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	Sicily
		Sicily was invaded by United States troops on 9 and 10 July 1943 and by British troops on 10 July.
		Sicily fitted out at Portland, Oreg., loaded supplies at Seattle, and then sailed for San Diego where she held shakedown training during April and May. On 15 May, she was ordered to proceed to New York, via the Panama Canal and Norfolk.
		Sicily was notified on 2 July that she was needed in the Far East; and she sailed, two days later, for the first of three deployments to Korean waters.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s12/sicily.htm (506 words)

	Strait of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Strait of Sicily is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia.
		The island of Pantelleria lies in the middle of the strait.
		In Italian it is known as the Canale di Sicilia or the Stretto di Sicilia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strait_of_Sicily (151 words)

	Strait
		A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses.
		Straits usually lie on important shipping routes, and many wars have been fought for control of these straits.
		That is, while straits lie between two land masses and connects two larger bodies of water, isthmuses lie between two bodies of water and connects two larger land masses.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Strait.html (513 words)

	MEDAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Strait of Sicily Sea temperature (Celsius degree) (Data noise) (Ref. field noise) (Stats.
		Strait of Sicily Ph (pH unit) (Data noise) (Ref. field noise) (Stats.
		Strait of Sicily Dissolved oxygen (ml/l) (Data noise) (Ref. field noise) (Stats.
	modb.oce.ulg.ac.be /Medar/medar_sicily.html (153 words)

	Pantelleria -Sicily- Hotels and tourist information guide
		SICILY - Palermo - Messina - Taormina - Etna - Acitrezza - Giardini Naxos - Erice - Letojanni - Pantelleria - Siracusa - Tindarys - Ragusa
		Pantelleria, or Pantalaria, ancient Cossyra, is an island in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 62 miles southwest of the south-westerns extremity of Sicily, and 43 miles And of the African coast, belonging to the Sicilian province of Bottoming drills.
		Pantelleria is the greatest island satellite of the Sicily, Còssyra call from the Greeks, conolizzata from the fenici that equipped it of the port and divenne marine port of call between Africa and the Sicily.
	www.sicily-hotels.it /guide/hotels-pantelleria.htm (454 words)

	Sicily
		A decision to invade Sicily was made at an Allied conference at Casablanca which took place from January 14 to 23, 1943.
		For weeks before the invasion, Allied planes raided western Sicily in order to deceive the defenders regarding the Allied intention, which was to make landings on the southern and eastern coasts of the island.
		After recovering from their initial surprise, the German forces in Sicily succeeded in blocking the most direct route to Messina by concentrating against the British Eighth Army in the vicinity of Catania.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Sicily (465 words)

	Best of Sicily - Modern History, Culture, Genealogy, Language
		A number of citizens who remained in Sicily actively opposed Fascism, and at great personal risk; the writer Vitaliano Brancati was an outspoken opponent, while Luigi Pirandello was an advocate of the regime, and owed his Nobel Prize for Literature, at least in part, to Mussolini's coercive efforts with several members of the Nobel Foundation.
		To a great extent, the history of Sicily is the history of families, and a few of the island's aristocratic houses, such as the Lanza and Alliata, trace their lineages from the Norman era.
		Although Sicily boasts the best genealogical resources in Italy, access to those resources is not always a simple matter, and the work of tracing a lineage usually takes a great deal of time and a certain amount of money.
	www.bestofsicily.com /history3.htm (3095 words)

	Italian Navy, Ondina, Pietro Calvi, Cantore, Morosini, Bolzano, Attendolo
		Sicily continued - German and Italian aircraft sank and damaged a number of warships and transports in the invasion area including a US destroyer on the 10th.
		torpedoed by submarine "Trooper" at the entrance to the Adriatic in the Strait of Otranto.
		The Italian surrender was signed in Sicily on the 3rd, but not announced until the 8th to coincide with the main Allied landing at Salerno, and in the forlorn hope of preventing the Germans from taking over the country.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsItalianNavy2.htm (2942 words)

