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3 days ago · The Sicilian people are indigenous to the island of Sicily, which was first populated beginning in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. According to the famous Italian historian Carlo Denina, the origin of the first inhabitants of Sicily is no less obscure than that of the first Italians; however, there is no doubt that a large part of these early individuals traveled to Sicily from Southern ...
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1 day ago · Bobby Fischer was born at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on March 9, 1943. His mother, Regina Wender Fischer, was a US citizen, born in Switzerland; her parents were Polish Jews. Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Regina became a teacher, a registered nurse, and later a physician.
- Robert James Fischer
- 1972–1975
- 2785 (July 1972)
- Grandmaster (1958)
4 days ago · Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ(t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
Apr 30, 2024 · Sir James Lacaita. Expedition of the Thousand, campaign undertaken in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi that overthrew the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples) and permitted the union of southern Italy and Sicily with the north. The expedition was one of the most dramatic events of the Risorgimento (movement for Italian unification) and was ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 23, 2024 · Over 250 color and black and white illustrations, graphs, and maps. Over 2200 entries and 1.5 million words. 4 volumes and one index and resources volume.Online version as of 2010. The struggle for Sephardic-Mizrahi autonomy: racial identities in Palestine-Israel, 1918-1948 by Sharim, Yehuda. Call Number: LD791.9.C85 Online.
- Diane Mizrachi
- 2009
Apr 19, 2024 · Raoul Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, Stockholm, Sweden—died July 17, 1947?, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance and subsequent death while a prisoner in the Soviet Union.
Apr 26, 2024 · On 11 July 1947, over 4,500 Holocaust survivors boarded a worn-out passenger ship, Exodus 1947, with the goal of breaching a naval blockade of British Mandate Palestine in order to rebuild their lives in a future Jewish state. Although the Haganah organized mission would be one of dozens of failed attempts at Jewish immigration during the ...
