Milan bombings. When Italy surrendered in 1943, German forces occupied most of Northern Italy until 1945. As a result, resistance groups formed. As the war came to an end, the American 1st Armored Division advanced on Milan—but before they arrived, the resistance seized control of the city and executed Mussolini along with several members of his government. On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were hanged in Piazzale Loreto. During the post-war economic boom, a large wave of internal migration (especially from rural areas of Southern Italy) moved to Milan. The population
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill "There was an old woman lived under a hill" is a nursery rhyme which dates back to at least its first known printing in 1714. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 797. In 1714 these lines: appeared as part of a catch in "The Academy of Complements". In 1744 these lines appeared by themselves (in a slightly different form) in "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book", the first extant collection of nursery rhymes. One eighteenth-century editor, possibly Oliver Goldsmith, added a note: "This is a self evident Proposition