Joel Conte Genealogy🌿🇮🇹🇺🇸🧬

Family History Researcher. Italian-American Genealogist.
Descendant of Immigrants.
FamilySearch, RootsTech, BYU Pathway experience. Author: From Tree to Roots.

[Joel Conte Genealogy🌿🇮🇹🇺🇸🧬 @joelcontegen]

Introducing my first book: "From Tree to Roots: A Heritage Travel Guide to Italy" Discover your Italian ancestors and explore the homeland. An all-inclusive book combining a passion for genealogy and travel. Start your Italian family history journey today! https://t.co/S5eKPUajpj

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

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[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The name "Italy" has its roots in ancient Greek legend, and its origins reflect both mythology and the geographic features of the region. According to Greek tradition, the name comes from Italos, a legendary king of the Oenotrians, an ancient people who inhabited southern Italy, from Paestum in Campania to Calabria.

The Oenotrians, believed to have Greek origins themselves, were among the earliest inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. Italos, often said to be the son of Penelope and Telegonus (the son of Odysseus), became the figure after whom the land was named. The Greek historians Aristotle and Thucydides were among the first to record this myth, associating the name Italia with the descendants of Italos.

Over time, the Greeks expanded the term "Italia" to encompass a larger region of southern Italy. During the 1st century BCE, under Augustus, the name was extended to cover the entire Italian peninsula, including the Alps. The Romans further adopted the name, and under Emperor Diocletian, the Roman province of Italia was expanded to include the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The etymology of "Italy" might also be linked to the Greek word Aethalia, meaning "land of fog and smoke," in reference to the many active volcanoes in the region, such as Mount Etna. This volcanic connection further solidified the association of the name Italia with the unique and powerful landscape of the Italian peninsula.

© History Lore

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[Joel Conte Genealogy🌿🇮🇹🇺🇸🧬 @joelcontegen]

Let's do the math: 62.5% Pugliese + 37.5% Abruzzese + 12.5% Calabrese = 100% Full-Blooded Italian FBI 💯 🇮🇹

[Hardcore Italians @HardcoreItalian]

What part of Italy does your family come from? 🇮🇹

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Italy's Unification: A Step-by-Step Map History (1815–1871)

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is what the Earth will look like in 250 millions years according to plate tectonics theory.

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

How Yugoslavia broke into 7 countries?

© map_facts_that_will_shock_you

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Today at noon thousands of red rose petals will flutter down through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome. This spectacular tradition is held each year on the feast of Pentecost.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Before the small village of Rome became “Rome” with a capital R (to paraphrase the author D. H. Lawrence), a brilliant civilization once controlled almost the entire peninsula we now call Italy. This was the Etruscan civilization, a vanished culture whose achievements set the stage not only for the development of ancient Roman art and culture but for the Italian Renaissance as well.

Though you may not have heard of them, the Etruscans were the first “superpower” of the Western Mediterranean who, alongside the Greeks, developed the earliest true cities in Europe. They were so successful, in fact, that the most important cities in modern Tuscany (Florence, Pisa, and Siena, to name a few) were first established by the Etruscans and have been continuously inhabited since then. Yet the labels “mysterious” or “enigmatic” are often attached to the Etruscans since none of their own histories or literature survives. This is particularly ironic as it was the Etruscans who were responsible for teaching the Romans the alphabet and for spreading literacy throughout the Italian peninsula.

Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound. It was from the Etruscans that the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions, from the spectacle of gladiatorial combat, to hydraulic engineering, temple design, and religious ritual, among many other things. In fact, hundreds of years after the Etruscans had been conquered by the Romans and absorbed into their empire, the Romans still maintained an Etruscan priesthood in Rome (which they thought necessary to consult when under attack from invading “barbarians”).

We even derive our very common word “person’” from the Etruscan mythological figure Phersu—the frightful, masked figure you see in this Early Etruscan tomb painting who would engage his victims in a dreadful “game” of blood letting in order to appease the soul of the deceased (the original gladiatorial games, according to the Romans!).

