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Old 06-21-2007   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Double Jeopardy!

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Originally Posted by Nukkepöksy View Post
Answer: A group of Tuscan painters formed out of the Risorgimento nationalist movement of the nineteenth century. Their name was derived from an Italian term macchia that can be defined either as a ‘patch’ or ‘blotch’ of colour, or, as an unfinished ‘sketch‘.

edit: I was nice and provided the italian term
who were the macchiaioli?

he told his wife, when she said she wanted to go someplace different for a vacation that year "why don't you try the kitchen?"
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