Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of central Italy bordering on the Adriatic Sea. Mostly mountainous, it includes Mount Corno, the highest peak of the Apennines.
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- proper noun A region of central
Italy .
Etymologies
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race AP 2010
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race AP 2010
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer-Davis Still Missing As Search Intensifies AP 2010
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer-Davis Plummeted At 50 mph Before Disappearing AP 2010
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Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race AP 2010
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer-Davis Still Missing As Search Intensifies AP 2010
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Friends said that ballooning is in Abruzzo's blood.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race AP 2010
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Abruzzo is the son of famed balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who was in 1981 part of the first team to cross the Pacific Ocean by balloon, and who was killed in a small airplane crash in 1985.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer-Davis Plummeted At 50 mph Before Disappearing AP 2010
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I absolutely love this story, from the Telegraph, about how a scientist who warned that a build-up of radon gas in the Abruzzo was a sign of the earthquake to come was reported to the police by the authorities.
When shouting “Fire!” is a good thing « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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Silone was born in 1900 in a part of southeastern Italy known as the Abruzzo, a land of howling wolves and rugged mountains, in Pugliese's words, and of "saints and stonecutters," in Silone's.
The New Republic - All Feed Michael Scammell 2010
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