Word: milano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black coat, the lining is black and orange, perhaps in commemoration of this year's Ivy League football champions. Anyway, the design is composed of the shields of Italian city-states-- Bologna, Veneza, Pisa, Lucca, Milano, Firenze, Grossto, and even stormy Trieste. Keep warm and learn geography at the same time...
Michael R. Milano and Gerald M. Amero wrote in behalf of the residents of Weld South that the low temperature in their rooms between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. was "conducive to colds." The next day, two engineers placed a thermograph in the yardlings' room, which measured the heat in the room, and three days later a new thermostat was giving more heat to Weld...
...engineers decided to install a new thermostat, the effectiveness of which they later checked with a new thermograph, which showed the new average temperature of the room to be about 70 degrees. Milano and Amero have since reported that the room has been too hot at times since the new thermostat was installed...
...between 1370 and 1380, making it the only known 14th century fresco in Milan. Part of the fresco was destroyed in early attempts to restore it, but enough remains to set scholars wondering who the artist was. One hypothesis is that he might well be one Giovanni de Milano, born near Como, who came to Milan in the 1370-80 period and introduced a more realistic style with emphasis on details of robes and three-dimensionality...
Before long, the local Catholics were stung to action. Wearing a light sport shirt and black trousers and carrying a heavy cane, Father James Milano of Pecos' Santa Rosa Catholic Church appeared, shouting, "Catholics-don't listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...