How To Use Sicily In A Sentence
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The following brief passage mentions the Sicilian Greek city of Segesta's alliance with Carthage against the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Girgenti) in 409 B.C., then briefly describes who bears most responsibility for the destruction of Sicily's Greek architecture.
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
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On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
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The force sent to Sicily consisted of 134 triremes and 27,000 men, the largest Athens had ever fielded.
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In 244 he seized Eryx in Sicily but was unable to raise the siege of Drepana.
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The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
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This is the beginning of Olympia I, which is written for a tyrant in Sicily by the name of Heron.
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His beginning position was stylized Sicily Defence.
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The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Southern Sicily gets warm sea breezes straight from Africa that help keep it feeling summery long into autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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Our 12-day tour, Rome to Sicily, cost us each about $ 1, 500, all told.
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This is why most of the major sea battles took place between the narrows of Tunis and Sicily.
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Defeated in Lombardy, the revolution sputtered on in Venice, Tuscany, Rome, and Sicily.
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Robert was succeeded by his sons Roger and William, to whose dominion not only was Naples added, but all the places interjacent as far as Rome, and afterward Sicily, of which Roger became sovereign; but, upon William going to Constantinople, to marry the daughter of the emperor, his dominions were wrested from him by his brother Roger.
The History of Florence
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Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, possessed with that unblest and unauspicious passion for Sicily, which afterward the orators of Alciabes's party blew up into a flame.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
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The kings of Sicily also ruled over the southern part of Italy.
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Apparently, arancini were developed as antipasti snacks in Sicily.
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A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning.
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They then remained on the island to undertake night intruder sorties over Sicily.
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Leufroid, who called him his crony, and would have done anything for him, the Venetian conceived the idea of getting rid of his friend by revealing to the king the mystery of his cuckoldom, and showing him the source of the queen's happiness, not doubting for a moment but that he would commence by depriving Monsoreau of his head, according to a practice common in Sicily under similar circumstances.
Droll Stories — Volume 3
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[S] 526 A.D. [T] 531 A.D. But at a later time [60] Theodatus, the ruler of the Goths, upon learning that Belisarius had come to Sicily, made a compact with the Germans, in which it was agreed that the Germans should have that portion of Gaul which fell to the Goths, and should receive twenty centenaria [61] of gold, and that in return they should assist the Goths in this war.
Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
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Struggle with the Norman antiking, Tancred of Lecce (d. 1194); coronation of Henry as king of Sicily (1194); birth of Frederick (later Frederick II) at Jesi (1194).
1186
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Mr Walker was on board when it took part in troop landings in Sicily, Salerno and Anzio.
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It opens in 1860—when Garibaldi and his patriotic troops land in Sicily, and the Risorgimento that will ultimately produce a unified Italy begins in earnest.
A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World
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North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than one million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids that depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall, according to new research.
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Edrisi, improperly called the Nubian geographer, who dedicated his work to Roger, King of Sicily, in the middle of the twelfth century, describes the same island, in the first climate, by the name of Al-Rami; but the particulars so nearly correspond with those given by the Arabian traveller as to show that the one account was borrowed from the other.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Besides Monferrato and parts of western Lombardy he received - through the intercession of the British negotiators - Sicily and the title of king that it conferred.
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A word secures the Prince's death; a word gets me you and Sicily.
Chivalry
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So was the whole island of Sicily won over to the realm of Justinian before the end of 535, and Belisarius, Consul for the year, rode through the streets of Syracuse on the last day of his term of office, scattering his "donative" to the shouting soldiers and citizens.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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They exported the wines of Lebanon (and the wine-making practices of Canaan) along the littorals of North Africa and to Spain, Sardinia, and Sicily.
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In another match between qualifiers, the Czech Republic stayed unbeaten in 20 games as it drew Italy 2-2 in Palermo, Sicily.
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Three sestertii, equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily.
XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
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Just because you have asked, I was unfamiliar with but liked very much the reds from Mount Etna in Sicily, and I also taste a Sicilian Fiano that I liked very much.
Advertorial, Leslie Sbrocco, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade - sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The king of Sicily backed out of the arrangement.
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His work as an army intelligence officer later took him to Sicily and then Italy where he fought with the partisans.
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In 1908, an earthquake almost completely destroyed Messina, Sicily.
