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−	'''Fausto Veranzio''' is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia\|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio (''or'' Faust Vrancic) <ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian background through family lineage.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref> He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>
−	{{Cquote\|'''Wikipedia states''': '' ... he was a polymath and bishop from Croatia.'' <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Veranzio\|title=Wikipedia: Fausto Veranzio\|date=[[2010]]\|accessdate=2010-10-04}}</ref> (3rd of October 2010)}} It '''must''' be stated that this man was from the ''Republic of Venice'' not from Croatia, in fact Croatia did not exist as a sovereign state for at least three hundred years after his time.
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−	This is using Wikipedia for nationalistic propaganda and is not based on fact. It otherwise tainted a ''perfectly'' good article on this unique individual. Fausto was born in Sibenik circa 1551 in ''Dalmatia'', a region of the Republic of Venice in todays modern Croatia. In the 19th century Dalmatia became a province of the [[Austria\|Austro]]-Hungarian Empire. Dalmatia as a province, dates back to the Roman Empire <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j-0LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=Roman+empire+province+Dalmatia&hl=en&ei=jfupTJO8JYuSuwO49cTJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Roman%20empire%20province%20Dalmatia&f=false The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1] by Edward Gibbon (p158)</ref> and is several centuries older that Croatia itself.
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−	'''Note''': Fausto Veranzio in 1617, (sixty-five years old) implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Today a Croatian Navy rescue ship bears the name ''Faust Vrančić''.
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−	*Venetian rule, established in 1420 when the king of Croatia (Hungary),<ref>'''Note''': Added Hungary as Croatia (the province) was part of [[Hungary]].</ref> Ladislas of Naples,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/327520/Ladislas\|title='''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Ladislas\|date=[[2010]]\|accessdate=2010-10-06
−	* "Ladislas, (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)<ref>'''Note''': Added Dalmatia as it is ''referring'' to the country/province Dalmatia .</ref> to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
−	*Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between [[Italy]] and Yugoslavia gave all '''Dalmatia''' to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo. <ref>'''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Dalmatia</ref>}}
−	~~[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]~~
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−	~~====Sir John Gardner Wilkinson====~~
−	Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 – 1875) was an [[England\|English]] traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British Egyptology". He was in Dubrovnik (then called Ragusa) in 1848, he wrote in his; Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina.Volume 1:
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−	{{Cquote\|''Their language though gradually falling into Venetianisms of the other Dalmatians towns, still retains some of that pure Italian idiom, for which was always noted.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UsYJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA362&dq=Sir+John+Gardner+Wilkinson+Their+language+through+gradually+falling+into+Venetianisms&hl=en&ei=MfyqTLCJHc_IcZnDhOoE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a journey to Mostar in Herzegovina.Volume 1] by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (p362)</ref>}}
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−	Andrew Archibald Paton (1811 - 1874) was a British diplomat and writer from the 19 century. In 1861 he wrote in his; Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic: Or, Contributions to the Modern:{{Cquote\|Signor Arneri (from Korcula) '''stated''': ''These three pears you see on the wall," said he, "are the arms of my family. Perussich (Piruzović)'' <ref>Otok Korčula (2nd edition) by Marinko Gjivoje, Zagreb 1969.
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−	*The book outlines A-Z about the island of Korcula (Corzula), from traditions, history, culture to wildlife, politics & geography.</ref>'' was the name, when, in the earlier part of the fifteenth century, my ancestors built this palace; so that, you see.''
