It’s starting to look like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, and Romans aren’t happy about it. A 65-foot tall Christmas tree brought in from the Italian Alps and placed in one of the city’s main squares is continuing to shed needles, leading some to …
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Rome’s ‘baldy’ Christmas tree mocked by locals as ‘world’s saddest’
It’s starting to look like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, and Romans aren’t happy about it. A 65-foot tall Christmas tree brought in from the Italian Alps and placed in one of the city’s main squares is continuing to shed needles, leading some to …
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Rome’s ‘baldy’ Christmas tree mocked by locals as ‘world’s saddest’
It’s starting to look like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, and Romans aren’t happy about it. A 65-foot tall Christmas tree brought in from the Italian Alps and placed in one of the city’s main squares is continuing to shed needles, leading some to …
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A sad tree in Rome breaks hearts at Christmas
CNN’s Delia Gallagher brings us the tale of a Christmas tree in Rome gone horribly wrong. Thomas Fire is the largest blaze in CA history
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Did Rome Kill Its Christmas Tree?
ROME — If the paragon of all Christmas trees is the one in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York — first erected, mind you, by an Italian in 1931 — the prize for most pitiful must go to the one that stands in Rome’s Piazza Venezia this year.
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Cardinal Law and the U.S.-Rome Sex Abuse Divide
ROME — Early on Wednesday morning, hours after Cardinal Bernard F. Law died in a Rome hospital, a priest unlocked a small chapel at the Basilica of St. Mary Major and pointed to the spot under the marble altar and life-size crucifix where the once-mighty …
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Former cardinal Bernard Law, disgraced in Boston clergy sex scandal, dies in Rome
Bernard Law, the embattled former Boston cardinal whose legacy amid the clergy sex abuse scandal ushered in a painful era for the nation and the Roman Catholic Church, has died in Rome at age 86, according to media reports. Cheryl Fiandaca of WBZ-TV, CBS4 …
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Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits
ROME — The ancient Romans were celebrated for their engineering feats: roads that helped expand an empire; aqueducts that quenched throngs and supplied lavish fountains; monumental bridges, some of which are still in use today. So it seems apt that a …
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Imperium review – Rome sweet Rome, with a masterly turn from Cicero
Robert Harris’s trilogy springs fully to life in Mike Poulton’s two-part epic – but where are the meaty parts for women? Nothing miniature or delicate in Gregory Doran’s production or Anthony Ward’s design. A giant pair of mosaic eyes oversees …
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Italy: Rome’s Pantheon to start charging entry fee for tourists
Tourists visiting Rome’s Pantheon will have to pay an entry fee starting next year, officials have said. Battling low public funds, Italy hopes the ancient monument’s millions of visitors will help with upkeep costs. Unless they are coming to pray …
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