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Robert Guiscard, or Roger of Sicily, are all greater and stronger men, but there is no "ganger," no rover, like the man who in fifty years, after fighting in well-nigh every land of Christians or of the neighbours and enemies of Christendom, yet hoped for time to sail off to the new-found countries and so fulfil his oath and promise to perfect a life of unmatched adventure by unmatched discovery.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
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He emigrated to America, but returned to Sicily in 1913 and bought a field covering three acres at the foot of Mount Cronio, covered in olive trees, almond trees and stones.
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The Arab emirs governing Sicily imported texts from Baghdad and had a rich library there.
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I was reading a book the other night on the Allied war effort during the campaigns in Sicily and Italy during WWII.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Harold Koh Statements on Drone Warfare at ASIL Tonight
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Gathering supporters as he went, he chivvied the Neapolitan army out of Sicily and crossed the Straits of Messina on 22 August with the help of the Royal Navy.
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Marks & Spencer Nerello Mascalese, Belice Valley, Agrigento, Sicily £5.99, Marks & SpencerIf you're a fan of the sort of immediately appealing, youthful succulence you find in good beaujolais, you'll love this vibrant Sicilian red.
The 20 best Christmas red wines
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Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was born in Girgenti, Sicily.
Luigi Pirandello - Biography
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Sicilians divide ice cream, or ices, into two main categories: the slushy, water-based granita, flavored with island classics like almond or lemon; and gelato, which has a silky, creamy texture thanks to the inclusion of eggs, milk or a starchy emulsifying base, and is preferably made with Sicily's native carob bean.
In Search Of The Perfect Gelato
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He would cut off his supplies from Naples and Sicily, and starve him and all-his subjects; he would frustrate all his family schemes, he would renounce him, he would unpope him, he would do anything that man and despot could do, should the great shepherd dare to re-admit this lost sheep, and this very black sheep, into the fold of the faithful.
History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
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This was the second leg of our visit to less well-trodden Sicily, after a few days on the south coast the less pretty, but arguably more interesting alternative to immaculately groomed Taormina and Cefalù.
Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
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A car is an essential if you want to do Sicily properly, but it is impossible to see the whole island in a week unless you are on a touring holiday, since tortuous mountain roads make for slow driving.
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This praetor was no doubt propraetor of the province of Africa, sent thither from Rome to undertake the regular administration, but he was at the same time placed at the disposal of the consul Marius; for as a propraetor had the _jus praetorem_ in his province, he was sometimes simply called praetor; thus Verres is often called praetor of Sicily.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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The masterly series of Montalbano novelsby Andrea Camilleri, set in Sicily, is well-captured in the Italian TV films of Excursion to Tindari and one with a title about croquettes (seeminglywritten for TV by the author).
December 2008
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Otherwise, it will remain an Irish Sicily, loyal to the half-crown when it should be chasing the pink pound.
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Behind-right: A green silk dalmatic from the church of San Benedetto in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily; from the first quarter of the 17th century.) (Green chasuble from the church of San Camillo de Lellis at Catania, Sicily.
Roman Exhibition Showcases Significant and Historical Vestments
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Cantine Rallo was founded in Marsala, on the westernmost promontory of Sicily, and is a successful integration between nature, technology, and traditional Sicilian wine-making techniques.
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The Mafia is almost totally expunged in Sicily anyhow – at least publicly.
Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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During the mass migration, there were so many immigrants returning to die that several villages in Sicily set up sanitariums to receive them.
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She married him and moved to his residence on the island of Sicily, where she was able to do her science, design her aquariums and discover her paper nautili.
Ada Lovelace Day and Jeanne Villepreux-Power « Jungle Science
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In 1564 Suleiman ‘the Magnificent’ ordered his general Mustafa Pasha to seize Malta, which dominated the narrows between Sicily and Africa.
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Contarini reported that the Spanish monarchy's income and expenditures in Italy in the period was roughly 900,000 ducats in Sicily, 1,200,000 ducats in Naples, and 900,000 ducats in Milan.
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He had an older brother, who became by inheritance, with Joanna his wife, king and queen of the Two Sicilies, that is, of the kingdom consisting of the island of Sicily and the territory connected with Naples on the main land.
Margaret of Anjou Makers of History
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He lived for a year in Sicily before moving to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England.
2009 September 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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_Barilla_, a rich potassic manure prepared by burning certain strand plants, especially the saltwort, was also in the past largely exported from Sicily and Spain.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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Not long ago, my partner and I went on a week's vacation to Sicily.
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And in fact the final quarter of The Book of the Dead, our book that will be published May 31, is set in Florence and then on the island of Stromboli, which is an island off the coast of Sicily that has a live volcano on it.
