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Telling The Time In Italy … The Country Way Posted by on Jan 11, 2016

Nowadays we all have a watch or a cell phone that tells us what the time is, but once upon a time watches weren’t so common, and cell phones were still a thing of the distant future. So how did people in the past know what the time was if they were out working in…

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Che Ore Sono? Posted by on Jan 14, 2013

What time is it? A simple question with many possible replies. Let’s start from the beginning. We divide the clock into: ore (fem. hours, singular un’ora, an/one hour) minuti (masc. minutes, singular un minuto a/one minute) secondi (masc. seconds, singular un secondo a/one second) un quarto (masc. a quarter) mezza (fem. half) tre quarti (masc…

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