My future father-in-law is originally from Ischia. When he answers the telephone he says, "Pronto" vs saying "Ciao" or "Hello". He told me that growing up that is how everyone answered the phone. I was curious if that was unique to Ischia/Naples or if it is customary across most of Italy to answe...

Today I encountered problem that causes difficulty for me to solve it. In application I want to display records in aphabetical order thus in SQL statement I'am using ORDER BY, But it looks like CAPITAL letters are before lowercase letters so record starting with Z is before a. This is example o...

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