Articles for tag: Luciano Pavarotti, Shroud of Turin, Torino

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Things to Do in Torino, Italy Besides the Olympics

Well you made it! Torino! The Winter Olympics! Admit it; you felt the hair on your neck stand up when Luciano Pavarotti was hitting the high notes. Your heart sank when Nancy Kwan pulled out of the figure skating competition. You’ve been waving your USA banner every chance you get. But in between all the ...

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History of Italian Soccer

Most fans will tell you that Italian football was born in 1898. This is when the first official games were played. If we dig a little deeper, we learn that soccer appeared in Italy more than a decade before that. Thanks to Edoardo Bosio, the game of soccer can be traced back to 1887. Bosio ...

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Gran Torino: An Idiot’s Guide to Hmong

I can tell Clint Eastwood wanted to make this one of his epic movies, not that he doesn’t do that with all his film, but this almost seemed to be a flick characterizing the last days of Clint Eastwood’s own personal life. Of course, that is purely speculation. Though I know little of the man’s ...

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Spiritual Analysis of Gran Torino

For those of you who have seen the film, as you know, Kowalsky gets killed by the Hmong gang-bangers. Why did he allow them to kill him? Well, I believe: 1) He willingly lays down his life because he’s going to die anyway because of the emphysema which is taking a toll on his health ...