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Vaporetto on the Canal Grande in Venice. Venice Vaporetto water bus system – water bus and bus stop. The vaporetto is a Venetian public waterbus. There are 19 scheduled lines [1] that serve locales within Venice, and travel between Venice and nearby islands, such as Murano, Burano, and Lido.
In 1996, a night bus service was introduced which replaced the routes taken by the regular buses. ACTV's decision-making processes in awarding public transport service contracts in Mestre were challenged by several transport companies bidding in 2002, who were concerned that some of the evaluation sub-criteria were weighted by ACTV's evaluators ...
The placement of a new bridge only 330 m (1,080 ft) southwest of Ponte degli Scalzi also proved controversial, since the distances between Scalzi and Rialto Bridges or between the Rialto and Ponte dell'Accademia bridges are much longer, and with no other way to cross the canal besides the waterbus (Italian: vaporetto) or traghetto.
The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [2] [a] was the doge or highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). [3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years. [4]
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A call to an anonymous tip line created after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, set off a chain of events that helped thwart a potential Valentine’s Day ...
Firstly, early detection can help people plan their life. For the same reason, Owen explained, “it is equally important to accurately detect when someone is not likely to develop dementia.”
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro.