The following history of the Italian flag is presented by the Verdi Club of Rockford, IL. The present flag of Italy was adopted in 1948. Italians call it Tricolore because it has three colors - green, white, and red. All the previous Italian flags were all designed with these three colors. There are quite a few [...]

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The recent rises in petrol and diesel prices at the gas station forecourts has been astonishing. Every day when I drove past my local supermarket, the price had gone up by another 1, 2 or 3p per litre. Although it has now fallen back from the highest price of 132.9 pence per litre (that is [...]

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Insanity, it is a general, popular and legal term defining behaviour influenced by mental instability. In modern usage, it is most commonly encountered as an informal, unscientific term, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense .
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is: doing the same thing over and [...]

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