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Subject: Re: Alessandro Volta's surname
Author: Getb   (guest, 190.237.9.19)
Date: July 25, 2012 at 2:32:55 AM
Reply to: Re: Alessandro Volta's surname by Marc
Thanks! That explians a lot because "voltear" is Spanish for "to turn around" and Spanish is related to Italian and bending nad turnign around are very semantically related

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