Word: sardinia
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...collection of cattle comprises eleven different kinds of buffaloes, from Africa, India, America, Malaya, Java, and Tibet. The sheep and goat heads include specimens from the high mountains of North America, Asia, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Alps...
Fifty-nine years ago when ten-month-old Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, swung a royal rattle, and 13-year-old Achille Ratti declined irregular verbs in a Milan seminary, the troops of small Vittorio's grandfather, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, recently proclaimed King of Italy, stormed and breached the walls of the Papal city of Rome...
...kings: Kings of Sardinia Charles Felix (1821-31), Charles Albert (1831-49)-Kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II (1849-78); Humbert I (1878-1900), Vittorio Emanuele...
Signor Belluzzo was in Sardinia on a tour of inspection last week, when informed by cable, of his "rotation" and peremptorily ordered to return to Rome. Count Volpi left his office in the Ministry of Finance for the last time without a word to subordinates...
...inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...