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This shot reminded me of something that you would see in the movie "Nightmare on Elm Street"

Italian crowd watching the fireworks display -- looks like something going on in the crowd. Possibly a personal firework gone bad in the crowd.

Italians with their sparklers. What a way to waste time until 2012 hits. I had a blast watching and photographing the firework display.

In the Hall of Crosses, display cases set in walls contain personal objects stolen from Triestine Jews by Nazi troops who were intending to flee with them to Carinzia in 1945. These objects were found by the Allies stashed in burlap bags and were sent to Rome, where for decades may lay forgotten in the underground vaults of the Treasury Ministry. In 2000, they were finally restored to the Jewish Community of Trieste, which decided to display a portion of them in the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum, and donate another small but significant selection to the Civic Museum of the San Sabba Risiera and to the "Yad Vashem" Museum in Jerusalem.

the above letter transcribed into English:

5 April 1945

Dear Mother!
I'm writing to you to say
I will be shot today.
So goodbye forever.

Dear mother goodbye.
Dear sister goodbye.
Dear father goodbye.