Tag: calendar
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My Study of Wheat in Sicily
I’ve been watching the wheat grow. I know, it’s like watching a pot boil. It takes many weeks for the durum wheat seeds that are planted before Saint Martin’s Day, November 11, to germinate and then transform into the grain that becomes the semolina flour that becomes our bread and pasta, but it’s been a…
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Commemorating Messina’s 1908 Earthquake
This calendar (and the astronomical clock on an adjacent wall, not shown) was built in 1933 on the renowned bell tower next to Messina’s Cathedral. The tower was rebuilt after the December 28, 1908 earthquake, from which approximately 75,000 people died in a metropolitan area of 160,000 people. Measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, the first…