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Giovanna E Fregni

@gfregni

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active: 2025-07-02 → 2026-07-26

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HIS · History · 8 CUL · Culture & Media · 6 🏺 · Archaeology & Anthropology · 6 ✈️ · Travel · 6 LIT · Literature & Writing · 4 🛠️ · Crafts & DIY · 4 ✍️ · Writing & Creative · 4 😂 · Humor & Satire · 4

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#archaeology ·5 #modena ·4 #northern-cyprus ·4 #the-heritage-pub ·4 #bronze-age ·3 #history ·3 #humor ·3 #knitting ·2 #share-your-creativity ·2 #1960s ·2

GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Quantastic Journal

The Wheel That Launched a Thousand Ships

What was the invention that remade world commerce, warfare, and global expansion?

Feb 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 792 claps paywalled #sailing #maritime-history #vikings

The Wheel That Launched a Thousand Ships

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Heritage Pub

King Arthur… In Italy?

A 12th-century depiction of King Arthur and his noble knights

Jul 02, 2025 · 5 min read · 532 claps paywalled #king-arthur #modena #medieval-art

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Tourist in My Own Country

A Visit to a Caravanserai

The Büyük Han is one of many wonderful sites in the old city in Lefkoşa

Jul 26, 2026 · 5 min read · 341 claps paywalled #nicosia #northern-cyprus #tourism

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Quantastic Journal

Zen and the Art of Metal Recycling

Could technological change have affected social change in ancient cultures?

Jul 08, 2026 · 13 min read · 331 claps paywalled #archaeology #recycling #reincarnation

GI Giovanna E Fregni · Never Stop Writing

When Touch Changes

What happens when we lose the ability to feel? It’s like losing part of our ability to see.

Mar 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 283 claps paywalled #neuropathy #human-touch #senses

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Quantastic Journal

The Stories That a Bronze Age Hoard Can Tell

The Grays Thurrock Hoard has the fragments of an intriguing story

Feb 26, 2026 · 7 min read · 282 claps paywalled #bronze-age #archaeology #mythology

The Stories That a Bronze Age Hoard Can Tell

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Share Your Creativity

My February Slow Art Project

This month’s drawing is an image of where I live in Northern Cyprus

Mar 02, 2026 · 1 min read · 270 claps paywalled #art #drawing #northern-cyprus

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Tourist in My Own Country

The Lost Canals of Modena

Venice wasn’t the only city where people travelled by boat

Feb 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 251 claps paywalled #modena #italian-history #canal

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Never Stop Writing

Where I’ve Been

My year of cancer treatment

Jul 14, 2026 · 10 min read · 226 claps paywalled #cancer #breast-cancer #chemotherapy

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Share Your Creativity

More Sanity Saving Ideas for Knitters

Even more ways to make knitting less stressful

Mar 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 201 claps paywalled #knitting #tutorial #knitting-tips

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Tourist in My Own Country

No Muzak in Northern Cyprus?

The artificial soundtrack in public places seems to be missing here

Jul 03, 2026 · 3 min read · 189 claps paywalled #muzak #northern-cyprus #shopping

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Palaeopress

The Day I Accidentally Discovered an Ancient Stone Circle

Things archaeologists do for fun

Jul 16, 2026 · 4 min read · 175 claps paywalled #archaeology #stone-circles #british-archaeology

The Day I Accidentally Discovered an Ancient Stone Circle

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Tourist in My Own Country

A Visit to the Cumean Sibyl

Walk into the time of myths and legends

Jun 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 163 claps paywalled #italy-travel #italian-history #ancient-rome

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Tourist in My Own Country

A Visit to the Pinnacles

Geological curiosities of Northern Cyprus

Jun 26, 2026 · 3 min read · 159 claps paywalled #geology #northern-cyprus #kyrenia-mountains

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Pillionaire Diaries

Learning Hands

The miraculous loop between our hands and brain

Jul 11, 2026 · 5 min read · 158 claps paywalled #hands #skill-acquisition #craft

GI Giovanna E Fregni · Never Stop Writing

Forgotten Toys and Pastimes: When we made kites

Spring was the season for making and flying kites

May 31, 2026 · 4 min read · 134 claps paywalled #kites #childhood-memories #1960s

Forgotten Toys and Pastimes: When we made kites

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Quantastic Journal

I Have Questions About Dinosaurs: Are Our Cherished Images of Them Holding Us Back?

On our perception of long-extinct animals and how we continue to change how we interpret their remains

Jun 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 121 claps paywalled #dinosaurs #tyrannosaurus #public-perception

I Have Questions About Dinosaurs: Are Our Cherished Images of Them Holding Us Back?

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · Never Stop Writing

Carlo Ginzburg: the Man Who Wrote About the Real Witches in History

It’s said that history is written by the victors. Throughout his career Ginzburg wrote about the marginalized people of history

Jul 05, 2026 · 9 min read · 107 claps paywalled #history #witch #medieval-history

Carlo Ginzburg: the Man Who Wrote About the Real Witches in History

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Humor Pub

Time and Again

Adventures done in time to meet your deadline

Jul 13, 2026 · 1 min read · 106 claps paywalled #flash-fiction #russian-history #science-fiction

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Humor Pub

Knitting is relaxing: A cautionary tale

There are untold books and articles about how knitting is relaxing. You’d think they’d know better

Jun 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 100 claps paywalled #knitting #relaxation-techniques #humor

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Scriber’s Nook

The Internet is Down Again

A poem for the unconnected

Jul 04, 2026 · 1 min read · 100 claps paywalled #internet #connectivity #downtime

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · New Writers Welcome

ALCS: A Passive Income Source for Authors

You may be able to collect royalty payments from “secondary uses” of your work

Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read · 96 claps paywalled #writing #writing-income #passive-income

GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Heritage Pub

Carnivale in Modena

A Pre-Lenten Celebration Unlike Any Other

Feb 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 77 claps paywalled #modena #mardi-gras #carnevale

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Humor Pub

My Muse Blobbo

Who’s really in charge here, anyway?

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 76 claps paywalled #writing #humor #writing-characters

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GI Giovanna E Fregni · The Scriber’s Nook

The Six Principles of Arrangement

According to Mrs. Miriam Orhanen: Artist, Teacher, Master

Aug 05, 2025 · 4 min read · 75 claps paywalled #art #art-instruction #learning