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According to some sources, the name Bagheria ( by way of old Sicilian Baarìa ) originates from the Phoenician term Bayharia meaning " land that descends toward the sea.
The Scandinavia is usually an option for Black to avoid some heavily analysed openings, such as the Ruy Lopez or the Sicilian Defence.
The Carthaginians dispatch some mercenaries to extend the conflict between Timoleon and the Sicilian tyrants.
In some communities it is traditional to wear red clothing and eat a Sicilian pastry known as a zeppola on St. Joseph's Day.
Sophron was the author of prose dialogues in the Doric dialect, containing both male and female characters, some serious, others humorous in style, and depicting scenes from the daily life of the Sicilian Greeks.
The following decade saw a revival of a number of traditions, including Ciccio Busacca's fusions of Sicilian folk styles, central Italy's jazzy modern folk, pioneered by Canzoniere del Lazio, the re-appearance of the lira through the work of Re Niliu, the popularization of diverse genres of northern Italian music and some of the work of world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso, who revitalized Naples ' canzone napoletana tradition.
In favour of the authorship of Lucilius are the facts that he was a friend of Seneca and acquainted with his writings ; that he had for some time held the office of imperial procurator of Sicily, and was thus familiar with the locality ; that he was the author of a poem on Sicilian subjects.
Salvatore Giuliano ( November 16, 1922 – July 5, 1950 ) was a Sicilian peasant, a separatist and, according to some sources a bandit who was mythologised during his life and after his death.
He also joined a Sicilian separatist group, Sicilian Independence Movement ( MIS ), which included members of very different political views, such as revolutionary socialist Antonio Canepa, centrist Giovanni Guarino Amella, right-wingers, most of them aristocrats, such as baron Lucio Tasca and duke Guglielmo Paternò, as well as some members with close ties to the Mafia, and outright Mafiosi such as Calogero Vizzini.
The Sicilian was fairly popular for much of the nineteenth century ; Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Adolf Anderssen, Howard Staunton, Louis Paulsen, and Carl Jaenisch all played it with some consistency.
Paul Morphy, the world's best player in the late 1850s, decried " that pernicious fondness for the Sicilian Defense ... extending from about 1843 to some time after 1851 ".
Nonetheless, some leading players, such as Emanuel Lasker ( World Champion from 1894 to 1921 ), Frank Marshall, Savielly Tartakower, and Aron Nimzowitsch, and later Max Euwe ( World Champion from 1935 to 1937 ) played the Sicilian.
The Maróczy bind is a formation White may adopt against some variations of the Sicilian Defence.
Retroflex consonants are relatively rare among European languages, occurring for example in Swedish and Norwegian in Northern Europe, and Sardinian, Sicilian, some Italian dialects such as Calabrian, Salentino and Lunigianese in Italy.
The nuances of the Sicilian ingredients are important to the flavor of the finished granita: Sicilian lemons are a less acidic, more floral variety similar to Meyer lemons, while the almonds used contain some number of bitter almonds, crucial to the signature almond flavor.
In connection with this, some Sicilian titles could devolve to female heiresses in the absence of close male kin, and in a few instances there are claimants ( in female lines ) in Spain as well as Italy, the former looking to Two Sicilies ( pre 1860 ) legislation and the latter citing Italian ( post 1860 ) law.
From a Sicilian Defence, Topalov gained control of the open c-file and invaded the White position, while Kasimdzhanov obtained some king-side pressure.
The chapels have canvases from some Sicilian painters of the 18th century.
This prosperity enabled some of the Greek cities to start to expand their territories again, ultimately leading to the events known as the " First Sicilian War ".
Although the Targa Florio was an open road rally-type race that took place on Sicilian mountain roads with ( aside from straw bales and weak guardrails at some of the turns, the latter were installed by the island's government ) practically no safety features, only 9 people-including spectators-died at the event over the 71 year and 61 race history using a total of 6 circuit configurations.
Due to Sophia's Sicilian descent, there were regular hints in the series that she and her family have some mafia connections ; she has made reference to several vendettas.
It is believed by some, therefore, that the village inherited its name from a Sicilian family whose family name was Balzan ( or Balzano ).

some and American
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;
On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.
Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously.
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.
In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.
-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.
At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.
It is this spirit which explains some of the anomalies of American Catholic higher education, in particular the wasteful duplication apparent in some areas.
It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.
There were some sweet machines other than women: an old Bugatti, a lean Farina coachwork on an American chassis, a Swallow, a type A40-AjK Mercedes and lots more.
In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.
Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.
After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.
The aardvark is not closely related to the South American anteater, despite sharing some characteristics and a superficial resemblance.
As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.

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