| National Alliance (Italy) National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy. Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom (PdL). This finally happened in 2009. National_Alliance_(Italy)
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| Florence Florence (Italian:Firenze /fiˈrɛnʦe/, Old Italian:Fiorenza, Latin:Florentia) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 (696,767 in the urban area).The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. Florence
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| Francesco Cossiga Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic. He was also a professor of law at University of Sassari. Francesco_Cossiga
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| Italy Italy
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| Demographics of Italy Italy has the fifth-highest population density in Europe Demographics_of_Italy
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| Foreign relations of Italy This article describes the foreign relations of Italy. Foreign_relations_of_Italy
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| F.C. Internazionale Milano Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale and as just Inter in Italy, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy, founded in 1908. Inter are the champions of Italy, having retained their crown on May 16, 2009, their fourth successive title.Inter are the only side in Italian football to have spent their entire history in Serie A, making them the only club that has spent all the seasons in this top tier from its foundation in 1929-30. F.C._Internazionale_Milano
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| Juventus F.C. Juventus_F.C.
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| Playboy Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best known brands. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide.The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by such novelists as Arthur C. Playboy
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| Red Brigades This article is about the Italian group. "Red Brigade" may also refer to the Japanese Red Army/Anti-Imperialist International Brigade. The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian, often abbreviated as the BR) were a terrorist communist-inspired group located in Italy and active, mainly via political assassinations and bank robberies, during the "Years of Lead". Red_Brigades
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| Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank and media proprietor and sports team owner. He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of the Italian Republic (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held on three separate occasionsPeople of Freedom political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 2009, merging Forza Italia, his own party, with Alleanza Nazionale of Gianfranco Fini. Silvio_Berlusconi
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| Milan Milan (; (listen) is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the regional capital of Lombardy. The city has a population of about 1.3 million, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.08 million. The Milan metropolitan area, by far the largest in Italy, is estimated by OECD to have a population of 7.4 million. Milan
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| Veneto Veneto (Latin Venetia, Venetian Vèneto), is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the native land of the Venetian Republic, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy. Veneto
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| Italy Talk:Italy
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| Caesarean section Caesarean section (or Cesarean section in American English), also known as C-section or Caesar, is a surgical procedure in which incisions are made through a mother's abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more babies. It is usually performed when a vaginal delivery would put the baby's or mother's life or health at risk, although in recent times it has been also performed upon request for childbirths that could otherwise have been natural. Caesarean_section
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| Silvio Berlusconi Talk:Silvio_Berlusconi
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| Mantua Mantua (, in the local dialect of Lombard language Mantua) is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century. These receive the waters from the Mincio, which descend from Lake Garda. Mantua
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| High-speed rail High-speed rail is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions include 200European Union, and above 90United States Federal Railroad Administration, but there is no single standard, and lower speeds can be required by local constraints. High-speed_rail
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| Aldo Moro Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician and two-time Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years.One of the most important leaders of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party. Aldo_Moro
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| Bab-el-Mandeb The Bab-el-Mandeb (variously transliterated Mandab or Mandib, and with article "el-" given also as "al-", with or without connecting dashes) meaning "Gate of Tears" in Arabic (باب المندب), is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti, north of Somalia in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. It is sometimes called the Mandab Strait in English. Bab-el-Mandeb
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| House of Savoy The House of Savoy () was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy until the end of the Second World War. Some argue, at the time that the title of king was abolished in 1946, the House of Savoy was the longest surviving royal house in the world,. House_of_Savoy
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| Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples Vittorio_Emanuele,_Prince_of_Naples
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| Webmail Webmail (or Web-based e-mail) is an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla's Thunderbird, or Apple Inc.'s Mail. Very popular webmail providers include Gmail, Yahoo! Webmail
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| Josip Broz Tito Talk:Josip_Broz_Tito
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| Corriere della Sera Corriere della Sera () is an Italian daily newspaper (first in sales ), published in Milan.It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers, founded on Sunday, March 5 1876 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of Luigi Albertini, the Corriere became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its importance and influence to this day. Its main rivals are Turin's La Stampa and Rome's La Repubblica. Corriere_della_Sera
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| Marvin Hagler Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler, in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954), is a former Undisputed Middlweight boxing champion of the world. Hagler's record is 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts. Marvin_Hagler
