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| | Rome, city, Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | The provinces were governed by the senate for the benefit not of Rome but of the senatorial class; enormous wealth (by graft and by trade) flowed into the hands of the senators, who used it exclusively to their own advantage. | | | Among the countless artists and architects who served the papal court, Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Domenico Fontana were the chief creators of Rome as it is today. | | | Odoacer and Theodoric the Great kept the old administration of Rome under Roman law, with Roman officials. |
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| | A Pro-Fascist View of the March on Rome. |
| | The result of these negotiations was that the other members of the Cabinet placed their resignations in the Premier's hands, but the latter did not resign, and the Cabinet continued to remain in office. | | | Mussolini had purposely kept away from Rome so as not to be involved in the negotiations for forming a Cabinet. | | | The King appeared at the balcony between General Diaz, now Minister of War, and his colleague Admiral Thaon di Revel, Minister of Marine. |
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| | Gaius Julius Caesar - Ancient Roman Empire Forums |
| | Was Caesar justified in his march on Rome, or like the generals before him, was he just going after supreme power? | | | A fact that after his death the Populares ceased to exist and became the Caesarian movement. | | | Try a different angle, place yourself in the senate of Republican Rome, take a stance either with or against Caesar. |
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http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=1480
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| | ROME IN AFRICA |
| | In the lesson of Rome we have a menace, an omen not to be gainsaid, an augury eloquent as death in the midst of life, as well as the stimulus of a supreme example. | | | With the fall of Jugurtha the dominion of Rome in Africa became supreme. | | | This march of Rome in Africa was described by her historians with the onesidedness characteristic of the Roman scribe in all epochs. |
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| | Italy Fascism Revolution 1922 |
| | The "March on Rome" (October 28, 1922) by his Faacists compelled Facta to declare (belatedly) a state of siege and to decree martial law. | | | Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), head of the National Fascist Party, demanded the resignation of Italy's premier, Luigi Facta (1861-1930), a liberal though weak leader, and the formation of a Fascist governmetn, threatening dire consequences if his demand were not met. | | | King Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), Italy's constitutional head of state, refused to sign the decree, however, and dismissed Facta. |
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| | Pope calls for Iraq hostages' release, thousands march in Rome. 30/04/2004. ABC News Online |
| | While bishops from the hostages' home towns attended the march, few politicians from the major Italian parties showed up, a reflection of the controversy the issue has caused. | | | Archbishop Lajolo said the head of the Roman Catholic Church was praying for the hostages in his private chapel. | | | Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a staunch supporter of the US-led war in Iraq in the face of virulent public opposition, later welcomed the families to the presidential palace. |
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| | The Word From Rome March 12, 2004 |
| | It’s probably no accident that all three appointments were announced on or near March 8, the United Nations-declared International Women’s Day. | | | The appointment of Butler and Hallensleben marks the first time women have been named to the ITC in its 35-year history. | | | This, taken in combination with the March 9 nomination of Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon as president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has sparked talk of a “feminist turn” in Vatican personnel policy. |
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| | 1998 - ROME 24 MARCH - PRESS RELEASE: UNESCO |
| | Lamberto Dini, received the Director General of UNESCO, Mr Federico Mayor, in Rome for an official visit, at the Farnesina today. | | | Lamberto Dini, received the Director General of UNESCO, Mr Federico Mayor, in Rome for an official visit, at the Farnesina today | | | 1998 - ROME 24 MARCH - PRESS RELEASE: UNESCO |
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| | March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Great Britain and her colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, the same year they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar. | | | Historical names for March include the Saxon term Lenctmonat, named for the equinox and eventual lengthening of days and the eventual namesake of Lent. | | | For other uses of this term, see March (disambiguation). |
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| | The Word From Rome March 19, 2004 |
| | To mark the occasion, I sat down March 18 with Archbishop John Foley, the American who serves as president of the council. | | | The formal title is “Life Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas.” Especially given the high-profile Terry Schiavo case in the United States, not to mention the equally neuralgic BWV case in Australia, it is a subject of obvious topical interest. | | | Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice-president of the Pontifical Academy of Life, asserted that people in a persistent vegetative state can recover after months, in some cases even after years. |
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| | Telegraph News 2m workers march through Rome in anti-terror protest |
