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Acquedolci
Acquedolci (Sicilian: Acquaduci) is an Italian town and comune in the Province of Messina in Sicily.
Its name, that can be translated in English as "fresh waters", probably came from the fresh water springs which are part of the town territory. The inhabited centre was founded in 1922, following a landslide which damaged the town of San Fratello, forcing a large part of the population to relocate there. Acquedolci, which was a frazione of San Fratello, obtained commune status in 1969.
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Alcara li Fusi
Alcara li Fusi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 80 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,339 and an area of 62.3 km².
Alcara li Fusi borders the following municipalities: Cesarò, Longi, Militello Rosmarino, San Fratello, San Marco d'Alunzio.
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The village is 398 meters above sea level on the slopes of the Nebrodi Mountains, which extend from the peaks of Mount Crasto (about 1,300 meters above sea level), to the northeast, to the plateau of Miraglia, with Mount Soro (1,847 meters above sea level).
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Alì
Alì is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 20 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 900 and an area of 16.7 km².
Alì borders the following municipalities: Alì Terme, Fiumedinisi, Itala.
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Alì Terme
Alì Terme is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 25 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,609 and an area of 6.2 km².
Alì Terme borders the following municipalities: Alì, Fiumedinisi, Itala, Nizza di Sicilia.
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Antillo
Antillo (Sicilian: Antiddu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,055 and an area of 43.4 km².
Antillo borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo, Castroreale, Fondachelli-Fantina, Francavilla di Sicilia, Graniti, Limina, Mongiuffi Melia, Motta Camastra, Roccafiorita, Rodì Milici.
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Basicò
Basicò is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 45 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 730 and an area of 12.0 km².
Basicò borders the following municipalities: Montalbano Elicona, Tripi.
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Brolo
Brolo (Sicilian: Brolu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. Brolo borders the following municipalities: Ficarra, Naso, Piraino, Sant'Angelo di Brolo.
Until 1960 the economy was mostly based on agriculture, the main produces including olives and lemons. Now the economy is based on buildings houses, commerce and some summer-tourism.
During the Roman era Brolo was called Brolium, meaning "garden" or "Park" in Latin, and was crossed by the Via Valeria. In the Middle Ages it had a castle on the sea, around which, probably from the 11th century, a fishermens' settlement arose. Bianca Lancia, mistress and wife of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, probably lived in the castle during the 13th century according to some historiographers. It was the scene of an amphibious landing during the Battle of Sicily in World War II.
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Capizzi
Capizzi (Greek: Καπίτιον; Latin: Capitium) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 100 km southeast of Palermo and about 100 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,452 and an area of 69.9 km².
Capizzi borders the following municipalities: Caronia, Cerami, Cesarò, Mistretta.
The origins of Capizzi are unclear, although certainly ancient. Capitium is mentioned by Cicero and Ptolemy, and appears from the former to have been a place of some importance. He mentions it in conjunction with Haluntium (modern San Marco d'Alunzio), Enguium (modern Gangi), and other towns in the northern part of the island, and Ptolemy enumerates it among the inland cities of Sicily. Its situation on the southern slope of the mountains of Caronia, about 26 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the same distance from Gangi (Enguium), accords well with the ancient indications. (Cic. in Verr. iii. 4. 3; Ptol. iii. 4. § 12; Cluver. Sicil.)
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Capo d'Orlando
Capo d'Orlando (Sicilian: Capu d'Orlannu) is a comune in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy and is considered the capital of comprensorio dei Nebrodi. Well known as a vivacious, active, touristic and commercial center. Capo d'Orlando is also the birthplace of the poet Lucio Piccolo, cousin of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (see. "Il Gattopardo"). Artistic activities take place in Capo d'Orlando (municipal's picture-gallery, the museum "Villa Piccolo"), entertainment(cinema, theater, blues club).
It is home to a top division basketball team: Orlandina Basket.
The center is nowadays well known for summer seaside-related activities due to its beautiful coastline, that offers a wonderful view of the aeolian islands right in front and on the horizon, and also offers stunning sunsets in the evening. Tourism is one of the main resources that greatly contributes to the local economy. Capo d'Orlando's economy is also appreciated for its remarkable role in the area, for the massive presence of both credit and investment banks, commercial activities, several important factories located nearby such as "Porte IMIC" (wooden and metal door manufacturer), "irritec" and "siplast" (irrigation systems), and the industry related to the exploitation of the extensive presence of orange of lemon fields throughout the area.
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Capri Leone
Capri Leone (Sicilian: Capri Liuni) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,240 and an area of 6.6 km².
It is commonly referred to as Rocca di Capri Leone or simply Rocca.
Capri Leone borders the following municipalities: Capo d'Orlando, Frazzanò, Mirto, San Marco d'Alunzio, Torrenova.
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Caronia
Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: Καλάκτα, Ptol.: Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ, Diod. et al., Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about half way between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù). The town has 3,555 inhabitants.
Kale Akte (or Caleacte, Calacta, Calacte) derived its name from the beauty of the neighboring country; the whole of this strip of coast between the Montes Heraei and the sea being called by the Greek settlers from an early period, the Fair Shore (ἡ καλὴ Ἀκτή – he Kale Akte). Its beauty and fertility had attracted the particular attention of the Zanclaeans, who in consequence invited the Samians and Milesians (after the capture of Miletus by the Persians, 494 BCE) to establish themselves on this part of the Sicilian coast. Events, however, turned their attention elsewhere, and they ended with occupying Zancle itself. At a later period the project was resumed by the Sikel leader Ducetius, who, after his expulsion from Sicily by Syracuse and his exile at Corinth, returned at the head of a body of colonists from the Peloponnese; and having obtained much support from the neighbouring Siculi, especially from Archonides, dynast of Herbita, according to Diodorus Siculus founded a city on the coast, which was called Kalè Akté (The Fair Shore or Beautiful Coast). The date given by Diodorus is 446 BC, but in another passus the same author says that Ducetius colonised Kale Akte in 440 BCE, the same year he died. In addition, recent excavations at Caronia, which is clearly the site of the Hellenistic and Roman town Kale Akte, have revealed only very sparse remains from the 5th century BC, and show that a Sikel settlement already existed here in the early 5th century BCE. It is possible that Ducetius founded the colony on the site of this already existing Sikel settlement, just as he had done at Menai and Paliké.
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Carthage
Carthage (Latin: Carthago or Karthago, Ancient Greek: Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Arabic: قرطاج Qarṭāj, Berber: ⴽⴰⵔⵜⴰⵊⴻⵏ Kartajen, Etruscan: *Carθaza, Modern Hebrew: קרתגו Qartágo, from the Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt meaning New City (Aramaic: קרתא חדאתא, Qarta Ḥdatha), implying it was a 'new Tyre', is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC. It is currently a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, with a population of 20,715 (2004 Census).
The first civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic (a form of the word "Phoenician") or Carthaginian. The city of Carthage is located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the centre of Tunis. According to Greek historians it was founded by Canaanite-speaking Phoenician colonists from Tyre (in modern Lebanon) under the leadership of Elissa who was renamed (Queen Dido) in Virgil's Aeneid. It became a large and rich city and thus a major power in the Mediterranean. The resulting rivalry with Syracuse, Numidia, and Rome was accompanied by several wars with respective invasions of each other's homeland.
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Casalvecchio Siculo
Casalvecchio Siculo (Sicilian: Casalvecchiu Sìculu) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina.
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Castel di Lucio
Castel di Lucio (Sicilian: Castel di Luciu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 90 km southeast of Palermo and about 110 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,477 and an area of 28.4 km².
Castel di Lucio borders the following municipalities: Geraci Siculo, Mistretta, Nicosia, Pettineo, San Mauro Castelverde.
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Castell'Umberto
Castell'Umberto (Sicilian: Castedd'Umbertu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina.
Castell'Umberto borders the following municipalities: Naso, San Salvatore di Fitalia, Sinagra, Tortorici, Ucria. The local economy is based on the extraction and working of stone
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Castelmola
Castelmola (Sicilian: Castermula) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,107 and an area of 16.4 km².
Castelmola borders the following municipalities: Gaggi, Letojanni, Mongiuffi Melia, Taormina.
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Castroreale
Castroreale (Sicilian: Castruriali) is a village in the Province of Messina of Sicily, southern Italy.
It has around 2,702 inhabitants but over 80 churches, and is architecturally interesting, with some houses dating to the 13th century. It is located 8.5 km from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and 30 km from Messina.
It has a tower, last remain of a castle, built by Frederick II of Aragon in 1324. The name Castroreale comes from Latin, and means "royal fortress".
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Cesarò
Cesarò (Sicilian: Cisarò) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 80 km southwest of Messina.
It is included in the Parco dei Nebrodi.
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Condrò
Condrò (Sicilian: Cundrò) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 20 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 510 and an area of 5.2 km².
Condrò borders the following municipalities: Gualtieri Sicaminò, Pace del Mela, San Pier Niceto.
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Crimea
Crimea (
/kraɪˈmiːə/), or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Avtonomna Respublika Krym; Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym; Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyeti, Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриети), is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name. It was often referred to with the definite article, as the Crimea, until well into the 20th century.
The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history. The Cimmerians, Greeks, Scythians, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Khazars, the state of Kievan Rus', Byzantine Greeks, Kipchaks, Ottoman Turks, Golden Horde Tatars and the Mongols all controlled Crimea in its early history. In the 13th century, it was partly controlled by the Venetians and by the Genovese; they were followed by the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire in the 15th to 18th centuries, the Russian Empire in the 18th to 20th centuries, Germany during World War II and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, within the Soviet Union during most of the rest of the 20th century.
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Falcone, Sicily
Falcone (Sicilian: Falcuni) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 40 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,927 and an area of 9.3 km².
Falcone borders the following municipalities: Furnari, Montalbano Elicona, Oliveri, Tripi.
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Ficarra
Ficarra is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina, in the Monti Nebrodi. It is surrounded by woods of hazel and olive trees.
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Fiumedinisi
Fiumedinisi (Sicilian: Ciumidinisi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 25 km southwest of Messina.
Fiumedinisi borders the following municipalities: Alì, Alì Terme, Itala, Mandanici, Messina, Monforte San Giorgio, Nizza di Sicilia, Roccalumera, San Pier Niceto, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Floresta, Sicily
Floresta (Sicilian: Fluresta) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km east of Palermo and about 60 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2010, it had a population of 542 and an area of 31.1 km².
Floresta borders the following municipalities: Montalbano Elicona, Raccuja, Randazzo, Santa Domenica Vittoria, Tortorici, Ucria.
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Fondachelli-Fantina
Fondachelli-Fantina is a comune (municipality) in the Sicilian Province of Messina. Situated between Novara and Francavilla di Sicilia, in the southern Peloritani mountains, it rises on an inland area and is 604m above sea level. The community also borders the municipalities of Antillo and Rodì Milici. It is 81 km from Catania, 87 km from Messina, 129 km from Syracuse, and 235 km from Palermo.
Developed from a number of rural hamlets in the territory of Novara di Sicilia, the collective community attained autonomous status in 1950 and called itself Fondachelli-Fantina, a name derived from Fondaci (Arabic funduq : "stores" or "warehouses") and Fantinia (Latin infans: "child"). It is historically important as one of the last Sicilian municipalities where Gallo-Sicilian survives as a spoken dialect.
The area now known as Fondachelli-Fantina always has been quite isolated. Even today, the long, winding road connecting the municipality to the Ionian coast can become impassable during the winter. However, this insularity has aided in preserving the Gallo-Sicilian dialect, a remnant of the period during the Swabian-Norman domination (1061-1266) when people from Northern Italy migrated to the area.
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Forza d'Agrò
Forza d'Agrò is an Italian town and comune in Sicily, part of the Province of Messina.
Forza d'Agrò is on the lower peak of a small mountain, while on the higher peak that overlooks the town are the remains of a Norman castle. Much of the town consists of traditional buildings and stone paved lanes that are impassable by car. Due to this lack of recent development, Forza d'Agrò has featured as the backdrop in a number of films, such as The Godfather trilogy.
It is not certain if in the valley and hills of Forza d’Agro whether the first settlers were the Sicani or Siculi. It is thought that there may have been a village or commercial port called Phoinix, while further inland, there was a small town named Kallipolis or Agrilla which was eventually destroyed.
The first Greek settlers arrived between 8th century and the 5th century BC and it is certain that it was them who gave the name ‘Arghennon ‘akron - Silver Promontory (Promontory: a point of high land jutting out into the sea) which is the actual Cape S. Alessio. Over time, Akron changed to Argon then to Agron and finally to Agrò. Slight remains of a fort-like structure located at the top of the mountain indicate that Forza D'Agrò had once been a fortress.
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Frazzanò
Frazzanò is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 889, and an area of 6.9 km².
Frazzanò borders the following municipalities: Capri Leone, Galati Mamertino, Longi, Mirto (ME), San Marco d'Alunzio, San Salvatore di Fitalia.
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Furci Siculo
Furci Siculo (Sicilian: Furci Sìculu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 30 km southwest of Messina. Furci Siculo is twinned with Octeville sur Mer since 2010. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,287 and an area of 17.9 km².
The municipality of Furci Siculo contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Grotte, Calcare, and Artale.
Furci Siculo borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo, Pagliara, Roccalumera, Santa Lucia del Mela, Santa Teresa di Riva, Savoca.
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Furnari
Furnari (Sicilian: Fùrnari) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 178 km east of Palermo and about 54 km west of Messina. As of 28 February 2010, it had a population of 3.684 and an area of 13.5 km².
Furnari borders the following municipalities: Falcone, Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea, Terme Vigliatore, Tripi.
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Gaggi
Gaggi (Sicilian: Caggi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region of Sicily, located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 45 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,812 and an area of 7.3 km².
The municipality of Gaggi contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Cavallaro, Palmara, Falcò, Costa arancione, and Billirè. Gaggi borders the following municipalities: Castelmola, Castiglione di Sicilia, Graniti, Mongiuffi Melia, Taormina.
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Galati Mamertino
Galati Mamertino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,026 and an area of 39.0 km².
The municipality of Galati Mamertino contains the frazione (subdivision) San Basilio.
Galati Mamertino borders the following municipalities: Frazzanò, Longi, San Salvatore di Fitalia, Tortorici.
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Gallodoro
Gallodoro (Sicilian: Jaddudoru) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 402 and an area of 6.9 km².
Gallodoro borders the following municipalities: Forza d'Agrò, Letojanni, Mongiuffi Melia.
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Genoa
Genoa
/ˈdʒɛnoʊ.ə/ (Italian: Genova [ˈdʒɛːnova] (
listen); Genoese and Ligurian Zena [ˈzeːna]; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is the capital of Liguria and the sixth largest city in Italy, with a population of 608,676 within its administrative limits on a land area of 243.6 km2 (94 sq mi). The urban zone of Genoa extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 718,896. The urban area of Genoa has a population of 800,709. In the metropolitan area live between 859,000 and 1.4 million or 1.5 million people. Genoa is one of Europe's largest cities on the Mediterranean Sea and the largest seaport in Italy.
Genoa has been nicknamed la Superba ("the Superb one") due to its glorious past and impressive landmarks. Part of the old town of Genoa was inscribed on the World Heritage List (UNESCO) in 2006 (see below). The city's rich art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history, allowed it to become the 2004's European Capital of Culture. It is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
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Germany
Germany (
i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] (
listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Giardini Naxos
Giardini Naxos (Sicilian: Giaddini) is a comune in the Province of Messina on the island of Sicily in Italy. It is situated on the coast of the Ionian Sea on a bay which lies between Cape Taormina and Cape Schisò. Today it is a popular seaside-resort.
Founded by Thucles the Chalcidian in 734 BC, Naxos was never a powerful city, but its temple of Apollo Archegetes, protecting deity of all the Greek colonies, gave it prominence in religious affairs. Leontini and Catania were both colonized from here. Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, captured it in 494 BC. Its opposition to Syracuse ultimately led to its capture and destruction in 403 BC at the hands of Dionysius the tyrant, after it had supported Athens during that city's disastrous Sicilian Expedition. Though the site continued to be inhabited, most activity shifted to neighbouring Tauromenium.
In 1544, following the raids by Turkish corsair, Barbarossa Kheir-ed-Din, several military buildings were constructed to protect Cape Schisò from the Barbary pirates who continued to attack and plunder the coastal villages. These were Schisò Castle which was rebuilt from an earlier 13th century castle, Schisò fort, and Vignazza Tower. The latter is a quadrangular watchtower which served to patrol the coast south of Port Schisò; if any pirate boats were sighted, the observers inside the tower could alert the villagers and neighbouring watchtowers by sending out smoke signals. Vignazza Tower is located in the Recanati area of Giardini Naxos.
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Gioiosa Marea
Gioiosa Marea (Sicilian: Giujusa) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,237 and an area of 26.3 km².
Gioiosa Marea borders the following municipalities: Montagnareale, Patti, Piraino, Sant'Angelo di Brolo.
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Graniti
Graniti is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 45 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,550 and an area of 10.0 km².
Graniti borders the following municipalities: Antillo, Castiglione di Sicilia, Gaggi, Mongiuffi Melia, Motta Camastra.
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Greece
Greecei/ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen) historically in Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas, IPA: [eˈlas] and [helːás] respectively), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe.Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country (its urban area also including Piraeus). The population of the country is around 11 million.
Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at 2,917 m (9,570 ft).
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Gualtieri Sicaminò
Gualtieri Sicaminò is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 20 km west of Messina.
