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  2. British Security Co-ordination - Wikipedia

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    British Security Co-ordination ( BSC) was a covert organisation set up in New York City by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in May 1940 upon the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill . Its purpose was to investigate enemy activities, prevent sabotage against British interests in the Americas, and mobilise pro ...

  3. Pre-nominal letters - Wikipedia

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    Pre-nominal letters. Pre-nominal letters are a title which is placed before the name of a person as distinct from a post-nominal title which is placed after the name. Examples of pre-nominal titles, for instance professional titles include: Doctor, Captain, EUR ING (European Engineer), Ir ( Ingenieur ), Mons. ( monsignore) CA (Indian Chartered ...

  4. Italian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe 's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s.

  5. Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    The Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language ( Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera or CILS) is a qualification offered by the Foreigners University of Siena for foreign speakers of the Italian language, recognizing various levels of language proficiency. The qualification is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign ...

  6. UniCredit - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .unicreditgroup .eu. UniCredit S.p.A. (formerly UniCredito Italiano S.p.A.) is an international banking group headquartered in Milan. It was Italy's only systemically important bank (according to the list provided by the Financial Stability Board in 2022) and the world's 34th largest by assets. [2]

  7. Italian honorifics - Wikipedia

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    These are: Medals (Gold, Silver, Bronze) to persons or entity for merit or valor. Knighthood (Cavaliere di Gran Croce, Grande Ufficiale, Commendatore – comm., Cavaliere Ufficiale – cav. uff., Cavaliere – cav.) of five Orders (Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, Ordine Militare d’Italia, Ordine al Merito del Lavoro, Ordine della ...

  8. Boston Scientific - Wikipedia

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    Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC), headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts and incorporated in Delaware, is a biomedical/biotechnology engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention ...

  9. Signed Italian - Wikipedia

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    Signed Italian. Not to be confused with Italian Sign Language. Signed Italian ( italiano segnato) [1] and Signed Exact Italian ( italiano segnato esatto) [2] are manually coded forms of the Italian language used in Italy. They apply the words (signs) of Italian Sign Language to oral Italian word order and grammar. The difference is the degree ...

  10. Swiss Italian - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Italian language in the Italian Switzerland or Swiss Italian ( Italian: italiano svizzero, Italian: [itaˈljano ˈzvittsero]) is the variety of the Italian language taught in the Italian-speaking area of Switzerland. While this variety is mainly spoken in the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Grisons (about 270,000 native ...

  11. Italian phonology - Wikipedia

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    ɛ. ɔ. Open. a. In Italian phonemic distinction between long and short vowels is rare and limited to a few words and one morphological class, namely the pair composed by the first and third person of the historic past in verbs of the third conjugation – compare sentii (/senˈtiː/, "I felt/heard'), and sentì (/senˈti/, "he felt/heard ...