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C. The 2,758-year-old city of Palermo is the capital and largest city of the Italian autonomous region of Sicily. The investigation is being conducted by the public prosecutor’s office of Termini Imerese, about 20 miles from Palermo.
B. The people from what is now Lebanon sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to dominate trade for about 1,000 years. In what is now Tunisia in North Africa, the Phoenicians established the city-state of Carthage which later fought the ancient Greeks and Romans over control of Sicily.
A. Britain prevented Napoleon Bonaparte from seizing the island in the 19th century, but it never claimed Sicily as a possession.
D. During World War II, the U.S. Navy first turned to imprisoned Mafia boss Salvatore “Lucky” Luciano for help with security and union peace at American ports. Later, Luciano’s Sicilian associates supplied the United States with intelligence for planning the invasion. Another top Mafia leader served as a trusted interpreter and advisor to the U.S. Army in Sicily.