| | A day later his Minister for Justice called the rally `a basin of terrorists'. | | | UP to two million workers converged on Rome yesterday in protest against the killing of a government adviser and the labour reforms that he had helped to draft, amid fears that Italian politics are returning to the violent struggles of the 1970s and 1980s. | | | The murder of Mr Biagi has been claimed by a Red Brigades cell, which said that the economist had been "executed" because of his role in drafting the labour reforms. |
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| | MARCH ON ROME |
| | 5 - Support of the Senate - Worth 3 tributes in Bid for Rome. | | | TRIBUTE PHASE The monetary unit is the 'tribute' Use change to represent tributes. | | | This represents money spent on bribes, assassins, and politicking. |
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| | Half a million march in Rome |
| | Giuliana's father is an ex-partisan in the war against Nazi-fascism and a retired railroad worker. | | | Leading the march were two enormous banners reading "Let's liberate peace" and "Liberate Giuliana, Florence and Hussein." Sgrena's elderly parents, Franco Sgrena and Antonietta Sgrena, and her lifelong companion Pier Scolari, headed the march. | | | A contingent of U.S. Citizens Against War from Florence and Rome marched behind a large banner reading "Not in our name" and was applauded all along the march route. |
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| | Ides of March - what is it? |
| | Bocca della Verita = Mouth of Truth (as if we needed that...) | | | Ides of March is when Caesar was assassined ("E tu, Brute?") and to commemorise this notorious event in the history of our great city, Rome H3 organises a celebration weekend every year in mid-March: | | | Annual week - end Hosted by The Rome Hash house Harriers |
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http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Park/5785/ides_of_march.html
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| | The March on Rome |
| | The 1922 March on Rome was to establish Mussolini and the Fascist Party he led, as the most important political party in Italy. | | | Mussolini would demand the resignation of the government and that a new Fascist government be allowed to take over. | | | He was fearful that his cousin would replace him if he stood up to Mussolini and failed. |
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| | Massive Crowd Floods Rome in Peace Protest |
| | Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said the march was a demonstration both opposed to terrorism and war. | | | Anti-war protesters march in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum during a demonstration against war on Iraq, February 15, 2003. | | | Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been one of U.S. President George W. Bush's staunchest supporters in Europe. |
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| | Anti war march in Rome, March 19 2005 - organizing the US Citizens for Peace contingent |
| | I sent in an endorsement to the official site for the Rome march and they listed us as "United States Citizens for Peace". | | | I knew one thing for certain, there would be other people from the United States at the anti war protest in Rome on March 19, 2005, the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. | | | Anti war march in Rome, March 19 2005 - organizing the US Citizens for Peace contingent |
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| | March on Rome -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | The March on Rome turned into a parade to show the Fascist Party's support for Mussolini as the new prime minister. | | | Also considers the question of support for Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan. | | | On October 15, 1815, Napoleon disembarked in St. Helena with those followers who were voluntarily accompanying him into exile: General Henri-Gratien Bertrand, grand marshal of the palace, and his wife; the comte Charles de Montholon, aide-de-camp, and his wife; General Gaspard Gourgaud; Emmanuel Las Cases, the former chamberlain; and several servants. |
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| | CNN.com - Thousands gather for Rome protest - March 23, 2002 |
| | The main focus of the march was the government's plans for radical labour market reform. | | | Biagi, a highly respected economist who had worked with both the previous centre-left administration and the current conservative government on labour issues, was gunned down in front of his home on Tuesday as he bicycled back from work. | | | Saturday's march is one of several planned in the days and weeks ahead which pit the power of the unions -- representing some 12 million workers -- against the government. |
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| | Francesco Storace, president of the Lazio region of which Rome is the capital, described John Paul as "an extraordinary Pope" and said his words vindicated opponents of the parade. | | | "The Gay Pride march, with ministers and leaders of the left at its head, was a depressing spectacle," said Pierfrancesco Casini, leader of the centre-right and Christian CCD party. | | | "In the name of the Church of Rome, I must express sadness for the affront to the Great Jubilee of the year 2000 and the offence to Christian values of a city that is so dear to the heart of Catholics of the whole world," he said. |
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| | Peace march in Rome for Giuliana Sgrena: What's On in Rome Event Blog |
| | The newspaper made an appeal for a peace march in Rome to demand her release along with all hostages and to end the occupation of Iraq. | | | I said yes, I had been at the march. | | | She had spoken with her daughter who was already at S. Maria Maggiore. |
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| | RTE News - Pope condemns gay rights march in Rome |
| | Calling the march "an offence to the Christian values of the city that is so dear to the heart of Catholics of the whole world", he said the Church "could not keep quiet about the truth" and read a Church law calling homosexuality "objectively disordered". | | | The organisers had refused the Mayor's request to postpone the rally to avoid a clash with Poland's national pilgrimage to the city, and with other Jubilee Year events. | | | Yesterday 70,000 gay rights supporters gathered in Rome for their controversial World Gay pride march despite Mayor Francesco Rutelli's decision to withdraw the city's sponsorship of the event. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Italians demand hostages' release |
