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Pisa in Tuscany: The Leaning Tower

02/12/2009

Etruscans were the inhabitants of Etruria, now Tuscany, in central Italy. From ancient times their cities, forming a political association, dominated the region but after 396 B.C. they were absorbed by the Romans. Their non-Indo-European language is not related to any known language and is still untranslated. Pisa in Tuscany Pisa is situated in west central Italy, in Tuscany, on the River Arno. With a population approaching 100,000 it is the provincial capital of the region with a commercial…

Calvin and Geneva: The Protestant Reformer

02/12/2009

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On 10 July 2009 the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin (1509-64), the controversial and influential French protestant theologian and reformer. At almost fifty-five he died in Geneva on 27 May 1564 and was buried in the Plainpalais Cemetery, Rue des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland. In the sixteenth century the cemetery was outside the city walls and used for common burials where his actual burial spot is unidentified. Calvin and Geneva In the middle…