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"At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital....
3) Ravenna Gets
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From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, Ravenna Gets is a new collection of "wheeled" stories that continue the author's exploration of "apocalypse action." In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase the population of Collingwood. The innocent, standing in their living rooms, cooking in their kitchens, and playing in their yards, are simply checked off by hunting rises or crossed out by farmers' tools. There...
4) Ravenna Tank
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A great tank for your summer wardrobe. This pretty design is made using a sport-weight yarn. Pattern is written for sizes S(M, L, XL, 2XL). Skill Level: Intermediate.
6) Ravenna
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Distributed by Two Continents Pub. Group
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©1971
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For centuries, Native American tribes lived peacefully along the trout-filled stream in a ravine that would later become part of northeastern Seattle. In 1887, the Reverend Beck disembarked from the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad and, in this same area, bought 300 lushly forested acres that he turned into a township and park, both called Ravenna. The town was only three and a half miles from the city center and soon boasted a flour mill and...
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"Beloved guide to Italian culture and history Tim Parks traces Garibaldi's famous journey across the Apennines in search of the country's past and present. In the summer of 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary hero of guerrilla wars and future architect of a united Italy, was finally forced to concede defeat to the French in his defense of a revolutionary Roman republic. But determined to turn defeat into moral victory, he set out from Rome with...
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The art of the Eastern Roman Empire and of its capital, Byzantium (Constantinople), found expression throughout the ancient world, particularly in Italian architecture. This superb archive of Byzantine ornament contains a wealth of decorative architectural elements derived from sixth- and seventh-century Italian buildings in Ravenna and in the Venetian church of St. Mark's. Depicted in more than 250 delicate line drawings are splendid perforated marble...
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Rick Steves' Europe volume 8
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We'll visit three great cities in the shadow of Venice: Padova (Padua), with its university life and famed basilica; Verona and its Roman ruins; and Ravenna, for its shimmering mosaics.
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Bradt's new Emilia-Romagna is the most thorough and in-depth guide available to this entire north Italian region (not just Bologna and the main cities) with a strong focus on history, background information, art and culture, as well as extensive detail on the Apennines along the Tuscan border, where you can escape the flatlands of the Po and go trekking, cycling and skiing. Here are some of region's prettiest villages, including Vignola, famous for...
15) Il deserto rosso
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Criterion collection volume 522
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Criterion Collection
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c2010
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Italiano
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Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of industry, surrounded by the blighted landscape of the mechanized...
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Great masters of the past volume 4
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New York Graphic Society
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[1956]
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2023.
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"From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives ... Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to...
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Discover a wellspring of Celtic magic that is vibrantly contemporary yet draws heavily on ancient and mythological texts. Weaving together practices and lore gleaned from Irish, British, Scottish, and Continental Celtic traditions, this book guides you through rituals and deity work that you can apply to healing, empowerment, protection, social justice, and more.
Morpheus Ravenna's methods are rooted in the beliefs of multiple gods (polytheism),...
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Este libro propone un análisis innovador de un tema muy poco estudiado: el desarrollo de la industria aeroespacial mexicana, una industria que por tratarse de una compleja red de interacciones que reúne diferentes modalidades y acuerdos de colaboración entre actores económicos y gubernamentales, se debe examinar no sólo en su evolución, estructura y organización productivas, sino también en su dinámica de localización de actividades, en...
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En este libro se analiza un nuevo paradigma del conocimiento basado en la creciente interacción entre diferentes disciplinas y tecnologías. Esta transformación surge con el desarrollo de la biotecnología, la nanotecnología, las tecnologías de la información y las ciencias cognitivas que dan lugar a un proceso de convergencia-divergencia, núcleo central en la nueva arquitectura del conocimiento científico y tecnológico, con profundas implicaciones...
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