Being an ambitious chef located in the Midwest, Rick Tramonto is known throughout the country as a star. Tramonto, a New York native, grew up knowing that he didn’t have a passion for academics, and was a fan of playing in the kitchen. He first started as a line cook, but learned quickly and soon moved up on the chain into top restaurants. He grew up in an Italian-American family and was influenced early on by making meatballs in the kitchen, but he didn’t stop at Italian food. Tramonto’s family
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Antoine Robidoux was the most colorful and perhaps the best known of the six Robidoux brothers. He is known so much not through the records of St. Louis or St. Joseph, as through the documentary sources from places scattered across the Western half of the United States and from a wide array of others who knew and met him and briefly described their encounter. He is in some ways more controversial than his brother Joseph--virtually villanized as a ruthless slave trader by the Mormons of Utah, he is
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“All men are by nature equally free and independent,” Mazzei wrote in the Virginia Gazette in 1774. “Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government.” Filippo Mazzei was born in Poggio a Caino in Tuscany, Italy on December 30, 1730. He studied medicine in Italy for several years before moving to London in 1755 to begin a career as a mercantile importer. While in London, he met Benjamin Franklin, who convinced him to start a new business in Virginia. In 1773, Mazzei led a group of
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Gunpowder has greatly changed sieging. It has changed how sieges were fought and defended. Others have also been influenced to become humanistic thinkers because of gunpowder. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the effects gunpowder has brought on how sieges were fought and defended against and how it influenced others to become humanist thinkers. Gunpowder has changed how sieges were fought. Before gunpowder, sieges were fought differently. They would mostly use one of seven tactics.
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The legal system in Italy is extremely slow, “the average time between indictment and a court judgment is ten years” (Prosser, 2011, p. 289). Italy’s religious breakdown is “Christian 80% (overwhelming Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehova Witnesses and Protestants), Muslims NEGL (about 700,000 but growing), Atheists and Agnostics 20%” (“World Factbook”, 2013). The Italian Institute of Statistics identifies six different categories in Italy’s class system (“Italy – Poverty”, 2013).
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European Union has over 27 members in the union and is located primarily in Europe. The member state of the European Union is a state that is a party to the treaties of the European Union and includes larger states including; France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, and Finland. These countries in exchange to being part of the
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Lindsey Foster June 9, 2011 Mrs. Colao Period E CCA A Dinner to Remember My dinner party will be hosted in Calitri, Italy. I chose Calitri, Italy because it was named after one of my ancestors. My dinner party will be on top of an old castle while watching the sunset. At the table, along with myself, I will have Elizabeth I, Socrates, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. We will be seated at a round table so that everyone can be facing each other, and it will be during
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technically complicated. Perspective was distorted. Artists showed extremes of movement, excitement, light, and shadow. The cool restraint of the renaissance changed into dynamic activity of the baroque. New style of operas and symphonies were composed in Italy. The Baroque style of Architecture prevailed in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries were characterized by elaborate and grotesque forms an ornamentations. In painting, this is characterized by movement, energy, and restlessness. The Baroque
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The Middle Ages Do you know the chivalry of the knight? Do you know the famous Notre Dame de Paris? And do you know the martyr Giordano Bruno? I believe many of us at least have heard something about these. And they all share an identical time label. That is the Middle Ages. And today, I will introduce the Middle Ages in 4 parts: its history, religion, culture and economy. First is about the history. The Middle Ages is the second stage of the European history in a traditional division which
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Country Brand Management Italy Report 2012 CONTENTS Introduction 1 Strength Italy is situated is the center of the Mediterranean Sea. The main strength of geographical location is that Italy belongs to the coasts of four different seas (Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea and Ligurian Sea). There are two large mountain ranges in Italy: Alps and Apennines. It is a big plus for tourism sector of the country. Tourism is one of the fastest growing and profitable sectors of
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