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Umbrians & McLin climax Dorsey centennial
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 1/11/2000; 676 words
; Umbrians & McLin climax Dorsey...with the 105-year-old Umbrian Glee Club and artist Mark...been translated into most languages of the earth. It was out...considered classic gospel. The Umbrian Glee Club with Joy Wright...experience. Some of the tunes the Umbrian Glee Club sang were "In ...
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A house in the green heart of Italy In the shade of an Umbrian arbor, life takes on a more leisurely pace
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...2008 A house in the green heart of Italy In the shade of an Umbrian arbor, life takes on a more leisurely pace Byline: Susanne...a meal detailed in Tucker's book, "Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy," released in...
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UMBRIA:THE SHOCK OF THE NEW The Crusaders spread new ideas on art and architecture. Paul Barker travels to Gubbio to find out how they were developed by the Italians
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...public. (Now there's an idea) Gubbio, like many Umbrian towns, is a symphony in stone. Far below the piazza...characters, cherished as rare evidence of the ancient Umbrian language. Everything went in threes: three gods, three phases...
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The green heart of Italy
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 3/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...inhabited in the 8th century BC by the Umbrians, a peaceable farming tribe and later...swathed Apennines. Founded by the Umbrians in the 3rd century BC as Tota Ikuvina...prayers and rituals from the ancient Umbrian and Etruscan languages. Upstairs a small art gallery contains...
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Let departed languages rest in peace
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Oscan. To the north were Umbrians and Etruscans. In both north...traces remain of prehistoric languages such as Ligurian, Venetic...wrote that about 6,700 languages still may be identified worldwide, but at least one language disappears every two weeks...Australia once recorded 250 ...
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Olive branches; Photographer JoAnn Verburg's Italian landscapes suggest much beyond their silvery leaves and gnarled branches.(FREETIME)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/9/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Monteluco woods a carved rock that Verburg said was "the equivalent of a Rosetta stone in ancient Umbrian and two other languages. They all said, basically, `These trees are sacred; don't cut them down.' And it does seem that the...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Northern Italy's family vintners stay up to date
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 4/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...viticulture and winemaking at Lungarotti. "The most important thing to us is that our wines speak our language, the language of the Umbrian hills," she said. "These wines are an expression of our territory." Emilia Nardi is equally adamant...
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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...citations in the Anatolian languages of Hittite and Luvian; in...and Faliscan, Etruscan, Umbrian, and other Italic dialects and languages; in Old Irish, Modem Irish...different Balto-Slavic languages and a few citations in Tocharian...perdure across centuries and language barriers, often ...
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Letter: Lost languages
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/13/2000; ; 393 words
; ...us that one of the 6,000 languages of the world, each as precious...fortnight. Yet we already regret language loss, even if languages may survive to an extent...lost cousins, Oscan and Umbrian. Celticists know only too...carelessly abandoning any more languages. J P HUDSON Bicester, ...
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Language and Images of Renaissance Italy.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; Language and Images of Renaissance Italy is a collection of papers given at the Courtauld...significant differences in his study of about 3,400 wills from Tuscan and Umbrian cities. There is, however, he says, a crucial similarity - the "importance...
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