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Filomena Pennacchio
Wikipedia Student Program Filomena Pennacchio (1841 – 1915), also known as Philomena Pennacchio, was a 19th-century Italian Brigandage, brigand. She joined a gang of brigands in 1862. Throughout her time with the brigands, she earned herself the nickname "Queen of the Woods". She later was arrested in 1864 and sentenced to prison. She was eventually released and lived in Turin, Italy for the rest of her life. She died February 17, 1915. Life Early life Pennacchio was born in San Sossio Baronia, Italy in 1841 to her father, Giuseppe Antonio Pennacchio, and mother, Vincenza Maria Caterina Bucci. Her father was a butcher. However, she soon became orphaned after her mother passed away when Pennacchio was 4 years old and her father died in 1853. Pennacchio subsequently joined the Brigandage, brigand life in 1862. However, there are two conflicting narratives about how she became a brigand. The first version claims that Pennacchio murderered her husband with a pin before fleei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Initially available only in English, Wikipedia exists in over 340 languages. The English Wikipedia, with over million articles, remains the largest of the editions, which together comprise more than articles and attract more than 1.5 billion unique device visits and 13 million edits per month (about 5edits per second on average) . , over 25% of Wikipedia's traffic comes from the United States, while Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia each account for around 5%. Wikipedia has been praised for enabling the democra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