Gualtieri Sicaminò borders the following municipalities: Condrò, Pace del Mela, San Pier Niceto, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Itala, Sicily
Itala is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 20 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,687 and an area of 10.7 km².
The municipality of Itala contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Marina di Itàla, Casalello, Borgo, Mannello, Quartiere del Medico (anche detto Quartarello), and Croce.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Leni
Leni is a comune (municipality) and one of the main towns on Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands. It is situated in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km northeast of Palermo and about 70 km northwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 654 and an area of 8.6 km².
Leni lies on the slope of the hill on the south of the island, 200m above the sea, between the volcanoes of Monte Fossa and Monte dei Porri.
The municipality of Leni contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Rinella, at the coast to the south, and Valdichiesa, in the centre of the island, to the north of Leni.
Leni borders the following municipalities: Malfa, Santa Marina Salina.
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Letojanni
Letojanni (Sicilian: Letujanni) is a comune (municipality), and coastal resort in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,634 and an area of 6.8 km².
Letojanni borders the following municipalities: Castelmola, Forza d'Agrò, Gallodoro, Mongiuffi Melia, Taormina.
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Librizzi
Librizzi (Sicilian: Libbrizzi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km east of Palermo and about 50 km west of Messina, on a hill between the Timeto and Librizzi streams.
Its origins date most likely to the 12th century, when a community rose around the Brichinnai castle.
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Limina
Limina (Sicilian: Lìmmina) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 978 and an area of 9.8 km².
Limina borders the following municipalities: Antillo, Casalvecchio Siculo, Forza d'Agrò, Mongiuffi Melia, Roccafiorita.
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Lipari
Lipari (Sicilian: Lìpari, Latin: Lipara, Ancient Greek: Meligunis) is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, and the name of the island's main town. It has a permanent population of 11,231; during the May–September tourist season, its population may reach up to 20,000.
Lipari is the largest of a chain of islands in a volcanic archipelago that straddles the gap between Vesuvius and Etna. The island has a surface area of 37.6 km² and is 30 km from Sicily. Besides the main town, most of the year-round population resides in one of the four main villages: Pianoconte is almost due west across the island, Quattropani in the northwest, Acquacalda along the northern coast, and Canneto is on the eastern shore north of Lipari town.
It is generally accepted that the island was created by a succession of four volcanic movements, the most important of which was the third one, presumably lasting from 20,000 BC to 13,000 BC. A further important phenomenon should have happened around 9000 BC (C14 exams by Keller). The last recorded eruptions occurred in the fifth century CE when the airborne pumice covered Roman villages on the island. The volcanos are considered active, though steaming fumaroles may still be seen and hydrothermal activity. As a result of the volcanic origins, the island is covered with pumice and obsidian. Pumice mining has become a large industry on Lipari, and the pale pumice from Lipari is shipped internationally. Nii-jima of Izu Islands, Japan is another locality where the pumice of the same component occur in the world. It is called Koga Stone there.
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Longi
Longi (Sicilian: Lonci) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,610 and an area of 42.2 km².
The municipality of Longi contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Stazzone, Crocetta, Pado, and Filipelli.
Longi borders the following municipalities: Alcara li Fusi, Bronte, Cesarò, Frazzanò, Galati Mamertino, Maniace, San Marco d'Alunzio, Tortorici.
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Malfa
Malfa is a comune (municipality) on the island of Salina, one of the islands of Isole Eolie also known in the English language as Aeolian Islands, in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km northeast of Palermo and about 80 km northwest of Messina.
Malfa derived its name from Amalfi (near Naples). In the 12th century some families established their lives in Malfa on the island of Salina.
The island of Salina is one of seven the Eolian islands. Salina is also the greenest of the seven islands. The main economic activities are agriculture, tourism and fishing. Cultivated products are grapes, capers, olives, figs and pricklypears.
Malfa is famous for producing and exporting the sweet white wine, Malvasia. The fertile soil produces tons of capers for export.
Malfa celebrates the festival of San Lorenzo (Patron Saint of Malfa) on August 10 each year, with a street parade, music and fireworks.
As of September 2011, Malfa has a population of 943 and an area of 8.9 km².
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Malvagna
Malvagna (Sicilian: Marvagna) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 50 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 899 and an area of 6.9 km².
Malvagna borders the following municipalities: Castiglione di Sicilia, Francavilla di Sicilia, Mojo Alcantara, Montalbano Elicona, Roccella Valdemone.
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Mandanici
Mandanici (Sicilian: Mannanici) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 30 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 695 and an area of 11.7 km².
Mandanici borders the following municipalities: Fiumedinisi, Nizza di Sicilia, Pagliara, Roccalumera, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea
Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,670 and an area of 6.6 km².
Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea borders the following municipalities: Furnari, Novara di Sicilia, Rodì Milici, Terme Vigliatore, Tripi.
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Merì
Merì is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 25 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,209 and an area of 1.9 km².
Merì borders the following municipalities: Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Milazzo, San Filippo del Mela, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Messina
Messina (Italian pronunciation: [mesˈsiːna] ( listen), Sicilian: Missina; Latin: Messana) is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, Italy and the capital of the province of Messina. It has a population of about 250,000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 650,000 in the province. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina, just opposite Villa San Giovanni on the mainland.
The main economical resources of the city are: the port (commercial and military), provided with several shipyards; agriculture (including wine production and the cultivation of lemons, oranges, mandarin oranges and olives); tourism.
The city has been a Roman Catholic Archdiocese and Archimandrite seat since 1548 and is home to a locally important international fair.
Founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC, Messina was originally called Zancle, from the Greek: ζάγκλον meaning "scythe" because of the shape of its natural harbour (though a legend attributes the name to King Zanclus). A comune of its province, located at the southern entrance of the Strait of Messina, is to this day called 'Scaletta Zanclea'. In the early 5th century BC, Anaxilas of Rhegium renamed it Messene in honour of the Greek city Messene (Greek: Μεσσήνη). (See also List of traditional Greek place names.) The city was sacked in 397 BC by the Carthaginians and then reconquered by Dionysius I of Syracuse.
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Milazzo
Milazzo (Sicilian: Milazzu, Latin: Mylae) is a town (comune) and is the third-largest city in the province of Messina, and is one of the most important cities of Sicily. The city proper has a population of over 32,000 inhabitants, and is the point of reference of a vaste territory, from Villafranca Tirrena to Patti (over 200 thousand inhabitants). Is also, an important centre of the Metropolitan Area Stretto di Messina (who also includes areas of Reggio Calabria), with the near city Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto. Located at the base of a peninsula that juts into the Tyrrhenian Sea with a small promontory, is distant 43 km (26.72 mile), from the capital city.
Its origins are ancient. Inhabited since 4000 BC (Neolithic) Milazzo suffered between the ninth and eighth century a progressive Hellenization which ended with the intervention of the Greeks in 716 BC Zancle. The old "Mylae" Zancle became independent in 550 BC. He fell into the hands of the Athenians in 427 BC and after various vicissitudes, they saw that the contention by the Carthaginians, Greeks and Syracusans, Milazzo was subtracted from the Mamertines Hiero II of Syracuse. Conquered by the Arabs in 843 was fortified and became an important commercial and agricultural center. From 36 BC recognized as a Roman civitas.
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Militello Rosmarino
Militello Rosmarino (Sicilian: Militiedddu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 80 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,402 and an area of 29.7 km².
The municipality of Militello Rosmarino contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Ferretta, San Piero, San Leonardo, San Giorgio, Pigasi, Scurzi, Bulimi, Lazzarotto, and Santa Maria.
Militello Rosmarino borders the following municipalities: Alcara li Fusi, San Fratello, San Marco d'Alunzio, Sant'Agata di Militello, Torrenova, Capo d'Orlando, Caprileone.
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Mirto
Mirto (Sicilian: Mirtu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,083 and an area of 9.4 km².
Mirto borders the following municipalities: Capo d'Orlando, Capri Leone, Frazzanò, Naso, San Salvatore di Fitalia.
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Mistretta
Mistretta (Sicilian: Mistritta) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 90 km east of Palermo and about 110 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,374 and an area of 126.8 km².
Mistretta borders the following municipalities: Capizzi, Caronia, Castel di Lucio, Cerami, Nicosia, Pettineo, Reitano, Santo Stefano di Camastra.
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Mojo Alcantara
Mojo Alcantara (Sicilian: Moju d'Alcàntara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 50 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 801 and an area of 8.4 km².
Mojo Alcantara borders the following municipalities: Castiglione di Sicilia, Malvagna, Roccella Valdemone.
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Monforte San Giorgio
Monforte San Giorgio (Sicilian: Munforti) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km west of Messina.
It is home to the remains of a castle built by the local Orthodox month to resist the Arab attacks. Later it was used by the Normans and the royal houses of Hohenstaufen and Anjou.
Little gnomes with straw hats are said to reside there.
Little gnomes with straw hats are said to reside there
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Mongiuffi Melia
Mongiuffi Melia (Sicilian: Mungiuffi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina.
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Montagnareale
Montagnareale (Sicilian: Muntagnariali) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km east of Palermo and about 50 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,794 and an area of 16.2 km².
The municipality of Montagnareale contains the frazione (subdivision) San Nicolella.
Montagnareale borders the following municipalities: Gioiosa Marea, Librizzi, Patti, Sant'Angelo di Brolo.
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Montalbano Elicona
Montalbano Elicona (Sicilian: Muntarbanu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 50 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,687 and an area of 67.4 km².
It is mainly known for the castle built in 1233 by the Emperor Frederic II and the medieval architecture of its streets.
The municipality of Montalbano Elicona contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Pellizzaro, Toscano, Santa Barbara,Casale, Villa Braidi, and Santa Maria, Santa Venera e Santo Stefano.
Montalbano Elicona borders the following municipalities: Basicò, Falcone, Floresta, Francavilla di Sicilia, Librizzi, Malvagna, Oliveri, Patti, Raccuja, Roccella Valdemone, San Piero Patti, Santa Domenica Vittoria, Tripi.
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Motta Camastra
Motta Camastra is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 45 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 868 and an area of 25.3 km².
The municipality of Motta Camastra contains the frazione (subdivision) Fondaco Motta e San Cataldo.
Motta Camastra borders the following municipalities: Antillo, Castiglione di Sicilia, Francavilla di Sicilia, Graniti.
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Saint Michael's church, Motta Camastra
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Motta d'Affermo
Motta d'Affermo (Sicilian: Motta d'Affermu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 80 km east of Palermo and about 110 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 921 and an area of 14.6 km².
The municipality of Motta d'Affermo contains the frazione (subdivision) Torremuzza.
Motta d'Affermo borders the following municipalities: Pettineo, Reitano, Tusa.
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Musina
Musina or Messina (see name situation below) is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is located near the confluence of the Limpopo River with the Sand River and the border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40,000. Iron ore, coal, magnetite, graphite, asbestos, diamonds, semi-precious stones and copper are mined in the region.
The Musina tribe discovered copper and settled here. In the 20th century European prospectors rediscovered the large copper deposits and established the town of Messina. The spelling of the name was changed to Musina in 2003 to correct the colonial-era misspelling of the name of the Musina people.
The Limpopo River is a dry river bank which flows annually in rains when lichen and other plant species of the desert region come alive. Sometimes, it floods. The low-shrub and thorny tree lands that surround Musina and thrive in rains are alive with animals in sanctuaries that offer experienced-only camping safari accessible by sand and rock road tracks. Access is generally good, with the road from Johannesburg to Musina being wide tar, as are most other roads in the area.
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Naso, Sicily
Naso (Sicilian: Nasu) is a town and comune in North-Eastern Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Messina. It has 4,512 inhabitants as of 2001. Origin of the Benedetto family.
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Nizza di Sicilia
Nizza di Sicilia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 25 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,615 and an area of 13.2 km².
Nizza di Sicilia borders the following municipalities: Alì Terme, Fiumedinisi, Mandanici, Roccalumera.
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Novara di Sicilia
Novara di Sicilia (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Nuè; Sicilian: Nuvara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 40 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,606 and an area of 48.8 km².
Novara di Sicilia borders the following municipalities: Fondachelli-Fantina, Francavilla di Sicilia, Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea, Rodì Milici, Tripi.
"Noa", a word of Sicani origin, means “maggese” to indicate the agricultural vocation of the zone. Under the Romans it changed in Novalia (grain field) and for the Arabs garden was Nouah (garden, flower). Other names used in the Middle Ages include: Nucaria, the Nuara, the Nucharia, Nugaria, Nutaria, Nocerai, Noara until the definitive transformation in Novara.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it remained under Byzantine hands until the Arab conquest of Sicily. The Sicilian emirate lost it in the 11th century, when it fell under control of the Normans, who populated the town people from Lombardy. The population, called Lombards of Sicily, indeed still speaks a distinctive dialect called Gallo-Italic of Sicily.
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Oliveri
Oliveri (Sicilian: Uliveri) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 45 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,076 and an area of 10.3 km².
Oliveri borders the following municipalities: Falcone, Montalbano Elicona, Patti.
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Pace del Mela
Pace del Mela (Sicilian: Paci) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 20 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,169 and an area of 12.1 km².
Pace del Mela borders the following municipalities: Condrò, Gualtieri Sicaminò, San Filippo del Mela, San Pier Niceto, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Pagliara
Pagliara (Sicilian: Pagghiara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 25 km southwest of Messina.
The municipality of Pagliara contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Rocchenere and Locadi.
Pagliara borders the following municipalities: Furci Siculo, Mandanici, Roccalumera, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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Patti, Sicily
Patti is a town and comune in North-Eastern Sicily, southern Italy, administratively part of the province of Messina, on the western shore of the gulf of the same name. It has 13,224 inhabitants as of December 31, 2004, and it is distant 76 km from Messina.
It is connected to the rest of Sicily by train, via the Patti-San Piero Patti train station, located on the railway line Messina-Palermo, and the A20 Palermo-Messina highway. It is still known for the ruins of Tindari, famous for its ancient Greece theatre, and the Villa Romana.
It stands near the site of the ancient Tyndaris, a Lacedæmonian colony that had a very flourishing commerce; the magnificent temple of Mercury in the latter city was despoiled by Verres. By the time of Pliny the Elder, the sea had encroached greatly upon the shore, and after the foundation of Patti, Tyndaris was almost entirely abandoned; there remains only the church of Santa Maria del Tindaro, with a Franciscan monastery.
The current town name derives from the name given by its inhabitants after they moved there, following an earthquake that destroyed Tindari, forcing them to find another place to settle. The new site was named Ep' Aktin (Ἐπ' Ἀκτήν, Greek for 'on the shore'), from which the contracted name "Patti" derives.
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Pettineo
Pettineo (Sicilian: Pittineu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 80 km east of Palermo and about 110 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,502 and an area of 30.5 km².
Pettineo borders the following municipalities: Castel di Lucio, Mistretta, Motta d'Affermo, Reitano, San Mauro Castelverde, Tusa.
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Piraino
Piraino (Sicilian: Piràinu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,857 and an area of 17.2 km².
The municipality of Piraino contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Calanovella, Fiumara, Gliaca, Lacco, Leomandri, Merca, S.Arcangelo, S.Biagio, S.Costantino, S.Ignazio, S.Leonardo, Salinà, and Zappardino.
Piraino borders the following municipalities: Brolo, Gioiosa Marea, Sant'Angelo di Brolo.
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Raccuja
Raccuja is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,295 and an area of 25.1 km².
The municipality of Raccuja contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Zappa, S. Nicolò, and Fossochiodo.
Raccuja borders the following municipalities: Floresta, Montalbano Elicona, San Piero Patti, Sant'Angelo di Brolo, Sinagra, Ucria.
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Reitano
Reitano (Sicilian: Ritanu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 90 km east of Palermo and about 110 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 915 and an area of 13.9 km².
The municipality of Reitano contains the frazione (subdivision) Villa Margi.
Reitano borders the following municipalities: Mistretta, Motta d'Affermo, Pettineo, Santo Stefano di Camastra.
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Roccafiorita
Roccafiorita (Sicilian: Roccaciurita) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina.
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Roccalumera
Roccalumera is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 25 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,145 and an area of 8.8 km².
The municipality of Roccalumera contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Allume and Sciglio.
Roccalumera borders the following municipalities: Fiumedinisi, Furci Siculo, Mandanici, Nizza di Sicilia, Pagliara.
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Roccavaldina
Roccavaldina (Sicilian: Roccavaddina) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,194 and an area of 6.5 km².
The municipality of Roccavaldina contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Cardà and San Salvatore.
Roccavaldina borders the following municipalities: Monforte San Giorgio, Rometta, Spadafora, Torregrotta, Valdina, Venetico.
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Roccella Valdemone
Roccella Valdemone (Sicilian: Rascidda Vaddemuni) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 150 km east of Palermo and about 50 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 802 and an area of 41.0 km².
Roccella Valdemone borders the following municipalities: Castiglione di Sicilia, Malvagna, Mojo Alcantara, Montalbano Elicona, Randazzo, Santa Domenica Vittoria.
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Rodì Milici
Rodì Milici (Sicilian: Rudìa Milici) is an Italian comune in the Province of Messina in Sicily.
The comune is located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 35 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,304 and an area of 36.1 km².
Rodì Milici borders the following municipalities: Antillo, Castroreale, Fondachelli-Fantina, Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea, Novara di Sicilia, Terme Vigliatore.
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Rometta
Rometta (Sicilian: Ramietta) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 12 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,458 and an area of 32.5 km².
