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For decades most Australians didn’t care about Australia Day. They weren’t sure when it was or what it was about, but they ...

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Aryabhata correctly concluded, a full thousand years before Copernicus and Galileo, that the earth ... the commercial revolution that financed the Renaissance and in time, as these ideas spread ...

Nearby is the 318-foot Campanile di San Marco bell tower, which was once frequented by Galileo to study the ... houses classical paintings from the Renaissance, including pieces by Bellini and ...