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Monte Cassino
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Monte Cassino [ˈmɒntɪ kəˈsiːnəʊ (Italian) ˈmonte kasˈsiːno]
n
(Placename) a hill above Cassino in central Italy: site of Benedictine monastery (530 ad); in 1944 mistaken for German observation post and destroyed by the Allies
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SHOCKED SPACE (After seeing a 1944 photo of Montecassino Abbey) Stones sit in the cool of the abbey transept that couldn't choke on instant views of black sky pummeled into the birth dust of their mute stone being stone from comet stone from no ordinary magma not mortar or fresco or gold leaf or letters but gray dust powdering the mount but remaining marble stumps like wooden teeth used too often by their poor base owners before the bang.
From "Cassino Citta Martire": Waiata VI by Sullivan, Robert (Maori poet) / Harvard Review
He even put up a banner on the walls of Montecassino Abbey, south of Rome, reading: "I don't want to take you away, just talk to you, because I love you.
I am having nun of that; ROMANCE by The Mirror (London, England)
He travelled 300 miles from their hometown of Alassio on the Riviera to the convent at Montecassino, south of Rome.
Daniel's fight to win love of nun by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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