Word: guglielmo
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...libretto deals with the misogynist philosopher Don Alfonso who incites two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, to betting on the faithfulness of their lovers while they’re away. They part with their sweethearts in heartbreaking fashion, only soon to return in disguise as exotic Albanians, and even sooner to discover, to their dismay and Don Alfonso’s cynical satisfaction, how easily their lovers are lured into the traps of new temptation...
...Howard Stern b) Guglielmo Marconi c) Thomas Edison d) Jack Benny...
...Italy's Guglielmo Marconi conducts first transatlantic radio transmission...
Already, in 1900, Guglielmo Marconi had worked out the essentials of radio. The phonograph was fast evolving into the basis for a recording industry. By 1912, 5 million Americans a day were attending a new entertainment called movies. New Orleans echoed with the sounds that were jumbling together gloriously as jazz. Denizens of Tin Pan Alley were polishing the wit and jaunty lyricism of the pop song and revamping European operetta into an original American theater form: the musical...
...plenty of questions to address right now. Barely 10% of the matter in the universe has ever been found; the rest remains a mystery. Biologists understand the structure of DNA, but that no more reveals how life began than a schematic of a radio reveals the identity of Guglielmo Marconi. These and other big questions may yet be solved...