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  2. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  3. Principality of Galilee - Wikipedia

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    John L. La Monte, Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100-1291.The Medieval Academy of America, 1932. Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277.

  4. Galilee - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Galilee region. Galilee (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ l iː /; [1] Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל, romanized: hagGālīl; Latin: Galilaea; [2] Arabic: الجليل, romanized: al-Jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon consisting of two parts: the Upper Galilee (הגליל העליון, ha-Galil ha-Elyon; الجليل الأعلى, al-Jalīl al-Aʿlā) and the Lower ...

  5. Vincenzo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Della musica antica et della moderna, 1581. Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520 – 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist.His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei.

  6. Galilean dialect - Wikipedia

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    Porter (2000) notes that scholars have tended to be "vague" in describing exactly what a "Galilean dialect" entailed. [6] Hoehner (1983) notes that the Talmud has one place (bEr 53b) with several amusing stories about Galilean dialect that indicate only a defective pronunciation of gutturals in the 3rd and 4th centuries. [7]

  7. Life of Galileo - Wikipedia

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    Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin with incidental music by Hanns Eisler.

  8. Giovanni Ciampoli - Wikipedia

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    In 1614, after completing his studies, Ciampoli moved to Rome where he took holy orders. He was soon introduced to the circles of the Roman Curia and when Galileo was first investigated in 1615-16, out of consideration for his loyalty to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, kept up regular communication with his friend Galileo about developments within the senior ranks of the Catholic Church.

  9. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS.