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Monte Cassino
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Monte Cassino a hill in central Italy near the town of Cassino, the site of the principal monastery of the Benedictines, founded by St Benedict
c.529. The monastery and the town were destroyed in 1944 during bitter fighting between Allied and German forces, but have since been restored.
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Time to remember; The Battle of Cassino
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...mark the sacrifice of men who died at Cassino. It will signal also an especially moving...anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Cassino in mid-May. Old and unsteady, they...names such as Crete, El Alamein and now Cassino, images that have become etched in the...
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Monte Cassino's troubling legacy of war
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...scouts had in 1944, of the abbey of Monte Cassino and the valley below.Atkinson had come...panorama from Monte Trocchio. He pointed toward Cassino, the hardscrabble city at the base of Monte Cassino, several kilometers north. For the Germans...
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Monte Cassino School provides safe and secure e-mail for students and teachers with Symantec Hosted Mail Security; Secure online resources help parents, teachers, and administrators enhance educational experiences for Monte Cassino students.
M2 Presswire; 8/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-22 August 2006-SYMANTEC: Monte Cassino School provides safe and secure e-mail...enhance educational experiences for Monte Cassino students(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Monte Cassino School uses Symantec Hosted Mail Security...
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Back to Cassino; May 15, 1944
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Zealand's heroes gather this weekend at Cassino, the great white abbey will loom clear...about to break the German line of which Cassino was the pivot. "Allied offensive in...armour, gunfire, and air power between Cassino and the sea," the news report said...
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Albert P. Cassino
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 9/8/2007; 357 words
; WEYMOUTH - Albert P. Cassino Sr., 78, of Weymouth, formerly of South Boston, former co-owner of Cassino Brothers Auto Body in South Boston, died of cancer on Thursday at home. Mr. Cassino was a corporal in the Army during the Korean War...
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A 'Superb' History of Monte Cassino
Magazine article from: Army; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; A 'Superb' History of Monte Cassino Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II. Matthew Parker...effects were almost always nullified. Matthew Parker's Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II explores the...
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CASSINO, CATHERINE E.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/8/2001; 479 words
; WYNANTSKILL -- Catherine E. Opar Cassino, 81, of Streamview Lane, wife of Joseph J. Cassino, died Tuesday, March 6, 2001 at her residence...Survivors include three daughters, Carol Cassino Gardner of Wynantskill, Joanne Cassino Strauchon...
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Corzen Names Kip Cassino Vice President of Research; Senior Media Researcher and Developer of AdAudit Services Joins Online Market Data Platform Provider.
PR Newswire; 10/29/2002; 695 words
; ...information, today announced that Kip Cassino, a senior media researcher and developer...comprehensive media data and analysis Cassino has developed for AdAudit will be made...about it." Prior to joining Corzen, Cassino served as Research Director for several...
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Old soldier hopes to go to Cassino
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 3/18/2004; ; 577 words
; ...the 60th anniversary for the Battle of Cassino. But 82-year-old George Mackay says...for veterans. He did not know how many Cassino veterans there would be in the Nelson...hangers on - wouldn't even know what Cassino meant,'' Mr McConchie said. It has...
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50 Making a Difference: Sister Mary Clare Buthod, Monte Cassino School in Tulsa
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD; 9/26/2008; 700+ words
; ...education career teaching at Tulsa's Monte Cassino School. The Benedictine Sister later...school director/superintendent of Monte Cassino in 1985. During that time, she also...was asked to be superintendent of Monte Cassino School, I learned the great joy of running...
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Monte Cassino
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MONTE CASSINO MONTE CASSINO, a mountain fifty miles north of Naples topped with a famous Benedictine...and, on 18 May, capture the mountain. The abbey and the town of Cassino (also bombed) were rebuilt after the war, but controversy continued...
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Monte Cassino, battles for
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Monte Cassino, battles for. A series of...paratroopers defended the fortified town of Cassino, and Monastery Hill which overlooked...Zealand Division was ordered to attack Cassino railway station, and 4th Indian Division...
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Cassino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cassino , town (1991 pop. 32,787), in Latium...and the nearby Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino were strongly defended by Germans blocking...captured the German positions in May, 1944. Cassino was reduced to rubble but was largely rebuilt...
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Cassino, Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Cassino, Battle of a long-running battle (January–May 1944) in and around the abbey at Monte Cassino, Italy. Germans had captured the town and strategic lookout point afforded by the hill on which the abbey stands. American and...
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cassino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cassino see casino .
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