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- During World War I, on 24th October 1917, Austrian and German troops unleashed a violent attack on the Italian front-line, near to the small town of Caporetto (nowadays known as Kobarid, in Slovenia), and broke through it. The Italian retreat was disorganized and frantic, with terrible losses. The place-name has entered into the collective memory and into Italian to mean a rout or total failure.
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- Tobacconists sell cigarettes and tobacco and are also the only shops apart from the post office where you can buy revenue stamps and postage stamps. They also sell bus tickets and other products and nowadays often offer computerized systems for paying taxes to public bodies. Sometimes there is a bar on the premises. Their sign features a white T on a black background.
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- Twelfth Night – a public holiday and religious festival celebrating the adoration of Jesus by the Magi. By popular tradition it is also the day when la Befana, an old woman on a broomstick, brings children gifts: they hang up their stockings the night before and in the morning find them full of sweets, cakes, and little presents or, if they have been naughty, coal (nowadays usually made of sugar).
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