| | Supporters from the hostages' home towns were bussed to Rome to attend the rally. | | | Some politicians said they would attend the march in a personal capacity. | | | The mainstream political parties had agreed not to attend as they did not want to be seen to be capitulating to the kidnappers' demands. |
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| | ITALY: Over a Million March in Rome against War |
| | Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was also targeted by the marchers for his support of Washington's plans for a military attack on Iraq. | | | Participating in the Rome march were at least 130 opposition lawmakers and some representatives from the ruling centre-right coalition, a sign of the growing domestic rejection of Italy's foreign policy, which is aligned with Washington's. | | | Alex Zanotelli, who travelled to Rome with a group from Milan to take part in the march said, ”Berlusconi has to respect our constitution. |
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| | BLITZER: Eleven of the cardinals are American, seven from the United States, four of them who live in Rome. | | | And in 1978, as an example, Cardinal Sheehan retired from Baltimore, was in Rome for the conclave. | | | I'll speak with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington D.C. He's live in Rome. |
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| | Bulletin - Millions march in Rome |
| | The march also became a protest against terrorism after the earlier murder in Bologna of lawyer Marco Biagi, a co-author of the controversial reform, by the far-left terrorist group, the Red Brigades. | | | More than two million people marched through the streets of Rome to show opposition to labour law reform in what organisers said was the biggest protest ever held in Italy. | | | Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel, the owners of two dogs that killed a San Francisco woman, were found guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter respectively. |
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| | Some 25,000 fascist Blackshirts were also transported to the city, where they marched in a ceremonial parade on 31 October. | | | A protracted crisis in government and the threat of civil war enabled him to demand the formation of a fascist government to restore order. | | | The ‘march’ was a propaganda myth: Mussolini travelled overnight by train from Milan to Rome, where he formed a government the following day, 30 October. |
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| | March rome - MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Fascists March on Rome |
| | Rome, 10 - 14 March 2003 Report of the 16th Session of the Committee on Forestry (Rome, 10-14 March 2003) | | | A period of economic and political turmoil engulfed Italy after On October 28, 1922, as the Fascists staged a March on Rome, | | | Note: In a potentially related case, on March 3, 2002, Italian police arrested six men in Rome who are believed to have ties to Usama bin Laden. |
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| | Rome, Italy - March 2004 |
| | The Colosseum is probably the best known landmark in Rome. | | | The most spectacular sight in Rome in our opinion is the Pantheon. | | | This is more or less the location of that scene and the burning of Caesar's body which followed. |
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| | Italians gather in Rome for peace march to urge release of hostages |
| | Relatives have stressed the march is a peace rally, and not a protest of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's policies. | | | Italians gather in Rome for peace march to urge release of hostages | | | The march, near St. Peter's Square, has been promoted by the families of the captives, who have been threatened with death unless Italians stage a "huge demonstration" in Rome to denounce the government's involvement in Iraq. |
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| | Fodor's Travel Guides Forums Messages |
| | Thursday March 24 - ROME ->CAPRI -> SANTA PHILOMENA | | | It will be 3/4 filled with seats, then there will be wooden barricades blocking the seats off, and you can stand anywhere behind the barricades. | | | i have to agree with the train to firenze...we did it from rome once and i think we may have had business class or first class tix b/c we had a nice breakfast and all right in our seat. |
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| | ALAC Announcement 28 February 2004 |
| | The ALAC also recently sent a statement on WSIS to the United Nations. | | | Regional meetings will be held on 1-2 March for At-Large groups in Europe, Asia/Australia/Pacific, and Latin America/Caribbean Islands. |
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| | Rome bans clemency march for ex-Nazi - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Prefect Achille Serra’s office announced the decision, citing security concerns after learning that several groups opposed to the pardon also were planning counter-demonstrations on Friday. | | | Rome bans clemency march for ex-Nazi - Stormfront White Nationalist Community | | | Rome’s security officials today banned a planned demonstration by a right-wing group seeking a pardon for former Nazi captain Erich Priebke, who was convicted for a wartime massacre of 335 civilians. |
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| | United Press International - International - 1 million Italians march against Iraq war |
| | "I love my country, but I also know that my country is part of the world community," said John Miller, 45, who was in Rome on vacation from Ellicott City, Maryland. | | | But hundreds of Americans ignored the warning, and participated in the march or watched from the sidelines. | | | But whatever number is used, it is far more than the 500,000-person figure police said they were expecting in the days leading up to the march. |
