Word: aosta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome the Chamber of Deputies began its autumn session last week. Since there is no Opposition to Il Duce, proceedings were perfunctory. The Chamber got under way with a series of orations by Orator Mussolini and others upon the topic afforded by His Royal Highness the Duke of Aosta (cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele) who died last Fourth of July...
Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
...Great St. Bernard pass leading from Martigny, Switzerland to Aosta, Italy has been known and used since prehistoric times. Dangerous always, snow usually covers it to a depth of seven or eight feet, sometimes 40 ft. In 962 Bernard (923-1008), a priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit...
King Alfonso led the Prince to an imposing marble bench, and indicated that he should sit down. His weight caused the six concealed jets to squirt. While King Alfonso, the Infanta Beatriz and the Prince's mother, the Duchess of Aosta laughed and laughed, the Italian Prince got up from the squirt-bench and wrung out his clothes as best he could without removing them...
Reported Engaged. H. R. H. the Infanta Beatrice, elder daughter of H. M. King Alfonso of Spain; to Aimone of Savoy and Aosta, Duke of Spoleto, second cousin to the King of Italy, Italian Navy captain. Important to Spanish royalists is the addition of sturdy princes, all of King Alfonso's sons being weakly (TIME...