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Word: aosta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Limbering Up. In Aosta, Italy, Salvatore Bracciorosso was arrested after using his wooden leg to fell several opponents in a barroom brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Married. Austria's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), exiled Archduke Robert of Habsburg, 38, second in line to the nonexistent Habsburg throne; and stately (6 ft.) Princess Margherita of Italy's royal house of Savoia-Aosta, 23, niece of Italy's ex-King Umberto, in Bourg-en-Bresse, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Locally, the new Route blanche highway will bring together in trade the Chamonix valley on the French side of the mountain and the Aosta valley on the Italian. Aosta hydroelectric projects will be able to pipe power cheaply to France through the tunnel; snowslides make it impracticable to run high tension cables over the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALPS: Under Mont Blanc | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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