The birthplace of Giuseppe Verdi, Federico Fellini, Luciano Pavarotti, Giorgio Armani and Enzo Ferrari, the music, cinema, fashion and high speed geniuses, the Italian region of Emilia Romagna has in fact many more merits to boast. Italy’s sixth largest region is divided into two parts: Romagna with its towns of Ravenna, Forli, Cesena, Faenza, and Rimini that lies to the East of Bologna; and Emilia, with Parma, Regio, and the unrivaled Modena.
Modena’s stone paved streets will not readily reveal the epoch that marked them with its eternal traces. Ignorant travelers, unaware of the town’s history, are bound to be torn by doubts when coming out from the dark Medieval blocks to see either the brightly sun lit Baroque squares or the Duce avenues. Meanwhile, the clue to Modena’s identity lies somewhere between Piazza Grande, the town’s main square, and the broad Corso Duomo that leads to the cathedral. One glance at the cathedral’s belfry, and you will recognize Modena as the capital of Romanesque architecture.

Gabriel Garcia Markes came back to the clinic ten years later when there were no traces of the malignant growth left.
«I was in love», the master confessed, «I’ve been in love all that time. Actually, I’ve never stopped falling in love».

Every time he goes into a new business, it is not just to make money. It is to make a difference. For our hero business is an adventure. «Virgin» — curiously enough, that was the «chaste» name he thought up for the group of his businesses.
He is still dreaming of crossing the Atlantic by boat and hopes to circumnavigate the globe by balloon. He enjoys taking risks, both in business and everyday life. He indulges the queer turns of his ambition and makes most his dreams come true. 1950 is the year of birth, 150 is the number of his business ventures united under the same brand, his net worth is three billion US dollars.

On a stormy night of 1952, Jackson Pollock started his new opus. He spread a canvas on the floor of his windswept barn and poured paint on it. Then he took another can, of a different colour. With a stick he was carving the thickening mass into an intricate scribble. Pollock’s quasi-primitivist technique was hotly disputed in the art world: is he a genius or a parvenu making fun of artistic tradition? Well, it is to a large degree to this endless controversy that Jackson Pollock owes his fame.