Word: benito
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...understand Gaddafi is to understand his heritage. Son of a nomadic livestock trader, he was born in a tent in the desert near the Libyan town of Sirte in 1942 Libya was then occupied by the forces of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, and its people were treated, at best, as fifth-class citizens. That bitter memory, as much as his tribal upbringing and education in Muslim schools, shaped Gaddafi...
With parades, wreath-laying ceremonies and special Masses, Greeks this week will mark Ohi Day, one of their proudest national celebrations. It commemorates the day in 1940 when the government replied ohi (no) to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to allow his troops to occupy strategic points on Greek territory. Yet for a majority of Greeks Ohi Day came somewhat earlier this year. In a landslide election that brought to power the country's first socialist government, Greeks last week not only said ohi to the conservative New Democracy party, which has ruled for the past seven...
...Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Louis XIV and Alexander the Great were all cat haters. Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, Victor Hugo and Mark Twain were all cat lovers. I much prefer the company of the latter group...
After Italy was unified in 1861, Masonry was tolerated for more than half a century. In 1925, however, Benito Mussolini suppressed the organization. After World War II, Masons were again allowed to assemble, although anti-secrecy provisions of the new Italian constitution required that membership lists be made available to authorities upon request. Today even the church's position toward Masonic organizations appears to have mellowed. In March the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, declared that excommunication should apply only to those Catholics who belong to associations that are "truly plotting" against the church...
...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...