Mike grew up for the first few years of his life in a small house in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The house was barely big enough to have Mike's entire family inside. His family consisted of his two parents, Vince and Veronica Piazza, and his brothers Vince Jr., Danny, Tony and Tommy. In the backyard was where Mike's earliest baseball memories took place. There was a large enclosed batting cage made of wood, with a net inside. Vince had bought it with some extra lumber. On one side of the cage was a pitching machine. Mike would load this with ...

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Wilson da Silva Piazza, Wilson da Silva Piazza - Clubs, Wilson da Silva Piazza - National Team, Wilson da Silva Piazza - Honours

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Piazza was the very last player drafted (in the 62nd round) of the 1988 draft. It is believed that the pick was partly a favor on the part of Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, who is godfather to one of Piazza's brothers and, like Piazza, grew up in Norristown. Piazza swore he'd learn to catch if he was drafted. Piazza's major league debut came with the Dodgers in 1992, when he appeared in 21 games. He then won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1993. Piazza's best season was arguably 1997, a year when he finished second in MVP voting. He hit .362, with 40 home runs and 124 runs batted in, an on base pe ...

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The Capitoline Museums (Italian Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the famous Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three palazzos surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of over 400 years. The history of the museums can be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on Cap ...

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Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Capitoline Museum Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Galleria Congiunzione Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Tabularium
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A town square is an open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings. In Western culture, it typically consists of a park or plaza in front of the original county courthouse or town hall. Italian piazzas are typically surrounded by arcades. Most town squares are hardscapes suitable for open markets, music concerts, political rallies, and other events that require firm ground. Being centrally located, town squares are usually surrounded by small shops such as bakeries, meat markets, chees ...

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Town square - United Kingdom Town square - Gallery of town and city squares

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With Cruzeiro E.C. he won ten times the Campeonato Mineiro (Minas Gerais State championship), as well as the Copa Libertadores, Campeonato Brasileiro (Brazilian championship) and Copa do Brasil (Brazilian Cup). He played 487 games with Cruzeiro E.C. and scored 112 goals. ...

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Wilson da Silva Piazza, Wilson da Silva Piazza - Clubs, Wilson da Silva Piazza - National Team, Wilson da Silva Piazza - Honours

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Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venessia in the local dialect), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′N 12°19′E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). The city is included, with Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of ...

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Venice - Transport Venice - Demographics Venice - Places of note
Venice - Sestieri Venice - Piazzas and Campi of Venice Venice - Palaces Venice - Churches Venice - Other buildings Venice - Bridges and channels Venice - Surroundings
Venice - Sinking of Venice Venice - Venice in culture the arts and fiction Venice - Miscellaneous
Venice - Famous Venetians Venice - Foreign words of Venetian origin
Venice - Bibliography
Venice - Scholarship Venice - Other

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"Bartleby the Scrivener" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have point ...

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1538 - Events. Treaty of Nagyvarad. Peace between King Ferdinand and the Turks. John Zapolya is recognized as King of Hungary, while Ferdinand retains the northern and western parts of the Kingdom, and is recognized as heir to the throne. Truce of Nice - Peace between Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France Michelangelo starts the work on the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill). October 28 - The first University of the New World is founded the Universidad Santo Tomá ...

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The Church of the Gesù (or "Church of the Holy Name of Jesus") is the motherchurch of the Society of Jesus, an order of the Roman Catholic Church and home to the famous painting of Madonna Della Strada, venerated by millions of Roman Catholics. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome. Borgo Sancto Spirito hosts the Jesuit headquarters (The Gesù), their community in Rome, & the Father General; although it may appear hidden to the eyes of everyday travelers, it is a protagonist in the history of R ...

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Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. The Piazza della Novere of Florence is the cradle of this sport, that became known as giuoco del calcio fiorentino ("Florentin kick game") or simply calcio ("kick"). The official rules of calcio were published for the first time in 1580 by a certain Giovanni Bardi. Just like Roman harpastum, it was played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands. Goals could be scored by throwing the ball over a designated spot on the perimeter ...

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Castel Gandolfo is a small Italian town in Lazio that occupies a height overlooking Lake Albano about 30 km south-east of Rome, best known as the summer residence of the Pope. The Pope's residence (residenza papale in Italian) is a 17th-century building designed by Carlo Maderno for Pope Urban VIII. The papal palace, and the adjoining Villa Barberini that was added to the complex by Pius XI have enjoyed extraterritorial rights since the 1929 treaty with Mussolini, the little piazza directly in front was rename ...