The Journalist and the Murderer
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He became an ace 10 days before his 21st birthday, during the invasion of Sicily.
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Sicily suffered a series of agricultural crises, which precipitated a sharp drop in the grain and citrus markets.
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At the Trident Conference in Washington the month before, Churchill acceded to a cross-Channel invasion of France in May 1944 and Roosevelt agreed to more operations in the Mediterranean after the Sicily landing.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Sicilians divide ice cream, or ices, into two main categories: the slushy, water-based granita, flavored with island classics like almond or lemon; and gelato, which has a silky, creamy texture thanks to the inclusion of eggs, milk or a starchy emulsifying base, and is preferably made with Sicily's native carob bean.
In Search Of The Perfect Gelato
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Just to establish my historical track record I will quote one of the great epicures whose advice has survived for 2,350 years, Archestratus of Gela in Sicily.
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The Arabs were driven out in 1090 by a band of Norman adventurers under Count Roger of Normandy, who had established a kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily.
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It is long since it became no wonder to us that the greatest and in fact the only, real pastoral poet should have been a Sicilian; but it is a marvel indeed, that, having forgotten to bring his _Eclogues_ with us, we cannot, through the whole of Sicily, find a copy of Theocitus for sale, though there is a _Sicilian_ translation of him to be had at Palermo.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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The Byzantines still controlled Sicily and southern Italy, plus various other outposts, and the Byzantine navy still controlled the eastern and central Mediterranean.
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Many Americans know that Patton slapped two shell-shocked soldiers who'd sought refuge in an Army hospital bed during the Allies' invasion of Sicily in August 1943.
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Operation Mincemeat, an elaborate and sucessful ruse by British naval intelligence to conceal from the Germans preparations to invade Sicily in 1943, has been some time in coming to light.
Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was
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Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the 'Ndragheta of Calabria and the lesser known Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia dominate the economic life of one third of Italy.
Berlusconi Is No Mobster
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Understand then (Noble Ladies) that neere to Sicily, there is a small Island, commonly called Liparis, wherein (not long since) lived a yong Damosell, named Constance, born of very sufficient parentage in the same Island.
The Decameron
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The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles.
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But after the loss of Sicily and Sardinia he wanted to add Spain's mineral wealth and manpower to Carthage's resources, thus enabling it to fight a new war effectively when war came.
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In mid-eighteenth-century Sicily, the French style still predominated, and with it, a taste for veneer, refined marquetry with expensive woods, and gilt-bronze mounts.
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The silver planisphere is a sorry symbol of how much of the cultural legacy of Muslim Sicily has been destroyed.
Delizia!
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Elsewhere, I read that investigators in Sicily believed the mafia is behind an unexpected rise in cases of the animal disease brucellosis among humans.
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In the far north are the alps; in Sicily, the Madonie form yet another chain of central mountains.
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Averroism, which is based on these facts, is brought into Christendom through Spain and Sicily.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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The country about Syracuse is neither grand nor beautiful; but the ground is _classic ground_, and Sicily has not been brought within the reach of an intercourse which, while it polishes and confers substantial benefits, removes the sacred rust of antiquity.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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A man described as Cosa Nostra's No. 2 fugitive boss, identified as Giovanni Nicchi, is held by Italian police officers after his arrest in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009.
Undefined
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Teucrians and men of Sicily rise eagerly; a cry goes up, and Acestes himself runs forward, and pityingly lifts his friend and birthmate from the ground.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Sicily-Anzio campaign, and in Toulon, France, in August 1944.
Heroes or Villains?
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After Publius Licinius Nerva’s letter confessing the extent of the crisis in Sicily reached Rome, Scaurus began to hear one senatorial name bruited about among the grain merchants; his sensitive proboscis smelled fresher — and gamier — game than the false scent of Fimbria and Memmius.
The First Man in Rome
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She'd learned a little, a very little, of what passed for law and order here in Sicily.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Timaeus did not restrict his treatment to Sicily but dealt with the whole west including Carthage.
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So too the fiendish destruction of the public and private Hermes figures in Athens two years earlier, on the ill-omened eve of sailing of the Athenian armada for Sicily.
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And the sapphire sky and thymy plains of thy own sweet Sicily;
Theocritus
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That is brigandage, which is denounced by the laws of Sicily.
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
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A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning.
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Once Morocco was secure, it served as a major base for U.S. bombers and as a logistics center for the push toward Tunisia and Sicily.
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In Sicily, the family was a strong defense against the desperate and unrelieved poverty that characterized life.