	Bridging the Strait of Messina - Best of Sicily Magazine
		With the exception of Sardinia, Sicily is the only region of Italy which cannot be serviced by the country's fastest "Eurostar" trains.
		This length is necessary to avoid the strait's phenomenal depths, and the design allows the structure to withstand earthquakes measuring as high as 7.1 on the Richter scale, a seismic action greater than that which destroyed most of Messina in 1908.
		Charybdis and Scylla, the forces that menaced Odysseus (Ulysses) at the Strait of Messina, may finally be subdued.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art56.htm (805 words)

	Islands.com \| Sicily
		Sicily is a treasure trove of the past: more ancient Greek temples than Greece, the finest Roman mosaics in the world (at Piazza Armerina), and castles and churches from the Middle Ages.
		But this is also a land of great natural beauty, from smoldering Mount Etna looming over the narrow Strait of Messina that separates the island from Italy to central valleys filled with spring wildflowers and dramatic rocky shorelines that shelter fine, seldom crowded beaches.
		SIGHTSEEING The Greeks were drawn to the island's southern coast, the Sicily that faces Africa, and these days it attracts travelers who like to combine a morning of culture and an afternoon at the beach.
	www.islands.com /sicily (636 words)

	Manfred of Sicily - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sicily : history : pictures related to Sicilian history: Manfred in Battle
		Sicily (Italian Sicilia; ancient Trinacria), largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, southern Italy, separated from mainland Italy by the...
		Etna, Mount (ancient Aetna), volcano, southern Italy, on the eastern coast of Sicily.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Manfred+of+Sicily (102 words)

	Villas in Sicily, Taormina, Catania, Etna, Coast
		Sicily is the biggest island in the Mediterranean, separated from the Italian peninsula by the strait of Messina.
		Sicily is known for its warm climate even in winter, for its wonderful coastal scenery, for the abundance and completeness of its archaeological remains, for its volcano, for citrus fruits, for wine and superb mediterranean cooking.
		Sicily was a Greek colony during the Classic Age, and the Hellenic heritage is remarkable (Syracuse, Gela, Agrigento, Selinunte and Eraclea).
	www.timeaway.co.uk /Sicilia.shtml (314 words)

	CIESM - the Mediterranean Marine Research Network
		The concept of a subsurface Mediterranean outflow through the Strait of Gibraltar was established by the ingenious laboratory experiments of Marsigli in the late 17th century.
		Today most of the scientific interest in straits focuses on the dynamics and mixing of water masses, on the interference with meso- and small-scale structures, on the determination of maximal versus submaximal exchange, and on a host of issues related to flow with multiple density layers.
		Looking at straits from an ecological perspective, one is struck by their vulnerability to traffic and by their critical role in allowing the transfer of marine species between adjacent seas.
	www.ciesm.org /catalog/css2.htm (1158 words)

	P14
		Different multi-layer numerical models are employed for the study of three straits of the western Mediterranean Sea: the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Sicily, and the Strait of Messina.
		The Strait of Sicily, that connects the western and eastern Mediterranean basins is investigated with the help of a nonlinear, hydrostatic three-layer model.
		The changes in water properties along the Strait and in the outflow regions are characterized by distinct entrainment / mixing regimes, such as near the southern end of the Bosphorus, within the northern reach of the Strait and across the northern sill and the shelf region.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/GeneralAssembly99/P14/P14full.htm (6266 words)

	LEVANTINE INTERMEDIATE AND DEEP WATER IN THE TYRRHENIAN BASIN: INFLOW/OUTFLOW AND INTERNAL PROCESSES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Furthermore, the water crossing the strait of Sicily and entering into the Tyrrhenian Basin is not entirely homogeneous.
		Furthermore, the long-term changes of the Tyrrhenian hydrographic structure provides relevant information on long-term variability of the water characteristics and their dynamics, thus evidencing that this basin seems to be a privileged area for observing the climate evolution of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Katz E.J., The Levantine Intermediate Water between the Strait of Sicily and the Strait of Gibraltar.
	www.imbc.gr /imbc/biblio_serv/mast/X0032_142.html (865 words)

	Sicily,Italy
		Sicily, throughout history has been a place where more cultures have converged than any other in Europe or the world.
		Sicily may be more interesting to those who enjoy adventures off the "beaten path".
		If taking the train to Sicily from places such as Rome or Florence, it is advised for those who can sleep on the train, to take a night train which has beds.
	www.italianvisits.com /sicily (329 words)

	Ma-Mm
		An instance of the meteorological tsunami phenomenon in the Strait of Sicily.
		It is located between the Bosporus Strait to the northeast (which connects to the Black Sea) and the and the Dardanelles to the west (which connects to the Aegean Sea).
		The complexity of the circulation is caused by the combination of the wind forcing with the surface and lateral thermohaline fluxes imposed by water exchange through straits and river input, the topographic and coastal effects, and the internal dynamics characterized by a Rossby internal deformation radius around 10-15 km.
	stommel.tamu.edu /~baum/paleo/ocean/node24.html (6259 words)

	North Africa, Algiers, Tunisia, Longstop, Algeria, Louisberg, Avorio, Asteria, Erica, U205, Paladin, Isis
		Major areas for discussion included the European invasion in 1944, landings in Sicily and Italy after the Tunisian campaign, the bombing of Germany and the continuation of the war in Burma and the Pacific.
		North Africa and Tunis: The End for the Axis - The Allied Armies continued to push on, and on the 7th Tunis was taken by the British and Bizerta by the Americans.
		By mid-month minesweepers had cleared a channel through the Strait of Sicily, and the first regular Mediterranean convoys since 1940 were able to sail from Gibraltar to Alexandria (GTX).
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsNorthAfrica2.htm (1404 words)

	Tyrrhenian Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bounded by Corsica and Sardinia (west) Liguria (north), Tuscany, Latium, Campania, and Calabria (east), and Sicily (south).
		The Strait of Messina between Sicily and Messina on the toe of Italy, 3 km wide.
		The Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, 11 km wide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyrrhenian_Sea (249 words)

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		It includes the Sardinia Channel, the Strait of Sicily and the Gulf of Gabes, particularly known for the relatively high amplitude of its tides.
		The classical scheme of the circulation is this area (called T2S: Tunisia- Sardinia-Sicily) consists on the separation of this MAW vein into two branches: one is flowing northward into the Tyrrhenian Sea, the other is crossing the Sicily Strait to flow into the Eastern Mediterranean (Astraldi et al., 1996, Herbaut et al., 1998).
		Separation of a coastal current at a strait level: case of the Strait of Sicily.
	earth.esa.int /cgi-bin/confalt15y.pl?abstract=1306 (557 words)

	Rolex Middle Sea Race - NECK AND NECK THROUGH THE STRAIT - Sailing Anarchy Forums
		The Strait separates Sicily from the Italian mainland and is two miles wide at its narrowest.
		"At the Strait of Messina, we went through with Atalanta, then Atalanta stopped just at the top of the Straits and we took the only puff and we go!" said Gaetano Granada, as his maxi Steinlager II was rounding Stromboli.
		The Dutch offshore race boat was only launched this July and at around 2300 suffered problems with her steering mechanism and rather than risk the boat further, the choice was made to retire.
	www.sailinganarchy.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=24742 (974 words)

	MEDAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Strait of Sicily Sea temperature (Celsius degree) Monthly variability (Vertical South-North section at 11.76°E, I=70) (surface zoom)
		Strait of Sicily Sea temperature (Celsius degree) Monthly variability (Vertical West-East section at 36.16°N, J=30) (surface zoom)
		Strait of Sicily Sea temperature (Celsius degree) Monthly variability (Vertical West-East section at 37.56°N, J=65) (surface zoom)
	modb.oce.ulg.ac.be /medar/medar_sicily_temp_month.html (130 words)

