Word: brescia
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...building will serve as a permanent base for the center and offer more space, separate facilities for men and women, a dining area and an overall "greater level of comfort," according to Richard M. Brescia, President of the CASPAR Board of Directors...
...with about 200 drawings and prints. For comparison, there are a further 200 or so works by the Venetian artists who shaped him -- Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini -- and by those who were inspired by him. The latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano in Venice to Savoldo in Brescia and Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, is large, since Titian was one of the half a dozen or so most influential painters who ever lived. Among Venetian artists of the cinquecento, only Lorenzo Lotto, that great independent, resisted the pressure of his style...
...always thought it was rabid," said Barbara J. Brescia '95. "It was really funny, because everyone ran away from...
...climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia, Italy, Egg suggests that the Iceman and fellow shepherds had worked their way through the Alpine foothills from the south, grazing their flocks. It is also possible that he was seeking flint in the highlands...
...enough votes in industrial northern Italy to become the second biggest party in the region. As leftist views have gone out of style, discontented voters are turning to the right to express their bitter disaffection with the government in Rome. In a November election in the city of Brescia, the league polled 24.4% to edge out the Christian Democrats for No. 1. In the next general elections, which could come as early as this spring, the league plans to run candidates for $ Parliament throughout Italy; some polls indicate that the league and like- minded groups could collect...