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    The Venetian Macao (Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人) is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-story structure...
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    to cede the Venetian territory to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. In 1815, it was returned to Austria under the terms of the Final Act of the Congress...
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    The dominant view among historians and legal scholars is that the Venetian Patent Act provides the legal foundation of the modern patent system.[need quotation...
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    The Venetian Twins (Italian: I due gemelli veneziani, or "The two Venetian twins") is a 1747 play by Carlo Goldoni, based on Plautus's Menaechmi. It was...
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    centuries wanted to control Cyprus and Venetian merchants worked on the island beginning in 1000 AD, when the Venetian (commercial and military) expansion...
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    determined that the resort violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The Venetian appealed, but eventually lost the case when it went to the U.S...
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    45.44528; 12.32639 The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were forced to live by the government of the Venetian Republic. The English...
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    last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse. In the play's first act, Desdemona has eloped with Othello, a Moor in the service of the Venetian Republic...
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    The Venetians is an 1893 sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The plot follows the career of an English gentleman in the aftermath of a fatal brawl...
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    The Venetian–Genoese Wars were four conflicts between the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa which took place between 1256 and 1381. Each was...
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    Doge of Venice (redirect from Venetian Doge)
    beyond provincial boundaries. The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through...
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    Venetian Albania Venetian Carnival Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Gothic architecture Venetian Ionian Islands Venetian nationalism Venetian navy Venetian...
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    Venetian Hillsboro, last known as the Venetian Theatre & Bistro, is a former movie theater and performing arts venue in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United...
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  • A peculiarity of Venetian grammar is a "semi-analytical" verbal flexion, with a compulsory "clitic subject pronoun" before the verb in many sentences,...
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    Sphere (also called Sphere at the Venetian Resort) is a music and entertainment arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States, east of the Las Vegas Strip....
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    Peloponnese. They put Vardounia and their lands into Venetian possession, for which Epifani then acted as governor. In April 1466, Vettore Cappello, the...
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    into law as act 28/2017, reinforcing the provisions of act 10/1998. Among other things, the law extended compulsory display of the Venetian flag to Italian...
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  • fățarnici (1971), by Teodor Mazilu Acord familiar (1935), by Victor Ion Popa Act venețian (1918-1946), by Camil Petrescu Adam și Eva (1963), by Aurel Baranga Al...
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    Front curtain (redirect from Act curtain)
    A front curtain, also known as a (front-of-)house curtain, act curtain, grand drape, main curtain or drape, proscenium curtain, or main rag is the stage...
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    failed. Under Pietro II Candiano, Istrian cities signed an act of devotion to the Venetian rule. His father (Pietro Candiano I) attempted to attack and...
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    Hayreddin Barbarossa in the Third Ottoman-Venetian War. The Sultana, herself, would often say she was of Venetian patrician descent, but never named her...
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    The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...
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  • Max Mauff Comedy Entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival Act of Violence Lars Henning Jung Vinzenz Kiefer, Tobias Schenke, Alice Dwyer...
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    regulated by the Venetian government. It was obligatory to wear it at certain political decision-making events when all citizens were required to act anonymously...
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  • The Venetian Inquisition, formally the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium), was the tribunal established jointly by the Venetian government and the Catholic...
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    Gondola (category Articles containing Venetian-language text)
    [ˈɡondola]; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon...
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    Othello (section Act I)
    thee" (Act I, Sc 3). Iago, still in the room, takes note of Brabantio's remark. By order of the Duke, Othello leaves Venice to command the Venetian armies...
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  • Venetians was an Australian synthpop act formed in 1982 by English-born David Skeet (guitarist) when he and Peter Watson (guitarist and bassist) joined...
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    Veneto (category Articles containing Venetian-language text)
    most inhabitants also speak Venetian. Since 1971, the Statute of Veneto has referred to the region's citizens as "the Venetian people". Article 1 defines...
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    The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave...
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