	IUGG 2003 Scientific Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In this scenario an important role is played by the Sicily Strait dividing the two principal sub-basins: the Eastern and the Western Mediterranean.
		A long-term monitoring of the hydrographic properties of water masses across this strait initiated in the second half of the ‘80s allowed us to evidence the principal time scales of the water exchange between the Ionian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea.
		In particular, from a nearly annual observations we could observe the effects produced in the Sicily Strait by the water masses produced by the climatic transient occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean from its origin in the late ‘80s to the present phase of relaxation.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts03/P02/08/019899-1.html (304 words)

	Sicily - Strait of Messina
		The Strait of Messina, the ancient Fretum Siculum, is about 3 Km.
		The navigation of the Strait had scary fame in the antiquity: really it presents notable difficulties, especially for the rapid and irregular currents.
		The waters of the Strait with the uppercut sink of around 15 or 20 cm; then with the ascending get up of the same measure.
	www.grifasi-sicilia.com /strettodimessinagbr1.html (606 words)

	CNR-->Istituto IAMC --> Articoli JCR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Aspects of the recruitment of hake (Merluccius merluccius, L., 1758) and greater fork beard (Phycis blennoides, Brunnich, 1768) in the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean) are presented.
		Although there was inter-annual variability, two stable areas for M. merluccius were identified on the eastern side of the Adventure Bank and the Malta Bank at depths ranging between 100 and 200m.
		The main nursery areas for P. blennoides were deeper (from 200 to 400m) and two stable nursery areas were identified on the western and eastern side of the Adventure Bank; other nurseries were found in the easternmost part of the Strait in 1998 and 1999.
	www.cnr.it /istituti/ArticoliJCR.html?cds=002&id=29141 (379 words)

	JUST Response \| Antonio Mazzeo \| Bridge over troubled water (Messina Strait)
		The Italian government wants to span the 2-mile Messina Strait separating Sicily from Calabria with the world’s longest suspension bridge of its kind.
		They have actually been “preparing” the terrain for the Bridge’s construction for quite a while thanks to a system of social alliances and mechanisms involving media, economy, sections of the judiciary and universities as well as organised crime and masonic lodges.
		Were the Strait area not dominated by a single editorial group with a manufacturing of consent that is every bit as efficient at the local level as it is ramified and extended at the national level, there would probably have been fruitful debate on a whole range of projects.
	www.justresponse.net /bridge_over_troubled_water.html (1062 words)

	Mediterranean Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar on the west and to the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, by the Dardanelles and the Bosporus respectively, on the east.
		Large islands in the Mediterranean include Cyprus, Crete, Euboea, Rhodes, Lesbos, Chios, Kefalonia and Corfu in the eastern Mediterranean; Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta in the central Mediterranean; and Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca (the Balearic Islands) in the western Mediterranean.
		A shallow submarine ridge (the Strait of Sicily) between the island of Sicily and the coast of Tunisia divides the sea in two main subregions (which in turn are divided into subdivisions), the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mediterranean_Sea (1669 words)

	Citebase - High-resolution observations of the path of the overflow from the Sicily Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Citebase - High-resolution observations of the path of the overflow from the Sicily Strait
		High-resolution observations of the path of the overflow from the Sicily Strait
		High-resolution velocity and hydrographic measurements, including data acquired by the autonomous underwater vehicle AUTOSUB-2, are used to provide a detailed description of the path of the deep and intermediate overflow waters in the north-west region of the Sicily Strait.
	citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:2088 (246 words)

	CNR-->Istituto IAMC --> Articoli JCR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As part of the European Project Med 98-070, the main aim of which was the study of the anchovy population in the Strait of Sicily, icthyoplankton surveys were carried out between 1999 and 2001, during the peak spawning season for anchovy.
		Present work reports the relationship between meso-zooplankton biomass and the abundance of anchovy eggs and larvae in the Strait of Sicily.
		Data on anchovy egg abundance showed that the main spawning area was located in the north-western region of the study area.
	www.cnr.it /istituti/ArticoliJCR.html?cds=002&id=28699 (250 words)

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