Word: canali
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...there any real evidence that Martians existed? After peering through his telescope in 1877, Italian Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli (an uncle of the celebrated Paris couturiere) reported that he had charted several dozen canali linking dark areas on the surface of Mars. These canali, the astronomer wrote, "present an indescribable simplicity and symmetry that cannot possibly be the work of chance...