Word: cagliari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breathtaking. In Cagliari. Sardinia, Mario Mamelli went to the city hall for a new identity card, was told that he had been officially dead for 19 years and was breaking the law by remaining alive...
...racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...
Since the first of these votive offerings was discovered in the 18th century, more than 400 have been uncovered. The best are now on display at Sardinia's National Museum at Cagliari. Despite their small dimensions, they have dignity and mystery, qualities that made them heavy with totemic power and points of reassurance in a time when minute man moved against a background of threatening and capricious nature...
...Milan's La Scala, Naples' San Carlo, the Rome Opera, Venice's La Fenice, the Comu-nale of Florence, Bologna and Cagliari, Genoa's Carlo Felice, Turin's Regio, Trieste's Verdi, Verona's Arena and Palermo's Massimo...
Besides generating 90 million kilowatts to light the houses that will dot the new green fields, the dams will divert the pent-up waters through some 900 miles of new canals and ditches to irrigate an estimated 150,000 acres of barren southern plains around the capital city of Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living...