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4 days ago · Elba, the third largest island in Italy, has an area of just 86 square miles (224 square kilometers). It is 18 miles (29 kilometers) long and 11.2 miles (18 kilometers) wide, with 91 miles (147 kilometers) of pristine beaches that attract tourists to the island today. Napoleon arrived in Elba on May 4, 1814, as its new Emperor.
5 days ago · Elba, the 3rd largest island of Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia, is known as the pearl of Tuscany. Its deep blue waters, rocky coastline, small coves, and n...
1 day ago · The source of the solar storm is a cluster of sunspots on the sun's surface that is 17 times the diameter of the earth. The spots are filled with tangled magnetic fields that can act as slingshots ...
5 days ago · Elba, Italy Elba is the third largest island in Italy and is famous among history buffs as the location of Napoleon Bonaparte's first exile, but it's comparatively under-visited by foreign tourists.
1 day ago · The 1948 war was the culmination of a civil war, which took place from November 1947 to May 1948, between the Jews and Arabs living in the British mandate of Palestine.The conflict between Israel and Arab forces outside Palestine began on May 15, 1948, when those forces swooped in from neighboring countries just hours after British forces withdrew from Palestine and Israel had declared its ...
3 days ago · Fresh clues about Roman wine were recently unlocked by Dr. Dimitri Van Limbergen, of the Department of Archaeology at Ghent University, and Dr. Paulina Komar, of the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, who combined their specialist interests to study winemakers’ use of ‘dolia’ earthenware vessels, aided by comparisons to the use of qvevri in modern-day Georgia.
4 days ago · A Brief History of Italian Cuisine. From ancient times the roads and coastal ports of the Italian peninsular have always been a crossroads for many cultures where diverse influences met and mingled for centuries. From the Greeks, Jews, Celts, French, Arabs to Normans, Spaniards, Austrians, the list goes on. And of course, we all know that those ...
