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• Sardinia
  [[Image:Sardinia satellite.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Satellite image]] [[Image:No-smoking-sardinian.JPG|right|thumb|350px|A no-smoking sign in both [[Sardinian language|Sardinian]] and
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• Lombardia
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:220px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll ...the initial struggles, relationships between the Lombard minority and the Latin-speaking majority improved. In the end, the Lombard language and culture di
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• Tractor
  [[Image:Modern-tractor.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A modern [[farm]] tractor.]] A '''tractor''' (from [[Latin]] ''trahere'' "to pull"; a conflicting history of the name is that steam tr
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• Wheel
  ...o in [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], ''sukti'' means "to rotate". The Latin word ''[[:wikt:rota|rota]]'' is from the Proto-Indo-European *''rotā-'', t [[Image:Standard of Ur chariots.jpg|frame|right|A depiction of [[onager]]-drawn carts on the [[Sumer]]ian "battle standard
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• Monaco
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll |National motto || Deo Juvante<br>([[Latin]]: With God's Help)
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• Internal combustion engine
  [[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif|framed|right|[[Four-stroke cycle]] (or Otto cycle)<br />1. intake<br />2. compression<br [[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|right|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]]
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• Rimini
  [[Image:Rimini-Stemma.png|right|150px]] ...ir last defeat (283 BC), it returned to the Umbri and became in 263 BC a [[Latin colony]], very helpful to the Romans during the late Gallic wars.
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• Europe
  [[Image:LocationEurope.png|thumb|250px|right|World map showing Europe]] [[Image:Europe countries map en.png|thumb|250px|right|Political map (neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa also shown)]]
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• Aluminium
  [[Image:ferrengalum.jpg|thumb|right|250px|<BIG><center>Ferrari Crank Case made of aluminium</center></BIG>]] ...ehler|Friedrich Wöhler]] is generally credited with isolating aluminium ([[Latin]] ''alumen'', [[alum]]) in 1827 by mixing anhydrous [[aluminium chloride]]
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• Brescia
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll The plan of the city is rectangular, and the streets intersect at right angles, a peculiarity handed down from Roman times, though the area enclose
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• Italian literature
  [[Image:mask.gif|right]] ...], [[Machiavelli]] and [[Petrarch]]. For works from [[ancient Rome]] see [[Latin literature]].
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• Italian Literature
  ...], [[Machiavelli]] and [[Petrarch]]. For works from [[ancient Rome]] see [[Latin literature]]. [[Image:Boethius initial consolation philosophy.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A depiction of Boetius teaching his students (1385). Boetius, a 6th c
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• Verona
  [[Image:Verona-Stemma.png|right|130px]] [[Image:It-map.png|thumb|right|300px|Map of Italy showing Verona in the north]]
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• Rome
  {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=280 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; backgroun ...is also called "''la Città Eterna''" (the Eternal City), "l'''Urbe''" (the latin for the City pre-eminently) and "''The City of the Seven Hills''".
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• Southern Italy
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll ...into use in the 18th century and is an Italian rendition of ''meridies'' (Latin for 'south', because of the sun's position at midday in the northern hemisp
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• Milan
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll ...nd roughly equidistant from two major rivers, the Ticino and the Adda. Its Latin name, ''[[Mediolanum]]'' roughly meaning "wool in the middle" also built on
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• Genoa
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll ...'Zena''''' [{{IPA|'zeːna}}] in [[Genoese dialect|Genoese]], '''Genua''' in Latin and, archaically, in English) is a [[city]] and a [[seaport]] in northern [
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• Music of Italy
  [[Image:Puccini.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Giacomo Puccini]]]] ...ions, led by writers, collectors and traditional performers. The political right in Italy viewed this roots revival with disdain, as a product of the "unpri
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• Automobile
  [[Image:Benz-velo.jpg|thumb|right|213px|Karl Benz's "Velo" model (1894) - entered into the first automobile r The term ''automobile'' is derived from Greek ''auto-'' ("self") and Latin ''mobilis'' ("movable"), referring to the fact that it "moves by itself".
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• Tomorrow Never Dies
  {| border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=4 style="float:right; margin:0 0 .5em 1em; width:250px; background:#505050; border-collapse:coll [[Image:TNDVillainElliotCarver.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Villain:[[Elliot Carver]]]]
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