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−	''I am Dalmatian. All the family, fathers, sons, and brothers, used to serve in the fleets of the Republic (Republic of Venice); but the hero of our race was Arneri Perussich, whose statue you see there, who fought, bled, and died at the Siege of Candia, whose memory was honoured by the Republic, and whose surviving family was liberally pensioned; so his name of our race. We became Arneri, and ceased to be Perussich.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LUFlza-oCV0C&pg=PA164&dq=These+three+pears+you+see+on+the+wall,%22+said+he,+%22are+the+arms+of+my+family.+Perussich+was+the+name,&hl=en&ei=Q2NCTNiSCJLqvQO8y9DIDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=These%20three%20pears%20you%20see%20on%20the%20wall%2C%22%20said%20he%2C%20%22are%20the%20arms%20of%20my%20family.%20Perussich%20was%20the%20name%2C&f=false Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic:] by Andrew Archibald Paton. Chapter 4. The Dalmatian Archipelago.(p164)</ref>}}
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−	*Dalmatia-The Land Where East Meets West by Maude Holbach (a 1910 travel guide from COSIMO books and publications [[New York]] USA):
−	{{Cquote\|''Two hundred years later that, is, early in the tenth century you might have heard Slavish and Latin spoken had you walked in the streets of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), just as you hear Slavish and Italian''' today'''; for as times of peace followed times of war, the Greek and Roman inhabitants of Rausium intermarried with the surrounding Slavs, and so a mixed race sprang up, a people apart from the rest of Dalmatia.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EcvNw81I3hkC&pg=PA121&dq=Dalmatia:+The+Land+Where+East+Meets+West+Slavish+and+Italian+today&hl=en&ei=J46dTKDEF4XOvQOT_PS4DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Dalmatia: The Land Where East Meets West] by Maude Holbach (p121)
−	* "DALMATIA: The Land Where East Meets West is MAUDE M. HOLBACH's second book of travel in Eastern Europe. First published in 1910, this is an anthropological travel journal of an often-overlooked kingdom" [http://www.cosimobooks.com/cosimo/about.html Web site: www.cosimobooks.com]</ref>}}
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−	*[[Directory:~~The Wikipedia Point of View#History\|The Wikipedia Point of View]]~~
−	*[[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists\|The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists]]
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−	~~[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio Pentadictionarium.jpg\|thumb\|right\|400px\|Fausto Veranzio wrote a book on languages: ''"Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europæ linguarum, Latinæ, Italicæ" (1595)'']]~~
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−	* Francesco Patrizi: [http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/07/francesco-patrizi.html BEYOND NECESSITY- Francesco Patrizi'' link'']
−	The case of '''Francesco Patrizi''', the Venetian philosopher, is a fine illustration of the nationalistic warfare that infests Wikipedia, and the inaccuracy and distortion and bias that follows as a result.
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 '''Note''': Fausto Veranzio in 1617, (sixty-five years old) implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Today a Croatian Navy rescue ship bears the name ''Faust Vrančić''.
 [[File:427px-Fausto Veranzio.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Fausto Veranzio-Faust Vrančić]]
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 * "Ladislas,  (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)<ref>'''Note''': Added Dalmatia as it is ''referring'' to the country/province Dalmatia .</ref>  to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
 *Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between [[Italy]] and Yugoslavia gave all '''Dalmatia''' to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo. <ref>'''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Dalmatia</ref>}}
+[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
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 '''Fausto Veranzio''' is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio (''or'' Faust Vrancic) <ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian  background through family lineage.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref>  He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>
 {{Cquote|'''Wikipedia states''': '' ... he was a polymath and bishop from Croatia.'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Veranzio|title=Wikipedia: Fausto Veranzio|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-04}}</ref> (3rd of October 2010)}} It '''must''' be stated that this man was from the ''Republic of Venice'' not from Croatia, in fact Croatia did not exist as a sovereign state for at least three hundred years after his time.
-[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
 This is using Wikipedia for nationalistic propaganda and is not based on fact. It otherwise tainted a ''perfectly'' good article on this unique individual. Fausto was born in Sibenik circa 1551 in ''Dalmatia'',  a region of the Republic of Venice in todays modern Croatia. In the 19th century Dalmatia became a province of the [[Austria|Austro]]-Hungarian Empire. Dalmatia as a province, dates back to the Roman Empire <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j-0LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=Roman+empire+province+Dalmatia&hl=en&ei=jfupTJO8JYuSuwO49cTJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Roman%20empire%20province%20Dalmatia&f=false The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1] by Edward Gibbon (p158)</ref> and is several centuries older that Croatia itself.
 '''Note''': Fausto Veranzio in 1617, (sixty-five years old) implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice. Today a Croatian Navy rescue ship bears the name ''Faust Vrančić''.
