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90Sicilian Christmas Dishes
(public domain) Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and is bordered also by the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian seas. All of it is beautiful. Even though it is an island, it still has room for...
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82The King's Golden Crown
An alchemist at work. Alchemists failed to make gold out of other metls, but they learned many useful facts. Archimedes (287-212 B.C.) was a Greek, a native of Syracuse, a city in Sicily. He was a great...
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82Italian Christmas: Feast of the Seven Fishes
The feasts of Italy and Sicily are full of good food and tradition. Here is one of them...
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82Italian Villas
Who has not dreamed of getting away for a couple of weeks, a month or even an entire summer season in an Italian villa? Italy is a wonderful tourist location year-round, with fantastic shopping, gorgeous...
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81Jettatore
Pope Pius IX, a Jettatore? The jettatore is said to be born with eyes that damage whatever they see. Wherever he goes, he is feared- ================================== “In...
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78Discover Andrea Camilleri, and enter mysterious Sicily
Take an idiosyncratic police Inspector, surround him with quirky good guys and bad guys, place them in a funny yet sad Sicily, add Camilleri's way with words and out come an engaging Montalbano mystery. That...
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77Mount Etna.. A Thrilling Part Of Your Sicily Vacation!
When you hear of active volcanoes, one cannot help but think of Mount Etna, one of the world’s most famous volcanoes. Located on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Mount Etna is the largest active...
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76Sicily Genealogy: Tracing Your Sicilian Roots
The internet has made Sicily genealogy information much easier to find. There are search engines designed to assist you in your search for Sicily family history, as well as numerous websites dedicated to...
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74The Name Maida and its Place in History
The surname Maida is not the most common name in the United States; on my last count there were only ten or twelve Maida families in the Washington, DC area. They are more common in Calabria in southern...
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73Battle of Syracuse (415-413 BC)
After the defeat of the Persians at Salamis and Plataea in 480 and 479 b.c., Athens rose to the top in Greek politics. As the leading naval power she made herself the strongest member of the Delian League, a...
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