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Word: tuscan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tuscan small business owner, Renzi has focused his efforts on making the provincial government more efficient and delivering services. In particular, he's improved Florentine school facilities, expanded recycling and seems to have a solution to flooding along the Arno river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Italy's Left Found its Own Obama? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Nazi resistance movement are angry over the film, a fictionalized account of the travails of the 92nd Infantry Division - the black GIs known as Buffalo Soldiers - as they helped liberate Italy. The film includes a portrayal of the Nazis' infamous 1944 slaughter of some 560 Italian civilians in the Tuscan town of Sant'Anna di Stazzema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...Maybe we’re exaggerating a little. Ignoring that particular lunch’s carb-heavy options, it was possible to make a nutritious and—dare I say it?—tasty lunch out of soup and a spinach salad topped with garlic kale and Tuscan chickpeas. Sounds almost gourmet. But our rumblings, exaggerated though they may be, stem from a legitimate source. Something is going on under the mountain of starch, and I set out to uncover it. First of all, the HUDS menu plan works on a seasonal system. Right now we?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Coop and the Case of the Missing Deliciousness | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...globe - there are no less than 187 direct flights that leave London for New York every week and 28 weekly flights from Hong Kong to New York - staying in their favorite hotels and dining at their favorite private clubs, Nylonkong's financial-services executives are heirs to the Tuscan moneylenders who first stretched the sinews of capitalism 700 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Three Cities | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...protesting profs. The letter, which was signed by several notable members of the physics faculty, cites a 1990 speech made by Benedict, then the Vatican Cardinal in charge of Church doctrine, describing the Church's 17th century heresy trial against Galileo as "reasonable and fair." The famed Tuscan-born astronomer had been prosecuted for affirming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited the Sun along with the other planets. Two years after the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's speech, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Church had treated Galileo, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Cancels University Visit | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

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