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| | Italians to march in Rome for release of | | | Italians to march in Rome for release of kidnapped journalist | | | "Italians to march in Rome for release of kidnapped journalist. |
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| | Traffic Trap Central |
| | The village of New Rome died abandoned and alone on September 9th, 2004. | | | Born in 1947 it has been a source of corruption and abuse for many years and will never be missed. | | | More pictures will follow of the march with the coffin! |
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| | Clement of Rome on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Swiss Guards preparing to celebrate 500 years in service of the pope with historic march to Rome from Switzerland | | | Publication: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution; Author: LESA ROSATO ; Source: NEWSPAPERS | | | The Village at Maplewood in Rome Resort-style living makes things easier for active seniors |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Fascist March on Rome |
| | This show of power prompted Italian King Victor Emmanuel III to invite Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to join a coalition government in Italy. | | | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Fascist March on Rome | | | Over the next few years Mussolini seized power and became dictator, installing a Fascist regime that ruled Italy until 1943. |
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| | Rome: An Owl in a Thornbush - TV.com |
| | This is an allusion to Third Mithridatic War, where Mithridates VI of Pontus allied himself with bands of pirates in the eastern Mediterranean against Rome. | | | The pirates were immensely successful: attacking Roman shipping, threatening the supply of grain to Rome; conducting inland raids to capture and ransom prominent Roman citizens - including an ex-Consul's daughter, and two Praetors; and even attacking the Roman fleet while it was in harbor! | | | With Caesar quickly advancing toward Rome, Pompey begins ordering a retreat and forces his citizens to pick sides. |
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| | Saturday's demonstration in Rome, called by the trade union confederation CGIL against the Berlusconi government's attacks on workers' rights, was the the biggest demonstration ever in the history of Italy. | | | Below we print excerpts of a report on the March 23 demonstration written by members of our sister organization in that country, Comunismo dal basso (Communism from below). | | | However, thus far the obstinacy of the ruling class and and the returning militancy of rank and file workers, stimulated by the knock-on effect of the anti-capitalist movement seem to make any such sellout difficult to put into practice. |
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| | Italy: Rome in Feb/March |
| | You may also want to contact the American University or other colleges that offer Rome programs to see if they have a listing of students seeking roommates. | | | I've been to Sicily many times but I've never been to Rome and I've never been anywhere by myself. | | | I was a corporate travel consultant for 3 years, and involved in various aspects of travel arranging, as a travel agent and then agency marketing manager, for 7 years. |
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| | Christian Message Boards: Going to Rome in March! |
| | Then on March the 9th I am headed to Rome with family of mine. | | | I wont get back until March the 17th. | | | Christian Message Boards: Going to Rome in March! |
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| | 7,000 People March In Rome Against Fujimori |
| | This will be an "attitude hostile" and "self-defense" rally against the massacre of Lima and in solidarity with the MRTA and their struggle, and against the violence of the Italian police. | | | On the 25th of April (celebrated in Italy as the National Celebration Day of the Liberation from Nazi Fascism), there was a demo in Rome of 7,000 people from the autonomous and revolutionary left against fascism and racism. | | | But this time, the annual rally was led by 14 of our comrades with the MRTA flag, bandannas, and a rose, and the lead banner of the demonstration said: "25 aprile - SIAMO TUTTI TUPAC AMARU!" (April 25 - WE ARE All TUPAC AMARU!). |
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| | Tens of Thousands March in Rome |
| | ROME -- Holding candles, tens of thousands of people on Monday marched through the streets of Rome in memory of the victims of the school hostage crisis in Russia and in protest of all acts of terrorism. | | | "Rome With the Beslan Children," read a banner leading the march, which ended at the Colosseum. | | | You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox. |
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| | DC NEWS FROM ROME FOR MARCH 5 (mar5nr1.htm) |
| | The Bishop of Rome equated the prevailing mentality with the desire for "ephemeral satisfactions," which lead to contempt of one's "own dignity and that of others." | | | The Pope contrasted the dominant cultural model of the day with Jesus' words: "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." | | | We also count on your prayers to the Lord, dear Brothers and Sisters, so that these days of intense listening to the Spirit of God, and of silence and constant prayer will result in the hoped for fruits of spiritual renewal. |
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| | ABC News: Rome Demonstrators March for Hostage |
| | Demonstrators in Rome March for Release of Italian Journalist Held Hostage in Iraq | | | The hostage's father, Franco Sgrena, said he was heartened as he watched hundreds of people stream toward the march's starting point. | | | ROME Feb 19, 2005 — Thousands of people marched in Rome on Saturday to demand the release of a kidnapped Italian journalist, days after she was seen in a video pleading for Italians to pressure their government to withdraw the nation's troops from Iraq. |
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