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| Kardashev scale Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. Kardashev_scale
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| Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 - 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.She interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Haile Selassie, Sean Connery and Lech Walesa. Oriana_Fallaci
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| Aristotle Onassis Aristotle Sokratis "Ari"/"Aristo" Onassis (, Aristotelēs Ōnasēs) (15 January 1906 magnates of the 20th century. Some sources say he was born in 1900 and later changed his life age to 16 so as to avoid deportation from Turkey. Aristotle_Onassis
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| Fanny Ardant Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949 - Saumur, Maine-et-Loire) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce. Fanny_Ardant
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| Style (manner of address) A style of office, or honorific, is a legal, official, or recognized title, in other words a term which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a post, or which is used to refer to the political office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal capacity. Style_(manner_of_address)
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| Alessandra Mussolini Alessandra Mussolini (born 30 December 1962) is an Italian neo-fascist politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model. She is the leader and founder of the national conservative political party Social Action; since 2003 Mussolini has also been a Member of the European Parliament.Some of Mussolini's noted stances are in regards to social views on women and children's rights and role within both the family unit and society in general. Alessandra_Mussolini
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| Giuseppe Siri Giuseppe_Siri
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| Finnish cuisine The cuisine of Finland is notable for the use of wholemeal products (rye, barley, oats) and berries (such as blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, and sea buckthorn). Milk and its derivatives like buttermilk are commonly used as food, drink or in various recipes. Various turnips were common in traditional cooking, but were substituted by the potato after its introduction in the 18th century. Finnish_cuisine
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| Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922) is an American economist, philosopher, political activist, and founder of several political organizations, known collectively as the LaRouche movement. He has been a perennial candidate for President of the United States, having run in eight elections since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Lyndon_LaRouche
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| Erica Jong Erica Jong, née Mann, born on March 26, 1942, in New York City, is an American author and teacher. Erica_Jong
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| Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (February 8, 1888–June 2, 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as ermetismo, he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Giuseppe_Ungaretti
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| Antonio Negri Antonio ("Toni") Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian Marxist political philosopher.Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Antonio_Negri
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| Ira von Fürstenberg Princess Virginia (Ira) of Fürstenberg (GermanIra Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg) (born April 18, 1940) is a European socialite, actress, jewelry designer, and a former public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani. Ira_von_Fürstenberg
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| Abbé Pierre L' (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès Abbé_Pierre
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| List of most common surnames Talk:List_of_most_common_surnames
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| Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero.The party participates both in the Party of the European Left (of which Fausto Bertinotti, a senior PRC member, has been the first president) and the European Anticapitalist Left. Its members in the European Parliament sit in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. Communist_Refoundation_Party
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| Lega Nord Lega Nord (North League, LN), whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania (North League for the Independence of Padania), is a political party in Italy founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties of Northern and Central Italy, most of which had arisen and expanded their share of the electorate over the 1980s. Lega_Nord
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| List of conspiracy theories A conspiracy is defined by law as an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act. While in the strictest sense a "conspiracy theory" is a theory about a conspiracy, the term usually refers to a theory that attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, pop cultural or historical events), or the concealment of such causes from public knowledge, to a secret and often deceptive plot by a cabal of powerful or influential people or organizations. List_of_conspiracy_theories
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| Obelisk of Axum The Obelisk of Axum (today, especially in Axum, also called the Rome Stele) is a 1,700-year-old, 24-meters (78-foot) tall granite stele/obelisk, weighing 160tonnes. It is decorated with two false doors at the base, and decorations resembling windows on all sides. The "obelisk" ends in a semicircular top part, which used to be enclosed by metal frames. Obelisk_of_Axum
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| Gondola gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat. The Gondala, which was once the most common boat in Venice is now used mainly for romantic sightseeing of Italy, as a shuttle for short trips to cross the Grand Canal, and for rowing races.The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian Lagoon. Gondola
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| Maurice Jarre Talk:Maurice_Jarre
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| Italians Italians
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| Forza Italia Forza_Italia
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| South Tyrolean People's Party The South Tyrolean People's Party (Südtiroler Volkspartei, SVP) is a regionalist christian democratic political party active in the Italian Province of Bolzano-Bozen.Founded in 1945, the SVP represents the German-speaking population of the province, as well as the Ladin-speakers. Since the first election of the Provincial Council in 1948, the party has gained the absolute majority in every election. Its best result ever was 67.8% in 1948, its worst 48.1% in 2008. South_Tyrolean_People's_Party
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