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VOL. 118 - NO. 25 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 20, 2014 $.35 A COPY IT WAS A GREAT BUNKER HILL DAY IN CHARLESTOWN by Sal Giarratani This past Sunday I was anyway. over at the Bunker Hill Starting in 1981, I began Day parade where you will marching in it. That year always find me honoring with the Peoples Firehouse both the people and history #2. After that it was with my of Charlestown, my mother’s politician de jour. This year birthplace. It is the only I was with Sheriff Steve Boston neighborhood where Tompkins. Lots people were I can fully appreciate my confusing me. They kept Irish side. asking if I was Steve and I Since for ever, I have had to keep letting them watched this parade. As a know he had a better tan little kid with my brother and than me. They still didn’t get parents down in City Square it. across from Station 15 I marched up and down the where the cops passed out hills as the route took its those free Hoodsies. As I got usual twists and turns. They older I would pick different seem higher the older I get places to watch it. Of course and my legs more sore. How- after they changed the ever, I still love it all and al- route, City Square was out ways will. A Pair of Second Half Headers, Leading to Equal 2-1 Results Have the Italian Side and Team USA Reveling in Game One Successes by Christian A. Guarino (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) On Saturday, the Azzurri proved to the world that they are up to the challenge, beat- ing England, at Brazil 2014. News Briefs With a midfield that may be the best of any other at the by Sal Giarratani tournament, the Italians com- pleted an astonishing 93.2 percent of passes in keeping Unknown Beats Majority Leader the English off balance for The Republican Establishment was shocked much of the game. Once earlier this week after an under-financed, no- again, Andrea Pirlo was the name candidate took out U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, architect of the central unit, R-VA in a Primary Election. but in the win other stars Cantor who is House Speaker, John Boehner’s, shone bright for the Azzurri. second in command never saw defeat coming. There was Marco Verrati, Mario Balotelli is joined by Marco Verratti after heading He was challenged by Dave Brat, an economics the 21-year-old diminutive in his second half goal versus England. professor and was being outspent 25-1; and up midfielder a new comer to until 6:00 pm this past Tuesday his campaign an Italian mid-field that al- Daniele DeRossi. Verratti which equaled ball control was predicting a near landslide for the 7-term ready boasted the aforemen- was a big reason for the against a youthful and dan- congressman. No one in D.C. was taking Brat tioned Pirlo and Roma star teams 561 successful passes gerous British attack. seriously. He was just the latest Tea Party can- Then there was Claudio didate trying to beat an incumbent Republican Marchisio, who authored at the ballot. Italy’s first half goal after In the end, Brat won the primary by a 56 to 44 artistry in motion by Pirlo percent, a 12-point margin. I recently heard Brat who avoided the ball, which on the Mark Levin Show. Levin had been touting slipped through his legs him as a good alternative to Cantor and a con- directly to Marchisio who stitutional conservative. I liked what I heard fired from just outside from Brat but thought he didn’t have a chance the penalty area. The jubi- being an unknown. I was wrong. lation didn’t last long as The Republican elites and the liberal news England leveled on a Daniel media didn’t see it coming. They think the Tea Sturridge goal just two Party Movement has weakened but neither of minutes later after a defen- the two really understands that the Tea Party is sive breakdown by Gabriel just average Americans fed up with large, Paletta, who overall was a liability in front of Goal- (Continued on Page 10) World Cup Italy vs. England at Caffe dello Sport, Hanover keeper Salvatore Sirigu. Street, North End. (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) (Continued on Page 14) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON WILL BE CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS BEGINNING TUESDAY, JUNE 24TH Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 20, 2014 Res Publica by David Trumbull David Trumbull Licensed by the Department of Homeland Security PLINY THE ELDER jects. About two hundred manuscripts of this work are still in existence. He also com- posed two great historical works. The first of these was a history of the Germanic Wars in twenty books. The second history is his masterpiece, and this is the “Historica Naturalis” (Natural History) in thirty-seven books. The last history was originally dedicated to Titus and published in 77 A.D. but he continually worked to improve it right up to the time of his death. We are told that he prepared his encyclopaedia of natural history from approximately twenty thousand notices or Gaius Pinius, called Pliny the Elder, was facts, and these were taken from about two David with his Wife Mary and Port Director Helen Sterling. born at Novum Comum (now called Como), thousand published works or writings by In a ceremony Tuesday at the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. in northern Italy, and moved to Rome at an more than four hundred authors. His work Federal Building in Boston Post-Gazette columnist and early age. When he was twenty-three years ran the full gamut of subjects which international business consultant David Trumbull received of age he entered the military forces and included astronomy, physics, geography, his Customs Broker license from Helen T. Sterling, Direc- served as a cavalry commander under ethnography, anthropology, zoology, pharma- tor of the Port of Boston. Ms. Sterling congratulated Trumbull Emperor Claudius, then as a Provincial cology of vegetables and animals, mineral- on passing the Customs Broker Examination — which, with Governor under Vespasian, and lastly as ogy, and commentaries on the history of art. a success rate of just 5%, is said to be more difficult than Fleet Commander under Titus. His fleet Some minor defects in his work are the bar exam — and said, “This significant accomplish- was stationed at Misenum (near Naples) in excused or quickly dismissed due to the ment authorizes you to conduct Customs business on behalf 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. His enormity of his accomplishments and the of others, and empowers you to uphold the regulations set deep interest in such scientific phenom- short amount of time he required to finish forth in 19 CFR 111 [the section of U.S. law governing enon caused him to sail across the bay to it. The facts and information contained in imports].” the doomed city of Stabiae for a closer his work are a gold mine and storehouse of After the income tax, the largest source of revenue for inspection of the volcano. He evidently had inestimable value, and a monument to the the U.S. government is the duty collected on imported mer- gotten too close and died by suffocation from industry of this great scholar. chandise. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency the strong volcanic fumes. Pliny the Elder was a good soldier, states- within the Department of Homeland Security, relies on its During most of his life, Pliny was occu- man, and outstanding author. He has often partnership with the approximately 11,000 licensed Cus- pied in his military or civic duties; however, been referred to as the Roman representa- toms Brokers nationwide to further its mission of facilitat- he was able to carry an extensive scientific tive of encyclopaedic learning, and the most ing legitimate trade and to ensure compliance with the study which occupied all of his leisure knowledgeable man in the Silver Age of Priority Trade areas of Antidumping and Countervailing time. He wrote many books on military, Roman literati. Duties, Import Safety, Intellectual Property Rights, Textiles, grammatical, rhetorical and biographic sub- NEXT ISSUE: Seneca and Trade Agreements. POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 20, 2014 Page 3 Pamela Donnaruma, Publisher and Editor 5 Prince Street, P.O. 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