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	Oriolo, Calabria - The people, culture and the history of Oriolo, in the Calabria region of Italy.
	Contessa Entellina - For researchers of this town in the Palermo province of Sicily.
	Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Calabria, Italia - An accumulation of pedigrees and other genealogical data from the town of Marano Marchesato, province of Cosenza, region of Calabria, country of Italy.
	Il Circolo Calabrese - Il Circolo Calabrese (ICC) is an international group of genealogists and historians interested in the study of Calabria. Their goal is to become the worldwide focal point for all information concerning the history, culture, language, and genealogy of Calabria--the southernmost region of the Italian mainland. There are many useful links here for ALL Italian genealogy researchers, including an Italian Form Letter Generator.
	Poggioreale, Sicily - Genealogy of families of Poggioreale, Sicily: DeNina, DiBenedetto, Loria, Varisco(Guarisco).
	Abruzzo, Italy - Surnames listed by municipality with frequency tables in Abruzzo, Italy.
	Venetian Families - Stories and pictures about surnames from Venice, particularly nobility.
	Valenzano - A cultural organization in Chicago for Italian-Americans with ancestral roots in Valenzano (Bari), Italy.
	Puglia - A cultural organization in Chicago for Italian-Americans with ancestral roots in Puglia, Italy.
	Finding Your Waldensian Ancestors - This site provides help and information on identifying and researching your Waldensian ancestors. Waldensians were a religious group that lived in the Piedmont valleys of modern day Italy until most of them were expelled at the end of the 1600s.
	Trentino Genealogy and Culture - Resources for family research in the Trentino province of Italy, especially Val di Non.
	Lettopalena Project - Nearly 19,000 individuals with 2,000 unique surnames from Lettopalena and the surrounding Abruzzo region near Chieti.
	Falling Rain Genomics - Maps (and weather) for towns in Italy.
	Cefalù, Sicily - Società Italiana Di Mutua Beneficenza Cefalutana--Society for immigrants from Cefalù, Sicily and their descendants.
	Monferrini in America - A group of Italian-Americans who wish to celebrate Piemontese heritage and roots from the Monferrato region. Genealogy, history, language and culture.
	Montalbano-Messina, Sicily - Discussion forum focusing on Montalbano Elicona & the other comunes in the province of Messina, Sicily.
	Arberesh Villages - Personal home page that contains a list of Arberesh villages in Italy (near the bottom of the page).
	Northern Italy Genealogy - Dedicated to family history research in northern Italy, including the regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte, Trentino-Alto Adige, Valle d'Aosta, and Veneto. It includes a mailing list and message archive, surname database, directory of web sites, and sample genealogical records.
	Vizzini Genealogy - Researching aids for Vizzini, in Catania, Sicilia, Italia.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Towns Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Towns Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Towns "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Towns You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Towns We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Towns Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Towns "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Towns The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Towns This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Towns "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Towns He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Towns We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Towns "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Towns The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Towns The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Towns Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Towns The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Towns It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Towns Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Towns Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Towns "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. 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