wrote
Reply to comment by worstregards in TIL university of bologna in Italy is the world's oldest continuous operating university, founded in 1088. It was the first university in Europe and was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars by mankls3
From your link "it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university", so only the oldest in Egypt.
SteO153 OP t1_iu5y4ti wrote
Reply to comment by RobinsShaman in TIL about Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. He was responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and the entire world stockpile of heavy water from France during WW2. He also served as part of an unexploded bomb detachment, successfully tackling 34 unexploded bombs by SteO153
There were only two nukes during WW2. Unexploded bombs during the Nazi bombing of London.
SteO153 OP t1_iu5xjfu wrote
Reply to comment by DaveOJ12 in TIL about Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. He was responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and the entire world stockpile of heavy water from France during WW2. He also served as part of an unexploded bomb detachment, successfully tackling 34 unexploded bombs by SteO153
The detachment was formed by 3 people: him, his secretary, and his chauffeur :-)
SteO153 t1_isx2ukd wrote
Reply to [OC] Biggest uranium companies in the world by giteam
Kazakhstan, number one exporter of potassium uranium. Other countries have inferior potassium uranium
SteO153 t1_jbsobfd wrote
Reply to European court at odds with British values, says Suella Braverman by Mighty_L_LORT
I mean, if you look at the values of British colonialism, she is right that a Human Rights court would disagree with them.