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582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon
Antonio de Ponte designed the Rialto, and this actually gets to another fact I've been trying to smuggle into this podcast for some months now, which is that Canaletto, the man most famous for painting all the canals in…
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The Bridge of Sighs was called that because it was the last sight that prisoners would see before they were then put into a building.
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The Republic of the Doge Palace lasted a thousand years, until Napoleon came along and just ended it like that.
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This is the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, also known as Cura, which is heart in the Italian language. It's a particle physics experiment. It's underground and it is trying to basically work out why…
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