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  • Obama's policies have hurt Latino's disproportionately and the Republican message of job creation speaks directly to the Latino community searching for an alternative to Obama, said RNC Spokesperson, Alexandra Franceschi on an emailed statement.

    Pilar Marrero: Republicans and Democrats Argue Over "Chimichangas" Pilar Marrero 2012

  • Obama's policies have hurt Latino's disproportionately and the Republican message of job creation speaks directly to the Latino community searching for an alternative to Obama, said RNC Spokesperson, Alexandra Franceschi on an emailed statement.

    Pilar Marrero: Republicans and Democrats Argue Over "Chimichangas" Pilar Marrero 2012

  • Lissette Franceschi, from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, lost her job as a hospital nurse during a round of layoffs in 2008.

    Insolvency Looms as States Drain U.S. Disability Fund Damian Paletta 2011

  • In the dedications to the Suma de arithmetica, Luca Pacioli refers to Pietro degli Franceschi de Borgo san Sepolcro.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • I remember well all the girls in my class: Aimée Habra, whose father was an important civil servant; Marie-Thérèse Franceschi, an Italian whose father was interned in a camp; Christiane Crepi, a French girl whose father was fighting with the English army; and Colette Pascal, whose father was an engineer with the Suez Canal and rarely went home on weekends.

    Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant 2004

  • The garrison last received news from outside on May 27, when a Captain Franceschi rowed through the naval blockade and completed a colorful exploit by swimming ashore, saber between his teeth, amid the crackling volleys and thundering broadsides of his alerted enemies.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The garrison last received news from outside on May 27, when a Captain Franceschi rowed through the naval blockade and completed a colorful exploit by swimming ashore, saber between his teeth, amid the crackling volleys and thundering broadsides of his alerted enemies.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Another circumstance which I should not omit is a duel which took place at Burgos, in 1808, between General Franceschi, aide-de-camp to King

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The Emperor learned at the same time that General Franceschi had been killed, and on account of the difference in their rank, in order not to compromise military etiquette, they had fought in their uniforms of equerry.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Luca was born about 1441, as we gather from Vasari, and if 1452 is the correct date of his uncle Lazzaro's death, his apprenticeship to Pier dei Franceschi must have begun before his eleventh year.

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

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