Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice‚ and‚ although he was a born a French citizen‚ he regarded himself as Italian. Despite the pressure placed upon him to enter the Church‚ he joined the Merchant Navy where a chance meeting with Mazzini altered the entire course of his life. One of Mazzini’s greatest disciples was Garibaldi‚ who was inspired with nationalist fervour and patriotic enthusiasm. He quickly converted to share Mazzini’s aim of a united Italy‚ but only an Italy united as a republic. A
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Portugal‚ Lisbon | 70‚000 | December 25‚ 1932 China‚ Gansu | 70‚000 | May 31‚ 1970 Peru | 66‚000 | 1268 Asia Minor‚ Silicia | 60‚000 | January 11‚ 1693 Italy‚ Sicily | 60‚000 | May 30‚ 1935 Pakistan‚ Quetta | 30‚000 | February 4‚ 1783 Italy‚ Calabria | 50‚000 | June 20‚ 1990 Iran | 50‚000 | (Source: The 1737 Calcutta Earthquake and Cyclone Evaluated by Roger Bilham‚ BSSA‚ Vol. 84‚ No. 5‚ October 1994) Data compiled from several sources. Most Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines
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time period of 1876 and 1930‚ about 5 million Italian immigrants immigrated to the United States. With that being said 4/5th of the immigrants were southern Italian. The 5 main groups that were out of the 4/5th of Italians were in the regions of Calabria‚ Campania‚ Abruzzi‚ Molise‚ and
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“Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the blue really begins... A peninsula nipped off while red hot and allowed to cool into an antarctica of lava…” These are two of the opening lines from Lawrence Durrell’s book “Prospero’s Cell”‚ originally published in 1945. This is the book that made Corfu famous‚ as it is generally accepted. While these claims could be argued as overblown‚ indeed the “Girl of the Ionians” could not have found a fitter chronicler. Seductively balancing descriptive prose with
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---------------- Title -The KnifeAuthor - Judah WatenAnthology - Spectrum One – Narrative Short Stories. pg 133PlotThe Knife written by Judah Waten‚ is a short story about a young Italian- Plinio‚ who has immigrated to Australia from a ‘poor village in Calabria‚ in a very desolate part of Southern Italy’.Plinio then starts to reminisce about the life he had back home and the reader learns that he lived in poverty and had a very modest life. It then goes on to describe Plinio walking home from work one
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1962 : Business Centre of Turin. Project for a Competition with G. U. Polesello and L. Meda. A PURIST APPROACH Aldo Rossi with his two contributors Luca Meda and Gian Ugo Polesello participated in 1962 to the competition for the Office District of Turin (Centro Direzionale). They called this closed blade of housing and offices‚ 140 meters high‚ delimiting a square on which lays a dome : the ‘Locomotiva’ which makes an undeniable reference to corbusean searches. Their proposal is characterized
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Germany The Spanish king Ferdinand and his queen Isabella tried at first to protect the Jewish families from the inquisitions due to their economical contribution‚ considering they were the continents money leaders. However‚ that immunity could not maintain for long‚ as the church had swayed the commoners that the plague was because of their sins and that of the non-Catholics. Moreover‚ Jewish families were forced to confess their alleged involvement in the outbreak or face execution. To escape
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orgies to the point that the Senate decided to intervene. Ultimately‚ the scandalous festivals forced a written decree by the Senate in 186 B.C.; which became known as the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus‚ inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Calabria (1640)‚ residing now in Vienna. It states Bacchanalia became unlawful throughout all Italy‚ excluding certain particular cases; still‚ they needed an exclusive permit from the Senate. In spite of the harsh punishment imposed upon those found practicing
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THE GRAND TOUR INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT INTERVIEW WITH PETER EISENMAN THE LAST GRAN TOURIST: TRAVELS WITH COLIN ROWE Peter Eisenman was standing at a crossroad‚ should he finish his architectural education or travel. After a failed trip to France he decided to go to Colombia University to finish his studies. There he met Colin Rowe‚ after numerous visits to Colins flat and books Colin decided to take Peter to Europe. Peters grand tour just begun‚ but it wasn’t all fun and easy for Peter. Their
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limon (L.) Osbeck (http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-28101295). BJe has been provided by the company "Agrumaria Corleone" (Palermo‚ Italy) which used fruits of Citrus bergamia Risso & Poiteau from crops located in the province of Reggio Calabria (Italy). BJe was centrifuged at 6000 rpm/min for 15 min to remove impurities and transformed into a dry powder (spray drying method). Aliquots of BJe were stored at -20° C. The drug was defrosted and dissolved in non-pyrogenic saline just prior
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