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March 1999 News and Events
1999 News Month-By-MonthWorldU.S. Heats Up Trade Battle with Europe (March 3): Imposes 100% tariff on luxury products and threatens to ban supersonic Concorde from landing in U.S.Three…December 2009 Current Events: World News
U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of December 2009. Italian Jury Convicts American Student of Murder (Dec. 5): An Italian jury convicts Amanda…November 2003
WorldU.S. Helicopter Downed in Iraq (Nov. 2) In the single deadliest strike since the Iraq war began, guerrillas shoot down an American helicopter, killing 16 U.S. soldiers and injuring 21…Slovenia Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Slovenia Index: Geography and People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations and Regional Cooperation U.S.-…Brewer's: Agio
Agi′o The percentage of charge made for the exchange of paper money into cash. (Italian). “The profit is called by the Italians aggio.” —Scarlett. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Brewer's: Baldachin
The daïs or canopy under which, in Roman Catholic processions, the Holy Sacrament is carried (Italian, baldacchino, so-called from Baldacco (Italian for Bagdad), where the cloth was made…Brewer's: Lingua Franca
A species of corrupt Italian spoken on the coasts of the Mediterranean. The Franks' language mixed with the Italian. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lining…Brewer's: Isthmus of Suez
The covered bridge of St. John's College, Cambridge, is so called, because it connects the college with the grounds on the other side of the river. Suez here is a pun on the word sus (a…Brewer's: Italic School of Philosophy
The Pythagorean, so called because Pythagoras taught in Italy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Italic VersionItalian of Asia A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Alert
To be on the watch. From the Latin erectus, part. of erigere, to set upright; Italian, erto, French, erte, a watch-tower. Hence the Italian starë allerta, the Spanish estar alerta, and the…Trending
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