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- noun an Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland
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His move comes at an apt time: Emotions are running high again after two 17-year-old men killed their friend's parents in an extremely violent attack last Saturday in the village of Tessin in the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
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Our first stop in Switzerland was in the south, in the region called Ticino; Tessin in German.
Locarno, Switzerland Niki 2006
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Our first stop in Switzerland was in the south, in the region called Ticino; Tessin in German.
Archive 2006-12-01 Niki 2006
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In Switzerland, in Tessin province, which is along the Italian border, the blight is spreading rapidly.
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The most important public buildings are the royal castle, built in the Renaissance style, one of the finest works of the celebrated Swedish architect Count Nicodemus Tessin the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Tyrol, on the west by the cantons of Tessin (Ticino), Uri, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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His first wife having died at Mariahalden, his home in Baden-Baden, seven years before, Sielcken married at Tessin, Germany, in 1913, Mrs. Clara Wendroth, a widow with two children, and the daughter of the late
All About Coffee 1909
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Lieutenant de Tessin must see that that was arranged ....
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How much of what follows I said to de Tessin at the time I do not clearly remember, but this is what I had in mind.
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Tessin supplied the necessary motive power for working the screws attached to machinery for compressing the air.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885
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