Word: capua
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...muddy, determined Fifth inched forward, mopped up the hard knots of resistance. One day it trudged into steepled Capua, where Hannibal and his Carthaginians had wintered after slaughtering the Romans at Cannae. There Mark Clark's men stood in a strategic bend of the Volturno River. Across 200 yards of rushing water lay the German line. By week's end the Fifth had moved up to the Volturno on both sides of Capua, along a front stretching 40 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Patrols nudged across the stream, engaged the enemy in sharp skirmishes...
...Italy, a perfect cavern-chapel to Mithras, Persian god of light, was found in Santa Maria di Capua. Some 100 other Mithraic shrines had been known in Italy, but none so complete as this. Frescos presented Mithras as a strong youth, in brilliant red tunic with green cuffs and gold fringe, sacrificing a white bull with red nostrils beneath a blue, star-studded...
...Rinaldo da Capua, recitative and air, "Dal sen del Caro Sposo," from "Vologeso, Re de' Parti...
...Rinaldo da Capua, Recitative and Air, "Dal sen del Caro Sposo," from "Vologeso, Re de' Parti...
...will sing an air by Rinaldo da Capua, from his opera, "Vologeso," and three songs by Strauss. "Morgen," "Die Nacht" and "Heimliche Aufforderung." The second and third songs have been orchestrated for her by Andre Maquarre of the Symphony Orchestra. The orchestral numbers will be Chusson's Symphony in B flat, the Grand Fugue of Beethoven and Liszt's "Mazappa...