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    Civita and nearby Bagnoregio. Due to its unstable foundation that often erodes, Civita is famously known as "the dying city". It is one of I Borghi più...
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    Respighi's Pini di Roma. To this day the Via Appia contains the longest stretch of straight road in Europe, totaling 62 km (39 mi). Porta Appia (Porta San Sebastiano)...
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    di Erode Square of the Basilica, La fontana e la chiesa del S. Sepolcro Façade of the Basilica Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sacro Monte di Varallo...
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    Museum of Art. Gesù davanti ad Erode, fresco, 1628, Varallo Sesia, Sacro Monte, 1628, Cappella XXVIII. San Carlo porta in processione il Sacro Chiodo...
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    Palermo against the Viceroy Moncada. The revolt of Corleone, led by Fabio La Porta, received popular support as its purpose was the request for tax relief...
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    financial centres. In the early 21st century, two new business districts, Porta Nuova and CityLife, were built in Milan in the space of a decade, radically...
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    Triumphs. Victorious generals entered the city by the western Triumphal Gate (Porta Triumphalis) and circumnavigated the Palatine Hill (counterclockwise) before...
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    inside the city remains uncertain but the aqueduct entered the city at Porta Maggiore and ended on the Campus Martius at the Thermae of Alexander, between...
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    were built next to the two walled gates of Porta Maggio ("Cipollata"), Porta Albina, Porta St. Gregory and Porta Romana. A free commune was also instituted...
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    premiered 24 December 1961 The Shephardes Playe premiered 1 December 1967 Erode the Greate premiered 31 December 1969 The Greenfield Christmas Tree, composed...
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    Architecture, a most successful architectural textbooks ever written; Porta di Sant’Antonio (St Anthony’s Gate) erected in the 17th century by Cardinal...
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    che fuori della detta porta Portese mezzo miglio, dov'è la vigna di Antonio Velli, vi fu trovato un Pasquino sopra un piedistallo di tufa, con un Gladiatore...
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    The Arch of Septimius Severus (Italian: Arco di Settimio Severo) at the northwestern end of the Roman Forum is a white marble triumphal arch dedicated...
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    protection of Mantua. Similar to his peer and follower Giambattista della Porta, his work attacked superstition while advocating a systematic natural science...
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    by Donatello (found to be irreparably eroded in 1721. Today Foggini's original statue is in Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio in via dell'Oriuolo, whilst...
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    In addition, there was environmental degradation caused by floods which eroded the banks of the islands and various buildings, the expansion of the surrounding...
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    census and the comitia centuriata are speculated as Servius' attempt to erode the civil and military power of the Roman aristocracy, and seek the direct...
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    all notable Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta. The beginning of the late Renaissance in 1550 was marked by the development...
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  • (1671–1751), Italian violinist, singer, and composer of eight sinfonie Giovanni Porta (c. 1675–1755), Italian composer of a sinfonia in D. Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)...
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    dichotomy... Intrinsically, modern Jewish historiography cannot replace an eroded group memory which, as we have seen throughout, never depended on historians...
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  • rivals, as political arrests were common during his first two terms. He eroded the republican principles of the country as a way to stay in power and forced...
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    and senatorial classes, which later Roman historians claim to have been eroded during Domitian's autocracy. Trajan fought three Dacian wars, winning territories...
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    Valle delle Caffarella e il Triopio di Erode Attico", Capitolium 43, 1968. See, for a recent mention of Triopio, Judith DiMaio's description of accessing the...
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  • John La Montaine (1920–2013): Novellis, Novellis, The Shephardes Playe, Erode the Greate, Be Glad Then, America Stefano Landi (1587–1639): La morte d'Orfeo...
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    Cybele's sacred stone was taken in procession from the Palatine temple to the Porta Capena and down the Appian Way to the stream called Almo, a tributary of...
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    Publishers. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-86571-596-7. Bruni, Luigino; Pier Luigi Porta (2005). Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis. Oxford University...
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  • immigration. The French-born Greek fascist Savitri Devi (born Maximiani Julia Portas) was a prominent proponent of Esoteric Nazism and deep ecology. A fanatical...
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    fountain, sometimes also known as the Wignacourt Fountain, was built close to Porta Reale in Valletta attached to the Ferreria building (demolished). It consists...
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    depictions of Mithras slaying the bull Tauroctony. This face is highly eroded, but it is presumed that Hercules is seen walking away from the viewer while...
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    and originally very ostentatious tomb in a prime spot just outside Rome's Porta Maggiore, erected for a rich freedman baker around 50–20 BC. The tombs at...
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