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Right, sorry, Henry. Feeling a bit pedantic
today...
Dave
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Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:53
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Life imitating
art
My point was the most wanted Mafia chief in Italy
was caught in Corlleone, and the irony in that. Of course Vito was named after
the town he came from, as you said it was quite common.
Henry
The Poster
Mint
In a message dated 4/11/06 1:06:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's why Vito Corleone was called Corleone, because
that's where he came from.
There's a famous scene in The Godfather that shows
the orphaned Vito arriving at Ellis Island as a child and the immigration
officer mistaking the town he came from for his family name, thus he ended
up being called Corleone.
This was actually a fairly common experience for
immigrants who arrived at about the turn of the century. Their names were
either incorrectly recorded or else they changed them as part of starting a
new life in America.
Dave
Posteropolis
www.posteropolis.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Mazel
To:
[email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: [MOPO] OT: Life imitating art
>>PALERMO, Sicily
(Reuters) - Bernardo Provenzano, the undisputed chief of the Sicilian Mafia
who had been on the run for more than four decades, was arrested on Tuesday
while hiding in a farmhouse near Corleone in Sicily.>>
You can't make this
sttuff up.
Henry
The Poster
Mint
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