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In classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, as in the famous elliptically curving colonnades that Bernini added to the facade of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, which embrace and define the Piazza. Compare the sequence of baluster forms that go to make a balustrade. A colonnade of single columns is often termed a screen. When in front of a building, screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico, when enclosing an open court, ...

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Cortona (pop. 22,046) is a small town in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the base for some scenes in Roberto Benigni's film Life is Beautiful, in Italian La Vita è bella. It is also famous as the setting for the 2004 film Under the Tuscan Sun whose author Frances Mayes maintains a home in Cortona. In 2003, a live concert by André Rieu and his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" in the Piazza Della Republica was filmed and later broadcast in th ...

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Cortona - History

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The Capitoline Museums are composed of three main buildings surrounding the Piazza del Campidoglio and interlinked by an underground gallery beneath the piazza. The three main buildings of the Capitoline Museums are: the Palazzo Senatorio, built in the 12th century and modified according to Michelangelo's designs; the Palazzo dei Conservatori, built in the mid-15th century and redesigned by Michelangelo with the first use of the giant order column design; and the Palazzo Nuovo, built in the 17th century with an identical e ...

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Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Museums and collections, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Capitoline Museum, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Palazzo dei Conservatori Museum, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Galleria Congiunzione, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Tabularium, Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio - Architecture and design

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The Battistero di San Giovanni (Baptistery of St John) is believed to be the oldest building in Florence. It is particularly famed for its three sets of magnificent and artistically important bronze doors. It stands in the Piazza del Duomo, just to the west of the Duomo. Until the end of the 19th c. all Florentines were baptized in this church. Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - History. For long time, it was believed, that Roman temple dedicated to Mars, the tutelar god of the old Fiorentina. As ...

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Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - History Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - Exterior Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - Baptistery doors Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - Interior Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - Mosaic ceiling Battistero di San Giovanni Florence - Reference works

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Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. The area is dominated by shopping and entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House, which is also often known as "Covent Garden". The area is bounded by High Holborn, Kingsway, The Strand and Charing Cross Road. Covent Garden Piazza is located in the geographical centre of the area and was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974, when the wholesale market ...

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Giuseppe Pinelli, a young anarchist, was first accused of the crime. Terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie was then arrested in Caracas, Venezuela in 1989 and rendered to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Strage di Piazza Fontana, in Milan on December 12, 1969. Despite his reputation, Delle Chiaie was acquited by the Assise Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini. A June 20, 2001 conviction of Italian Neo-fascists Doctor Carlo Maria Maggi, Delfo Zorzi and Giancarlo Rognoni was overturned in Ma ...

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Strategy of tension, Strategy of tension - Strage di Piazza Fontana bombing December 12 1969, Strategy of tension - Bombing of Italicus train August 4 1974, Strategy of tension - Bologna railway bombing August 2 1980, Strategy of tension - Assassination of General Dalla Chiesa, Strategy of tension - Role of Italian Intelligence Services, Strategy of tension - Others, Strategy of tension - Books cinema theater, Strategy of tension - External link

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Venice - Sestieri. The sestieri are the primary traditional divisions of Venice. The city is divided into the six districts of Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca), Santa Croce, San Marco and Castello (including San Pietro di Castello and Sant'Elena). Venice - Piazzas and Campi of Venice. Piazza San Marco Campo San Polo Venice - Palaces. Doge's Palace Palazzo Grassi Ca' d'Oro Ca' Rezzonico Peggy Guggenheim Collec ...

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Venice, Venice - History, Venice - Naval and military affairs, Venice - Transport, Venice - Demographics, Venice - Places of note, Venice - Sestieri, Venice - Piazzas and Campi of Venice, Venice - Palaces, Venice - Churches, Venice - Other buildings, Venice - Bridges and channels, Venice - Surroundings, Venice - Sinking of Venice, Venice - Venice in culture the arts and fiction, Venice - Miscellaneous, Venice - Famous Venetians, Venice - Foreign words of Venetian origin, Venice - Bibliography, Venice - Scholarship, Venice - Other

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A bishop of Praeneste is first mentioned in 313. The cathedral, just below the level of the temple, occupies the former civil basilica of the town, upon the facade of which was a sundial described by Varro, traces of which may still be seen. In the modern piazza the steps leading up to this latter basilica and the base of a large monument were found in 1907; so that only a part of the piazza represents the ancient forum. In 1297 the Colonna family, who then owned Praeneste (by then called Palestrina), revolted from the pope. In the fo ...

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Palestrina, Palestrina - Ancient Praeneste, Palestrina - Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina - Christian Praeneste

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