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Milan, the “darsena” of Porta Ticinese in 1964

In by Silvio DellʼAcqua

The dock of Porta Ticinese in Milano (Italy), also known as the “Darsena”, in a 1964 postcard. Its basin collects water from the Naviglio Grande canal and feeds the Naviglio Pavese canal. Built in 1603 by the Spanish government, the “darsena” was used as freight dock until  1979. Commons

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Hebraic Little Red Riding Hood

In by Silvio DellʼAcqua

A-kippah a-adumah (הכפה האדמה) is an hebraic version of the antique european fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood about a young girl and an evil wolf. Published in Tel Aviv, about 1945. (Jüdisches Museum Berlin – thanks for consultancy to Daniel De Lucia, PhD)

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Eddystone and Swinemünde lighthouses in a 1989 German engraving

In by Silvio DellʼAcqua

This engraving is from the 1898 German encyclopaedia Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon depicts two famous lighthouses. On the left, the one of Eddystone in Cornwall (fig. 1), the 4th built in 1877 by the british engineer sir James Douglass (next to wich you can see the stub of the former tower, that has been dismantled in 1877 and rebuilt in Plymouth as a memorial). On the right, the lighthouse …