October 17, 2010
Accordion History The accordion was patented in Paris in 1829 by Cyril Damian, a Viennese of Armenian descent. However, it was in the Italian cities of Stradella in the Lombardy region and in the province of Ancona on the Adriatic coast that small accordion shops developed into important manufacturers, like Paolo Soprani (founded in 1864) […]
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October 4, 2010
On February 1st 1908, the king Carlos I of Portugal and his heir apparent, Prince Luis Filipe, were murdered in Lisbon. In 1910, a revolution deposed the Portuguese monarchy and its last King, Manuel II, giving place to the democratic (but unstable) First Republic (“Primeira República”) , which submersed the country in social chaos and economic […]
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