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Also, the traditional cassata and other large cakes are more common in Sicily compared to the plated desserts of New York.
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Like the population, the local cuisine is a jumble: You might start with a fish tartare, fresh and light as though you were in Sicily, not five miles from the Slovenian border; then try a hearty pork and sauerkraut soup called jota, which can hardly disguise its Central European origins.
The Seattle Times
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It was Sicily, with its mix of European and African influences, that musically put the zing back into Kerr.
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Abulafia, “The Kingdom of Sicily under the Hohenstaufen and Angevins,” in D.
Delizia!
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They allowed their forces to gather strength and experience kicking the Germans out of Africa, then Sicily, then up the Italian Peninsula.
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I dare say, while he was sitting in various holes in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy etc. he would have spent many a happy hour thinking about his 'Human rights'until his demob. in August 45.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Though, Vogue writes, "Kate Moss 'agent denied more rumours this morning that the supermodel married her long-term boyfriend Jamie Hince over the summer, confirming that she is not married and that a' low-key ceremony in Sicily 'never happened.
Kate Moss & Jamie Hince Secretly Married?
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Back to the flowery island of Sicily her mother brought her, and the peach trees and the almonds blossomed snowily as she passed.
A Book of Myths
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The letter appears to serve as an apologia for Plato's involvement in events in Sicily.
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Except for two expeditions to Sicily, where he went at the request of Dionysius to help try to establish a philosophical kingship in Syracuse, he remained in Athens teaching and writing.
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Orders were issued almost immediately to prepare for the invasion of Sicily, and the division made ready for its second amphibious operation of the war.
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Crisscrossing the island in their pursuit is not only an excuse to see everything from mountaintop snows to sandy beaches, but also provides a lengthy look at a social cross-section of Sicily.
In Search Of The Perfect Gelato
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His beginning position was stylized Sicily Defence.
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The plan, according to the Lieutenant General in Naples, was to ‘establish monarchic authority, morality, and good sense in Naples and Sicily’.
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He also spent some time in Sicily, and returned to Rome probably at the age of 23 or 24, where he allowed himself to be nominated _triumvir capitalis, decemvir litibus iudicandis_, and _centumvir_, in quick succession.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Finding it hopeless longer to look for succour or common humanity from the deceitful and infatuated court of Sicily, which persisted in prohibiting by sanguinary edicts the exportation of supplies, at his own risk, he sent his first lieutenant to the port of Girgenti, with orders to seize and bring with him to Malta the ships which were there lying laden with corn; of the numbers of which he had received accurate information.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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I first attended the 2002 meeting in Palermo, Sicily, where the challenge of the mafia was close at hand.
Katherine Marshall: Creating Peace In War Zones: The Roman Catholic Community Of Sant'Egidio
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Catanians, who live upon Mount Etna, which is the largest mountain in Sicily.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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In the early neolithic period in Sicily, called by Orsi the Sicanian Period, rock-hewn tombs seem not to have been used.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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Miltas the diviner, standing up in the midst of the assembly, bade them be of good cheer, and expect all happy success, for that the divine powers foreshowed that something at present glorious and resplendent should be eclipsed and obscured; nothing at this time being more splendid than the sovereignty of Dionysius, their arrival in Sicily should dim this glory, and extinguish this brightness.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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We know she was exiled in Sicily, and of course you write about that episode in your novel.
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Sicily The crowds have gone and it's still sunbathing weather on the east and southeast coasts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thieves returned a stolen car with a note saying sorry and eight bottles of champagne after discovering it belonged to the son of a Mafia godfather in Castellammare, Sicily.
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In the first days of this spring, the stream of fire issued from Etna, as on former occasions, and destroyed some land of the Catanians, who live upon Mount Etna, which is the largest mountain in Sicily.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Three years previously (1271) Charles of Anjou had drawn together the remnants of the army of his dead brother, had confiscated to his own use the goods of the crusading knights whose vessels had been wrecked on the coast of Sicily, and called the pontifical court to
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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The next day found us again installed at our old quarters in Palermo, where, during our brief remaining stay, we visit a conchologist, before which event we had no notion that Sicily was so rich in shells.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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The original squadron served with distinction in the Mediterranean at Sicily, the Salerno landings and the invasion of southern France in 1944.
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Robert's regiment had sailed from England to Sicily in July, 1943 to take part in the invasion of the island.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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At a time when the court of Rome believed itself deficient in titles, it pretended that Charlemagne had confirmed the donation of the exarchate, and that he added to it Sicily, Venice, Benevento,
A Philosophical Dictionary
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the servile wars of Sicily
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A captain in the Green Howards' Regiment, Verity died on July 31, 1943, after being mortally wounded in action a few days earlier while leading his Company in Sicily.
