Architecture is My Delight. Thomas Jefferson said that Architecture is my delight, and putting up and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements.. He spent much of his life putting up and pulling down, most notably during the forty-year construction period of Monticello.
Zia is an Italian equivalent of the English word aunt.. Specifically, the Italian word is a feminine noun. Its singular definite article la means the.. Its singular indefinite article una means a, one.. The pronunciation is TSEE-ah..
The name Italy (Italia) is an ancient name for the country and people of Southern Italy. Originally is was spelled Vitalia, probably from the same root as the Latin vitulus (a one-year-old calf), thus literally meaning 'calf-land' or Land of Cattle. The area was rich with bovine, and the people living there probably took the name symbolically since it identified them with their land.