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  2. Mortara case - Wikipedia

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    The Mortara case (Italian: caso Mortara) was an Italian cause célèbre that captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and 1860s. It concerned the Papal States ' seizure of a six-year-old boy named Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna , on the basis of a former servant's testimony that she had ...

  3. Engineering education - Wikipedia

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    Engineering training in Kenya is typically provided by the universities. Registration of engineers is governed by the Engineers Registration Act. A candidate stands to qualify as a registered engineer, R.Eng., if they are a holder of a minimum of four years of post-secondary Engineering Education and a minimum of three years of postgraduate work experience.

  4. Diplom - Wikipedia

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    A Diplom (German: ⓘ, from Ancient Greek: δίπλωμα diploma) is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine and only for engineers in France, Greece, Hungary, North ...

  5. Academic grading in Italy - Wikipedia

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    In Italian primary and secondary school a 10-point scale is used, 6 being the minimum grade for passing. Traditionally in the most prestigious high schools (Liceo Classico, Liceo Scientifico, Liceo Linguistico and Liceo delle Scienze Umane), grades vary within a limited range, between 2 and 8, often with each professor applying his/her own custom.

  6. Signed Italian - Wikipedia

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    They apply the words (signs) of Italian Sign Language to oral Italian word order and grammar. The difference is the degree of adherence to the oral language: Signed Italian is frequently used with simultaneous "translation", and consists of oral language accompanied by sign and fingerspelling. Signed Exact Italian has additional signs for ...

  7. Geographical distribution of Italian speakers - Wikipedia

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    Italian is an official language of Italy, San Marino and Switzerland. Italian is also used in administration and official documents in Vatican City. [59] In central-east Europe Italian is first in Montenegro, second in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine after English, and third in Hungary, Romania and Russia after English and German. [60]

  8. Pound sign - Wikipedia

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    The £ grapheme in a selection of fonts The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.

  9. Deafness in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italian Sign Language was officially recognized by the Italian parliament on May 19, 2021, as part of a coronavirus relief bill that recognized, promoted, and would protect LIS and LISt (Italian Tactile Sign Language). [19] This meant the official acknowledgement of LIS interpreters as professions and the spread of LIS in government offices. [19]