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Now this Cadmos before these events, having received from his father in a prosperous state the government1142 of the people of Cos, had voluntarily and with no danger threatening, but moved merely by uprightness of nature, placed the government in the hands of the people of Cos1143 and had departed to Sicily, where he took from1144 the Samians and newly colonised the city of Zancle, which had changed its name to Messene.
The History of Herodotus
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Each year millions of tourists visit Italy to see the country's cultural and historical landmarks such as the Colosseum in Rome and the Greek ruins in Sicily.
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A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning.
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The Mafia is almost totally expunged in Sicily anyhow – at least publicly.
Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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A photographer captures the action as lava shoots the air from Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy.
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This mediaeval movement of expansion, which is commonly called the Crusades, but which made itself felt in Spain and Sicily and the Aegean as well as in the 'Holy Land', is a remarkable parallel to the propagation of Ancient Greek city-states round the same shores between about 750 and 600 B. C.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe.
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You must sign here stating that you formally renounce your title as Princess of Sicily and hand the throne over to your cousin.
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The lava-rich soil bequeathed by Etna makes this part of Sicily extremely fertile.
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On Cape Cod, it is true, they looked up and not down, but it is also true that they looked in and not out; in Sicily they looked neither up nor down, but straight ahead.
Theocritus on Cape Cod
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A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning.Sentence dictionary
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Although in use in Asia Minor, Italy, [v. 03 p. 0388] Sicily, and Greece, it is evident that the barbiton never won for itself a place in the affections of the Greeks of Hellas; it was regarded as a barbarian instrument affected by those only whose tastes in matters of art were unorthodox.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Sicily Pope Gelasius says that for admission into the clergy it was necessary that the candidate could read (must, therefore, have a certain amount of education), for without this prerequisite an applicant could, at the most, only fill the office of an ostiary
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Maps and photographs display the extraordinary popularity and spread of Greek theatre, from Sicily to Crete to Turkey and Cyprus: At least 80 theatre sites are identified, several of them still standing and in use — notably the theater of Epidaurus, in which Greek plays are still performed every summer.
The Venerable Brought to Vivid Life
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So now, like a village feud in ancient Sicily, the right and its media are knee-capping the Obama presidency for not making the Gulf's spilled oil go away fast enough.
Blame Obama. Why Not?
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If he ever visited Sicily, the island of his agrarian fancies, he did so only as an excursionist.
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About the time that Conrad marched into Italy, the Greek emperor Michael Paphla - gon, to fecure the efteem of his fickle fubje&s, refolved to recover Sicily from the Saracens; and, for that purpofe, fent the catapan Michael Maniacus with an army into that AD. 104.0. ifland.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
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Arguably the most important woman writer of post-World War II Italy, Natalia Ginzburg was born on July 14, 1916 in Palermo (Sicily), where her Jewish Trieste-born father, Giuseppe Levi, who later achieved fame as a biologist and histologist, was at the time a lecturer in comparative anatomy.
Natalia Ginzburg.
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As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame.
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Greek city of Akragas (Girgenti) in 409 B.C., then describes who bears most responsibility for the destruction of Sicily's Greek architecture.
A Review of Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, by David Randall-MacIver
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While Sicily's Mafia, also known as Cosa Nostra, has been feeling the pinch from a steadily growing rebellion of island businessmen against extortion demands, that courage hasn't spread to the Naples area, Maruccia said.
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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Bari is now fallen; Tarentum trembles; Calabria will be delivered; and, if we command the sea, the Island of Sicily may be rescued from the hands of the infidels.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Alcibiades raves (saith [3404] Maximus Tyrius) and is sick, his furious desires carry him from Lyceus to the pleading place, thence to the sea, so into Sicily, thence to Lacedaemon, thence to Persia, thence to Samos, then again to Athens; Critias tyranniseth over all the city; Sardanapalus is lovesick; these men are ill-affected all, and can never be cured, till their minds be otherwise qualified.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Clifford Wright has this to say: "The Arabs ruled both Spain and Sicily for centuries, and as a result the word escabeche can be traced to the dialectal Arabic word iskibaj, which the great lexicographer Joan Corominas describes as deriving from the older sikbaj, meaning" a kind of meat with vinegar and other ingredients.
