Sicily
About Sicily
Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe. With over 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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In Sicily in the 18th century, it was believed that swordfish would dive out of the way if they heard anyone speaking Italian, so all the local fishermen spoke Greek the whole time.
from 262: No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle, 2019-03-29 at 00:25:29 · read transcript
Other times Sicily came up
The idea was to divert the direction of the, as you can get it all in a channel. Yeah. He launched a bombing attack on lava. Wow. There's a volcanic island called Ferdinandia, which is off the coast of Sicily. It is only above sea level when it's erupting. Normally it's not. So it's not on very many maps. So in 1986, the US Air Force flew over and bombed it thinking it was a Libyan submarine.
37: No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 · listen
No, was it? Just buckets. The idea was down. coming up all the places where water could get in. Dam up the strait of Gibraltar, dam up the Dardanelle, dam up the bit between Tunisia and Sicily. Eventually water would stop coming into the med and it would dry up. Also all these dams would be the locations of huge hydroelectric power plants. So the power generated by them would provide power for everyone.
No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
The idea was damming up all the places where water could get in. Dam up the Strait of Gibraltar, dam up the Dardanelles, dam up the bit between Tunisia and Sicily, and eventually water would stop coming into the med and it would dry up. Also all these dams would be the locations of huge hydroelectric power plants, and so the power generated by them would provide power for everyone.
163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
In Turkey, they don't repel from blimps or anything, or from helicopters. You just ram a tree with your car and knock all of the pistachios out, and they just gather them up and shove them in your car. That's clever. In Sicily, it's the carabinieri police force who guard them, and they do helicopter patrols as well. Do they ever have to fire shells at the thieves? I find the carabinieri so weird that...
411: No Such Thing As Cristiano Ronaldo Eating Pistachios, 2022-01-28 · listen
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