| Aeclanum Aeclanum was an ancient town of Samnium, Italy, 15 m. E. Aeclanum
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| Bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 1800s, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature. Bassoon
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| Bioterrorism Bioterrorism is terrorism by intentional release or dissemination of biological agents (bacteria, viruses or toxins); these may be in a naturally-occurring or in a human-modified form. Bioterrorism
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| Communications in Afghanistan Communications in Afghanistan has dramatically increased since 2002, and has embarked on wireless companies, internet, radio stations and television channels. Afghan telecommunication companies, Afghan Wireless and Roshan, have boasted rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the last several years. Communications_in_Afghanistan
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| Grazia Deledda | image = Graziadeledda.jpg Grazia_Deledda
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| Hesychasm Hesychasm (Greek hesychasmos, from hesychia, "stillness, rest, quiet, silence")Parry (1999), p. 230 is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite, practised (Gk: hesychazo: "to keep stillness") by the Hesychast (Gr. Hesychasm
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| Jerry Lewis | location = Newark, New Jersey, USA Jerry_Lewis
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| Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear-like object made of metal, fiberglass and, in some cases, carbon fiber. Javelin_throw
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| Niccolò Machiavelli Florence, Italy | Niccolò_Machiavelli
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| Petrarch | birthplace = Arezzo Petrarch
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| Pole vault Pole vaulting is an athletic field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole (which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts. Pole_vault
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| Piedmont Piedmont (; Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont; French: Piémont) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km² and a population of about 4. Piedmont
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| Syphilis Syphilis
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| The Decameron The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. The_Decameron
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| Wankel engine The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine which uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating pistons. Its four-stroke cycle is generally generated in a space between the inside of an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a roughly triangular rotor. Wankel_engine
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| Alfa Romeo Turin Alfa_Romeo
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| Francesco Cilea Francesco Cilea (also CilèaCilea himself used the accented spelling Cilèa, as can be seen from these autographs from 1949 and circa 1902) (July 23, 1866 – November 20, 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur. Francesco_Cilea
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| Compass A compass, magnetic compass or mariner's compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the earth's magnetic poles. It consists of a magnetized pointer (usually marked on the North end) free to align itself with Earth's magnetic field. Compass
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| Hammer throw The modern or Olympic is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown. Hammer_throw
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| Alessandro Manzoni |birthplace = Milan, Italy1 Alessandro_Manzoni
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| Gabriele d'Annunzio | birthplace = Pescara Gabriele_d'Annunzio
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| Heysel Stadium Disaster The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred owing to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 1985 before a football match between Liverpool F.C. Heysel_Stadium_Disaster
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| GAZ GAZ LDV LiAZ| GAZ
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| Chaika (car) A Chaika (Ча́йка), which means gull, is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union made by GAZ, follow to Packard and Mercury cars. The vehicle is one step down from the ZIL limousine. Chaika_(car)
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| The Adventures of Pinocchio The Adventures of Pinocchio (, ) () is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi. The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio
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| Josip Broz Tito Talk:Josip_Broz_Tito
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| Daphne According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly,Hyginus Fabulae 203. or of the river Ladon in Arcadia. Daphne
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| John Henry Newman John Henry Cardinal Newman, CO (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an Anglican who was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He was later made a cardinal and, in 1991, was proclaimed "Venerable". John_Henry_Newman
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| Dee Dee Ramone Los Angeles, California, USA Dee_Dee_Ramone
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| Land of Punt The Land of Punt, also called "Pwenet"Ian Shaw & Paul Nicholson, The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London. 1995, p. Land_of_Punt
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| Paul is dead "Paul is dead" is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of the British rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. Paul_is_dead
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| Oriana Fallaci | birthplace = Florence, Italy 1 Oriana_Fallaci
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| Luciano Caruso Luciano Caruso (b. July 19,1957 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer. Luciano_Caruso
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| Brugada syndrome Brugada_syndrome
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| Anagni Anagni
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| Carlo Giuliani Carlo Giuliani (March 14, 1978 -- July 20, 2001) was an Italian anti-globalist who was shot and killed by police during the demonstrations against the Group of Eight summit that was held in Genoa from July 19 to July 21, 2001. Carlo Giuliani was born in Rome, the son of Giuliano Giuliani, a CGIL trade union activist, and Haidi Giuliani, a former Senator for the Communist Refoundation Party. Carlo_Giuliani
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| Gravity wave In fluid dynamics, gravity waves are waves generated in a fluid medium or at the interface between two media (e.g. Gravity_wave
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| Orlando Furioso Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando"; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. Orlando_Furioso
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| Amusement ride Rides redirects here. For the album by Reef, see Rides (album), and for the BBC television series, see Rides (TV series). Amusement_ride
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| Pistoia Pistoia
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| Girolamo Fracastoro Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (1478‑August 8, 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist. Girolamo_Fracastoro
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| Anzio Anzio
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| Battle of Cape Matapan United Kingdom Australia Battle_of_Cape_Matapan
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| Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy is a radical bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon Edward Ahlquist. It is based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980sSibley & Ahlquist (1990). Sibley-Ahlquist_taxonomy
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| Metastasio | birthplace = Rome, Papal States Metastasio
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| La Vita Nuova La Vita Nuova () is a medieval text written by Dante Alighieri in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. La_Vita_Nuova
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| Futurism Futurism was an art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. Futurism
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| DX Century Club The DX Century Club, or DXCC, is the premier operating award in all of Amateur Radio. The award is granted by (and a registered trademark of) the American Radio Relay League. DX_Century_Club
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| Latin Monetary Union The Latin Monetary Union (LMU) was a 19th century attempt to unify several European currencies into a single currency that could be used in all the member states, at a time when most national currencies were still made out of gold and silver. It was established in 1865 and disbanded in 1927. Latin_Monetary_Union
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| Manu Chao Talk:Manu_Chao
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