The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans
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After Conrad Otto's death in Sicily (1191), a new war of succession broke out between the brothers Ottokar and Henry Wladislaw: to avoid bloodshed, the latter renounced in 1197 his claims to Bohemia, accepting Moravia as a margraviate feudatory to the Bohemian crown.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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He had been slated to take over the governorship of Sicily in 72 B.C. but the Spartacus War got in the way, and Arrius was reassigned to Gelliuss staff, with the rank of propraetor.
The Spartacus War
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The pope told those gathered how he is aware that in Palermo, and in the whole of Sicily there is no lack of difficulties and problems.
Pope Tells People of Sicily not to Fear Organized Crime
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Sicily, and starve him and all-his subjects; he would frustrate all his family schemes, he would renounce him, he would unpope him, he would do anything that man and despot could do, should the great shepherd dare to re-admit this lost sheep, and this very black sheep, into the fold of the faithful.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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My people originally came from Sicily - we're a hot-blooded lot.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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He and his hungry crew make a stop in Sicily at Mount Aetna, which is inhabited by Cyclopes.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In rural Sicily, where local Catholic traditions have remained stronger, women are more hidebound by traditional mores regarding the sexes.
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The book's history, then, spans the period from about the eighth century B.C. to about the third century B.C., when Rome commenced to expel Carthage permanently from Sicily, in the Punic Wars, and displace the Greek presence there.
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
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In the first half of the 6th century Byzantine forces attempted to reconquer the Western Roman Empire, successfully restoring Roman rule in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and southern Spain by the 550s.
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In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily.
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The ices at Corrado Costanzo in Noto, Sicily, are arguably the best you can find anywhere in the world.
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Completion of the reorganization of Sicily: clean sweep of private titles and royal privileges in the Norman manner; resumption of royal domain; destruction of private garrisons and feudal castles; ban on private war; criminal jurisdiction transferred from feudal to royal courts; towns deprived of magistrates and put under royal officers; clergy taxed and excluded from civil office; heavy influence of Muslim bureaucratic techniques, such as diwan, or financial office.
1226
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One tent camp has been established near Taranto on the mainland, another is being set up in Trapani, in Sicily and there are discussions to set up a third one in Tuscany.
Tensions Rise in Lampedusa As Immigrant Influx Continues
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Set in twelfth century Sicily think saracens, crusades, holy wars, internecine strife, monasteries usually enough there to latch onto but I have truly floundered with this one.
54 entries from September 2006
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She lived in Girgenti on the south side of Sicily, in the great mining district.
The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
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Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
Rudy Campaign Team Deals With Its First Serious Negative Press
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Two women "ferrymen" found room to row in front, the coachman attended to his horses, one of which was inclined to be restive, while a man, whose flaxen hair was so light it looked positively white against his red burnt neck, stood rowing behind us; and thus in three-quarters of an hour we reached the other side, in as wonderful a transport as the trains we had seen put on steamers in Denmark, Sicily, or the States, but much more exciting and primitive.
Through Finland in Carts
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The manner in which he speaks of them would rather tend to render doubtful his ever having 'consorted' with them, or entertained the schemes, which are attributed to him in the Epistles, of regenerating Sicily by their help.
The Republic
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But for now he is enjoying his life in Sicily - including the view from his balcony of Mount Etna belching volcanic smoke…
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Stan Skoda went from the CCC Camps to North Africa, to Sicily, to Italy.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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Gringoire had ascertained that, as quite a little child, she had gone all through Spain and Catalonia, and into Sicily; he thought even that the caravan of Zingari, to which she belonged, had carried her into the kingdom of Algiersa country situated in Achaia, which Achaia was adjoining on one side to lesser Albania and Greece, and on the other to the sea of the Sicilies, which is the way to Constantinople.
II. Showing That a Priest and a Philosopher Are Not the Same. Book VII
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They hinted of all enamelled things that come out of the East -- of the peacock reflections of the tiles of Damascus and Cordova, of the franker polychromy of Rhodian kilns, of the subtler bloom of the dishes of Moorish Spain, of the brassier glazes of Minorca and Sicily -- all these things lay enticingly in epitome in these lustred Italian pots, as they glimmered with a furtive splendour.
The Collectors
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The lightness of stucco was used to great effect by the sculptor for his decorations in Sicily.
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Sicily, alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages of Ulysses, when once he is within easy reach of Sicily, solve themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria;
The Odyssey
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A doctor from the Institute for Animal Health said: ‘This year the bluetongue virus reached Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica and mainland Italy for the first time.’