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2 days ago · The master marksman Sagen Maddalena is heading to her second Olympic games this summer, competing in the 50-meter rifle three position and the highly precise 10-meter rifle events. "What we're ...
2 days ago · The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
- By Medico, Castellan of Potrone, considered the first ancestor of the house
- 1230; 793 years ago
3 days ago · The master marksman Sagen Maddalena is heading to her second Olympic games this summer, competing in the 50-meter rifle three position and the highly precise 10-meter rifle events. “What we’re striving for is the size of a dot or period on a newspaper. That’s that’s what we’re striving to hit for 60 shots in a row,” Maddalena explained.
1 day ago · Sardinia. Sardinia (/ s ɑːr ˈ d ɪ n i ə / sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa]) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island ...
- 24,090 km² (9,300 sq mi)
- Italy
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4 days ago · Clarice Orsini (c. 1453 – 29 July 1487) was the daughter of Jacopo (Giacomo) Orsini (see Orsini family), lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini. Born in Rome, she is most known as the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent), de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic.
21 hours ago · Giulio Andreotti (Roma, 14 gennaio 1919 – Roma, 6 maggio 2013) è stato un politico, scrittore e giornalista italiano. È stato uno dei principali esponenti della Democrazia Cristiana , partito protagonista della vita politica italiana per gran parte della seconda metà del XX secolo.
