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| People: Imprenditori, Commercianti e Professionisti Italiani a San Francisco nel 1897 |
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Il Museo Storico dell’Oro Italiano raccoglie da anni tutte le testimonianze possibili relative alla partecipazione dei nostri connazionali alle grandi corse all’oro dell’Ottocento, partecipazione che è stata molto più incisiva di quanto comunemente si crede e che ha dato alcuni personaggi di rilievo: basti pensare ai Ghiradelli per la California, Raffaelo Carboni per l’Australia, Felice Pedroni per l’Alaska , Vincenzo Ruggieri per il Klondike.
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Giuseppe Pipino
Museo Storico dell’Oro Italiano 15070 LERMA (AL)
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| People: Walt Whitman - Italian Music in Dakota |
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Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian. His main claim to fame was his friendship with Tom Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776), urging the colonists to throw off English domination was in his sparse library. It is doubtful that his father read any of his son's poetry, or would have understood it if he had. The senior Walt was too burdened with the struggle to support his ever-growing family of nine children, four of whom were handicapped.
Note: http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/waltwhitman/
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| People: Garibaldini e Massoni - Carlo Camillo di Rudio |
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Carlo Camillo di Rudio, bellunese, cospiratore e
combattente sotto molte bandiere.
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Sandra Busatta
HAKOMAGAZINE n. 10
http://www.hakomagazine.net/
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| People: Giacomo Costantino Beltrami |
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Nel 1823 un italiano, armato solo di un ombrello di
stoffa rossa e di grande coraggio, viaggiando nella
"terra di nessuno" tra le tribù nemiche dei Chippewa
e dei Dakota, scopre le sorgenti del Mississippi.
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Conte Glauco Lucchetti
HAKOMAGAZINE n. 10
http://www.hakomagazine.net/
info@hakomagazine.net
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| People: ADOLFO FARSARI - Un volontario vicentino nella Guerra Civile americana |
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Negri e bianchi - Un volontario vicentino nella Guerra Civile americana
Adolfo Farsari, avventuroso vicentino, lascia l'Italia e si trasferisce prima negli Stati Uniti, dove partecipa alla Guerra Civile come volontario nella cavalleria nordista, poi in Giappone, dove a Yokohama diventa fotografo di fama.
Note: http://www.edt.it/comunita/mappamondo/mappa19/negribianchi.shtml
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| People: ITALIANI DEL 7° CAVALLEGGERI |
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Presentazione di Emilio Franzina del libro di Cesare Marino su Carlo Camillo di Rudio, cospiratore agli ordini di Mazzini prima e ufficiale del generale Custer a Little Big Horn poi: un testimone e protagonista d'eccezione tra i tanti italiani di quel mondo avventuroso e dimenticato che fu anche, al di là di tanti eventi, l’Ottocento in terra d'America
Note: CULTURA - Maggio 1997
http://nautilus.inews.it/9705it/cultura/franz.htm
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A man spake these words, and said: I am a miner, wandering "from away down east," to sojourn in a strange land. And behold I've seen the elephant, yea, verily, I saw him, and bear witness, that from the key of his trunk to the end of his tail, his whole body hath passed before me; and I followed him until his huge feet stood before a clapboard shanty; then with his trunk extended he pointed to a candle-card tacked upon a shingle, as though he would say Read, and I read the
MINERS' TEN COMMANDMENTS
Note: SAN FRANCISCO - MINERS' TEN COMMANDMENTS
http.//www.sfmuseum.org/
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| People: THE LAST NAMES OF THE FIRST PIONEERS |
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The cuggionese presence in America goes back to 1882 when a courageous group arrived at Union, Missouri, to work in the local lead mines. Soon, due to the seasonality of the work, the cuggionesi moved towards the nearest town: St. Louis.
Note: "La merica" - Emigrazione oltreoceano della gente del Ticino
http://digilander.libero.it/bava78/due.htm
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| People: Beltrame and Lucchetti |
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Beltrami ends his observations with pessimism, very little convinced of the possibility of civilizing the Indians.
Note: http://www.newsitaliapress.it/
News ITALIA PRESS
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Glauco Lucchetti, a solitaire Italian traveler, self-defined “pilgrim”, in 1823 explored the higher course of the Mississippi river searching for its sources.
Note: http://www.newsitaliapress.it/
News ITALIA PRESS
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| People: Giacomo Costantino Beltrami |
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Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, born in Bergamo in 1779, very young, went to Piemonte and joined Napoleone’s Great Armada.
Note: http://www.newsitaliapress.it/
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Ercole Ferrario, expert of the social conditions in the area north of Milan, made a report on this subject. He presented it to the Regal Lombard Institute of Science and Letters on the 4th of June 1868, in which he registered some traditional shortages
Note: "La merica" - Emigrazione oltreoceano della gente del Ticino
http://digilander.libero.it/bava78/due.htm
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Important is the experience of Carlo Gentile, born in Naples in 1835. Like many Italians of the time, he chose the new continent to appease his professional thrust and desire of adventure.
Note: http://www.newsitaliapress.it/
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