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The First Lady of the world: Eleanor Roosevelt

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Coming from a wealthy family of the bourgeoisie in New York, grandson of the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor was dubbed "the ugly duckling", because of his physical appearance just graceful.
He met Franklin at a family Christmas party: the two began dating from 1902, and they married on 17 March 1905.
The marriage was not happy, mainly because of the intrusiveness of the mother-in-law of Eleanor, contrary to the Union, and numerous cheating made by spouses. Despite this, Eleanor supported her husband's career throughout his life and his political ascent. During the difficult years of the New Deal, in both positions during World War II, not only the first lady was beside the President, but often their personal contribution in the decisions to be made and strategies implemented.
Eleanor was particularly attentive to causes such as civil rights and the rights of African Americans. Often he was in having to replace her husband, ill with polio and paralyzed in the legs, in official visits, particularly at the front, where supported morally troops and Red Cross activities. Became "the legs and ears ' of the President.
After the death of Franklin in 1945, Eleanor retired to private life: the successor to the White House, Truman, He chose her as the representative of the United States at the Conference for human rights at the United Nations Commission. The Roosevelt occupied this position until 1952, and earned the nickname "First Lady of the World".
After the second world war, played a crucial role in the drafting and adoption of the Universal Declaration of human rights and the citizen, you defined in the famous speech of 28 September 1948 the "Magna Carta of all mankind".
Yet, Eleanor was chosen by John F. Kennedy in ' 60 to head the Presidential Commission on the status of women.
Eleanor Roosevelt is still a revered character in the United States and many first ladies who have succeeded have claimed to be inspired by her figure; certainly Eleanor rejected the traditional role of mere "hostess" and undertaken for the first time social and political initiatives of great importance and successfully. Certainly will be remembered not only for being the Eleanor wife of a President.

Maria

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The mafia not only kills in summer

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The 6 January 1980 the Mafia organization Cosa nostra kills, in Palermo, the President of the Sicilian region Piersanti Mattarella. The Sicilian politician, Since the youth, dedicates his life to politics trying to fix and heal the problems present in Sicily. After a spent in the ranks of Catholic action, Piersanti enters into the ranks of the Christian Democrats, becoming one of the greatest exponents, sharing the guideline set by Aldo Moro at party. Frank and transparent politician's attitude earned him the nomination before a municipal councillor in Palermo and then, in 1967, a member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The activities it carries out first as Deputy and then as head of the region applying for next President, a position he held from 1978. One of the main objectives that plugs into its political agenda of Government Piersanti region is the fight against the mafia: external connection that virtually every Conference and public meeting. The late seventies and early eighties they see within Cosa nostra profound transformations, not only about the arrival on the scene of the Corleonesi mafia clan in Palermo that undermine the foundations of the equilibrium created inside the Organization, but see fight their way to a new form of huge illicit gain, which drug trafficking: not surprisingly, the Sicily will become one of the major centers of processing and refining at European level. The murder of Piersanti Mattarella fits so into the action conducted by Cosa nostra against all those who, members of the policy and law enforcement, You clearly opposed to it.

This reminder of the current President of the Senate, Piero Grasso:

“Piersanti Mattarella was trying to create a new political and administrative project, a real revolution. His radical policy moralization of public life, According to the slogan that Sicily was to appear with the credentials ', He had upset the public procurement system with resounding gestures, never implemented in the island”

Roberto Rossetti

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You turn on the television

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Sunday 03 January 1954 at hours 11 were being forwarded, for the first time, the RAI broadcasts. National Program was opened or first program, that is the current Rai 1. The first program after the opening ceremony aired at 14:30, and was "arrivals and departures" conducted by the then very young Italian-American presenter Mike Bongiorno.
The broadcasts originally lasted a few hours a day, and of course not everyone could afford to buy a television set immediately. The cost of a television at the time was up to five times the average per capita annual income, and it was so common, in the evening, gather a group of people at the bar or at a friend's House to see together your favorite program, among all the quiz "double or nothing" born in ' 55.
In 1954 Subscribers to the TV were 24 thousand people: This number grew quickly, and already in 1965 were 6 million people who had a television at home.
What has been the television for the Italians at that time? Definitely a window on the world, the first opportunity to know reality other than its own and things that I had never even imagine. But still, television has been a historic social phenomenon, a radical change in the habits of Italians, such that it is not easy to define if these changes the television was cause or effect.
It is claimed that it was the television to be the true unification of Italy, a century later the political unit, and at least at the linguistic level this is definitely true. However, today, remains the doubt that television, as well as countless other instruments at our disposal for communication and connection, they have instead contributed to the isolation of people in contemporary society and the phenomenon of individualism.

