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Carrara
A town in N. Italy, 30 m. NW. of Leghorn; famous for its quarries of white statuary marble, the working of which is its staple industry; these quarries have been worked for 2000 years, are 400 in number, and employ as quarrymen alone regularly over 3000 men.
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- Κλάδος/Τομέας: Γλώσσα
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- Organization: Project Gutenberg
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