Pisa in Tuscany: The Leaning Tower

Etruscans were the inhabitants of Etruria, now Tuscany, in central Italy. From ancient times their cities, forming a political association, dominated the region but after 396 B.C. they were absorbed by the Romans. Their non-Indo-European language is not related to any known language and is still untranslated. Pisa in Tuscany Pisa is situated in west...

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Calvin and Geneva: The Protestant Reformer

On 10 July 2009 the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin (1509-64), the controversial and influential French protestant theologian and reformer. At almost fifty-five he died in Geneva on 27 May 1564 and was buried in the Plainpalais Cemetery, Rue des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland. In the sixteenth century the...

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