Maria

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“One man is in command of the race, his Jersey is white-light blue, his name is Fausto Coppi”

So Farney opens commentary of the third stage of the tour of Italy of 1949, The Wedge – Pinerolo. That day Fausto Coppi will travel solo 192 km climbing five Alpine passes: the Colle della Maddalena, the Col de Vars, the Col D'izoard, the Montgenèvre and Sestriere. That day the cyclist Piedmont wins the tour of Italy,to enter the legend. From that day will be the great Fausto, the champion. When a person enters into the history of the myth the boundaries of space and time will fade, then no longer count the titles, the pink jersey, Yellow magic, counts only the image of a man who only, in the mist, scale its mountains. That runner, in the mist, Fausto was you could perceive that breath unlike any other runners, produced by the distorted ribcage that guaranteed him greater oxygenation and then from that nose so grim during maximum effort that comics were better than reality. Only, Coppi climbing a mountain after another in memory of the struggle of the young champion raised by Biagio Cavanna, from that coach to whom nature had taken away the gift of sight, but given a feel great and thanks to those hands, touching the legs of Coppi, discovered the sample. Coppi is today an emotion, the same emotion that postwar Italy that, At last, Thanks to cycling could return to dream big, to win, Thanks to them. Coppi e Bartali, Fausto & Gino. Getting their, always before, always first, always friends, forever rivals, getting together to the mountains that count. Bartali, now elderly, He said that God allowed him to go on living just to keep reminding the world who was Fausto Coppi. Gino tells us how a shy man, reserved, No lover of fashionable life, Spotlight, a man from whose hands he could recognize his past and his family from peasant, a man who has always fought, each meter of each stage of every round. Only, Coppi climbing a mountain over hand, in another memory, the end of the war, when riding an old bike he sailed up the Italy home, When a truck the bike wheels are deformed and he straightened up with shots of stone, We went up in the saddle and came home. Only, Coppi climbing a mountain over hand, in memory of the shame of those laws that have punished his adultery and love “White Lady”. Only, Coppi climbing a mountain over hand, in our memory that we can only get up from that Heavenly white sweater-in see get the Curbstone” and scream “Go Fausto”.

Roberto Rossetti

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Die for an idea: Willy Jervis

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William Jervis, known simply as "Willy", was born in Naples in 1901 from a family of British mariners. He graduated in engineering in 1926, After a few years in the army he was hired by the Italian company Olivetti. Fu, always, an active exponent of the Waldensian community and avid mountain climbing. After the September 08 1943, Armistice Day, Willy joined the partisan movement in the area of Ivrea, where he could take advantage of both the knowledge of English, maintaining relations with allies, both his skills as a Mountaineer. Given the climate of suspicion towards all those who had not deployed openly in favour of fascism, on the advice of Mr. Olivetti, Jervis moved to val Pellice, in the province of Turin, where he still resides the largest Waldensian community of Italy and where Willy was able to continue its activities in the resistance.
The March 11 1944 Willy was arrested, randomly, by s. s.. near the bridge of Bibiana: the military understood immediately that you have in your hands a major exponent of the partisan struggle, because of the material of sabotage and military documents that Willy was carrying. Once translated into prison exposed him to atrocious tortures. Despite the suffering, Jervis did not leave out any type of information, that could jeopardize the companions and the partisan struggle. It is important to remember that at that time Willy was already husband of Lucilla and father of three young children, Giovanni, Gladness and Paola, that makes it even more stoic human behavior.
Pending the order of shooting, Willy lived for five months suspended between life and death, poised between monstrous upcoming executions and tortures. During this period, Jervis, Thanks to a prison guard compliant, entertained secret correspondence with his wife. The letters were collected, today, in a book entitled "a tenacious wire". Here are some lines, representing the photograph of those moments of pain and sorrow:

“I'm afraid he's played my last hour. Faith does not abandon me and my last thought will be for you my dear! I was taken with other, put the wall, tied hands. Then they put me in a cell waiting. I make no illusion and I pray to God to give me strength to you consolation. I am calm for me but what anguish for you! How many things I want to say. You know my love for you and the kids. God bless and look! We are sure that there”.

On the night of 4 and the 5 August Willy and other four partisans were transported, by German soldiers, in piazza di Villar Pellice and shot: Jervis's body was tied to a chariot and dragged through the streets of the country; Finally, his body was hanged to a tree and left her there for days, for public ridicule. The Nazi action was a warning to the villagers to stop, immediately, every action and form of resistance. This did not happen, Indeed the example of Jervis convinced partisans to insist in the resistance, actively supporting the allies.
The last words of Jervis, found engraved with a PIN in the Bible, single piece of comfort during suffering in prison and for this evidence of the recognition of the corpse, were: “Not piangetemi, don't call me poor; I die for serving an idea”.
To the memory of William Jervis are now dedicated two huts, one in alta val Pellice. Willy Jervis was awarded the gold medal for bravery. of him, today, remains a faint tracing in texts dealing with Resistance, too little for someone whose life has been devoted to ideals such as freedom, Defense and homeland and for which he sacrificed his own life.

Maria

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