The Apennine Mountains (Greek: Απεννινος; Latin: Appenninus--in both cases used in the singular; Italian: Appennini) is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming, as it were, the backbone of the country. The name is probably derived from the Celtic pen, a mountain top: it originally belonged to the northern portion of the chain, from the Maritime Alps to Ancona; and Polybius is probably the first write ...

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Modern geographers divide the range into three parts: northern, central and southern. Apennine Mountains - Northern Apennines. The northern Apennines are generally distinguished (though there is no real solution of continuity) from the Maritime Alps at the Bocchetta dell' Altare, some 5 miles west of Savona on the high road to Turin. [The ancient Via Aemilia, built in 109 BC, led over this pass, but originally turned east to Dertona (mod. Tortona).] They again are divided into three parts--the ...

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David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) a former NASA Astronaut, was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963 and is one of only twelve men who have walked on the moon. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and was educated at Texas Military Institute, Westpoint and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an honorary doctorate of Astronautical Science from the University of Michigan in 1971. Scott was the first of the group three astronauts to be selected to fly and was also the first t ...

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The Adriatic Sea (Italian Mare Adriatico, German Adriatisches Meer or Adria, Croatian Jadransko more or Jadran) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The western coast is Italian, while the eastern coast runs along the countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Albania. Domenico and Blaz are the onl ...

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The name has existed since the antiquity; in Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum. In modern languages, it is Mare Adriatico in Italian, Deti Adriatik in Albanian, Jadransko morje in Slovenian, and Jadransko more in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian. The name, derived from the town of Adria (or Hadria), belonged originally only to the upper portion of the sea (Herodotus vi. 127, vii. 20, ix. 92; Euripides, Hippolytus, 736), but was gradually exten ...

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In January 1944 the Allied forces began to close on the Gustav Line. The new Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theatre was the British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, replacing American General Dwight Eisenhower. The armies involved were the US Fifth Army, commanded by General Mark W. Clark, consisting of both US and British units, and the British Eighth Army now commanded by General Oliver Leese as General Bernard Montgomery had also been recalled to Britain to prepare for Normandy. The Fifth Army occupied the left (we ...

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In October 1938, the decision was made to raise the 7th Flieger (Air) Division. This was to be an élite paratroop formation intended for vertical envelopment operations against enemy defenses. The commander chosen to lead the 7th Flieger Division was Major-General Kurt Student. Organizationally, a Fallschirmjäger Division was intended to be organized along the lines of a German Infantry Division, with three parachute rifle regiments, an artillery regiment, and divisional support units. However the Division was not brou ...

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As recalled by a verse of one of his songs, "it was the fate that in three months" moved his family out of Modenamo because of war. Guccini spent his childhood and part of his youth at his grandparents' place in a small village in the Apennine Mountains called Pàvana, a fraction of the commune Sambuca Pistoiese in the province of Pistoia (Toscana). The memory of the youth years spent in the somewhat archaic society of the mountains of central Italy w ...

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The government of Rome, the res publica, was already shared between the original Romans, Latin and Sabine peoples. For example, the Quinctia gens who had a great impact on Roman public life during that time was of Latin origin. Hernici were allied to Rome; the Etruscans were not yet involved against the Romans, but Veius, very close to Rome. The greatest enemies of Rome were Volsci and Aequi. The Volsci were from the territory west of Rome. The Aequi latters from east would attack, whether allied or alone, Rome and its surround ...

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It is located on the Sangro River, in a valley in the Apennine Mountains, at 41°46′59″N, 14°06′27″E It is really near Roccaraso, Pescocostanzo and Rivisondoli. ...

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Assuming that all rocks and minerals had once been fluid, Steno reasoned that rock strata were formed when particles in a fluid such as water fell to the bottom. This process would leave horizontal layers. Thus Steno's principle of original horizontality states that rock layers form in the horizontal position, and any deviations from this horizontal position are due to the rocks being disturbed later. There are exceptions to this case, because sediments may be deposited on slopes or gradients. These may be steep, loca ...

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Steno himself saw no difficulty in attributing the formation of most rocks to the flood mentioned in the Bible. However, he noticed that, of the two major rock types in the Apennine Mountains near Florence, Italy, the lower layers had no fossils, while the upper ones were rich in fossils. He suggested that the upper layers had formed in the flood, after the creation of life, while the lower ones had formed before life had existed. This was the first use of geology to try to distinguish different time periods in the Earth's h ...

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September 1939 7th Air Division 1st Parachute Rifle Regiment 3 Battalions 2nd Parachute Rifle Regiment 2 battalions May 1941 7th Air Division 1st Parachute Rifle Regiment 2nd Parachute Rifle Regiment 3rd Parachute Rifle Regiment 7th Artillery Battalion 7th Anti-tank Battalion 7th Flak Battalion Machine-gun Battalion Pionee ...

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In the 1970s Guccini made his appearance in some bizarre TV shows: in one of them he worked with the then unknown comic Roberto Benigni. Occasionally he worked also as an actor in some movies, the most successful being Radiofreccia by the other Emilian singer and songwriter Luciano Ligabue (1998). The collaborations between the two songwriters extended of course to some songs, one of them present in Guccini's album Stagioni. Guccini wrote also soundtracks for the movies Nenè by Salvatore Sam ...

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The Adriatic extends northwest from 40° to 45° 45' N., with an extreme length of about 770 km (415 nm, 480 mi). It has a mean breadth of about 160 km (85 nm, 100 mi), although the Strait of Otranto, through which it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45-55 nautical miles wide (85-100 km). Moreover, the chain of islands which fringes the northern part of the eastern shore reduces the extreme breadth of open sea in this part to 145 km (78 nm, 90 mi). Its total surface area is ab ...

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He received several awards for his artistic work, among them the "Premio Tenco" in 1975 and the "Targhe Tenco" received in 1987 for the song "Scirocco", in 1994 for Parnassius Guccinii and in 2000 for "Ho ancora la forza", written toghether with Luciano Ligabue. In 1992 he received the "Librex-Guggenheim" award and in 2003 the municipality of Carpi (in the Modena province) organized an exhibition on his works. ...

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The west shore is generally low, merging, in the northwest, into the marshes and lagoons on either hand of the protruding delta of the river Po, the sediment of which has pushed forward the coastline for several miles within historic times — Adria is now some distance from the shore. On islands within one of the lagoons opening from the Gulf of Venice, Venice has its unique situation. Other notable cities on the Italian coast are T ...

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The bora or bura (northeast wind), and the prevalence of sudden squalls from this quarter or the southeast, are dangers to navigation in winter. Also notable are sirocco or jugo (southern wind) which brings rain in the winter and maestral (western wind) which brings nice weather in the summer. Tidal movement is slight. The amphidromic point is just off the northwestern shore, near Ancona.

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Cincinnatus choose his magister equitum, and levied in Campus Martius each available Roman, requiring them to bring food for five days and twelve valli. The vallus was the pole brought by each Roman soldier, and used to build a wall all around the camp to protect it; a requirement of twelve valli instead of one was unusual. The Roman army arrived at Mons Algidus by night. Cincinnatus signalled to the besieged Romans that he had arrived, then ordered his men to built a wall all around the Aequi. The Aequi at ...

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The Apennines are the continuation of the Alpine chain, but the individual zones of the Alps cannot be traced into the Apennines. The zone of the Brianconnais may be followed as far as the Gulf of Genoa, but scarcely beyond, unless it is represented by the Trias and older beds of the Apuan Alps. The inner zone of crystalline and schistose rocks which forms the main chain of the Alps, is absent in ...

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