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  2. Beautiful Day - Wikipedia

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    "Beautiful Day" is played at a tempo of 136 beats per minute in a 4 4 time signature. [8] The song opens with a reverberating electric piano playing over a string synthesiser, introducing the chord progression of A–Bm 7 –D–G–D 9 –A. [9] This progression continues throughout the verses and chorus, the changes not always one to a bar. [9]

  3. Mythology of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The mythologies in present-day Italy encompass the mythology of the Romans, Etruscans, and other peoples living in Italy, those ancient stories about divine or heroic beings that these particular cultures believed to be true and that often use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity.

  4. Pietà (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    The Pietà (Madonna della Pietà Italian: [maˈdɔnna della pjeˈta]; "[Our Lady of] Pity"; 1498–1499) is a Carrara marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, for which it was made.

  5. It's a Beautiful Day - Wikipedia

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    It's a Beautiful Day is an American band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1967, featuring vocalist Pattie Santos along with violinist David LaFlamme and his wife, Linda LaFlamme, on keyboards. David LaFlamme, who as a youth had once performed as a soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra , had previously been in the group Orkustra ...

  6. Folklore of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated ...

  7. Culture of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Arch of Constantine in Rome. Italy is known for its considerable architectural achievements, [13] such as the construction of arches, domes and similar structures during ancient Rome, the founding of the Renaissance architectural movement in the late-14th to 16th centuries, and being the homeland of Palladianism, a style of construction which inspired movements such as that of Neoclassical ...

  8. List of Italian Academy Award winners and nominees

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    A Special Day: Nominated 1987 Dark Eyes: Nominated Most nominated actor for foreign language performances. 1994 Massimo Troisi: Il Postino: The Postman: Nominated Posthumous nomination. 1997 Roberto Benigni: Life Is Beautiful: Won First Italian actor to win Best Actor for a foreign language performance.

  9. Traditions of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Panettone Living nativity scene in Milazzo Christmas market in Merano Zampognari in Molise during the Christmas period. Christmas in Italy (Italian: Natale) is one of the country's major holidays and begins on 8 December, with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the day on which traditionally the Christmas tree is mounted and ends on 6 January, of the following year with the Epiphany ...