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  2. Italian resistance movement - Wikipedia

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    The Italian Resistance (Italian: Resistenza italiana, pronounced [reziˈstɛntsa itaˈljaːna], or simply La Resistenza) consisted of all the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945. As a diverse anti-fascist and anti-nazist movement and ...

  3. National Fascist Party - Wikipedia

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    The National Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat. [16] The party ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 when Fascists took power with the March on Rome until the fall of the Fascist regime in 1943, when ...

  4. Sicilian language - Wikipedia

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    Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ (t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [3] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo).

  5. Doctor of Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    The most common procedure is a short-term employment contract called doctoral contract: the institution of higher education is the employer and the PhD candidate the employee. However, the candidate can apply for funds from a company, which can host them at its premises (as in the case where PhD candidates do their research at a company).

  6. Italian fascism - Wikipedia

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    Italian fascism originated from ideological combinations of ultranationalism and Italian nationalism, national syndicalism and revolutionary nationalism, and from the militarism of Italian irredentism to regain "lost overseas territories of Italy" deemed necessary to restore Italian nationalist pride. [1] Italian Fascists also claimed that modern Italy was an heiress to the imperial legacy of ...

  7. Culture of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The main elements of Italian culture are its art, music, cinema, style, and food. Italy was the birthplace of opera, [5] and for generations the language of opera was Italian, irrespective of the nationality of the composer. Italy had a significant presence in the development of Classical music, birthing Baroque music, many forms of musical composition such as the Symphony, the Sonata and the ...

  8. Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia

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    Sacco was a shoemaker and a night watchman, [ 9 ] born April 22, 1891, in Torremaggiore, Province of Foggia, Apulia region (in Italian: Puglia), Italy, who migrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. [ 10 ]

  9. Military history of Italy during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions were often heavily influenced by external factors. Italy joined the war as one of the Axis Powers in 1940 (as the French Third Republic surrendered) with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British Empire ...