Early on the Etruscans developed a vibrant artistic and architectural culture, one that was often in dialogue with other Mediterranean civilizations. Trading of the many natural mineral resources found in Tuscany, the center of ancient Etruria, caused them to bump up against Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians in the Mediterranean. With these other Mediterranean cultures, they exchanged goods, ideas, and, often, a shared artistic vocabulary.

Unlike the Greeks, however, the majority of our knowledge about Etruscan art comes largely from their burials. (Since most Etruscan cities are still inhabited, they hide their Etruscan art and architecture under Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance layers.) Fortunately, though, the Etruscans cared very much about equipping their dead with everything necessary for the afterlife—from lively tomb paintings to sculpture to pottery that they could use in the next world.

From their extensive cemeteries, we can look at the “world of the dead” and begin to understand some about the “world of the living.” During the early phases of the Etruscan civilization, they conceived of the afterlife in terms of life as they knew it. When someone died, he or she would be cremated and provided with another “home” for the afterlife. ​This type of hut urn, made of an unrefined clay known as impasto, would be used to house the cremated remains of the deceased. Not coincidentally, it shows us in miniature form what a typical Etruscan house would have looked like in Iron Age Etruria—oval with a timber roof and a smoke hole for an internal hearth.

Later on, houses for the dead became much more elaborate. During the Orientalizing period, when the Etruscans began to trade their natural resources with other Mediterranean cultures and became staggeringly wealthy as a result, their tombs became more and more opulent.

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[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

"Jam" was the opening track and the first single from the album Dangerous (1991). The video (directed by David Kellogg) is legendary: Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan play real basketball in a gym and MJ teaches MJ to dance. Jordan later confessed that he was impressed by Michael Jackson's tireless energy on the shoot. It was one of the most hyped collaborations of the 90s.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it.

English: N + eight = Night
German: N + acht = Nacht
French: N + huit = Nuit
Spanish: N + ocho = Noche
Italian: N + otto = Notte
Portuguese: N + oito = Noite

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[𝒆𝒏𝒙𝒄𝒉 @EN0CX]

That time when Michael Jordan taught Michael Jackson how to play basketball in a 1v1, and Michael Jackson couldn’t beat him. Then Michael Jackson taught Michael Jordan how to dance and moonwalk afterwards.

[Joel Conte Genealogy🌿🇮🇹🇺🇸🧬 @joelcontegen]

I saw @MichaelMovie🕴🎬📽 👍 While we wait for Part II, my wish is for @Lionsgate and @FuquaFilms_ to recreate @MichaelJackson's iconic short films & music videos with @JaafarJackson and expand the cast. The MTV Generation wants to relive our glory days. It would heal our souls.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

We will never see anything like this again in our lifetimes.

If you have a few minutes, watch it. Probably the greatest music video ever made.

Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)

[Joel Conte Genealogy🌿🇮🇹🇺🇸🧬 @joelcontegen]

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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

How an ancient Roman aqueduct still powers the Trevi Fountain

[Roman History @romanhistory1]

Happy birthday Rome. Rome was founded on 21 April 753BC

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

“After 2,779 years, Rome still lights up the world and fills us with pride”

Roberto Gualtieri, Mayor of Rome

Happy birthday, Rome! 🎉🏛️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Il Natale di Roma, in ancient times known as Dies Romana, is the traditional celebration of Rome's foundation on April 21st every year.

According to the legend, Romulus founded the city on April 21st, 753 BCE.

We are now in 2778 Ab Urbe Condita.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Il #21aprile è il giorno in cui Roma celebra la propria nascita, una storia millenaria che continua ancora oggi a parlare al mondo attraverso la forza della sua identità.
Roma è stata la culla della civiltà occidentale, è un museo a cielo aperto, è cultura e memoria, un patrimonio che continua ispirare il presente. È la Capitale della nostra meravigliosa Italia.
Buon Natale di Roma, Città Eterna.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

LEGO Imperial Rome

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