Word: arno
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...frozen body at its mouth the raging Archain found, and swept it into the Arno...
Dante well knew the sudden fury of the Arno and its tributaries. So did later Florentines who saw their city flooded in 1333, 1577, 1666 and 1844. Last week the 450,000 citizens of the capital of Renaissance art once again watched in silent disbelief as the floodwaters of the "royal stream" receded. This time, the raging tide had swept down from the mountainous north in a wide arc through Florence. The waters killed at least 100 persons, dealt a severe blow to the economy of one-third of Italy, and ruined countless millions of dollars' worth of Florentine...
Sliding Forests. Disaster began with a cyclonic storm that poured millions of tons of water into the Arno, the Po and their tributaries. In the mountain resort of Alleghe, a hotel employee reported that the nearby lake was overflowing its banks, pushing whole forests down the sides of the mountain. In the Trentino region near Austria, 30,000 persons were left homeless. The torrent uprooted vineyards in Chianti-producing Tuscany and massacred livestock in a region that produces most of Italy's meat. In Venice, it heavily damaged some 7,000 shops, though canal-traveling Venetians were better able...
Scientists Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson of Bell Telephone Laboratories were determined to account for all the radio energy that finds its way into the 20-ft. horn antennas at Holmdel, N.J., that Bell built for talking to the Telstar communication satellite. At the microwave frequency the horn was tuned to, 4080 megacycles, radio waves from the stars and galaxies were all but undetectable, and tests with a ground transmitter proved that waves from the earth's surface could be disregarded. Still, signals were coming in. What was their origin...