Our previous three books were well received, and we decided to write this fourth book "100 Great Personalities and their Quotations." This book is based on my collection, over many years, of quotations from many personalities. To be easy to read, the book is divided in five Chapters, and the personalities are listed in chronological order, with the name followed by the year of birth and the oldest age. At the end of the book there is an Addendum with some of my ideas and an Alphabetical Index of the personalities. There are included pictures from our travels to Rome, Italy, and other cities....

Many places are famous in Venice, but the Grand Canal has a special significance, and for this reason I dedicated most of this book to the Canal Grande, with a new photographic viewpoint. The over 170 photos, taken in October 2012, show a delightful diversity of Palazzi, each one with an impressive personality and history. Our distinguished readers will be enchanted to view the splendors of the Grand Canal of Venezia, with detailed descriptions, and thus will certainly understand why Marco Polo, Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Palladio, Monteverdi, Vivaldi and many...

We start this newsletter in order to bring to the general public monthly significant news from many countries, reviews, comments and suggestions, for a better and wiser world. We included also some nice photos. There are many important news in different countries, and any reader, no matter from what part of the world, will surely find, in this newsletter of general interest, numerous relevant and useful facts and images.