The municipality of Rometta contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Rometta Marea, Gimello, Santa Domenica, Rapano, San Cono, Sotto Castello, and S. Andrea.
Rometta borders the following municipalities: Messina, Monforte San Giorgio, Roccavaldina, Saponara, Venetico, Spadafora.
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San Filippo del Mela
San Filippo del Mela (Sicilian: San Filippu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 25 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,138 and an area of 9.8 km².
The municipality of San Filippo del Mela contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Olivarella, Cattafi, Corriolo, and Archi.
San Filippo del Mela borders the following municipalities: Merì, Milazzo, Pace del Mela, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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San Fratello
San Fratello (Gallo-Italic: San Frareau, Sicilian: Santu Frateddu, Latin: Apollonia), formerly San Filadelfio, is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 110 km east of Palermo and about 90 km west of Messina. San Fratello borders the following municipalities: Acquedolci, Alcara li Fusi, Caronia, Cesarò, Militello Rosmarino, Sant'Agata di Militello. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,371 and an area of 67.1 km².
The name of San Fratello derives from three pious brothers Alfio, Cirino and Filadelfio. In their honour 10 May of every year is kept a festivity. The village was founded in the 11th century by Adelaide del Vasto, Roger I's wife. She came in Sicily together with Lombard colonists who spread their Gallo-Italic dialect which is still spoken in the village.
The comune's territory is part of the Nebrodi mountains and has had 2 major landslides of record. The first was in 1754 and a second large one in 1922. In February 2010, after a period of large amounts of rain in the region of Messina, another extensive landslide caused damage to homes. As a safety precaution, one-third of the population evacuated as of February 14.
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San Marco d'Alunzio
San Marco d'Alunzio (Sicilian: San Marcu, Ancient Greek: Ἀλόντιον, Ptol. or Ἀλούντιον, Dion., Latin: Aluntium or Haluntium) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, near the north coast of the island, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 80 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,155 and an area of 26.1 km².
San Marco d'Alunzio borders the following municipalities: Alcara li Fusi, Capri Leone, Frazzanò, Longi, Militello Rosmarino, Torrenova.
Aluntium or Haluntium was situated between Tyndaris and Calacte. Its foundation was ascribed by some authors to Acarnanians led by Patron, some of whom settled here after guiding Aeneas across the Ionian Sea from Greece. If this legend is true the Acarnanian colonists probably were quickly assimilated by the Sicelian, who inhabited this area in historical times. No mention of it is found in Diodorus, nor is it noticed in history prior to the Roman conquest of Sicily. But in the time of Cicero it appears to have been a place of some importance. He mentions it as having suffered severely from the exactions of Verres, who, not content with ruinous extortions of corn, compelled the inhabitants to give up all their ornamental plate. We learn from inscriptions that it retained the rank of a municipium, and was a flourishing town at least as late as the reign of Augustus.
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San Pier Niceto
San Pier Niceto (Sicilian: San Pieru Nicetu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 20 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,084 and an area of 36.3 km².
The municipality of San Pier Niceto contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) San Pier Marina, Serro, Zifronte, and Pirrera.
San Pier Niceto borders the following municipalities: Condrò, Fiumedinisi, Gualtieri Sicaminò, Monforte San Giorgio, Pace del Mela, Santa Lucia del Mela.
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San Piero Patti
San Piero Patti (Sicilian: San Pieru Patti) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km east of Palermo and about 50 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,378 and an area of 41.6 km².
San Piero Patti borders the following municipalities: Librizzi, Montalbano Elicona, Patti, Raccuja, Sant'Angelo di Brolo.
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San Teodoro (ME)
San Teodoro (Sicilian: U Casali) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 km east of Palermo and about 80 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,534 and an area of 13.9 km².
San Teodoro borders the following municipalities: Cesarò, Troina.
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Sant'Alessio Siculo
Sant'Alessio Siculo (Sicilian: Sant'Alessiu Sìculu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina.
Its main attraction is a castle built by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Comnenos in his war against the Normans and the Arabs, who also held it.
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Sant'Angelo di Brolo
Sant'Angelo di Brolo (Sicilian: Sant'Àncilu di Brolu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,656 and an area of 30.2 km².
Sant'Angelo di Brolo borders the following municipalities: Brolo, Ficarra, Gioiosa Marea, Librizzi, Montagnareale, Piraino, Raccuja, San Piero Patti, Sinagra.
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Santa Lucia del Mela
Santa Lucia del Mela (Sicilian: Santa Lucìa dû Mela) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 25 km west of Messina. It is one of the largest comunes in the province of Messina.
Santa Lucia del Mela borders the following municipalities: Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Casalvecchio Siculo, Castroreale, Fiumedinisi, Furci Siculo, Gualtieri Sicaminò, Mandanici, Merì, Pace del Mela, Pagliara, San Filippo del Mela, San Pier Niceto.
The territory of the municipality of Saint Lucia del Mela, one of the largest in the province (less than 83 km ²), has a rich variety of landscapes. From the highest peaks of Peloritani, it offers the vision of the Tyrrhenian and Ionian. The wild and unspoilt have a rich variety of flora, ancient oaks, native forests. Climbing up the apple and its clear water perennial, you get to the giant prehistoric fern, that grows by at least 60 million years. The fauna is very diverse: there are dormice, blackbirds, crows, hawks, porcupines, wild cats, hedgehogs, martens, hares. In places: Postoleone (1020 m) where work is underway for years in forests, is found a welcoming refuge for forest and a picturesque lake, a destination for hikers and campers, with permission, many also from the ion rush. Interesting mountain trails on foot or horseback to the source of Apple or Timogna Rocca (1180 m) can be organized using the guide prepared by Nicola Friend knowledge of the mountain territory. The town is just 7 km from the motorway Milazzo. It is only 35 km from Messina, and just 12 km from Milazzo and Barcelona P.G.
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Santa Marina Salina
Santa Marina Salina is a comune (municipality) and one of the main towns on Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands. It is situated in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km northeast of Palermo and about 70 km northwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 818 and an area of 8.7 km².
Santa Marina Salina borders the following municipalities: Leni, Malfa.
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Santa Teresa di Riva
Santa Teresa di Riva is a small town and comune in the province of Messina, Sicily, about 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Taormina. The town was known until 1854 as Marina di Savoca when it was renamed in honor of Teresa d'Austria. The town is neighbored to the northeast by the towns of Furci Siculo and Roccalumera, to the west by Savoca, and to the Southwest by Sant'Alessio Siculo and the mountainous Forza d'Agrò.
On the first weekend of every August, the Festa della Madonna begins, celebrating Maria di Porto Salvo. On Saturday night, a statue of the Madonna is carried out from the church to the sea. She is placed on a boat and many town residents sail with her on their own boats. On Sunday, the Madonna is paraded around town, followed in a procession by a band and many of the town's residents. During the Festa weekend, via F. Crispi (on which the church is located) is blocked off from traffic and decorated. Vendors line the street, selling peanuts, incense, sunglasses, furniture, art, and even pet turtles and parrots. At the end of the night on Sunday, fireworks go off which can be seen from all over town.
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Saponara
Saponara (Sicilian: Sapunara) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 10 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,040 and an area of 26.0 km².
Saponara borders the following municipalities: Messina, Rometta, Villafranca Tirrena.
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Panorama di Santo Pietro visto dalla vicina Rometta
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Savoca
Savoca (Sicilian: Sàvuca) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 30 km southwest of Messina.
Savoca borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo, Forza d'Agrò, Furci Siculo, Sant'Alessio Siculo, Santa Teresa di Riva.
The town, together with Forza d'Agrò, was the location for the scenes set in Corleone of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Bar Vitelli in Savoca, which is still a functioning establishment, was featured in the motion picture as the place where Michael Corleone asked Apollonia's father to meet his daughter.
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Scaletta Zanclea
Scaletta Zanclea is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km southwest of Messina.
The comune suffered heavily in the mudslides which devastated the area in 2009.
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Sinagra, Sicily
Sinagra is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,900 and an area of 23.9 km².
The municipality of Sinagra contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Martini and Limari.
Sinagra borders the following municipalities: Castell'Umberto, Ficarra, Naso, Raccuja, Sant'Angelo di Brolo, Tortorici, Ucria.
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Spadafora
Spadafora (Sicilian: Spatafora) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km northwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,322 and an area of 10.3 km².
The municipality of Spadafora contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) San Martino and Grangiara.
Spadafora borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Rometta, Venetico.
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Spain
Spain (i/ˈspeɪn/ SPAYN; Spanish: España, pronounced: [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine and France.
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Strait of Messina
The Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina in Italian, Strittu di Missina in Sicilian) is the narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy. It connects the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Ionian Sea, within the central Mediterranean. At its narrowest point, it measures 3.1 km (1.9 mi) in width, though near the town of Messina the width is some 5.1 km (3.2 mi) and maximum depth is 250 m (830 ft).
A ferry service connects Messina on Sicily with the mainland at Villa San Giovanni, which lies several kilometers north of the large city of Reggio Calabria; the ferries hold the cars (carriages) of the mainline train service between Palermo and Naples. There is also a hydrofoil service between Messina and Reggio Calabria.
The strait is characterized by strong tidal currents, that established a unique marine ecosystem. A natural whirlpool in the Northern portion of the strait has been linked to the Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis. In some circumstances, the mirage of Fata Morgana can be observed when looking at Sicily from Calabria.
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Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse (Italian: Siracusa pronounced [siraˈkuːza] ( listen); Sicilian: Sarausa; Latin: Syracusæ; Ancient Greek: Συρακοῦσαι Syrakoúsai) is a historic city in Sicily, the capital of the province of Syracuse. The city is notable for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes. This 2,700-year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world. Syracuse is located in the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Syracuse next to the Ionian Sea.
The city was founded by Ancient Greek Corinthians and became a very powerful city-state. Syracuse was allied with Sparta and Corinth, exerting influence over the entire Magna Grecia area of which it was the most important city. Once described by Cicero as "the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all", it later became part of the Roman Republic and Byzantine Empire. After this Palermo overtook it in importance, as the capital of the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually the kingdom would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.
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Taormina
Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον Tauromenion, Latin: Tauromenium, Arabic: طبرمين Ṭabarmīn) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south.
Taormina's area was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BC to found a town called Naxos. The theory that Tauromenion was founded by colonists from Naxos is confirmed by Strabo and other ancient writers.
The new settlement seems to have risen rapidly to prosperity, and was apparently already a considerable town at the time of the expedition of Timoleon in 345 BC. It was the first place in Sicily where that leader landed, having eluded the vigilance of the Carthaginians, who were guarding the Straits of Messina, and crossed direct from Rhegium (modern Reggio di Calabria) to Tauromenium. The city was at that time still under the government of Andromachus, whose mild and equitable administration is said to have presented a strong contrast with that of the despots and tyrants of the other Sicilian cities. He welcomed Timoleon with open arms, and afforded him a secure resting place until he was enabled to carry out his plans in other parts of Sicily. Andromachus was not deprived of his position of power when all the other tyrants were expelled by Timoleon, but was permitted to retain it undisturbed till his death. (Marcellin. Vit. Thucyd. § 27.)
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Terme Vigliatore
Terme Vigliatore (Sicilian: Tèrmini Vigghiaturi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 160 km east of Palermo and about 35 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,716 and an area of 13.4 km².
The municipality of Terme Vigliatore contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Mollerino, Maceo, S. Biagio, Bagni, Acquitta, Cannotta, Marchesana, Mendola, Piano Banca, Pietre Rosse, Ponte Cicero, Ponte Termini, Pizzicarì, Salicà, Vigliatore, and Tonnarella.
Terme Vigliatore borders the following municipalities: Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castroreale, Furnari, Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea, Rodì Milici.
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Torregrotta
Torregrotta (Sicilian: Turri) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 20 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2007, it had a population of 7,202 and an area of 4.22 km².
Torregrotta borders the following municipalities: Monforte San Giorgio, Roccavaldina, Valdina.
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www.torregrotta.net[1](unofficial web site)
www.torregrotta.org (unofficial web site)
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Torrenova
Torrenova (Sicilian: Turrinova) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 80 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,835 and an area of 13.0 km².
Torrenova borders the following municipalities: Capo d'Orlando, Capri Leone, Militello Rosmarino, San Marco d'Alunzio, Sant'Agata di Militello.
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[1] Piazza @ Torrenova in June 2008
[2] Main Street of Torrenova in June 2008
[3] Sunset over Torrenova in June 2008
[4] Beach @ Torrenova June 2008
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Tortorici
Tortorici (Sicilian: Turturici) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 70 km west of Messina.
Located in the Nebrodi regional park, Tortorici borders the following municipalities: Bronte, Castell'Umberto, Floresta, Galati Mamertino, Longi, Randazzo, San Salvatore di Fitalia, Sinagra, Ucria.
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Tripi
Tripi is a town and comune in the province of Messina (Sicily, Italy). It is located on the site of Abacaenum, an ancient Greek colony.
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Ucria
Ucria is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 130 km east of Palermo and about 60 km west of Messina.
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Valdina
Valdina (Sicilian: Vaddina) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,253 and an area of 2.8 km².
The municipality of Valdina contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Fondachello and Tracoccia.
Valdina borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Torregrotta, Venetico.
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Venetico
Venetico (Sicilian: Venèticu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 15 km west of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,763 and an area of 4.4 km².
The municipality of Venetico contains the frazione (subdivision) Venetico Superiore.
Venetico borders the following municipalities: Roccavaldina, Spadafora, Valdina.
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Villa San Giovanni
Villa San Giovanni is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. As of 2010 its population was of 13,747.
It is located on the coast of Strait of Messina, facing the city of Messina across the narrow strait. The Punta Pezzo lies in the area and is the nearest point to Sicily. It contains a notable lighthouse.
In December 1908 a powerful earthquake killed 698 people in Villa San Giovanni, almost 10% of the then population.[citation needed]
Ferry services link Villa San Giovanni and Messina, including a train ferry departing from the main railway station. The town is also served by the A3 motorway Salerno-Reggio Calabria
The Old Fountain of Villa San Giovanni
The belltower of the church of San Cosma e Damiano in Villa San Giovanni
Media related to Villa San Giovanni at Wikimedia Commons
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Villafranca Tirrena
Villafranca Tirrena is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 12 km northwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,921 and an area of 14.3 km².
The municipality of Villafranca Tirrena contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Serro, Divieto, Castelluccio, Castello, and Calvaruso.
Villafranca Tirrena borders the following municipalities: Messina, Saponara.
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Anaxilas of Rhegium
Anaxilas was tyrant of Rhegium, in the southwestern tip of Italy, from 474 BC - 476 BC. He seized Zancle after Hippocrates' death and renamed it to Messana. After allying with Carthage he made peace with Gelon and his daughter married Hieron I.
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Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio (c. 1430 – February 1479) was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of Northern Italy, especially Venice.
Antonello was born at Messina around 1429-1431, to Giovanni de Antonio Mazonus and Garita (Margherita). He was probably apprenticed both in his native city and in Palermo.
Around the year 1450, according to a 1524 letter of the Neapolitan humanist Pietro Summonte, he was a pupil of the painter Niccolò Colantonio at Naples, at the time one of the most active centres of Renaissance arts.
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Arabs
Arab people, also known as Arabs (Arabic: عرب, ʿarab), are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing an important part of Arab identity.
The word "Arab" has had several different, but overlapping, meanings over the centuries (and sometimes even today). In addition to including all Arabized people of the world (with language tending to be the acid test), it has also at times been used exclusively for bedouin (Arab nomads [although a related word, "`a-RAB," with the Arabic letter "alif" in the second syllable, once was sometimes used when this specific meaning was intended] and their now almost entirely settled descendants). It is sometimes used that way colloquially even today in some places. Townspeople once were sometimes called "sons of the Arabs." As in the case of other ethnicities or nations, people identify themselves (or are identified by others) as "Arabs" to varying degrees. This may not be one's primary identity (it tends to compete with country, religion, sect, etc.), and whether it is emphasized may depend upon one's audience.
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Bernardo Storace
Bernardo Storace (fl. 1664) was an Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and that of Bernardo Pasquini.
Very little is known about his life, except that in 1664 he served as Vice-Maestro di cappella to the senate of Messina. This fact is mentioned on the title page of Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo, the single surviving collection of Storace's music, which is also the only source of information on the composer. Messina was twice devastated by earthquakes, in 1783 and in 1908, so archival research is impossible. Given that Selva di varie compositioni was published in Venice and the music is stylistically somewhat more related to that of northern Italian composers, it is possible that Storace was originally from the north of Italy.
Storace's main interest in Selva di varie compositioni is the variation form. Paricularly notable are the four passacaglias, which contain, in total, 320 representations of the descending tetrachord. Two of these works are split into several sections connected by modulatory passages: Passagagli sopra D sol re per # contains four sections (D major, A major, E major, and B minor; a total of 91 variations) and Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per b three (F minor, B-flat minor and E-flat major; a total of 72 variations). The single chaconne included in the collection also comprises variations on a four-bar pattern.
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Caesar Augustus
Augustus ( /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/;Classical Latin: [awˈɡʊstʊs]; Latin: Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, he was adopted posthumously by his great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC via his last will and testament, and between then and 27 BC was officially named Gaius Julius Caesar. In 27 BC the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the revered one"), and thus consequently he was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.
The young Octavius came into his inheritance after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. In 43 BC, Octavian joined forces with Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in a military dictatorship known as the Second Triumvirate. As a triumvir, Octavian ruled Rome and many of its provinces. The triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its rulers: Lepidus was driven into exile, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Octavian's fleet under the command of Agrippa in 31 BC.
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
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Dicaearchus
Dicaearchus of Messana ([pronunciation?]; Greek: Δικαίαρχος, Dikaiarkhos; also written Dicearchus, Dicearch, Diceärchus, or Diceärch) (c. 350 – c. 285 BC) was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author. Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on the history and geography of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece. He made important contributions to the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates. He also wrote books on philosophy and politics.
He was the son of one Pheidias, and born at Messana in Sicily, though he passed the greater part of his life in Greece, and especially in Peloponnesus. He was a disciple of Aristotle, and a friend of Theophrastus, to whom he dedicated some of his writings. He died about 285 BC.
Dicaearchus was highly esteemed by the ancients as a philosopher and as a man of most extensive information upon a great variety of things. His work is known only from the many fragmentary quotations of later writers. His works were geographical, political or historical, philosophical, and mathematical; but it is difficult to draw up an accurate list of them, since many which are quoted as distinct works appear to have been only sections of greater ones. The fragments extant, moreover, do not always enable us to form a clear notion of the works to which they once belonged. The geographical works of Dicaearchus were, according to Strabo, criticised in many respects by Polybius; and Strabo himself is dissatisfied with his descriptions of western and northern Europe, where Dicaearchus had never visited.
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Elio Vittorini
Elio Vittorini pronunciation (help·info) (23 July 1908 - 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
Vittorini was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and throughout his childhood moved around Sicily with his father, a railroad worker. Several times he ran away from home, culminating in his leaving Sicily for good in 1924. For a brief period, he found employment as a construction worker in the Julian March, after which he moved to Florence to work as a type corrector (a line of work he abandoned in 1934 due to lead poisoning). Around 1927 his work began to be published in literary journals. In many cases, separate editions of his novels and short stories from this period, such as The Red Carnation were not published until after World War II, due to fascist censorship. In 1937, he was expelled from the national Fascist Party for writing in support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
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Filippo Juvarra
Filippo Juvarra (March 7, 1678 – January 31, 1736) was an Italian architect and stage set designer.
Filippo Juvarra was an Italian Baroque architect working in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was born in Messina, Sicily, to a family of goldsmiths and engravers. After spending his formative years with his family in Sicily where he designed Messina's festive settings for the coronation of Philip V of Spain and Sicily (1705), Juvarra moved to Rome in 1704. There he studied architecture with Carlo and Francesco Fontana.
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First World War
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
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Francesco Maurolico
Francesco Maurolico (Greek: Φραγκίσκος Μαυρόλυκος, Frangiskos Mavrolikos; Latin: Franciscus Maurolycus; Francisci Maurolyci; Italian: Francesco Maurolico; September 16, 1494-July 21 or July 22, 1575) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer of Sicily. Throughout his lifetime, he made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. He edited the works of classical authors including Archimedes, Apollonius, Autolycus, Theodosius and Serenus. He also composed his own unique treatises on mathematics and mathematical science.
Born in Messina of a family of Greek descent who originated in Constantinople, they settled in this Sicilian city after the Fall of Constantinople (1453). Recent studies seem indeed indicate that the family settled in Messina at the end of 14th century (Moscheo). Maurolico received a solid education. His father, Antonio, had been a physician and studied under the famous Hellenic scholar Constantine Lascaris and later became Master of the Messina mint. The Maurolico family had a villa outside the city.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( /ˈniːtʃə/;German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtsʃə]; October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be.
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Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ] (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.
Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–96), and Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß (1732–1802). They also had five daughters. His father was away in the Seven Years' War when Friedrich was born. He was named after king Frederick the Great, but he was called Fritz by nearly everyone. Kaspar Schiller was rarely home during the war, but he did manage to visit the family once in a while. His wife and children also visited him occasionally wherever he happened to be stationed. When the war ended in 1763, Schiller's father became a recruiting officer and was stationed in Schwäbisch Gmünd. The family moved with him. Due to the high cost of living—especially the rent—the family moved to nearby Lorch.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.
The exact details of his birth are uncertain. The majority of sources state that he was born either in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from.Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman, and almost certainly born illegitimate.
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Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpaskoli]; December 31, 1855—April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar.
Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (in his honor renamed "San Mauro Pascoli" in 1932), into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli. His father was administrator of an estate of farm land of the Princes Torlonia on which the Pascoli family lived.
On the evening of Aug. 10, 1867 as Ruggero Pascoli was returning home from the market at Cesena in a carriage drawn by a black and white mare (una cavalla storna), he was shot and killed by an assassin hiding in a ditch by the road. The mare continued slowly on her way and brought home the body of her slain master. The murderer was never apprehended.
Giovanni Pascoli had a tragic childhood, struck by the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers, and the subsequent financial decline of the family. The father's assassination echoes in particular in one of his most popular poems, "La cavallina storna" . His whole first work, Myricae (1891), reflects his unhappy childhood.
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Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe matˈtsini]; 22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872), nicknamed The Beating Heart of Italy, was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.[citation needed]
Mazzini was born in Genoa, then part of the Ligurian Republic, under the rule of the French Empire. His father, Giacomo, originally from Chiavari, was a university professor who had adhered to Jacobin ideology; his mother, Maria Drago, was renowned for her beauty and religious (Jansenist) fervour. Since a very early age, Mazzini showed good learning qualities (as well as a precocious interest towards politics and literature), and was admitted to the University at only 14, graduating in law in 1826, initially practicing as a "poor man's lawyer". He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell'amor patrio di Dante ("On Dante's Patriotic Love"), which was published in 1837. In 1828–29 he collaborated with a Genoese newspaper, L'indicatore genovese, which was however soon closed by the Piedmontese authorities. He then became one of the leading authors of L'Indicatore Livornese, published at Livorno by F.D. Guerrazzi, until this paper was closed down by the authorities, too.
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Giuseppe Sergi
Giuseppe Sergi (1841–1936) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples. His concept of the Mediterranean race, became important to the modelling of racial difference in the early twentieth century.
Born in Messina, Sicily, Sergi first studied law and then linguistics and philosophy. At the age of 19 he took part in Garibaldi's expedition to Sicily. He later took courses in physics and anatomy, finally specializing in racial anthropology as a student of Cesare Lombroso.
In 1880 he was appointed as professor of anthropology at the University of Bologna. At this time the discipline of anthropology was still associated with the Literature Faculty. In the following years, thanks to the activity of his Laboratory of Anthropology and Psychology, he helped establish the discipline on a more scientific basis. In 1884 he moved to the University of Rome where he developed a program of research into both psychology and anthropology.
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Goths
The Goths (Gothic: *Gut-þiuda, *Gutans; Old Norse: Gutar/Gotar; German: Goten; Latin: Gothi; Greek: Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe.
The most important source is Jordanes' 6th-century, semi-fictional Getica which describes a migration from southern Scandza (Scandinavia), to Gothiscandza, believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerania, and from there to the coast of the Black Sea. The Pomeranian Wielbark culture and the Chernyakhov culture northeast of the lower Danube are archaeological traces of this migration. In the 3rd century, either through crossing the lower Danube, or travelling by sea, the Goths ravaged the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus, sacking Athens, Byzantium, Sparta. By the fourth century, the Goths conquered Dacia, and were divided into at least two distinct groups separated by the Dniester River, the Thervingi, led by the Balti dynasty, and the Greuthungi, led by the Amali dynasty. Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.
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Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola (Basque: Iñigo Loiolakoa, Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola) (1491 – July 31, 1556) was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by unquestioning obedience to the Catholic Church's authority and hierarchy.
After being seriously wounded at the Battle of Pamplona in 1521, he underwent a spiritual conversion while in recovery. De Vita Christi by Ludolph of Saxony inspired Loyola to abandon his previous military life and devote himself to labour for God, following the example of spiritual leaders such as Francis of Assisi. He experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat in March 1522. Thereafter he went to Manresa, where he began praying for seven hours a day, often in a nearby cave, while formulating the fundamentals of the Spiritual Exercises. In September 1523, Loyola reached the Holy Land to settle there, but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans.
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Julien Green
Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998), was an American writer, who authored several novels, including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française.
Julian Hartridge Green was born to American parents in Paris, a descendant on his mother's side of a Confederate Senator, Julian Hartridge (1829–1879), who later served as a Democratic Representative from Georgia to the US Congress, and who was Julien Green's namesake. (Green was christened "Julian", the spelling was changed by his French publisher in the 1920s to "Julien".)[citation needed]
The youngest of eight children born to Protestant parents. He had a very puritanical and overprotective upbringing, his mother being extremely sexually repressive (later Green would grow into an anguished and egodystonic homosexual). Green became a Roman Catholic in 1916, two years after his mother's death.The following year, still only 16, he volunteered his services as an ambulanceman in the American Field Service. When his age was discovered his enlistment was annulled. He immediately signed up with an ambulance unit of the American Red Cross, and when that six-month term of service ended in 1918, he enlisted in the French Army, in which he served as a second lieutenant of artillery until 1919. He was educated at the University of Virginia in the United States from 1919-22. His career as one of the major figures of French literature in the 20th century started soon after his return from the United States, beginning with Mont-Cinère (1926) which was well-received by Georges Bernanos.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great or the Sun King (French: le Roi-Soleil), was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. He holds the distinction of being the longest-reigning king in European history, reigning for 72 years and 110 days.
Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the theory of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin and lack of temporal restraint of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France and, by compelling the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles, succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during Louis's minority. By these means he consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.
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Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo, Conte di Grado e di Premuda (October 8, 1887 in Milazzo – June 27, 1951 in Rome) was an Italian naval officer. He is famous for sinking the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István in June 1918.
After receiving his training at the Naval Academy in Livorno, he was appointed ship-of-the-line sub-lieutenant within the Italian Navy in 1912. He saw action in the First World War (1915–1918), when he conducted several spectacular raids as commander of torpedo boats (PT boat MAS) against ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
In December 1917 he sank the Austro-Hungarian Pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Wien, that was at anchor inside the defences of Trieste harbour.
On June 10, 1918 Rizzo sank the large battleship SMS Szent István (in Italian: "Santo Stefano") off Premuda. The sinking of the 21.700 tons SMS Szent István was the greatest success of any MAS torpedo boat and is still celebrated in the Italian Navy on June 10 every year. It forms an important anniversary in the Italian naval history.
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Matteo Bandello
Matteo Bandello (French: Mathieu Bandel) (c. 1480 – 1562) was an Italian writer, mostly known for his novellas.
Matteo Bandello was born at Castelnuovo Scrivia, near Tortona (current Piedmont), c. 1480 or 1485. He received a good education, and entered the church, but does not seem to have been very interested in theology. For many years he lived at Mantua, and superintended the education of the celebrated Lucrezia Gonzaga, in whose honour he composed a long poem. The decisive Battle of Pavia, as a result of which Lombardy was taken by the emperor, compelled Bandello to flee; his house at Milan was burnt and his property confiscated. He took refuge with Cesare Fregoso, an Italian general in the French service, whom he accompanied into France.
He was later raised to the bishopric of Agen, a town in which he resided for many years before his death in 1562. Bandello wrote a number of poems, but his fame rests entirely on his extensive collection of Novelle, or tales (1554, 1573), which have been extremely popular. They belong to the same genre as Boccaccio’s Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron. The common origin of them all is to be found in the old French fabliaux, though some well-known tales are evidently Eastern, and others classical. Bandello’s novellas are thought the best of those written in imitation of the Decameron, though Italian critics find fault with them for negligence and inelegance of style.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). He was dubbed El Príncipe de los Ingenios ("The Prince of Wits").
In 1569, Cervantes moved to Rome, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. After five years he was released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order. He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, (French pronunciation: [mo.ljɛːʁ]; baptised January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman).
Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy.
Through the patronage of a few aristocrats, including Philippe I, Duke of Orléans – the brother of Louis XIV – Molière procured a command performance before the King at the Louvre. Performing a classic play by Pierre Corneille and a farce of his own, Le Docteur amoureux (The Doctor in Love), Molière was granted the use of salle du Petit-Bourbon near the Louvre, a spacious room appointed for theatrical performances. Later, Molière was granted the use of the Palais-Royal. In both locations he found success among the Parisians with plays such as Les Précieuses ridicules (The Affected Ladies), L'École des maris (The School for Husbands) and L'École des femmes (The School for Wives). This royal favor brought a royal pension to his troupe and the title "Troupe du Roi" (The King's Troupe). Molière continued as the official author of court entertainments.
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Plutarch
Plutarch (English pronunciation: /'pluːtɑːk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, Koine Greek: [plŭːtarkʰos]) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος),c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
Plutarch was born in 46 AD in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. His family was wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was probably Nikarchus (Greek: Nίκαρχoς), from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations. The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as he attested in Moralia and in his Life of Antony.
His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, where Timon is spoken of in the most affectionate terms. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not give way to excessive grief at the death of their two year old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother. Interestingly, he hinted at a belief in reincarnation in that letter of consolation.
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Richard I of England
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was known as Cœur de Lion, or Richard the Lionheart, even before his accession, because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior. The Saracens called him Melek-Ric or Malek al-Inkitar – King of England.
By the age of sixteen, Richard was commanding his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father, King Henry II. Richard was a central Christian commander during the Third Crusade, effectively leading the campaign after the departure of Philip II of France and scoring considerable victories against his Muslim counterpart, Saladin, but was unable to reconquer Jerusalem.
Although speaking only langue d'oïl and langue d'oc and spending very little time in England (he lived in his Duchy of Aquitaine in the southwest of France, preferring to use his kingdom as a source of revenue to support his armies), he was seen as a pious hero by his subjects. He remains one of the very few Kings of England remembered by his epithet, rather than regnal number, and is an enduring, iconic figure in England and France.
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Sextus Pompeius
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey (67 BC – 35 BC), was a Roman general from the late Republic (1st century BC). He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate. His father was Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) and Shakespeare had him as a major character in his play Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07).
Sextus Pompeius was the youngest son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) by his third wife, Mucia Tertia. His older brother was Gnaeus Pompeius, from the same mother. Both boys grew up in the shadow of their father, one of Rome's best generals and an originally non-conservative politician who drifted to the more traditional faction when Julius Caesar became a threat.
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, thus starting a civil war, Sextus' older brother Gnaeus followed their father in his escape to the East, as did most of the conservative senators. Sextus stayed in Rome in the care of his stepmother, Cornelia Metella. Pompey's army lost the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC and Pompey himself had to run for his life. Cornelia and Sextus met him in the island of Lesbos and together they fled to Egypt. On the arrival, Sextus watched his father being killed by treachery on September 29 of the same year. After the murder, Cornelia returned to Rome, but in the following years Sextus joined the resistance against Caesar in the African provinces. Together with Metellus Scipio, Cato the Younger, his brother Gnaeus and other senators, they prepared to oppose Caesar and his army to the end.
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Silvio Pellico
Silvio Pellico (24 June 1789 – 31 January 1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot.
Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo (Piedmont). He spent the earlier portion of his life at Pinerolo and Turin, under the tuition of a priest named Manavella. At the age of ten he composed a tragedy inspired by a translation of the Ossianic poems. On the marriage of his twin sister Rosina with a maternal cousin at Lyon, he went to reside in that city, devoting himself during four years to the study of French literature. He returned in 1810 to Milan, where he became professor of French in the Collegio degli Orfani Militari.
His tragedy Francesca da Rimini was brought out with success by Carlotta Marchionni at Milan in 1818. Its publication was followed by that of the tragedy Euphemio da Messina, but the representation of the latter was forbidden.
Pellico had in the meantime continued his work as tutor, first to the unfortunate son of Count Briche, and then to the two sons of Count Porro Lambertenghi. He threw himself heartily into an attempt to weaken the hold of the Austrian despotism by indirect educational means.
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Vincenzo Nibali
Vincenzo Nibali (born November 14, 1984 in Messina) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who rides UCI ProTeam Liquigas-Cannondale. Born near the Strait of Messina, Nibali's nickname is the "shark of the strait" or simply "the shark." His first major win came at the 2006 GP Ouest-France, where he beat an impressive field on a tough course. However, experts such as Michele Bartoli have said Nibali is most suited to competing in multi-stage races. Nibali's biggest win to date is the overall in the 2010 Vuelta a España.
Vincenzo Nibali was born in 1984 on November 14, the son of Salvatore and Giovanna. In order to become a cyclist, he left his hometown Messina and moved to Tuscany at the age of sixteen. For ten months of the year, he lived in the house of his ex-directeur sportif, Carlo Franceschi, in Mastromarco, near Lamporecchio, where he still lives.
Nibali finished third at the Junior World Time Trial Championship in 2002 and also third at the U-23 World Time Trial Championship in 2004. He turned professional in 2005 with Fassa Bortolo. In 2007, Nibali rode the Giro d'Italia for the first time and finished 19th overall. 2008 saw Nibali finish 10th in Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and record top-20 finishes in both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
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Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Music Video from: Jo Dee Messina, I'm Alright, 1998 Curb Records. Lyrics: Boy you sure look good there standin' in the doorway in the sunset light Maybe I read you wrong thinkin' you could be my Mr. Right I was puttin' my heart and soul on the line Said you needed some time, just a little more time to make up your mind Well it's been long enough Time is up Bye bye love, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off I ain't never lookin' back. And that's a fact. I've tried all I can imagine I've begged and pleaded in true lover's fashion I've got pride, I'm takin' it for a ride Bye bye, bye bye my baby, bye bye Don't think all those tears are gonna hold me here like they've done before You'll find what's left of us in a cloud of dust on highway 4 Baby what did you expect me to do Just sit around and wait on you Well I'm through watchin' you just skate around the truth And I know it sounds trite I've seen the light Bye bye love, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off 'Cause I ain't never lookin' back, and that's a fact. I've tried all I can imagine I've begged and pleaded in true lover's fashion I've got pride, I'm takin' it for a ride Bye bye, bye bye my baby, bye bye I'd lost the game I guess I did my best to win the part Now I'm leavin' here with what's left of my heart. Bye bye, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off ...
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Music Video from: Jo Dee Messina, I'm Alright, 1998 Curb Records. Lyrics: Boy you sure look good there standin' in the doorway in the sunset light Maybe I read you wrong thinkin' you could be my Mr. Right I was puttin' my heart and soul on the line Said you needed some time, just a little more time to make up your mind Well it's been long enough Time is up Bye bye love, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off I ain't never lookin' back. And that's a fact. I've tried all I can imagine I've begged and pleaded in true lover's fashion I've got pride, I'm takin' it for a ride Bye bye, bye bye my baby, bye bye Don't think all those tears are gonna hold me here like they've done before You'll find what's left of us in a cloud of dust on highway 4 Baby what did you expect me to do Just sit around and wait on you Well I'm through watchin' you just skate around the truth And I know it sounds trite I've seen the light Bye bye love, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off 'Cause I ain't never lookin' back, and that's a fact. I've tried all I can imagine I've begged and pleaded in true lover's fashion I've got pride, I'm takin' it for a ride Bye bye, bye bye my baby, bye bye I'd lost the game I guess I did my best to win the part Now I'm leavin' here with what's left of my heart. Bye bye, I'll catch you later Got a lead foot down on my accelerator and the rearview mirror torn off ...
"Danny's Song" Loggins and Messina
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
"Danny's Song" written by Kenny Loggins, first appeared on Sittin' In, the debut album by singer-songwriters, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, released in 1971 on the Columbia Records. It was later released on CD on the Sony label. The song was a big hit for Anne Murray in1972. The personnel on the original recording were: Kenny Loggins - vocals, guitar, harmonica, Jim Messina - vocals, bass guitar, Lester "Al" Garth - violin, recorder, saxophone, steel drum, background vocals, Michael Omartian - concertina, keyboards, steel drum, Jon Clarke - horn, oboe, saxophone, steel drum, Larry Sims - bass instrument, background vocals, Merel Bregante - drums, background vocals, and Milt Holland -- percussion.
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"Danny's Song" written by Kenny Loggins, first appeared on Sittin' In, the debut album by singer-songwriters, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, released in 1971 on the Columbia Records. It was later released on CD on the Sony label. The song was a big hit for Anne Murray in1972. The personnel on the original recording were: Kenny Loggins - vocals, guitar, harmonica, Jim Messina - vocals, bass guitar, Lester "Al" Garth - violin, recorder, saxophone, steel drum, background vocals, Michael Omartian - concertina, keyboards, steel drum, Jon Clarke - horn, oboe, saxophone, steel drum, Larry Sims - bass instrument, background vocals, Merel Bregante - drums, background vocals, and Milt Holland -- percussion.
- published: 01 Jun 2010
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Jim Messina
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
West Coast Run Tour 2010
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Loggins and Messina- Angry Eyes
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- Duration: 7:35
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina- Angry Eyes
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Loggins and Messina: Your Mama don't dance.
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- Duration: 2:58
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Awesome song! :D :D :D
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Jo Dee Messina - I'm alright
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Video. One of my favorite songs to sing, I still have this single (on a cassette!!) some where.
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Video. One of my favorite songs to sing, I still have this single (on a cassette!!) some where.
- published: 06 Jul 2008
- views: 803261
- author: limpnjen
Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw - Bring On The Rain
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw "Bring On The Rain" Burn (C)2001 Curb Records
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Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw "Bring On The Rain" Burn (C)2001 Curb Records
- published: 23 May 2007
- views: 1664609
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Messina, la Signora dello Stretto
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- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Una raccolta di immagini sulla bella città siciliana.
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Una raccolta di immagini sulla bella città siciliana.
- published: 07 Feb 2008
- views: 62818
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Loggins and Messina - Thinking of You
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
Album: Loggins and Messina (1972) Am I really the first person to ever post this? Man..
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Album: Loggins and Messina (1972) Am I really the first person to ever post this? Man..
- published: 07 May 2008
- views: 143804
- author: wormpiano
Heads Carolina, Tails California - Jo Dee Messina
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. In her career charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album. To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA. Messina debuted in 1996 with the single "Heads Carolina, Tails California". Her album was certifified Gold by the RIAA. Her second album, I'm Alright produced five Top 10 Country hits between 1998 in 1999 and sold over a million copies in America. Since her debut, six of her singles have peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country singles chart and five of her albums have received a certification by the RIAA or the CRIA. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. In her career charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album. To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA. Messina debuted in 1996 with the single "Heads Carolina, Tails California". Her album was certifified Gold by the RIAA. Her second album, I'm Alright produced five Top 10 Country hits between 1998 in 1999 and sold over a million copies in America. Since her debut, six of her singles have peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country singles chart and five of her albums have received a certification by the RIAA or the CRIA. [Source: Wikipedia]
- published: 30 May 2009
- views: 113775
- author: deafsubtitles
LOGGINS & MESSINA - Watching The River Run (1973)
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- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
Rare promo film from '70s
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La sintesi di Pro Cavese-Messina
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- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
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MAI PIU IN CROCIERA .. RESTO A MESSINA !! 'NTUNIEDDU NANU
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- Duration: 6:47
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
la pagginazza di facebook www.facebook.com
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Jim Messina's State of the Race: "The president will win re-election if we do what we need to do."
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- Duration: 4:56
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
Gotta vote? Go here: OFA.BO Campaign Manager Jim Messina breaks down how we're doing in this election with less than a week to go.
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Gotta vote? Go here: OFA.BO Campaign Manager Jim Messina breaks down how we're doing in this election with less than a week to go.
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 39239
- author: BarackObamadotcom
Poco with Richie Furay and Jim Messina, You Better Think Twice, PNC, NJ 8/22/09
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
Recorded at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel,NJ 8/22/09
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Recorded at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel,NJ 8/22/09
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 71388
- author: df0403
La piazza che spiazza: come ci si diverte a Messina?
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- Duration: 7:15
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
la nostra troupe in giro a chiedere come si fa a divertirsi a Messina...
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la nostra troupe in giro a chiedere come si fa a divertirsi a Messina...
- published: 04 Apr 2012
- views: 12943
- author: messinaora
Jo Dee Messina - Stand Beside Me
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- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Jo Dee Messina
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Bring On The Rain Jodee Messina
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- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
This is a song from Jodee Messina. I don't intend to infringe copyright. This is just to share an inspirational song for those who are feeling tired to face tomorrow if one looks back at a confusing and conflicting past. But what a jeez it is! Let us continue to be more thankful for the days, the hours that are before us. And learning to keep on trying our best by doing good and being good - to ourselves and to others. Even though sometimes we're not. But that is all okay... let's keep on trying and going!
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This is a song from Jodee Messina. I don't intend to infringe copyright. This is just to share an inspirational song for those who are feeling tired to face tomorrow if one looks back at a confusing and conflicting past. But what a jeez it is! Let us continue to be more thankful for the days, the hours that are before us. And learning to keep on trying our best by doing good and being good - to ourselves and to others. Even though sometimes we're not. But that is all okay... let's keep on trying and going!
- published: 30 Sep 2008
- views: 232418
- author: gretsky1980
Loggins And Messina ANGRY EYES live
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- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Loggins And Messina Angry Eyes Live
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les magnifiques saez messina
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- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
saez messina
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Lesson In Leavin' Lyrics by Jo Dee Messina
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- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
*Lyrics for your enjoyment*
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"Vahevala" Loggins and Messina
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
" Vahevala, " written by Kenny Loggins and Dan Lottermoser, first appeared on Sittin' In, the debut album by singer-songwriters, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, released in 1971 on the Columbia label. It was later included on the greatest hits album, The Best of Friends, released in 1976 and was also performed on the reunion album, Live: Sittin' in Again at Santa Barbara Bowl released in 2005 on the Rhino label. With regard to the song Kenny Loggins said, "As far as writing the lyric, people ask me, What is Vahevala? It was just a sound that came through, Loggins continues. It caught my attention because it sounded like a place, so I made it up like a fantasy island that this kid came from, where he would sneak off the boat and party with the neighbors and sneak back on before the captain saw him. It was total escapist fantasy. What is most remarkable to me, when I look back on it, is how much joy is in it. It's such an I love my life song."
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" Vahevala, " written by Kenny Loggins and Dan Lottermoser, first appeared on Sittin' In, the debut album by singer-songwriters, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, released in 1971 on the Columbia label. It was later included on the greatest hits album, The Best of Friends, released in 1976 and was also performed on the reunion album, Live: Sittin' in Again at Santa Barbara Bowl released in 2005 on the Rhino label. With regard to the song Kenny Loggins said, "As far as writing the lyric, people ask me, What is Vahevala? It was just a sound that came through, Loggins continues. It caught my attention because it sounded like a place, so I made it up like a fantasy island that this kid came from, where he would sneak off the boat and party with the neighbors and sneak back on before the captain saw him. It was total escapist fantasy. What is most remarkable to me, when I look back on it, is how much joy is in it. It's such an I love my life song."
- published: 26 Nov 2009
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Jo Dee Messina - My give a damn's busted
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- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
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20 Dec 2012
Obama held a White House news conference on Wednesday to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an interagency effort to craft new gun policies. The group is expected to offer its proposals in January. “We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides,” Obama said. “But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing.” ... WAKE-UP CALL ... ....(size: 6.1Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
WASHINGTON. US President Barack Obama backs a new bill to revive an assault weapons ban and other new gun laws, the White House said Tuesday, fleshing out his nascent response to a shocking school massacre. Obama also called an ardently pro-gun senator who has shifted his position on firearms laws since Friday's carnage in Connecticut and has begun meeting top cabinet officials to consider his options, his spokesman Jay Carney said ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a handgun were arrested ... That morning before school, he had posted on Twitter and Facebook....(size: 14.0Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When a Stanford geneticist, Gerald Crabtree, published a provocative and controversial new view on evolutionary change, namely that humans are actually getting dumber, he should have also added that humans are still developing an extermination gene ... Paleontologist Tim Flannery would more than likely agree with Crabtree ... Strange strings of gravel also overlaid some bones ... (1) Kane, Alex ... 195....(size: 9.4Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she accepts the findings of an independent panel that faulted the State Department over the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. An inquiry into the attack on the US mission, which saw the US ambassador and three other US citizens killed, found that the State Department security arrangements there were "grossly inadequate" ... 390 Source. ... Share ... Jaws ... Anaheim....(size: 19.2Kb)
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21 Dec 2012
(Source. CSKA Moscow Professional Basket Club) ... Khimki vs. CSKA. 75-70 (-5). Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach. Both teams tried hard and the details decided the outcome of the game ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 1.4Kb)
The Examiner
21 Dec 2012
There have been quite a few great freshman series on television in 2012. Here are my picks for the top 10 ... 10. “Vegas” (CBS). The CBS crime-period drama “Vegas,” starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis, was my most anticipated new fall drama on any of the broadcast networks this season ... The right pieces are here ... 9 ... The show is filled with laughs at nearly every moment and includes fine supporting performances by Chris Messina (as Dr ... ....(size: 8.5Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
TED SILARY, Daily News Staff Writersilaryt@phillynews.com. Posted. Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12.55 AM. JUST BECAUSE a guy may never play football again, that doesn't mean his accomplishments should be considered less significant ... Ah, but La Salle's Sean Coleman is also one helluva gridder ... Exhibit A. 14 catches for 138 yards and four TDs in a triumph over St ... ... LB Josh Messina Archbishop Wood; 5-9, 180, Jr ... LB Josh Messina, Wood, Jr....(size: 36.6Kb)
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20 Dec 2012
BASKETBALL. BOYS. Schedule. Friday’s Games. (All games 7.30 p.m., unless noted). Alliance at West Branch. Aurora at Hudson. Canton South at Louisville. Canton Timken at Tuslaw. Carrollton at Marlington. Chardon Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin at Walsh Jesuit. Chippewa at Waynedale. Cleveland Rhodes at Archbishop Hoban ... PARMA HEIGHTS HOLY NAME — Verba 1-0-2, Day 1-0-3, Adams 1-0-2, Messina 1-0-2, Davis 2-0-4, Cook 4-2-12, Kucharczyk 4-1-11....(size: 16.5Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
(Source. CSKA Moscow Professional Basket Club). The central game of PBL championship to take place tomorrow. Our team will go to Khimki to face the hosts in the classical Russian rivalry. "It will be surely an interesting game between the long-time rivals", - CSKA head coach Ettore Messina said ... (noodl....(size: 1.9Kb)
The Examiner
19 Dec 2012
Art.Craft.Design.Jurors Melissa Messina, Senior Curator at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Kathryn Wat, Chief Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, selected artwork from a broad range of media--including video, murals, fiber work, photography, books, mixed media sculpture and painting--from artists working ......(size: 1.7Kb)
CNN
19 Dec 2012
So after his staff arrived, he left his family in the main room of the suite and stepped out to talk with his three top advisers, Axelrod, political strategist David Plouffe and Jim Messina, his campaign manager....(size: 7.0Kb)
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19 Dec 2012
Windstar Cruises , a fleet of intimate sailing vessels, is counting down the holidays with the year's most spectacular deals ... Today's special spotlights Classic Italy and the Dalmatian Coast, a seven-day cruise from Rome to Venice that stops at some of the most exotic ports in the Mediterranean, including Capri, Messina, Dubrovnik, Split and Pula ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
He will join the senior team, which includes Carlo Messina, General Manager Chief Financial Officer, and Gaetano Miccichè, General Manager in charge of the Corporate and Investment Banking Division ......(size: 1.3Kb)
PR Newswire
18 Dec 2012
Google. Download image. SEATTLE, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Windstar Cruises is counting down the holidays with the year's most spectacular deals ... Today's offer spotlights Classic Italy and the Dalmatian Coast, a seven-day cruise from Rome to Venice that stops at some of the most beautiful ports in the Mediterranean, including Capri, Messina, Dubrovnik, Split and Pula ... (Photo ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
Business Wire
18 Dec 2012
Tapered edges add durability and visual appeal; VITREO is shatterproof and reduces fingerprints . HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seidio, a leading manufacturer of premium mobile technology accessories, rolls out the groundbreaking VITREO tempered glass screen protector for the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III ... It’s elegant, sleek and the ultimate choice for screen protection.” ... About Seidio, Inc ... Contacts ... Jaclyn Messina, 305-374-4404 Ext ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
(Source. Southwest Gas Corporation). December 12, 2012. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Contact. Cynthia Messina, (702) 365-2044. Southwest Gas Encourages Winter Safety and. Natural Gas Meter Shelter Installations. Protect natural gas meters and outdoor appliances from snow and ice. Carson City, Nev ... "At Southwest Gas, safety is paramount throughout the year," said Byron Elkins, Southwest's director of operations ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 3.8Kb)
This article is about the city in Sicily, Italy. For the city in South Africa, see Musina. For other uses, see Messina (disambiguation).
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| Coordinates: 38°11′N 15°33′E / 38.183°N 15.55°E / 38.183; 15.55 | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| Region | Sicily | ||
| Province | Messina | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 211.2 km2 (81.5 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 3 m (10 ft) | ||
| Population (September 2011[1]) | |||
| • Total | 241,807 thousand | ||
| Demonym | Messinesi, Peloritani | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 98100 | ||
| Dialing code | 090 | ||
| Patron saint | Madonna of the Letter | ||
| Saint day | June 3 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
Messina (Italian pronunciation: [mesˈsiːna] ( listen), Sicilian: Missina; Latin: Messana) is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, Italy and the capital of the province of Messina. It has a population of about 250,000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 650,000 in the province. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina, just opposite Villa San Giovanni on the mainland.
The main economical resources of the city are: the port (commercial and military), provided with several shipyards; agriculture (including wine production and the cultivation of lemons, oranges, mandarin oranges and olives); tourism.
The city has been a Roman Catholic Archdiocese and Archimandrite seat since 1548 and is home to a locally important international fair.
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Founded by Greek colonists in the 8th century BC, Messina was originally called Zancle, from the Greek: ζάγκλον meaning "scythe" because of the shape of its natural harbour (though a legend attributes the name to King Zanclus). A comune of its province, located at the southern entrance of the Strait of Messina, is to this day called 'Scaletta Zanclea'. In the early 5th century BC, Anaxilas of Rhegium renamed it Messene in honour of the Greek city Messene (Greek: Μεσσήνη). (See also List of traditional Greek place names.) The city was sacked in 397 BC by the Carthaginians and then reconquered by Dionysius I of Syracuse.
In 288 BC the Mamertines seized the city by treachery, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives. The city became a base from which they ravaged the countryside, leading to a conflict with the expanding regional empire of Syracuse. Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse, defeated the Mamertines near Mylae on the Longanus River and besieged Messina. Carthage assisted the Mamertines because of a long-standing conflict with Syracuse over dominance in Sicily. When Hiero attacked a second time in 264 BC, the Mamertines petitioned the Roman Republic for an alliance, hoping for more reliable protection. Although initially reluctant to assist lest it encourage other mercenary groups to mutiny, Rome was unwilling to see Carthaginian power spread further over Sicily and encroach on Italy. Rome therefore entered into an alliance with the Mamertines. In 264 BC, Roman troops were deployed to Sicily, the first time a Roman army acted outside the Italian Peninsula.
At the end of the First Punic War it was a free city allied with Rome. In Roman times Messina, then known as Messana, had an important pharos (lighthouse). Messana was the base of Sextus Pompeius, during his war against Octavian.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the city was successively ruled by Goths from 476, then by the Byzantine Empire in 535, by the Arabs in 842, and in 1061 by the Norman brothers Robert Guiscard and Roger Guiscard (later count Roger I of Sicily). In 1189 the English King Richard I, ("The Lionheart") stopped at Messina en route to the Holy Land and briefly occupied the city after a dispute over the dowry of his sister, who had been married to William the Good, King of Sicily
Messina was most likely the harbour at which the Black Death entered Europe: the plague was brought by Genoese ships coming from Caffa in the Crimea. In 1548 St. Ignatius founded there the first Jesuit college of the world, which later gave birth to the Studium Generale (the current University of Messina).
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The Christian ships that won the Battle of Lepanto (1571) left from Messina: the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who took part in the battle, recovered for some time in the Grand Hospital. The city reached the peak of its splendour in the early 17th century, under Spanish domination: at the time it was one of the ten greatest cities in Europe. In 1674 the city rebelled against the foreign garrison. It managed to remain independent for some time, thanks to the help of the French king Louis XIV, but in 1678, with the Peace of Nijmegen, it was reconquered by the Spaniards and sacked: the university, the senate and all the privileges of autonomy it had enjoyed since the Roman times were abolished. A massive fortress was built by the occupants and Messina decayed steadily. In 1743, 48,000 died of plague in Messina.[2] In 1783, an earthquake devastated much of the city, and it took decades to rebuild and rekindle the cultural life of Messina.
In 1847 it was one of the first cities in Italy where Risorgimento riots broke out. In 1848 it rebelled openly against the reigning Bourbons, but was heavily suppressed again. Only in 1860, after the Battle of Milazzo, the Garibaldine troops occupied the city. One of the main figures of the unification of Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, was elected deputy at Messina in the general elections of 1866.
Another earthquake of less intensity damaged the city on November 16, 1894.
The city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and associated tsunami on the morning of December 28, 1908, killing about 60,000 people and destroying most of the ancient architecture. The city was largely rebuilt in the following year, according to a more modern and rational plan. It incurred further damage from the massive Allied air bombardments of 1943, which caused thousands of deaths. Later, the city gained a Gold Medal for Military Valour and one for Civil Valour in memory of the event and the subsequent effort of reconstruction.
In June 1955, Messina was the location of the Messina Conference of Western European foreign ministers which led to the creation of the European Economic Community.[3]
Messina has a light rail system that was opened on April 3, 2003. This line is 7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi) and links the city's central railway station with the city centre and harbour. Low floor double-ended trams built by Alston Ferroviaria.
Climate[link]
| Climate data for Messina | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 14 (57) |
14 (57) |
15 (59) |
17 (63) |
21 (70) |
26 (79) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
27 (81) |
22 (72) |
18 (64) |
15 (59) |
21 (70) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12 (54) |
12 (54) |
13 (55) |
15 (59) |
19 (66) |
23 (73) |
26 (79) |
27 (81) |
24 (75) |
20 (68) |
16 (61) |
13 (55) |
18 (64) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 10 (50) |
10 (50) |
11 (52) |
12 (54) |
16 (61) |
20 (68) |
23 (73) |
24 (75) |
21 (70) |
18 (64) |
14 (57) |
11 (52) |
16 (61) |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 11 (4.3) |
10 (3.9) |
8 (3.1) |
5 (2) |
3 (1.2) |
1 (0.4) |
1 (0.4) |
2 (0.8) |
5 (2) |
10 (3.9) |
10 (3.9) |
11 (4.3) |
84 (33.1) |
| Source: Weatherbase[4] | |||||||||||||
Main sights[link]
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Night view of Messina Harbour with Calabria in the background.
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Church of the Annunziata dei Catalani.
Churches and sanctuaries[link]
- The Cathedral (12th century), containing the remains of king Conrad, ruler of Germany and Sicily in the 13th century. The building had to be almost entirely rebuilt in 1919-1920, following the devastating 1908 earthquake, and again in 1943, after a fire triggered by Allied bombings. The original Norman structure can be recognised in the apsidal area. The façade has three late Gothic portals, the central of which probably dates back to the early 15th century. The architrave is decorated with a sculpture of Christ Among the Evangelists and various representations of men, animals and plants. The tympanum dates back to 1468. The interior is organised in a nave and two equally long aisles divided by files of 28 columns. Some decorative elements belong the original building, whereas the mosaics in the apse are reconstructions. Tombs of illustrious men besides Conrad IV, include those of Archbishops Palmer (died in 1195), Guidotto de Abbiate (14th century) and Antonio La Legname (16th century). Special interest is held by the Chapel of the Sacrament (late 16th century), with scenic decorations and 14th century mosaics. The bell tower holds one of the largest astronomical clocks in the world, built in 1933 by the Ungerer Company of Strasbourg. The belfry mechanically animated statues, which illustrate events from the civil and religious history of the city every day at noon, are a popular touristic attraction.
- Annunziata dei Catalani (late 12th-13th century). Dating from the late Norman period, it was transformed in the 13th century when the nave was shortened and the façade added. It has a cylindrical apse and a high dome emerging from a high tambour. Noteworthy is the external decoration of the transept and the dome area, with a series of blind arches separated by small columns. It clearly reflects Arabic architectural influences.
- Santa Maria degli Alemanni (early 13th century), which was formerly a chapel of Teutonic Knights. It is a rare example of pure Gothic architecture in Sicily, as is witnessed by the arched windows and shapely buttresses.
- Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Carmelo (near the Courthouse) built in 1931, which contains a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary.
- Sanctuary of Montevergine, where the incorrupt body of Saint Eustochia Smeralda Calafato is preserved.
Fountains[link]
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- The Fountain of Orion, located next to the Cathedral, built by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in 1547.
- The Fountain of Neptune, looking towards the harbour, built by Montorsoli in 1557.
- The Senatory Fountain (1619)
- Quattro Fontane (The Four Fountains), though only two elements of the four-cornered complex survive today.
Other landmarks[link]
- The San Ranieri lighthouse (1555).
- The Botanical Garden "Pietro Castelli" of the University of Messina.
- Palazzo Calapaj, an example of 18th century Messinese architecture which survived to the 1908 earthquake.
- Porta Grazia, 16th century gate of "real cittadella di Messina", a still existing fortress in the harbour
- The Pylon, built in 1957 together with a twin located across the Strait of Messina, to carry a 220kV-overhead powerline bringing electric power to the island. At the time of their construction, the two electric pylons were the highest in the world. The powerline has later been replaced by an underwater cable, but the pylon still stands as a freely accessible tourist attraction.
Museums[link]
- The Regional Museum, hosting notable paintings by Caravaggio [5] and Antonello da Messina.
- Museum of popular culture and music (Museo di cultura e musica popolare dei Peloritani), devoted to the local ethnomusicological tradition.
Notable people[link]
- Antonello da Messina, painter of the Renaissance, born in Messina in 1430.
- Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher and mathematician, born in Messina in 350 BC.
- Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, saint, born in Messina in 1434.
- Francesco Maurolico, astronomer and mathematician, of Greek origin, born in Messina in 1494.
- Bernardo Storace, composer, worked in Messina in 1664.
- Filippo Juvarra, architect and highest exponent of the Baroque, born in Messina in 1678.
- Annibale Maria Di Francia, saint, born in Messina in 1851.
- Giuseppe Sergi, anthropologist, born in Messina in 1841.
- Luigi Rizzo, naval officer and First World War hero, born in Messina in 1887.
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta, actress, born in Messina in 1968.
- Antonino Fogliani, music conductor, born in Messina in 1976.
- Vincenzo Nibali, cyclist, born in Messina in 1984.
- Vincenzo Tripodo, photographer, opera director, and filmmaker.
- Filippo Bonaffino (fl. 1623), Italian composer of madrigals
Literary references[link]
Numerous writers set their works in Messina, including:
- Plutarch - The Life of Pompey (40 BC?)
- Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron IV day V novel, Lisabetta da Messina - IV day IV Novel, Gerbino ed Elissa (1351)
- Matteo Bandello - Novelliere First Part, novel XXII (1554)
- William Shakespeare - Much Ado about Nothing (1598) and Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
- Molière - L'Etourdi ou Les Contre-temps (1654)
- Friedrich Schiller - Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina, 1803)
- Silvio Pellico - Eufemio da Messina (1818)
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Idyllen aus Messina (Idylls from Messina, 1882)
- Giovanni Pascoli - poem L'Aquilone (1904)
- Elio Vittorini - Le donne di Messina (Women of Messina, 1949) and Conversazione in Sicilia (Conversations in Sicily, 1941)
- Stefano D'Arrigo - Horcynus Orca (1975)
- Julien Green - Demain n'existe pas (1985)
See also[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ Data from ISTAT
- ^ Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague. Samuel K Cohn JR. Medical History.
- ^ "''The Messina Declaration 1955'' final document of ''The Conference of Messina'' 1 to 3 June 1955 - birth of the European Union". Eu-history.leidenuniv.nl. http://www.eu-history.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=10&c=52. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- ^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Messina". http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=2461&refer=&units=metric.
- ^ "Regione Siciliana Assessorato Beni Culturali". Regione.sicilia.it. http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/info/BeniInamovibili/MeCaravaggio.html. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
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- Messina website (Italian)
- Messina News (Italian)
- University website (Italian)
- Prefettura website (Italian)
- Catholic Archdiocese of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela (Italian)
- Chamber of Commerce website (Italian)
- Theatre of Messina Vittorio Emanuele (Italian)
- International Trade Fair website (Italian)
- All about sport in Messina (Italian)
- Messina Port Authority (Italian)
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| Jo Dee Messina | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jo Dee Marie Messina |
| Born | (1970-08-25) August 25, 1970 (age 41) |
| Origin | Holliston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals Rhythm guitar Piano |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Curb |
| Associated acts | Joe Diffie Tim McGraw |
| Website | Official Website |
Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album.[1] To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA.
Messina debuted in 1996 with the single Heads Carolina, Tails California. Her album was certified Gold by the RIAA. Her second album, I'm Alright produced five Top 10 Country hits between 1998 in 1999 and sold over a million copies in America. Since her debut, six of her singles have peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country singles chart and five of her albums have received a certification by the RIAA or the CRIA. She has sold 5 million records worldwide.
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Early life[link]
Messina was born Jo Dee Marie Messina on August 25, 1970, in Framingham, Massachusetts to Vincent and Mary Messina. Her father was of Italian descent and her mother was of Irish descent. She was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts, with two sisters, Terese and Marianne, and a brother, Vincent.[2] Messina had a variety of country music influences, including Patsy Cline, Reba McEntire, and The Judds. She soon started performing live, and by age 16 she was playing local clubs, singing while her brother and one sister provided backup on drums and guitar.[3] The group continued performing until she graduated from high school.
Realizing that living in the Northeast would limit her chances of achieving country music stardom, Messina moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 19.[4] She worked various temp jobs, including computer programming and accounting, while entering talent contests around Nashville.
One win led to a regular gig on the radio show Live at Libby's, which caught the interest of producer Byron Gallimore, who helped her assemble a demonstration tape. Gallimore was also working with the young Tim McGraw around the same time, and Messina befriended him. Backstage at one of his concerts, Messina met an executive from his label, Curb, and jokingly suggested that they needed a redhead.[3] With the help of fellow Curb producer James Stroud, Messina was soon signed to the record label. Gallimore and McGraw would later become co-producers of Messina's studio albums under Curb.
Music career[link]
1996–97: country success[link]
Messina released her self-titled debut album in 1996. It spawned two Top 10 hits, starting with the lead single, "Heads Carolina, Tails California," which peaked at #2 on the Country charts and its follow-up, "You're Not in Kansas Anymore" gained similar success.[3] However, the two additional singles released from the album, "Do You Wanna Make Something of It" and "He'd Never Seen Julie Cry" peaked outside the Country Top 40 and were minor hits between 1996 and 1997. Following her major success, Messina performed 215 shows in 1996 and became one of the most successful new female vocalists of the 1990s. debut album sold over 500,000 copies and was certified Gold by RIAA.
Messina's finances suffered due to a series of poor business decisions and a change of management that led her to nearly declaring bankruptcy; she nearly lost her home and her car.[2] She spent nearly a year trying to write new songs and material for a new album that could help bring herself out of bankruptcy.[5] She credited the radio success of "Bye, Bye" and "I'm Alright" with giving her a "second chance."[6]
1998−2006: breakthrough success[link]
Messina released her second album in 1998, I'm Alright. The album spawned three #1 hit singles on the Billboard Country Chart that year: "Bye, Bye";[7] "I'm Alright"; and "Stand Beside Me," all three of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as well. The fourth single, "Lesson in Leavin", was a cover of the #1 Country hit by Dottie West in 1980. The song peaked at #2 for 7 weeks. In 1999 she had another Top 10 hit from the album, "Because You Love Me," which peaked at #8 on the Billboard Country Chart.
In 2000 Messina received the Country Music Association's "Horizon award," which is awarded to new Country music artists.[7] She also won Billboard magazine's "Most Played Female at Country Radio", and won three major awards from the Boston Music Awards, located in her home state of Massachusetts.[4]
Messina's album also became her biggest-selling album to date, selling over two million copies in the US, receiving an RIAA certification of 2XPlatinum. Around the same time, Messina had guest roles on the television shows, Crash and Burn, Nash Bridges and Touched by an Angel. She guest-starred on the series a couple of years earlier and stayed in touch with the show's producer/creator. In the episode titled "Bring On the Rain" (named after Messina's hit song), she appeared as Annie, the single mother of a teenage girl.[4]
She released her third studio album, Burn in 2000, which aimed towards Country pop-styled music.[3] The album's lead single, "That's the Way" peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country Chart and also became her highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #25. Following that success, she had two additional Top 10 hits with "Burn" and "Downtime."[7]
Messina had another #1 hit from the album in 2001 with "Bring On the Rain," a duet with Tim McGraw that also became a Top 10 hit on the Adult Contemporary Chart, peaking at #6.
In addition to headlining concerts, she also toured with Vince Gill, George Strait, and The Judds' reunion tour.[8]
Messina released her first holiday album in 2002 with A Joyful Noise. The title track was released as a single and peaked at #16 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 2003. The album consisted of remakes of holiday songs previously made famous by other singers.
Messina planned to release a new album in 2003, but a Greatest Hits album was released instead due to delays.[8] The album covered most of Messina's hits between 1996 and 2003, and also included four new songs, including two that were released as singles. The first single, "Was That My Life," peaked in the Top 25 and the second single, "I Wish," became a Top 15 hit. The album was also certified Gold by RIAA.
In 2005 Messina released her first Country music studio album since 2000, Delicious Surprise.[3] It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #9 on the Billboard 200.[9] It sold over 500,000 copies and became her fourth album to receive an RIAA Gold certification.[10] The lead single, "My Give a Damn's Busted," peaked at #1 on the Billboard Country Chart and became Messina's first #1 single since 2001. The three follow-up singles ("Delicious Surprise (I Believe It)," "Not Going Down," and "It's Too Late To Worry") were minor Top 40 hits on the Billboard Country chart between 2005 and 2006.
2007–present: Unmistakable[link]
Messina released a new single in July 2007, "Biker Chick," from her upcoming fifth studio album, Unmistakable. It was written by Kelly Archer and Max T. Barnes and was recorded in the fall of 2006 in Nashville.[11] Although the album was set for release on November 6, 2007, the album was shelved and therefore, the single was dropped from Country radio after spending 9 weeks on the charts, rising to a peak of #48.
On March 22, 2008, Messina released her second single from Unmistakable, titled "I'm Done." The single peaked at #34 on the Billboard Country Chart. Messina, who co-wrote the song, explained that the release of the album was "truly dictated by the success of the single."[12] On June 10, 2008, Messina and Phil Vassar opened the 2008 CMA Music Festival, where she performed her two #1 hits, Bye, Bye and I'm Alright, both co-written by Vassar.[13] She also performed her latest single, "I'm Done," which received a positive reaction from the audience that day.[14] In early 2009 she released Shine, but that song failed to chart, and the album was pushed again.
In January 2010, Messina released the single, "That's God,"[15] although it failed to chart. Messina began debuting the single in late 2009 on her Music Room Series Tour. "My heart is exploding with excitement. This song is truly what I want to say. I believe in it and its message."[16] Having had her first child in January 2009,[17] Messina was inspired to write the song while spending time with her son on a trip to Jasper, Canada, where she saw mountains with glacier lakes.[18][dead link] The single received a negative review at The 9513, where critic Sam Gadzidak thought that it was derivative of Lee Ann Womack's "There Is a God."[19]
She later announced that the album would be released in a trilogy of extended plays, beginning with Unmistakable: Love, released on April 27, 2010. It was followed by two additional extended plays, Drive and Inspiration, both released on November 9, 2010, via MP3 format.
In 2012, Jo Dee was featured on the fourth season of Bravo's hit reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta. On the show, Jo Dee and cast member Kandi Burruss collaboratively write a song together - Burruss' first effort at creating country music. Jo Dee is currently working on her next album.
A collection of her songs is available for free download with the purchase of 2000 Flushes, a product of the WD-40 Company[20], curiously associating her music with dirty toilets.
Personal life[link]
In 2004, Messina was engaged to road manager Don Muzquiz, but then broke off the engagement. However, the two remained in a business relationship.[21]
Messina became involved with the Special Olympics after stumbling across an event while jogging. She has become an ambassador and performs at Special Olympics events in order to increase attendance.[22]
In April 2004 Messina entered a rehabilitation facility in Utah for treatment of alcoholism.[23] Messina says her manager, Stuart Dill, confronted her in Houston following a rough performance after the 2004 Super Bowl. She says she wasn't "stumbling drunk," but she acknowledges that she doesn't recall much about the performance either. "I forgot the words to Stand Beside Me. That's what I can remember," Messina said. After Dill's confrontation, Messina was on a plane to Utah the next day. She entered a detox center for a few days before checking into rehab. Messina doesn't blame Muzquiz or Curb Records for her drinking problem; she points to her workaholic tendencies. She said rehab gave her the time to focus on herself and her issues, and she was able to turn to songwriting again for the first time in a long time.[24] After finishing rehabilitation, Messina rented a cabin at Sundance Ski Resort in Utah. She resumed touring on May 30, 2004, in Marksville, Louisiana. On June 22, 2007, Messina announced her engagement to businessman Chris Deffenbaugh from Albuquerque, New Mexico.[25] They were married in Nashville in late 2007.[26] A son, Noah Roger Deffenbaugh was born on January 12, 2009.[27] On January 11, 2012, they welcomed son Jonah Christopher Deffenbaugh.[28]
Discography[link]
Main article: Jo Dee Messina discography
- Main albums
- 1996: Jo Dee Messina
- 1998: I'm Alright
- 2000: Burn
- 2005: Delicious Surprise
- EPs & Other albums
- 2002: A Joyful Noise
- 2003: Greatest Hits
- 2010: Unmistakable: Love
- 2010: Unmistakable: Drive
- 2010: Unmistakable: Inspiration
Awards & honors[link]
| Year | Award Program[4][29] | Award |
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| 1998 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top New Female Vocalist |
| 1999 | Billboard Magazine | Most Played Country Female Artist of the Year |
| Boston Music Awards | Outstanding Country Act | |
| Outstanding Female Vocalist | ||
| Act of the Year | ||
| Country Music Association Awards | Horizon award |
Footnotes[link]
- ^ Jo Dee Messina biography at her official website
- ^ a b Taylor, B. Kimberley Jo Dee Messina biography & other information Musician Guide.com; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ a b c d e Allmusic Jo Dee Messina profile retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ a b c d Ask Men.com Jo Dee Messina – women singer retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Taylor, Chuck (March 13, 1999), "Curb's Jo Dee Messina Proves She's More Than `Alright' With Hit-Filled Sophomore Set". Billboard. 111 (11)
- ^ Flippo, Chet (August 29, 1998), "'97 was a tough year for Jo Dee Messina, but now with a no. 1 song She's `Alright.'" Billboard. 110 (35):39
- ^ a b c Jo Dee Messina timeline Movietone.com; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ a b Jo Dee Messina profile Country Music Television.com; Also includes music videos, photographs, and news
- ^ Wilson, Urban, Nichols Vying for Next No. 1 Country Music Television.com; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Jo Dee Messina nets two more Gold albums Country Music Television News; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Jo Dee Messina releases latest single, "Biker Chick" Country Standard Time; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Jo Dee Messina talks about upcoming album, Unmistakable Live Daily.com; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Jo Dee Messina & Phil Vassar open the CMA Music Festival Country Music Television news; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Jo Dee Messina performs at CMA Music festival Curb Records.com; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Country Standard Time: Messina works on new CD
- ^ Country Standard Time: Jo Dee Messina slates release of new single
- ^ People Magazine: It's a Boy for Jo Dee Messina!
- ^ Palm Spring Guides: Jo Dee Messina Alive!
- ^ The 9513: Jo Dee Messina – “That’s God”
- ^ http://unmistakeblyclean.com/
- ^ Jo Dee Messina breaks engagement Yahoo news from February 20, 2004; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ No byline (August 2009), "Why I Give: Jo Dee Messina". Good Housekeeping. 249 (2):76
- ^ Jo Dee Messina news at Yahoo.com
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- ^ Country Star Jo Dee Messina Engaged People.com; retrieved August 26, 2008
- ^ Jo Dee Messina talks about tying the knot GAC TV; retrieved 6–26–08
- ^ Clinton, Ivory Jeff (February 2, 2009), "Passages".. People. 71 (4):123
- ^ http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/01/11/jo-dee-messina-welcomes-son-jonah-christopher/
- ^ Jo Dee Messina awards Country Music Television.com; retrieved 6–26–08
References[link]
- Gilbert, Calvin. (1998). "Jo Dee Messina". In The Encyclopedia of County Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 343.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Samuel Timothy McGraw |
| Born | (1967-05-01) May 1, 1967 (age 45) Delhi, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Origin | Start, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Musician, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Curb Big Machine |
| Associated acts | Faith Hill, The Dancehall Doctors, Nelly, Taylor Swift, Def Leppard, Mindy McCready, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lionel Richie |
| Website | timmcgraw.com |
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era.[1] He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw.
McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.[2]
McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".[3]
In acknowledgement of his grandfather's Italian heritage, McGraw was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala.
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Early life[link]
McGraw was born Samuel Timothy McGraw in Delhi, Louisiana, to Elizabeth "Betty" Ann D'Agostino, a waitress, and Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr., who later became a relief pitcher for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. McGraw is of Italian and some Irish descent on his mother's side, and of Scots-Irish and distant German descent on his father's side.[4][5] In 1966, Tug was a pitcher for the Jacksonville Suns, and he lived in an apartment above Betty D'Agostino, who attended Terry Parker High School. The pair had a relationship, and when Betty became pregnant, her parents sent her to Louisiana to live with relatives and to have the baby.[6]
Reared by his mother in Start, also in Richland Parish, east of Monroe, McGraw grew up believing his stepfather, Horace Smith, was his father. From the time of his mother's marriage until the time he met his biological father, his last name was Smith. At age 11, McGraw discovered his birth certificate while searching his mother's closet to find pictures for a school project. After his discovery, his mother revealed that his biological father was Tug McGraw, and took Tim to meet him for the first time.[5] For seven years, Tug denied being Tim's father. Tim was 18 years old when Tug first realized how much Tim looked like him at that age, and he acknowledged paternity. They remained close until Tug's death in 2004.
As a child, McGraw loved to play competitive sports, including baseball, even though he did not know his natural father was a professional athlete.[5] He attended Northeast Louisiana University, now the University of Louisiana at Monroe, on a baseball scholarship,[7] and became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.[8] During his college period, he learned to play guitar, and would frequently perform and sing for tips, although he claims that his roommates often hid the guitar because he was so bad.
His mother, Betty, returned to Jacksonville, Florida in 1987, and McGraw followed. He attended Florida Community College at Jacksonville for one term, and occasionally sat in with local bands.[6] In 1989, on the day his hero Keith Whitley died,[7] McGraw dropped out of college to head to Nashville and pursue a musical career.[5]
1990s[link]
[edit] Tim McGraw
McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1990. After cutting a demo single, McGraw gave a copy to his father, Tug McGraw. A man who was friends with Curb Records executives heard the demo while driving with Tug McGraw one day and recommended that Curb contact the young singer. Several weeks later, he was able to play his tape for Curb executives, after which they signed him to a recording contract.[5] Two years later, in 1992, he had his first minor hit with "Welcome to the Club" off his self-titled debut album. Although the album failed to make much of a dent on the charts, McGraw did have two other minor hits from it in 1993: "Memory Lane" and "Two Steppin Mind".[7]
[edit] Not a Moment Too Soon
His second album, Not a Moment Too Soon, was much more successful, becoming the best-selling country album in 1994. The first single, "Indian Outlaw", caused considerable controversy, as critics argued that it presented Native Americans in a patronizing way.[7] Some radio stations refused to play it,[9] but the controversy helped spur sales, and the song became McGraw's first top-ten country single (getting as high as No. 8), and reaching No. 15 on the pop chart.[10]
The second single from the album, "Don't Take the Girl", became McGraw's first No. 1 country hit, and "helped cement his image as a ruggedly good-looking guy with a sensitive side".[9] The following year, the album's title track became a No. 1 country single, while "Down on the Farm" reached No. 2, and "Refried Dreams" reached the top 5. The album sold over 6 million copies, topping the Billboard 200 as well as the country album charts.[7] On the strength of this success, McGraw won Academy of Country Music awards for Album of the Year and Top New Male Vocalist in 1994.[11]
[edit] All I Want
All I Want, released in 1995, continued his run of success, debuting at No. 1 on the country charts. The album sold over 2 million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. "I Like It, I Love It" reached No. 1 on the country charts as the lead-off single, while "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" also went to No. 1 in 1996. "Can't Be Really Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" were all top 5 hits.[7]
In 1996, McGraw headlined the most successful country tour of the year, The Spontaneous Combustion Tour, with Faith Hill as his supporting act. Faith Hill broke off her engagement to her former producer Scott Hendricks so that she and McGraw could start dating each other; they then married on October 6, 1996. The couple have since had three daughters: Gracie Katherine (born May 1997), Maggie Elizabeth (born August 1998), and Audrey Caroline (born December 2001).[12]
[edit] Everywhere
McGraw's next album, 1997's Everywhere, again topped the country charts and reached No. 2 on the album charts, selling 4 million copies.[7] Four singles ("It's Your Love", "Everywhere", "Where the Green Grass Grows", and "Just to See You Smile") reached the top of the country charts from the album, with the last of these setting a new record by spending 42 weeks on the Billboard charts.[13] The Country Music Association awarded Everywhere its Album of the Year award for 1997.
[edit] A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun in 1999 continued McGraw's streak, debuting atop both the US pop and country album charts[11] and selling 3 million albums. It featured another four chart-topping singles on the country charts including "Please Remember Me", "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", and "My Next Thirty Years". "Some Things Never Change" reached No. 7 on the country chart.[7] He also contributed a song for the Grammy-winning tribute album to Bob Wills: Ride With Bob. His song, a cover of "Milk Cow Blues", was recorded as a duet with Asleep at the Wheel, whom he had met while performing together at the George Strait Country Music Festival.[11]
McGraw recorded two more duets with his wife in the late 1990s, both of which appeared on her albums. "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me", off of her multi-platinum 1998 album Faith, reached the top five of the US country charts,[7] while her follow-up and 1999 album Breathe featured "Let's Make Love", which would win a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.[11]
2000s[link]
[edit] Greatest Hits
In 2000, McGraw released his Greatest Hits album, which topped the charts for nine weeks and sold almost 6 million copies, making it one of the biggest-selling albums in the modern country market. In the latter half of the year, he and Hill went out on the Soul2Soul Tour, playing to sellout crowds in 64 venues, including Madison Square Garden. It was one of the top tours of any genre in the US, and the leading country tour during 2000.[13]
While in Buffalo, New York, McGraw and Kenny Chesney became involved in a scuffle with police officers after Chesney attempted to ride a police horse. McGraw came to Chesney's aid after police officers nearby believed the horse was being stolen and tried to arrest him. The two were arrested and charged with assault, but were later cleared. During a concert with the George Strait Country Music Festival several weeks later, Hill, dressed as a police officer, made an unscheduled appearance at the end of McGraw's set and led him off the stage.[14]
[edit] Set This Circus Down
McGraw's next album, Set This Circus Down, was released in April 2001, and spawned four number-one country hits: "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All the Time" (with Faith Hill), "The Cowboy in Me", and "Unbroken". He provided harmony vocals for the Jo Dee Messina song "Bring On the Rain", which he also produced. The song topped the country charts.[11]
Hungry for more of his music, fans downloaded a version of his performance of the song "Things Change" from his appearance at the Country Music Association Awards Show. The song was played extensively on radio, becoming the first country song to appear on the charts from a fully downloaded version.[13]
[edit] Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
In 2002, McGraw bucked country music traditions by recording his album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors with his tour band The Dancehall Doctors. Unlike rock music, where it is commonplace for touring bands to provide the music on albums recorded by the artist they support, country albums are typically recorded with session musicians.[15] McGraw chose to use his own touring band, in order to recognize their part in his success, and to capture some of the feel of a real band.[13]
All of the Dancehall Doctors have worked with McGraw since at least 1996. They include:
- Darran Smith – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
- Bob Minner – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
- Denny Hemingson – steel guitar, electric, baritone, and slide guitars, dobro
- John Marcus – bass guitar
- Dean Brown – fiddle, mandolin
- Jeff McMahon – piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards
- Billy Mason – drums
- David Dunkley – percussion[13]
The album debuted at No. 2 on the country albums charts,[5] with the single "Real Good Man" reaching No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. "She's My Kind of Rain" reached No. 2 in 2003, and "Red Ragtop" reached the top 5. The album also featured a cover version of Elton John's early 1970s classic "Tiny Dancer", as well as appearances by Kim Carnes on "Comfort Me" (a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks) and Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles on "Illegal".
[edit] Live Like You Were Dying
2004's Live Like You Were Dying continued McGraw's record of commercial success. The title track, dedicated to his father Tug McGraw, who died of a brain tumor earlier in the year, was a soaring ode to living life fully and in the moment,[16] while the second single "Back When" was a paean to an easy nostalgia. Live Like You Were Dying spent seven non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard (10 weeks on Radio & Records), and went on to become the biggest hit single of the year. It also became one of the most awarded songs/records by winning ACM Single and Song of the Year, CMA Single and Song of the Year, and a Grammy.
In late 2004, his unlikely duet with hip-hop artist Nelly on "Over and Over", a soft ballad of lost love, became a crossover hit,[17] spending 10 weeks atop the Top 40 chart. "Over and Over" brought McGraw a success he had never previously experienced on contemporary hit radio or rap radio, and brought both artists success neither had previously experienced in the hot adult contemporary market. The song also spent a week at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, becoming McGraw's first British hit single and Nelly's third number one hit in the country after Dilemma and My Place. 'Over and Over' also reached the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland, and the top ten in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Switzerland.
Throughout the 2005 NFL season, McGraw sang an alternate version of "I Like It, I Love It" every week during the season. The alternate lyrics, which changed each week, would make reference to plays during Sunday's games, and the song would be played alongside video highlights during halftime on Monday Night Football.[18] Later in the year, McGraw became a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats when majority owner Bud Adams (owner of the NFL's Tennessee Titans) was awarded the expansion franchise.[19]
[edit] Let It Go
In April 2006, McGraw and Hill began their 73-concert 55-city Soul2Soul II Tour, again to strong commercial acceptance. The tour grossed nearly $89 million and sold almost 1.1 million tickets, making it the top grossing tour in the history of country music.[20] It was named "Major Tour of the Year" by the prestigious Pollstar Magazine, beating out such heavyweights as Madonna and the Rolling Stones. In a special gesture, the couple donated all of the profits from their performance in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina relief.[21]
McGraw, along with Kenny Chesney, contributed to a version of Tracy Lawrence's song "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", which can be found on Lawrence's album For the Love. Although the official single version features only Lawrence's vocals, many stations have opted to play the version with McGraw and Chesney instead.
McGraw released his eleventh album, Let It Go, on March 27, 2007. The album's debut single, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)", reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking McGraw's first No. 1 single since "Back When" in late 2004. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album chart, marking his fourth No. 1 top 200 album and ninth No. 1 country album.[22] His daughters can be heard singing the chorus during the last few seconds of the song on the video.
During the Academy of Country Music awards show on May 21, 2007, McGraw performed a song titled "If You're Reading This", which he co-wrote with The Warren Brothers.[23] Several radio stations began to play the live recording of the song; as a result, it entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 35.[24]
McGraw also produced the debut album of country music duo Halfway to Hazard. The duo's first single, "Daisy", peaked at No. 39 on the country charts in the summer of 2007.
In the summer of 2007, McGraw and Hill toured together once again in the Soul2Soul 2007 tour.
In the January 18, 2008 edition of the USA Today newspaper, McGraw was stated to be featured on the Def Leppard album Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, having also co-written the first single, "Nine Lives", with Def Leppard band members Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, and Rick Savage. The unusual pairing goes back to 2006 when McGraw joined Def Leppard onstage for the song "Pour Some Sugar On Me", and then collaborated on the song "Nine Lives" afterward. The album was released on April 25, 2008.
In May 2008, he hit the road with the Live Your Voice tour. The mainly-outdoor arena concert tour was his first solo outing in nearly three years. Also in May 2008, he debuted a new song off of his follow-up to Let It Go at the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California.
In July 2008, McGraw's sixth single, and the title track of his album, "Let It Go", was released to country radio. Following that, a seventh single, "Nothin' to Die For", entered the Country charts at No. 57 in late December. McGraw released his third greatest-hits package, Greatest Hits 3 on October 7, 2008. The album features 12 tracks. McGraw was set to debut a new song on the 2009 ACM Awards, but then cancelled his performance; he was replaced by Blake Shelton, who sang "She Wouldn't Be Gone".
[edit] Southern Voice
McGraw's twelfth studio album, Southern Voice, was released October 20, 2009, and led by the single "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You", which was shipped to radio outlets in late June 2009.[25] Southern Voice was argued to be McGraw's last album for Curb Records, following the dispute over releasing his third Greatest Hits collection back in October 2008 without his permission. McGraw did not approve of the release. On November 30, 2010, Curb Records released his fourth greatest hits compilation, Number One Hits.
2010s[link]
[edit] Emotional Traffic and Curb Records lawsuit
On January 2, 2011, McGraw announced plans for his Emotional Traffic Tour featuring opening acts Luke Bryan and The Band Perry.[26] Sirius XM announced on March 30, 2011 that they would be launching Tim McGraw radio, a commercial-free music channel devoted to McGraw's music, and featuring an in depth interview with McGraw as well.[27]
McGraw has also finished work on a new album, also entitled Emotional Traffic, his last album with Curb Records.[28] On May 13, 2011, Curb Records filed a breach-of-contract suit against McGraw.[29] The label alleged that McGraw recorded tracks for his Emotional Traffic album too early prior to its delivery to the label.[29] Several days later, McGraw filed a counter suit against the label seeking advance payment and recording-fund reimbursement, unspecified damages, and a jury trial.[30] A trial is scheduled to begin in July 2012.[31][32]
In November 2011, a judge granted McGraw permission to record music for another label, ending his relationship with Curb Records that began in 1990.[31][32] A few hours after the ruling, Curb released "Better Than I Used to Be", the second single from Emotional Traffic.[33][34] The album was released on January 24, 2012.[34]
In December 2011, McGraw released his first Christmas single, "Christmas All Over the World", on his own label StyleSonic records. He is also said to be recording his debut album for the label. On May 21, 2012, he signed with Big Machine Records.[35]
Acting[link]
McGraw's first acting appearance came in a 1995 episode of The Jeff Foxworthy Show, where he played Foxworthy's rival.
In 2004, McGraw played a sheriff in Rick Schroder's independent release Black Cloud. Later in the same year, McGraw received critical acclaim as the overbearing father of a running back in the major studio Texas high school football drama Friday Night Lights. The Dallas Observer said the role was "played with unexpected ferocity by country singer Tim McGraw".[36] The movie went on to gross over $60 million dollars worldwide at the box office,[37] and sold millions in the DVD market. Most recently, it was named one of the Top 50 High School Movies of All Time (No. 37) by Entertainment Weekly.
McGraw's first lead role was in the 2006 film Flicka, which was released in theaters October 20, 2006. In the remake of the classic book My Friend Flicka, McGraw played the father, Rob, costarring with Alison Lohman and Maria Bello. The family-friendly movie debuted in the top 10 list and has grossed over $25 million at the box office.[38] McGraw again achieved critical acclaim for his acting.[39][40]
Shortly before Flicka opened, McGraw received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star is located at 6901 Hollywood Blvd. near stars in the sidewalk honoring Julie Andrews, William Shatner, and the late Greta Garbo. One of his Flicka co-stars, Alison Lohman, attended the ceremony that included comments from Billy Bob Thornton, McGraw's co-star in the film Friday Night Lights.[41]
In addition to acting in Flicka, McGraw served as executive producer of the soundtrack album, which was released by his record label, StyleSonic Records, in association with Curb Records and Fox 2000 films. It featured the closing credit song "My Little Girl", one of the first two songs that McGraw recorded that he also co-wrote (the other being "I've Got Friends That Do", both of which were included on Greatest Hits Vol. 2).[42] The song was nominated by the Broadcast Film Critics for "Best Song" in a film, and the movie was nominated in the category "Best Family Film (Live Action)". The movie proved to be another success in the DVD market, and has sold over a million copies, debuting at No. 3 on the DVD sales chart.[38]
McGraw also had a small part in the Michael Mann–produced 2007 film The Kingdom, reuniting him with Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg. McGraw played a bitter, angered widower whose wife was killed in the terrorist attack that is the centerpiece of the movie.
On November 22, 2008, McGraw made his first appearance on Saturday Night Live. He also played "Dallas McVie" in Four Christmases.
His house appeared in an episode of CSI with special guest Taylor Swift.
McGraw appeared in the 2009 film The Blind Side as Sean Tuohy, husband of Sandra Bullock’s character, Leigh Anne Tuohy. The Blind Side is based on the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in and adopted by the Tuohys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. In addition to his appearance in the film, McGraw's hit song "Southern Voice" was played during the closing credits of the film.
He is among the stars of Dirty Girl, a film that premiered on September 12, 2010, at the Toronto Film Festival, along with Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy and Dwight Yoakam.
Also in 2010, McGraw starred in Country Strong as James Canter, the husband and manager of the fictional country singer Kelly Canter (portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow).[43]
Charitable efforts[link]
As his success has grown, McGraw has become increasingly interested in giving back to the community. When McGraw first reached fame in 1994, he established his annual Swampstock event. It began as a charity softball game to raise money for hometown little league programs; the event now includes a celebrity softball game and a multi-artist concert that attracts over 11,000 fans per year. The combined events have funded new Little League parks and equipment, and have established college scholarship funds for students in the northeast Louisiana area.[44]
From 1996 to 1999, McGraw hosted an annual New Year's Eve concert in Nashville with special guests including Jeff Foxworthy, the Dixie Chicks, and Martina McBride. The 1997 show raised over $100,000 for the Country Music Foundation Hall of Fame and Museum. Beginning in 1999, McGraw would pick select cities on each tour, and the night before he was scheduled to perform, would choose a local club and host a quickly-organized show. This tour-within-a-tour became known as "The Bread and Water Tour", and all proceeds from the show would go to a charity from that community.[44]
In the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina, McGraw and his wife, who was raised in Mississippi, joined groups taking supplies to Gulfport, Mississippi. The two also hosted several charity concerts to benefit those who were displaced by the storm.[45] Later in the year, the couple established the Neighbor's Keeper Foundation, which provides funding for community charities to assist with basic humanitarian services, in the event of a natural disaster, or for desperate personal circumstances.
McGraw is also a member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet, to which various celebrities donate their time, skills, and fame, to help the Red Cross highlight important initiatives and response efforts.[46]
McGraw has helped out with charity events held by Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre. The Brett Favre Fourward Foundation has featured McGraw (and at other times Faith Hill) performing concerts during dinners and auctions that benefit children with disabilities in Wisconsin and Mississippi. One instance is recorded on Favre's official website.[47]
On July 12, 2007, it was made public that McGraw and his wife Faith Hill, while in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a performance, donated $5000 to Kailey Kozminski, 3-year-old daughter of Officer Robert Kozminski, a Grand Rapids police officer who was killed on July 8, 2007 while responding to a domestic disturbance.[48]
In June 2010, McGraw and his wife Faith Hill organized Nashville Rising, a benefit concert aimed to raise $2 million for The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in response to the flood in early May that killed 22 people and caused $2 billion in damage.[49]
Politics[link]
McGraw, a Democrat, has stated that he would like to run for public office in the future, possibly for Senate or Governor of Tennessee, his home state.[50][51] In the same interview, he praised former President Bill Clinton.[51] He has referred to himself as a "Blue Dog Democrat" and stated that he supported presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.[52]
Discography[link]
Main article: Tim McGraw discography
Studio albums[link]
- Tim McGraw (1993)
- Not a Moment Too Soon (1994)
- All I Want (1995)
- Everywhere (1997)
- A Place in the Sun (1999)
- Set This Circus Down (2001)
- Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (2002)
- Live Like You Were Dying (2004)
- Let It Go (2007)
- Southern Voice (2009)
- Emotional Traffic (2012)
Compilation albums[link]
- Greatest Hits (2000)
- Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (2006)
- Greatest Hits: Limited Edition (2008)
- Collector's Edition (2008)
- Greatest Hits 3 (2008)
- Limited Edition: Greatest Hits: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (2008)
- Number One Hits (2010)
Filmography[link]
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Black Cloud | Sheriff Cliff Powers | |
| Friday Night Lights | Charles Billingsley | Nominated – MTV Movie Award – Best Male Breakthrough Performance | |
| 2006 | Flicka | Rob McLaughlin | Nominated – Critics Choice Award for Best Song: "My Little Girl" |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Aaron Jackson | |
| 2008 | Four Christmases | Dallas | |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Sean Tuohy | |
| 2010 | Country Strong | James Canter | |
| 2011 | Dirty Girl | Danny | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | The Jeff Foxworthy Show | Lionel | one episode; "Feud for Thought" |
| 2008 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Hosted November 22, 2008 |
| 2011 | Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series) | Himself | Season 2, Episode 2 |
Awards[link]
| Year | Awards | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Country Music Television | Male Video Artist of the Year |
| American Music Awards | Album of the Year – Not a Moment Too Soon | |
| American Music Awards | Top New Male Vocalist | |
| Billboard Awards | Top New Country Artist | |
| Billboard Magazine | Top New Country Album – Not a Moment Too Soon | |
| 1995 | American Music Awards | Favorite Country New Artist |
| 1997 | Billboard Magazine | Single of the Year – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) |
| Country Music Television | Video of the Year – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| Country Music Television | Male Artist of the Year | |
| Playgirl Magazine | Top Ten, Sexiest Men of the Year | |
| CMA | Vocal Event – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| 1998 | Billboard Awards | Country Single of the Year – "Just To See You Smile" |
| CMA | Album of the Year – Everywhere | |
| Academy of Country Music | Single of the Year – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| Academy of Country Music | Song of the Year – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| Academy of Country Music | Video of the Year – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| Academy of Country Music | Top Vocal Event – "It's Your Love" (with Faith Hill) | |
| 1999 | Academy of Country Music | Male Vocalist |
| Academy of Country Music | Vocal Collaboration – "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (with Faith Hill) | |
| CMA | Male Vocalist | |
| CMA | Album of the Year – A Place in the Sun | |
| 2000 | CMA | Male Vocalist |
| National Fatherhood Initiative | Father of the Year | |
| Academy of Country Music | Male Vocalist | |
| Billboard Awards | Male Artist of the Year | |
| 2001 | American Music Awards | Favorite Male Country Artist |
| Grammy Awards | Vocal Collaboration – "Let's Make Love (with Faith Hill) | |
| CMA | Entertainer of the Year | |
| Billboard Awards | Country Artist | |
| Billboard Awards | Male Country Artist | |
| Billboard Awards | Country Albums Artist | |
| Billboard Awards | Country Single Artist | |
| Billboard Awards | Country Album – Greatest Hits | |
| 2002 | American Music Awards | Best Country Album – Set This Circus Down |
| American Music Awards | Favorite Male Country Artist | |
| 2003 | American Music Awards (January) | Favorite Country Male Artist |
| Radio Music Awards (January) | Country Male Artist | |
| American Music Awards (November) | Favorite Country Male Artist | |
| 2004 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Country Male Artist |
| Radio Music Awards | Country Male Artist | |
| CMA | Single of the Year – "Live Like You Were Dying" | |
| 2005 | American Music Awards | Album of the Year -Live Like You Were Dying |
| American Music Awards | Male Artist (country genre) | |
| Academy of Country Music | Song of the Year -"Live Like You Were Dying" | |
| Academy of Country Music | Single of the Year -"Live Like You Were Dying" | |
| People's Choice Awards | Favorite Country Male Artist | |
| Grammy Award | Best Male Country Vocal Performance – "Live Like You Were Dying" | |
| Country Music Television | Most Inspiring Video – "Live Like You Were Dying" | |
| 2006 | People's Choice Awards | Top Male Performer |
| Grammy Award | Country Vocal Collaboration – "Like We Never Loved At All" (with Faith Hill) |
Further reading[link]
- Brown, Jim; Sparrow, Susan. Faith Hill & Tim McGraw: Soul 2 Soul. Quarry Music Books, 2002. ISBN 1-55082-293-4
- Gray, Scott. Perfect Harmony: the Faith Hill & Tim McGraw Story. 1st ed. Ballantine Books, 1999. ISBN 0-345-43412-9
- McGraw, Tim. Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors: This is Ours. Atria Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7434-6706-X
- Nichols, Tim, and Craig Wiseman. Live Like You Were Dying. Rutledge Hill P, 2004. ISBN 1-4016-0212-6
- Trimble, Betty "McMom". A Mother's Story. D'Agostino/Dahlhauser/Ditmore Pub, 1996. ISBN 1-886371-32-6
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Richie Furay (born Paul Richard Furay, May 9, 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner.[1] His best known song (originally written during his tenure in Buffalo Springfield, but eventually performed by Poco, as well) was "Kind Woman", which he wrote for his wife, Nancy.[2]
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Before Buffalo Springfield, Furay performed with Stills in the nine-member group, the Au Go Go Singers (Roy Michaels, Rick Geiger, Jean Gurney, Michael Scott, Kathy King, Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, and Furay & Stills), the house band for the famous Cafe Au Go Go in New York.
In the late 1960s he formed the country-rock band Poco with Jim Messina and Rusty Young. This band, while influential to many future country-rock acts, experienced uneven commercial success. Furay's best known songs, "Pickin' Up The Pieces" and "Good Feelin' To Know", however, have reached classic status and appear on many country rock compilations. Furay left Poco in 1974 to form the Souther Hillman Furay Band. It was during this time that Al Perkins, the band's pedal steel guitar player, introduced Furay to Christianity. His newfound faith helped him rebuild his troubled marriage.[3]
Although Souther, Hillman, Furay's self-titled first album was certified Gold and yielded the top thirty hit with "Fallin' in Love" in 1974, the group could not follow up on that success, and poor record sales eventually led to its demise.
After moving from Los Angeles to Sugarloaf Mountain near Boulder, Colorado, Furay formed The Richie Furay Band with Jay Truax, John Mehler, and Tom Stipe, releasing the album I've Got a Reason in 1976, which reflected Furay's newfound beliefs. To support the release of this album Furay formed an alliance with David Geffen and Asylum Records. Furay assured Geffen that his album would be Christian influenced but would not be an attempt to preach his newfound beliefs. "I've Got a Reason" did, however, establish Furay as a pioneer in Christian Rock. The title track of his third album, the secular "I Still Have Dreams", became a mild radio hit in 1979.
Overall, his albums charted unsatisfactorily, and, compounded with the strain of touring wearing on him and his family, he hung up his rock and roll shoes in favor of a call to the ministry. In 1983 Furay became senior pastor of the Calvary Chapel in Broomfield, Colorado, a non-sectarian Christian church in the Denver area. He continues to perform as a solo artist, and very occasionally with Poco. He toured as an opening act for America and Linda Ronstadt during the Summer of 2006. The 2006 release of his latest CD The Heartbeat of Love returns Furay to his early country-rock roots with a contemporary flair.
In 2007 he toured with a new formation of the Richie Furay Band. At the Boulder and Bluebird Theatres in Colorado they recorded a double live CD ALIVE. The ALIVE set covers 29 songs of Furay's career. The Richie Furay band continued to tour through 2008 and 2009. Furay appeared with Poco for several shows in early 2009. At the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California in the Spring of 2009, Furay and the current Poco lineup were joined onstage by original members Jimmy Messina and George Grantham and former bass player Timothy B. Schmit reuniting the Poco lineup that achieved the most critical acclaim.
On October 23, 2010, he reunited with surviving Buffalo Springfield bandmates Stephen Stills and Neil Young for a set at the 24th annual Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California.
Richie is currently performing with The Richie Furay Band and has regrouped with Buffalo Springfield for a 2011 tour. He headlined 2011 Bonnaroo with Buffalo Springfield. In July 2011, Furay announced on his Facebook page that he will be touring with Buffalo Springfield in early 2012, ending speculation there would be a 2011 fall tour with Buffalo Springfield.[4]
Partial discography[link]
Albums[link]
As a member of the Au Go-Go Singers:
- Au Go-Go Singers (With Stills) (1964) (Roulette Records)
As a member of the Buffalo Springfield:
- Buffalo Springfield (1966) (Atco)
- Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) (Atco)
- Last Time Around (1968) (Atco)
As a member of Poco:
- Pickin' Up the Pieces (1969) (Epic)
- Poco (1970) (Epic)
- Deliverin' (1971) (Epic)
- From The Inside (1971) (Epic)
- A Good Feelin’ To Know (1972) (Epic)
- Crazy Eyes (1973) (Epic)
- Legacy (1989) (RCA)
As a member of Souther-Hillman-Furay Band:
- The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (1974) (Asylum)
- Trouble in Paradise (1975) (Asylum)
Solo:
- I've Got a Reason (1976) (Asylum)
- Dance a Little Light (1978) (Asylum)
- I Still Have Dreams (1979) (Asylum)
- Seasons of Change (1982) (Myrrh Records)
- In My Father's House (1997) (Calvary Chapel Records)
- I am Sure (2005) (FridayMusic)
- The Heartbeat of Love (2006) (Richie Furay and John Macy)
Compilations[link]
- Songs of Richie Furay (1980) (Epic Records)
The Richie Furay Band[link]
- ALIVE (2007) (FridayMusic)
Singles[link]
- "Souther Hillman Furay" (1974) (Asylum)
- Souther Hillman Furay: "Safe at Home" / "Border Town".
References[link]
- ^ Edmunds, Mike. "Biography: Richie Furay". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p25210. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ^ Furay, P. Richard, mentioned live after performing the song, October 24, 2010, Bridge School Benefit Concert, Mountain View, California.
- ^ "The 700 Club - Richie Furay: What It's Worth". Cbn.com. http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/interviews/700club_richiefuray062006.aspx. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
- ^ "Buffalo Springfield Tour Scheduled for 2012, Says Spokesperson". Spinner. 2011-07-01. http://www.spinner.com/2011/07/01/buffalo-springfield-tour-scheduled-for-2012-says-spokesperson/. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
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