Aeolian Islands
Britishplural noun
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The song was inspired by singer-guitarist Tom Russo’s visit to his parents’ birthplace in the Aeolian Islands, near Sicily, where he read about the Mediterranean refugee crisis.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2018
Textural characterization, major and volatile element quantification and Ar-Ar systematics of spherulites in the Rocche Rosse obsidian flow, Lipari, Aeolian Islands: a temperature continuum growth model.
From Nature • Dec. 12, 2017
The Aeolian Islands off Sicily each have their own beauty, but Panarea is the oldest.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017
On his planned trip, to the Aeolian Islands near Sicily, he says he will paint on local newspapers with his Angora watercolors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2016
Ae'olus, son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, represented in Homer as the happy ruler of the Aeolian Islands, to whom Zeus had given dominion over the winds.
From Legends of Charlemagne by Bulfinch, Thomas
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