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Are you a foreigner living in Ireland? Are you planning your holiday or business trip to one of the friendliest countries in the world? Here is a compilation of useful tips on how to behave in order not to insult the Irish who will probably be the loveliest people you have ever met. Greeting: handshake

By some known as a poet, by others as a translator or a dissident – he was all of these things. Stanislaw Baranczak defied censorship in the communist Poland, wrote poems and essays which were clearly anti-establishment at the time. He lost his job as a teacher in Poland when he helped to found the

Everybody knows the Thousand and One Nights. Not many people are aware of the long and varied story hidden inside its pages. As many oral-transmitted texts, the Thousand and One Nights is a composite work. The frame story, along with the first and more ancient core of tales, came from India and Persia. This part

Have you ever seen Woody Allen talking fluent German? Or Robert De Niro joking in Chinese? Actors can speak more languages than you expect thanks to the techniques used to translate film dialogues and in particular to the dubbing. The term “dubbing”, known also as “revoicing”, commonly refers to the replacement of the voices of

Palmanova is a small town located in the north-western Italian region of Friuli, at less than 100 km from Venice. The Great Council of the Serenissima (also known as the Venetian Republic) needed a well-protected outpost to protect its eastern frontier from the Ottoman attacks. Initially, the project was assigned to Leonardo da Vinci, who