Word: montecorvino
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...many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town and airfield of Montecorvino Pugliano. On the eleventh day a reporter flying over the lines saw columns of Germans retreating inland...
...thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
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