Confetti the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets. Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made
Typescript of the Second Origin (2004) and to Italian (2011). In November 2016, the diputació de Lleida financed the first translation into English, which was published in the United States in 2017. Typescript of the Second Origin Typescript of the Second Origin (Catalan: "Mecanoscrit del segon origen") is a science fiction novel written by Manuel de Pedrolo in 1974, that had a great success and that has become one of the best-selling books of Catalan literature. The work is divided into 6 chapters, the first 5 of them having a similar extension and being called "Quaderns" (Catalan word for "Notebooks") and the last of them