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Florence

City and administrative headquarters of Lauderdale County, northwest Alabama, USA, on the Tennessee River near the Tennessee Valley Authority's Wilson Dam, 175 km/109 mi northwest of Birmingham; population (1990) 36,400. Industries include agricultural and poultry products, building materials, lumber, and fertilizers. The University of North Alabama (1872) is in Florence.

Florence was founded in 1818 and incorporated as a city in 1889. The birthplace (1873) of composer W C Handy is a museum.

Florence

City and administrative headquarters of Florence County, northeast South Carolina, USA, 98 km/61 mi northwest of Myrtle Beach; population (2000) 30,200. It is a centre of the trucking industry, serving as a terminus for many companies. Other industries include electronic equipment, dairy products, fertilizers, film, furniture, machined goods, and clothing. Francis Marion College (1970) and a technical college are in the city.

The community was founded in 1853 as a railroad junction, and was incorporated in 1890. During the American Civil War it had a major prison camp, and now has a national cemetery.
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Or, if passengers desire to visit Parma (famous for Correggio's frescoes) and Bologna, they can by rail go on to Florence, and rejoin the steamer at Leghorn, thus spending about three weeks amid the cities most famous for art in Italy.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
He was also a good deal in debt: it was difficult to live in London like a gentleman on three hundred a year; and his heart yearned for the Venice and Florence which John Ruskin had so magically described.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
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