The reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy had led to a massive migration to the cities, especially Palermo, which swelled in size.

Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.

: But now he is not a Sicilian — he is a Boian, he has got a Boian woman.

For example, one might read that Corsican is a " central southern Italian dialect " along with Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian and others or that it is " closely related to the Tuscan dialect of Italian ,", an infelicitous claim in that Italian is derived from Tuscan rather than the reverse.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

Another possibility is that Rome received technical assistance from its seafaring Sicilian ally, Syracuse.

It is estimated that about 80 % of the businesses in the Sicilian cities of Catania and Palermo regularly pay protection money.

Italian is related most closely to the other two Italo-Dalmatian languages, Sicilian and the extinct Dalmatian.

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

The imperfect rhymes of u with closed o and i with closed e ( inherited from Guittone's mistaken rendering of Sicilian verse ) are excluded, but the rhyme of open and closed o is kept.

Sicilian coined the modern word " macaroni ", which is making kneaded durum wheat by force.

* Pizza alla casalinga (" Grandma pizza ") consists of a thin layer of dough is stretched into an oiled, square " Sicilian " pan, topped sparingly with shredded mozzarella, crushed uncooked canned tomatoes, chopped garlic and olive oil, and baked until the top bubbles and the bottom is crisp.

The conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines were horrific, prompting Booker T. Washington to write " I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life .".

Sicily ( Italian Sicilia ; Sicilian: Sicilia ) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea ; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana ( Sicilian Autonomous Region ).

A sonnet is a form of a poem that originated in Europe, mainly Italy: the Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

This poem is historically interesting for its information on north Italian perspectives concerning the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the conflict between the Angevins and Aragonese for Sicily.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

Karpov took an early lead, winning the second game against the Sicilian Dragon, then scoring another victory in the sixth game.

In 1823, Light had fondly written of the Sicilian city of Catania: " The two principal streets cross each other at right angles in the square in the direction of north and south and east and west.

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

According to SonyBMG, there are no plans to release The Sicilian Defence.

Alexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.

Helped by a Sicilian fleet, Alfonso recaptured Capua and set his base in Gaeta in the February 1436.

Apart from financial, administrative and artistical improvements, his other accomplishments in the Sicilian kingdom include the restoration of the aqueducts, the drainage of marshy areas, and the pavement of streets.

Andronikos hastily assembled five different armies to stop the Sicilian army from reaching Constantinople, but none of these five smaller armies would stand against the Sicilian forces and retreated to the outlying hills.

The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

He also pioneered two provocative variations of the Sicilian Defence: the Nimzowitsch Variation, 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6, which invites 3. e5 Nd5 ( similar to Alekhine's Defence ) and 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5?!

The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

He knows that the economy of life in the `` outback '' is awful.

The field, then, is ripe for new Southerners to step to the fore and write of this twentieth-century phenomenon, the Southern Yankeefication: the new urban economy, the city-dweller, the pains of transition, the labor problems ; ;

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.

The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct our economy which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we conduct our political affairs.

The purchase of compact ( economy ) cars is being made currently on a test basis.

The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

But make no mistake about it, the first reason people turn to camping is one of economy.

We should encourage the governments to develop their own technical assistance to communities, state and provincial governments, rural communities, and other smaller groups, making certain that no important segment of the economy is neglected.

It is difficult to see any powerful sources of strength on the horizon at this time which would give the economy a new upward thrust.

Accordingly, during the Sixties our national economy is likely to grow at as fast a rate as in the Fifties and, in the process, to require enormous amounts of capital funds.

And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.

To see how important this economy is, let us suppose that there are M operating variables at each stage and that the state is specified by N variables ; ;