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Myminutes.org is the first collective sentimental calendar in which it is possible to associate to the minutes of a solar year the most significant moment of one’s life.
One can buy one or more minutes and insert in the associated pages, text, video, images and links to their own site or blog. One can buy minutes for themselves, for who they love, for their friends. The acquired minutes will be visible at the same time throughout the 24 time zones.
Every year the minutes will be re-visualised at the same time.

The minutes can be indexed or sought for through key words such as: birthday, first time, wedding, anniversary, event, party, animals or date, and if the minute becomes popular it could be added to The most Popular Minute list on the home page. The acquired minutes corresponds to a “Purchase Document” which can be printed so as to be a tangible record to keep or to give as a gift, strengthening our memories.
One can buy the minutes they wish for as long as they are available (526.000 minutes in a calendar year).

A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome. Instead a man threw a bucket of red paint into Rome’s Trevi Fountain on Friday, coloring the waters of the 18th-century monument bright red in front of an astonished crowd.

The man escaped, leaving a box containing leaflets, referring to Futurist that claimed responsibility for the act: The red paint was a protest for expenses incurred in organizing the Rome Film Festival and symbolically referred to the event’s red carpet, ANSA reported.

The monument, at the juncture of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the “modern” Acqua Vergine, the revivified Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. Designed by architect Nicola Salvi with Bernini’s touch, the Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini, who substituted the present bland allegories for planned sculptures of Agrippa and “Trivia”, the Roman virgin.

Black and white movie lovers will for sure remember this fountain for a glamorous Anita Ekberg’s bathing into the fountain in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita: