Mussolini's City - Eritrea

August 2004
In a small corner of Africa, Mussolini's unusual legacy survives. The Eritrean capital of Asmara is one of the world's best kept architectural secrets.

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[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 how much hubris did the usa have when they came home from Vietnam?Bay of Pigs?

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 like I said this is only a sampling.and there There are many more in all fields of science,medicine,architecture,­inventors,music,entertainment,­the arts,etc., from all times from antiquity to the present.No more nonsense from you.Good riddance! You wish you had such a rich heritage!

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Raffaele Pirisa (first to synthesize salicylic acid-active ingredient in aspirin), Lazzaro Spallanzani (artificial insemination), Gasparo Tagliacozzi (father of plastic surgery), Fortunato Fidelis(first person to practice modern Forensic Medicine), Alessandro Cruto(Improved Edison's incandescent light bulb by use of carbon filaments), Annibale De Gasparis(discovered first asteroid 1849)

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Carlo Forlanini (artificial pneumothorax-treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis),Galileo Galilei (founder of modern science who accurately described heliocentric solar system),Guglielmo Marconi (telegrapah/radio),Alessandro Volta (Electric Battery),Antonio Meucci (telephone-before Bell),Ascanio Sobrero (synthesis of nitroglycerine),Cesare Gianturco (co-inventor of coronary stent),Marco Lanzetta (performed first hand transplant),Filipo Pacini (isolated bacteria that causes cholera)

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Antonio Pacinotti (inventor of dynamo and electric motor),Evangalista Toricelli (Barometer), Luca Pacioli (father of modern accounting),Pellegrino Turri (typewriter), Sasone Valobra (Matches), Nicolo Zucchi (first reflecting telescope),Vito Volterra (strongly influenced the modern development of calculus),Vincenzo Tiberio (Penicillin-50 years before Fleming),Emilio Segre (Antiproton),Giuseppe Sanarelli (discovered causal agent of yellow fever),Giulio Natta (polypropylene and polymers)

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Antonio Amodeo (Implanted first artificial heart), Luigi Valentino Bruglatelli (electroplating), Filippo Cecchi (seismograph), Enrico Fermi (First Nuclear reactor), Galileo Ferraris (Rotating magnetic field,basic working principle of induction motor),

Amato Fiamberti (performed first transorbital lobotomy), Quirico Filopnati (time zones), Francesco Folli(hygrometer),Leopolo Nobili (first precision instrument to measure electric current)

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 here is just a sampling of some Italians that didn't make pizza and decided to invent some other useful things.Leonardo Da Vinci(too much to list),Luigi Palmieri (mercury seismometer), Bartolomeo Cristofori (piano), Flavio Gioja (compass), Giovanni Rappazzo (Sound of film), Francesco Antonio Broccu (revolver), Mario Calderara (designed and constructed first seaplane), Secondo Campini (one of the first pioneers of the jet engine), Enrico Bernardi (inventor of the first petrol engine)

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Hey asshole.Why don't you look up Enrico Bernardi.He protoyped the first petrol combustion engine in 1882..he was Italian.Model T didn't come out till 1908.

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 Why don't you ,if your mother ever takes her mouth off every cock around faggot.

[fezzorama]

@Mr145616 I live in the usa and was born here asshole and the EU might have to bail out the USA.How many TRILLIONS in debt are we jerkoff.You run off your stupid mouth when you don't know shit.Crime ridden? the USA has the most murders of any country.We don't have enough jails to house the criminals,we have homeless and unemployment,forclosures in the double digits.Who is talking hubris now Bitch? Go suck another cock.Greatest country is ging downhill fast douochebag.