Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Paris within two years, Dumas founded a newspaper called the Musketeer; the first issue announced 50 forthcoming volumes of his memoirs. He toured Russia (seven volumes), bought a little schooner, scooped up a charmer from a Paris theater and sailed for the Levant. But in Genoa he joined Garibaldi, took some of the Thousand aboard, and landed with the liberators in Sicily...
...Genoa's Duilio Marcante is a blond, brawny specialist in diving equipment who spends a lot of time with air tank and rubber flippers below the surface of the Mediterranean. One day Marcante sat on a rock, staring into the clear, green water and thought- as he later recalled: Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were a statue of Christ down there. Then the dead - all who have lived by the sea and died in it - could have their own secure refuge, a place to pray." Duilio Marcante told some of his friends, and the idea raced...
...flotilla of small boats in the bay of San Fruttuoso. After Mass, the giant statue, its 900-lb. bulk suspended from a naval crane, was lowered into the sea. Slowly the water mounted, inch by inch, until at last it swirled over the suppliant hands. Said a message from Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri: "Where men, the pioneers of new roads, are beginning to descend, our Lord and Redeemer descends today...
...Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa. N.Y. tailor, farmer, phrenologist violin player and horse trader, who exhibited them, together with his own wares and talents, in barns all over his county...
...while a prisoner of war in Genoa, Marco Polo dictated The Description of the World, his account of "the diversities of kingdoms, provinces, and regions of all parts of the East." A copy annotated by Christopher Columbus is in the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville...