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Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 In 1885 a group of young Dalmatian Italians created a sort of secret pact that pledged to fight on a united front against the government of Vienna.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 They were: John Marino Bonda Avoscan (from Ragusa), Stefano Smerchinich (from Curzola) and Ercolano Salvi Pezzoli Leonardo (from Premuda), John Lubin (from Trau), Emanuele Fenzi and Louise Pini (from Sebenico), Christmas Krekich, Luigi and Roberto Ziliotto Ghiglianovich (from Zara), all representatives of the Italian irredentistm with the most sincere patriotism.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 The same (precisely Ghiglianovich, Krekich, Lubin, Pini, Salvi, Ziliotto, Smerchinich) in 1919, during the crisis in the city of Fiume (Rijeka), wrote the articles "Application of the Dalmatians" and "Cry of Sebenico" published on 2 October by the national newspaper "The national responsibility" (according to one of the few Italian newspapers promoting the union of Dalmatia to Italy).
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 In the late nineteenth century were created in Dalmatia some Italian cultural associations, as the irredentist "Philological circle" in Ragusa and the "National Union Committee," the "Diadora" and "Iuventus Iadertina" in Zara.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Also active in these years was the "National Association" in Spalato, based on the Bajamonti theater, which was set on fire (officially by unknown people) in 1893.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 In Spalato, the city of Emperor Diocletian, in the year 1910 there were 1,046 Italians officially counted when in the same year more than 3,000 were enrolled in the cultural and patriotic public association "Dante Alighieri."
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 In Zara a group, under the leadership of irredentists Desanti and Boxich (dissatisfied followers of the "Dalmatian Autonomist Party" of Luigi Ziliotto), founded the newspaper Il Risorgimento in 1908, promoting openly the unification to Italy of Dalmatia, but was closed in 1914.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 They were led by Antonio Cippico, Alessandro, and Roberto Dudan Ghiglianovich: more than 250 volunteers enrolled in the Italian army and risked the gallows, as when the Austrians killed Francesco Rismondo (executed in Gorizia in 1915 and active member of the irredentist organization "Pro Patria" in Spalato).
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 The number of volunteers from the remote ports of Montenegro (as Cattaro, Castelnuovo di Cattaro, and Perasto) appears very high in proportion to the total number of enrolled in the Italian Army.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 In fact, these volunteers in Spalato, Cattaro, Ragusa, Perasto, Castelnuovo di Cattaro, Trau, and Macarsca (not less than 90 in total, almost half of all volunteers in Dalmatia) fought in Italy despite the "Treaty of London", which categorically excluded the possible "Redemption" and annexation to Italy of their cities.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Dalmatian Italians obtained their "Redenzione" (meaning redemption or union to Italy) in the years following the Italian victory in World War I. In the peace treaty, the territory of Zara and some Dalmatian islands (Cherso, Lussino and Lagosta) was united to the Kingdom of Italy.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 But the full agreements reached in 1915 in the Treaty of London were not respected by the Allies, because of the opposition from US president Woodrow Wilson.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 This created huge resentment, that was pinpointed in the phrase "Vittoria mutilata" (mutilated victory) created by the nationalist D'Annunzio.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 The so-called "Poeta imaginífico" did a dramatic attack with paramilitaries and a group of "Legionnaires" from the Italian city of Monfalcone and occupied the city of Fiume, which the Allied powers had assigned to Italy as the winner of the war.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 With this gesture D'Annunzio reached the pinnacle of the process of building their own personal and political myth.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 D'Annunzio personally entered Fiume with a column of Dalmatian Italian volunteers (mostly irredentist).
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 On 12 November 1920 was signed the Treaty of Rapallo: Fiume became a free city (Free State of Fiume), while Zara was given to Italy.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 But D'Annunzio did not accept the agreement and the Italian Government, on 26 December 1920, evicted from Fiume the Legionaries by force.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Fiume and the more northern islands of Dalmatia were incorporated in 1924 to the Kingdom of Italy, thanks to the large contribution of the Italian irredentists in town.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Even in Trau the irredentists attempted to repeat what D'Annunzio did in Fiume: the local Count Farfogna in September 1919 occupied Trau with some Italian troops, but the Us intervention blocked him.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 The irredentist aspiration of the Dalmatian Italians was fully met when Yugoslavia in April 1941 was conquered and occupied by Italy and Germany.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 At the end of that month almost all of the Dalmatian coast, with the major cities of Spalato, Sebenico, and Cattaro was annexed to Italy with the name Governatorate of Dalmatia.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 The coastal area between Fiume and Segna was not incorporated in the Governorate and went to the fascist Croatia of Ante Pavelić (although it was controlled militarily by the Italian army).
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Even the area around Ragusa was theoretically Croatian, but the Italians ruled everything in the city, opening even Italian schools.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Many families of Dalmatian Italians were forced to move to Italy after World War in these provinces (mainly in order to administer it).
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 Though Italy had initially larger territorial aims that extended from the Velebit mountains to the Albanian Alps, Mussolini decided against annexing further territories due to a number of factors.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 One was that Dalmatian irredentists like Antonio Tacconi complained that a larger annexation would have included hundreds of thousands of Slavs, who were partially hostile to Italy within the enlarged national borders.
Italian irredentism in Dalmatia 
 But this "Redemption" (as was called by the Dalmatian Italians) lasted only a few years: with the defeat of Italy in World War II the Italians of Istria and Dalmatia were expelled 'en masse' during the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus (while Zara was fully destroyed by Allies bombings promoted by Tito and later nicknamed the "Italian Dresden" by Enzo Bettiza).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa were a group of military and commercial expeditions by the Romans across the Sahara Desert, into the interior of Africa and its coast.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 One of the main reasons of the explorations, according to academics like Jonathan Roth, was to procure gold and spices
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Only the one done by emperor Nero seemed to be a preparative for the conquest of Ethiopia or Nubia: in 62 AD two legionaries explored the sources of the Nile river.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The explorations near the African western and eastern coasts were supported by Roman ships and deeply related to the naval commerce (mainly toward the Indian Ocean).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The first Roman expedition was done by Lucius Cornelius Balbus, following Augustus' wish to expand his Empire.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 In 19 BC he conquered the Garamantes (who lived in the Fezzan of Libya) and sent an expedition under Septimus Flaccus south across the Tibesti mountains, reaching the River Niger.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus did another expedition to what is now Western Sahara and Mauretania in 41 AD.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 In the year 41 AD Suetonius Paullinus, afterwards Consul, was the first of the Romans who led an army across the Atlas Mountains.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 At the end of a ten days' march he reached the summit,—which even in summer was covered with snow,—and from thence, after passing a desert of black sand and burnt rocks, he arrived at a river called Gerj...he then penetrated into the country of the Canarii and Perorsi, the former of whom inhabited a woody region abounding in elephants and serpents, and the latter were Ethiopians, not far distant from the Pharusii and the river Daras (modern river Senegal).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 From the first century of the common era there is evidence (coins, fibulas) of Roman commerce and contacts in Akjoujt and Tamkartkart near Tichit in actual Mauritania.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The third was done a few years before by Julius Maternus, a Roman explorer who reached the Lake Chad area and described the abundance of animals like hippopotamus and rhinoceros in that northern Nigerian region.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 In the eastern Sahara was done the Nero expedition to Ethiopia: it was an exploratory expedition promoted by the Roman emperor Nero to discover the sources of the Nile River.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Seneca wrote that around 62 AD Nero sent some legionaries to the city of Meroe in Nubia in order to explore all the Nile southward from that capital.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 It probably lasted several months and bypassed the Sudanese swamps called Sudd during the dry season, possibly reaching the northern portion of present-day Uganda.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The western coast of Africa was explored by the Romans after the conquest of northern Morocco (then called Mauretania Tingitana): the Roman vassal king Juba II organized a successful trade from the area of Volubilis.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Pliny the Elder, a 1st century Roman author and military officer, drawing upon the accounts of Juba II, king of Mauretania, stated that a Roman expedition from Mauritania visited the islands of the archipelago of the Canaries and Madeira around 10 AD and found great ruins but no population, only dogs (from those animals he called the islands, using the latin word "canarius" or "canis" for dog).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 According to Pliny the Elder, an expedition of Mauretanians sent by Juba II to the archipelago visited the islands: when King Juba II dispatched a contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador (historical name of Essaouira, Morocco) in the early 1st century CE Juba's naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, Madeira and probably the Cape Verde islands, using Mogador as their mission base.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 We have even recorded historically that, according to Pliny the Elder, the Greek Xenophon of Lampsacus stated that the Gorgades (Cape Verde islands) were situated two days from "Hesperu Ceras" (today called Cap-Vert), the westernmost part of the African continent, showing a knowledge of the area by the Romans.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Furthermore, according to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time crossing the Gorgades (Cape Verde islands) to the islands of the Ladies of the West ("Hesperides", actual São Tomé and Príncipe and Fernando Po) was around 40 days: this fact has created academic discussions about the possibility of further Roman travels toward Guinea and even the Gulf of Guinea.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Aelius Gallus in 25 BCE led an expedition across the Red Sea against the Sabaeans of Arabia Felix (modern Yemen).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 In order to control Sabaea the Romans took control of both sides of the entrance to the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, since Cornelius Gallus had established a garrison at Arsinoe (near Assab, in actual Eritrea) on the Ethiopian shore.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Romans had two naval ouposts in the Atlantic coast of Africa: Sala near present Rabat and Mogador in southern Maroc (north of Agadir).
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The island of Mogador prospered for the local exploitation of purple (highly esteemed in imperial Rome) from Augustus until Septimius Severus times.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Augustus, based even in the discovery of a sunken merchant ship from southern Spain in the Djibuti area (done by his adoptive son Gaius Caesar when he sailed toward Aden), wanted to organize an expedition from Egypt to Mogador and Sala around Africa.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The eastern coast of Africa south of Egypt was at the center of a huge sea commerce between Rome and India through the Somali coast.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Roman books such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and Ptolomey's "Geography" list a string of market places (emporia) along this coast.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Finds of Roman-era coins along the coast confirm the existence of this huge trade even in coastal Tanzania, and Ptolomey's Geography refers to a town of Rhapta as "metropolis" of a political entity called Azania near actual Zanzibar.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Archaeologists have not yet succeeded in identifying the location of Rhapta, though many believe it lies deeply buried in the silt of the delta of the Rufiji River.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 The scholar Felix Chami found archaeological evidence for extensive Roman trade on Mafija island near the Kenyan coast and, not far away, on the African mainland, near the mouth of the Rufiji River and the northern Mozambique coast, which he dated to the first few centuries AD.
Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and western Africa 
 Roman coins have been found in Zimbabwe and Madagascar, supporting the possibility that Roman vessels sailed south of Azania toward the area of the gold mines of the Zambesi river and the legendary Greater Zimbabwe kingdom.
The Little Match Girl 
 Andersen got the idea to write the story after seeing a print by Johan Thomas Lundbye of a little girl selling matches.
The Little Match Girl 
 A little match girl in poverty lights all the matches she carries to keep herself warm on a cold New Year's Eve.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier 
 The story was first published in Copenhagen, Denmark by C.A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838 in the first booklet of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier 
 Joan G. Haahr writes in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales: "The story is unusual among Andersen's early tales, both in its emphasis on sensual desire and in its ambiguities.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier 
 The tin soldier's passive acceptance of whatever happens to him, while exemplifying pietistic ideals of self-denial, also contributes to his doom.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier 
 The tale is often read autobiographically, with the soldier viewed as symbolizing Andersen's feelings of inadequacy with women, his passive acceptance of bourgeois class attitudes, or his sense of alienation as an artist and an outsider, from full participation in everyday life."
Jessica Poland 
 Jessica Charlotte Poland (born January 15, 1988), more often called via her stage name Charlotte Sometimes, is an American singer-songwriter.
Turpan 
 Turpan, also referred to Turfan or Tulufan in Chinese, is an oasis county-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Turpan 
 Now the city is a tourist spot with unique landscape, abundant historical relics and fertile farmland.
Ürümqi 
 With a population of two million people, this prairie city is a major hub on the ancient Silk Road , leading to Central Asia and even as far as Europe.
Ürümqi 
 Ürümqi, whose name means "beautiful pasture" in the Mongolian language of the Dzungar people, is the largest city in China's western interior.
Ürümqi 
 Since the 1990s Ürümqi has developed economically and is now a regional transport node, cultural, and commercial centre.
Visual poetry 
 Visual poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words and images is important in conveying the intended effect.
Visual poetry 
 It was influenced by Fluxus, the international artistic movement of the 1960s, well known for blending different disciplines and artistic media.
Billy The Kid (book) 
 The idea for the book came about when Michael Foreman took Michael Morpurgo to a Chelsea game and pointed out the Chelsea pensioners, who get free tickets for every game.
Billy The Kid (book) 
 Morpurgo was fascinated to learn that one pensioner chose to pay for his ticket still so he could sit with the same fans he did during his childhood.
Mimaropa 
 The provinces of the region are Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and  Palawan.
Kalayaan, Palawan 
 The Phillipines claims that these mostly uninhabited off-shore islands are in an area which is distinct from the Spratly Islands.
San Diego Convention Center 
 It hosted the 1996 Republican National Convention, which nominated Bob Dole and Jack Kemp for President and Vice President of the United States.
Burning of Jaffna library 
 The burning of the Jaffna Public Library () was an attack at the central library in the city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Burning of Jaffna library 
 A group of Sinhalese rioters burned the library that was one of the important libraries in Sri Lanka and one of the biggest in Asia.
Burning of Jaffna library 
 At the time of its destruction, the library was one of the biggest in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts.
Burning of Jaffna library 
 The building was burned several times during the years of fighting, until 1998 when the president tried to make peace between the Sinhalese and Tamil sides.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 The Mayflower was a ship which is famous for its sailing to North America in 1620 bringing pilgrims and other settlers to  create the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Humility Cooper, baby daughter of Robert Cooper, in company of her aunt Ann Cooper Tilley, wife of Edward Tilley
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Henry Samson, youth Henlow, Bedfordshire child in company of his uncle and aunt Edward and Ann Tilley
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Susanna White, wife of William, widowed February 21, 1621, subsequently married Edward Winslow -  first Plymouth wedding
List of Mayflower passengers 
 John Alden  (Harwich, Essex) - considered a ship's crewman (he was the ship's cooper, a maker of barrels and other vessels).
List of Mayflower passengers 
 John Allerton*, was listed as a hired man but was apparently related to one of the Pilgrim families on board.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 He sailed in order to settle in North America, and was to return to England to help the rest of the group immigrate, but died during the first winter of the Pilgrims' settlement.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Richard Ely,  hired as seaman, returned to England after term was up but later returned to New England and died there.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Thirteen of the eighteen persons in this category were attached to Pilgrim families, the other five were with non-Pilgrim families.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Four of those listed here were small children, given over by Samuel More to Thomas Weston and then to agents John Carver and Robert Cushman, who assigned them to senior Mayflower Pilgrims to be classed as indentured servants.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Her burial place is unknown, but may been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with so many others buried there that winter.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 As with her sister Ellen, she is recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth,  but she was thought to be a "boy".
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Edward Thompson/Thomson*, age under 21, in the care of the William White family, first passenger to die after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod.
List of Mayflower passengers 
 Edward Winslow writes that a female dog which is called an English Mastiff, and a small English Springer Spaniel came ashore on the first explorations of what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Polk County, Iowa 
 Polk County is one of the five counties that make up the Des Moines-West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Book of hours 
 A book of hours is a breviary containing prayers, Psalms, antitphons, and other materials to be recited at the canonical hours.
Defender of the Faith 
 Defender of the Faith (Latin: Fidei Defensor) is a title belonging to the leader of the Church of England.
Defender of the Faith 
 It was originally conferred upon King Henry VIII of England by Pope Leo X on 11 October 1521 as a reward for the king having written a pamphlet in defense of the sacraments against Martin Luther (Declaration of the Seven Sacraments Against Martin Luther).
Defender of the Faith 
 or the letters F.D. have appeared on British coinage from the time of George I. Defender of the Faith is a title still carried by British monarchs.
Johnson County, Kansas 
 In 2010, Money magazine ranked Overland Park 7th and Shawnee 17th in its list of the 100 Best Cities in the United States in which to live.
Johnson County, Kansas 
 Johnson County was a prohibition, or "dry", county until the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986.
Epic Mickey 
 It was released in Europe on November 26, 2010, in North America on November 30, 2010, and in Japan on August 4, 2011.
Epic Mickey 
 The game stars Mickey Mouse, who accidentally damages a world of forgotten Disney characters and concepts.
Epic Mickey 
 The game is intended to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by focusing his adventurous side rather than his pleasant, cheerful side, doing so by showing him as an heroic character.
Epic Mickey 
 It features the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney's first successful cartoon character, as a major character since 1943.
Epic Mickey 
 A sequel, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, was released for the Wii, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in 2012.
Game & Wario 
 It was released in Japan on March 28, 2013, in North America on June 23, 2013, and in Europe on June 28, 2013.
Game & Wario 
 Some minigames are single-player games, while others are multiplayer games that can be played with up to five players.
Jack and the Beanstalk 
 The story tells of a boy named Jack who climbs a magic beanstalk and finds treasures that make him rich, including a goose that lays golden eggs.
Sonic Advance 
 It was developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in Japan, by THQ in North America, and by Infogrammes in Europe and Australia.
Sonic Advance 
 It was released in Japan on December 20, 2001, in North America on February 4, 2002, and in Europe on March 23, 2002.
Sonic Advance 
 It is the first Sonic the Hedgehog game on the Game Boy Advance, and the second on a Nintendo console.
Sonic Advance 
 The game follows Sonic and his friends as they try to stop Dr. Eggman from taking over South Island.
Sonic Advance 
 Each character has their own special ability: Sonic can defeat enemies with a shield attack, Tails can fly, Knuckles can glide and climb on walls, and Amy can attack enemies with her hammer (the other characters defeat enemies by jumping on them).
Equalization (audio) 
 In sound recording, equalization is the process commonly used to change the frequency response of an audio system using linear filters.
Rocky Balboa (movie) 
 Rocky Balboa (also known as Rocky VI) is the sixth and final movie in the Rocky series, written, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Dani Filth 
 He co-wrote a book with Gavin Baddeley titled The Gospel of Filth which documented the history of the band.