The United States developed better technology to get better performance from their ships while still working within the weight limits, the United Kingdom exploited a loop-hole in the terms, the Italians misrepresented the weight of their vessels, and when up against the limits, Japan simply left the treaty.

* Lex Plautia Papiria extends citizenship to all Italians who applied for it within 60 days.

Mattei made ENI a powerful company, so much so that Italians called it " the state within the state.

Mattei made ENI a powerful company, so much so that Italians dub it " the state within the state.

The Italians divided this force according to their positions within Italy.

Even the substantial non-Portuguese-speaking immigration waves of the late 19th and early 20th century ( mostly from Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Japan and Lebanon ) were linguistically integrated into the Portuguese-speaking majority within very few generations, except for some areas of the three southern states ( in the case of Germans, Italians and Slavs ) and rural corners of São Paulo ( Italians and Japanese ).

Many ethnic groups have enclaves within Williamsburg, including Italians, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans.

While it enlightened the Italians to many new territories as of yet unknown to them, it was obsolete within months due to subsequent mapping voyages by the Portuguese.

Despite Greek resistance, the Germans took advantage of the Greek army's presence in Albania against the Italians to advance in Northern Greece and consequently conquer the entire country within 3 weeks, with the exception of Crete.

Patriarch Michael Caerularius was responding to a concrete situation within his territory-the persecution of the Byzantine Italians in southern Italy, the closing of their churches, the prohibition of their Rite, the removal of their bishops and the imposition of the Latin unleavened bread for the Eucharist.

In response, Britain decided to back the Italians to challenge Russian influence in Africa and declared that all of Ethiopia was within the sphere of Italian interest.

Part of the book's lasting charm is its capturing the atmosphere and mindset of the " Phony War " phase during which it was written: France is standing strong and nobody dreams that it would fall within a few months, the Italians are strictly neutral and there is no suggestion that they are about to ally with Germany against Britain, and so on.

As consul, together with his relative Lucius Licinius Crassus he had a law ( the Lex Licinia Mucia ) passed in the senate in that denied Roman citizenship to certain groups within the Roman sphere of influence (" Italians " and " Latins ").

In October 1941, the Italians had one battalion at Gorgora ; within a month the garrison was 1500 strong.

With the outbreak of World War I, Sergio Panunzio noted the national solidarity within France and Germany that suddenly arose in response to the war and claimed that should Italy enter the war, the Italian nation would become united and would emerge from the war as a new nation in a " Fascio nazionale " ( national union ) that would be led by an aristocracy of warrior-producers that would unite Italians of all classes, factions, and regions into a disciplined socialism.

" Bethlehem-Howard Neighborhood Center Records further substantiate that, as early as the 1890s, the inner core of " The Hull House Neighborhood " was overwhelmingly Italians.

The Italians were the only ethnic group to continue as an intact and thriving community through the Great Depression, World War II, and well beyond the ultimate demise of Hull House proper in 1963.

Others claimed that the last week of electoral campaign, dominated by Berlusconi's proposal of cutting ICI and by the media's insistence on the alleged new taxes advocated by The Union, persuaded a large number of Italians, usually uninterested to politics, to cast a vote for the House of Freedoms.

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[...] But I cannot believe that we Italians were the only ones that placed the odd little bet ", adding that he would not have bet in his own name if he wanted to be sly about his activities.

Estimates for the Ethiopian forces under Menelik range from a low of 73, 000 to a high of over 120, 000, outnumbering the Italians by an estimated five or six times.

The Emperor had risen early to begin prayers for divine guidance when spies from Ras Alula, his chief military advisor, brought him news that the Italians were advancing.

As Paul B. Henze notes, " Baratieri's army had been completely annihilated while Menelik's was intact as a fighting force and gained thousands of rifles and a great deal of equipment from the fleeing Italians.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

Andrés Segovia commissioned works from Spanish composers such as Federico Moreno Torroba and Joaquín Rodrigo, Italians such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Latin American composers such as Manuel Ponce of Mexico.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

* Photos of Italian Eritrea, from the website of the Italians of Eritrea ( in Italian )

This could mean that the author is writing from Italy or that the author is writing to recipients in Italy, and that Italians present with the author are greeting those back home.

After the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians who were assisted by soldiers from Britain in 1941, Haile Selassie was restored to the throne but Victor Emmanuel did not relinquish his claim to the title until 1943.

Further, Menelik had spent much of the previous four years building up a supply of modern weapons and ammunition, acquired from the French, British, and the Italians themselves, as the European colonial powers sought to keep each other's North African aspirations in check.

By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

Other Italians came from islands like Sardinia and Sicily.

On 3 October 1911 the Italians attacked Tripoli, claiming somewhat disingenuously to be liberating Libya from Ottoman rule.

All of Libya's Italians were expelled from the North African country in 1970.

* 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic.

At the same time, Ribbentrop's efforts to convert the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British alliance met with considerable hostility from the Japanese over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39, but with the Italians Ribbentrop enjoyed some apparent success.

Though the French and the Italians were serious about Mussolini's peace plan, which called for an immediate ceasefire and a four-power conference à la Munich to consider Poland's borders, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax stated that unless the Germans withdrew from Poland immediately, then Britain would not attend the proposed conference.

Ribbentrop halted deportations from Romania and Croatia ; in the case of the former, he was insulted because the SS were negotiating with the Romanians directly, and in the case of the latter because the SS and Luther were jointly pressuring the Italians in their zone of occupation in Croatia to deport their Jews without first informing Ribbentrop, who was supposed to be personally kept abreast of all developments in Italo-German relations.

As a result of the ban, foreign nationals from certain countries were not permitted entry into Libya at Tripoli airport, including 22 Italians and eight Maltese citizens, one of whom was forced to wait for 20 hours before he was able to return home.

Three Italians, nine Portuguese nationals, a Frenchman and a European citizen who arrived from Cairo were repatriated.

Its population is primarily ethnic Alemannic, although its resident population is approximately one third foreign-born, primarily German speakers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and the Swiss Confederation, other Swiss, Italians, and Turks.

The name derives from Italian " maccheroni ", however Italians use " maccheroni " to refer to a straight, tubular, two-inch or longer pasta, and a different name, " chifferi " is used to refer to the pasta shape of this article.

For centuries, from 1378 on, those elected to the papacy were predominantly Italians.