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The Sinai War of 1956 Main article: War of the Sinai Sinai war broke out following the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt and the Fedayeen who suffered attacks Israel. France and Britain established a secret military alliance with Israel and attacked Israel Maven by surprise and in tour a coordinated way to Egypt, dismantled completely destroying the Egyptian army and its air force. In just one week, Israel conquered the Sinai Peninsula to complete, including strategic areas such as Sharm el-Sheikh, a key to access to trip the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Akaba, which is essential to free the sea from the port Israeli Eilat. If the goals of Israel were a military success for the United Kingdom and France was a fiasco, the latest backlash of two old colonial powers in decline. Sinai war represent a fully fledged military defeat for flights Egypt, but Israel Maven a moral and political victory. Joint diplomatic pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union unexpectedly agreed to front the surprise maneuver by London and Paris who sought to recover the Suez Canal, forcing Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip air tickets that is, had to return to the pre-war situation that prompted him to gain 60,000 square kilometers Israel in just one week. After the cease-fire declared by the UN, Egypt accepted the intervention forces of the UN at the border (UNEF, a "Emergencia Force" created for the purpose), for the demilitarization of the region and prevent border incidents. Israel is giving up holiday the huge cost gains obtained in this blitzkrieg, but in exchange for the withdrawal Western Wall towards the Israel border with Egypt would be protected from guerrilla Eilat infiltration through the deployment of the multinational force, and Kotel thereby won Israel nine years...
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Period end Illustration 18: Beneventano Palazzo del Bosco, Syracuse, designed by Luciano Ali between 1779 and 1788 is a sober late Sicilian Baroque. The balconies of wrought iron and gentle curves, suggest an approach to neoclassicism. As with all architectural styles, people get tired by the end of the Baroque. In some parts of Europe was turned into rococo, but not in Sicily. And outside of Austria, the island has been governed since 1735 by the King of Naples, Ferdinand IV, under the official name of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. Therefore Palermo was in constant contact with the principal, Naples, producing an increasing return to the architecture of classic style. Along with this, among many of the most noble Sicilian cults became a fashion obsession for everything French, from philosophy to the arts through fashion and architecture. Several visits to Paris because of this interest, and returned to Sicily with the last recorded and treated theorists of French architecture. French architect Leon Dufourny was in the island between 1787 and 1794, studying and analyzing the temples of ancient Greece. The Sicilian rediscovered its ancient past, the classical language became the rage now. The change in taste not occurred overnight. Baroque remained popular, but now the baroque balconies, however extravagant, were built with heavy classical columns. Dufourny started designing in Palermo, and Templete entrance to the Botanical Gardens was the first building in Sicily based on the order Dorico Greek. It was pure neoclassical architecture, as in England starting from 1760, as a sign of what was coming. The Dufourny great friend and colleague Giuseppe Marvuglia was the architect who led the gradual decline of the Sicilian baroque. In 1784 the design-Palazzo Belmonte Riso, a fine example of this transition period architectural reasons combines Baroque and Palladian architecture of a building with...