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"Our mind is a sponge, our heart is a river.
is not strange that many of us prefer to suck rather than run. "
Kahlil Gibran
"Our mind is a sponge, our heart is a river.
is not strange that many of us prefer to suck rather than run. "
Kahlil Gibran
Just like a dog. What's more, only without a dog. With skis under your feet and a 800 km long track, all white, in front of him. Traffic zero. Average temperature: minus 50. Towing a sled with 130 pounds of baggage, the minimum to survive for two months on the ice and wind (and polar bears do not always easy to make them understand that you are a traveler, not a steak).
Target: the geographic North Pole, in English 'Big Nail', the Big Nail. The only place on earth where you do not turn your head because you're perfectly still.
Michele Pontradolfo from Pordenone begin his march between 25 and 28 February. Departing from Cape Discovery, Canada, Arctic. We had already tried last year, but it was a split boot es'era had to retire. But because we had tried and tried again? Albeit with a crew of Sky fluttering over his head to capture the business and sell it? It does so because he must. Why can not fail to do so. Because something makes him so irresistible. Why should find out if we fail. Because we were not made to live like brutes but to pursue our dreams.
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FROM ROME PINE Ciociola
D ode indictments and a conviction expedited: these are the decisions taken by the GUP Rosalba Liso, after the preliminary hearing for the death of Stephen Cucchi on 16 October 2009. In the opinion went three prison officers (Minichini Nicholas, and Anthony Corrado Santantonio Domenici charged with injury) and six doctors at the hospital Sandro Pertini (Aldo Fierro, Stefano Corvi, Rosita Caponetti, Flaminia Bruno, Luigi De Marchis Preite and Silvia Di Carlo ). And all have been indicted for neglect of incapable person, except Caponetti. The latter, medical director of Pertini was prosecuted for abuse d’ufficio e falso. E sempre per abbandono di persona incapace sono stati rinviati a giudizio anche tre infermieri: Giuseppe Flauto, Elvira Martelli e Domenico Pepe. Condannato con rito abbreviato a due anni di reclusione il funzionario del Dap, Claudio Marchiandi.
Germany has rejected the Egyptian request to return the bust of Nefertiti, saying yesterday that the request is not signed by any minister and therefore has no governmental character. And yet it was the same Ministry of Culture in Cairo to announce the formal step, which bears the signature of Zahi Hawas, vice-minister and head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. The dispute over the bust of Nefertiti, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, divides the two countries for decades: the discovery in 1912, German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt, according to the German was purchased legally by the Egyptians in 1913, the Egyptians challenging the legality of the sale, with the aim is to present the bust to the museum Akenathon which will be inaugurated in early 2012.
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