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-*Venetian rule, established in 1420 when the king of Croatia (Hungary), Ladislas of Naples,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/327520/Ladislas|title='''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Ladislas|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-06
+*Venetian rule, established in 1420 when the king of Croatia (Hungary),<ref>'''Note''': Added Hungary as Croatia (the province) was part of [[Hungary]].</ref> Ladislas of Naples,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/327520/Ladislas|title='''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Ladislas|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-06
-* "Ladislas,  (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)  to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
+* "Ladislas,  (1377—1414, Naples), king of Naples (from 1386), claimant to the throne of Hungary (from 1390), and prince of Taranto (from 1406). He became a skilled political and military leader, taking advantage of power struggles on the Italian peninsula to greatly expand his kingdom and his power. Succeeding his father, Charles III, in 1386, Ladislas was king at age nine under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Durazzo. Expelled from Naples in 1387 by the rival claimant Louis II of Anjou, he first subdued the recalcitrant Neapolitan barons"}}</ref> ceded the country (Dalmatia)<ref>'''Note''': Added Dalmatia as it is ''referring'' to the country/province Dalmatia .</ref>  to the '''Venetian republic''', ended in 1797. This period was marked by Venetian warfare against the Turks. When the French gave Venice to [[Austria]] under the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), '''Dalmatia''' became Austrian also; but in 1805, under the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria had to cede '''Dalmatia''' to Napoleon. It was returned to Austria after Napoleon’s fall and remained an Austrian crownland until 1918.
 *Finally, the Treaty of Rapallo (Nov. 12, 1920) between [[Italy]] and Yugoslavia gave all '''Dalmatia''' to the Yugoslavs except the mainland Zadar (Italian: Zara) enclave and the coastal islands of Cres, Losinj (Lussino), and Lastovo. <ref>'''Encyclopedia Britannica''': Dalmatia</ref>}}

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 This is about [[Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] article on ''Fausto Veranzio''.
-'''Fausto Veranzio''' is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio (''or'' Faust Vrancic) <ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian <ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref> background through family lineage. He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>
+'''Fausto Veranzio''' is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio (''or'' Faust Vrancic) <ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian  background through family lineage.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref>  He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>
 {{Cquote|'''Wikipedia states''': '' ... he was a polymath and bishop from Croatia.'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Veranzio|title=Wikipedia: Fausto Veranzio|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-04}}</ref> (3rd of October 2010)}} It '''must''' be stated that this man was from the ''Republic of Venice'' not from Croatia, in fact Croatia did not exist as a sovereign state for at least three hundred years after his time.
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 This is about [[Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] article on ''Fausto Veranzio''.
-'''Fausto Veranzio''' (''or'' Faust Vrancic)<ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian background through family lineage. He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.
+'''Fausto Veranzio''' is another article on Wikipedia that exhibits [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia|nationalistic editing]]. Fausto Veranzio (''or'' Faust Vrancic) <ref> Pronounced in Croatian: Vranchic or Vrančić </ref> was '''historically''' a citizen of the ''Republic of Venice'' in the 16th and 17th century. He does have a Croatian <ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA121&dq=Travels+Into+Dalmatia++Veranzio&hl=en&ei=eYSsTJ6_M4q4vgPk6oWnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Travels Into Dalmatia] by Abbe Alberto Fortis (p121)</ref> background through family lineage. He was a brilliant scientist in his day and is noted for his invention of the parachute.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor He's in the Paratroops Now] by Alfred Day Rathbone (p172)</ref>
 {{Cquote|'''Wikipedia states''': '' ... he was a polymath and bishop from Croatia.'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Veranzio|title=Wikipedia: Fausto Veranzio|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-04}}</ref> (3rd of October 2010)}} It '''must''' be stated that this man was from the ''Republic of Venice'' not from Croatia, in fact Croatia did not exist as a sovereign state for at least three hundred years after his time.
-[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design]]
+[[File:160px-Fausto Veranzio homo volans.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Fausto Veranzio's parachute design: Homo Volans (The Flying Man)]]
 This is using Wikipedia for nationalistic propaganda and is not based on fact. It otherwise tainted a ''perfectly'' good article on this unique individual. Fausto was born in Sibenik circa 1551 in ''Dalmatia'',  a region of the Republic of Venice in todays modern Croatia. In the 19th century Dalmatia became a province of the [[Austria|Austro]]-Hungarian Empire. Dalmatia as a province, dates back to the Roman Empire <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=j-0LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158&dq=Roman+empire+province+Dalmatia&hl=en&ei=jfupTJO8JYuSuwO49cTJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Roman%20empire%20province%20Dalmatia&f=false The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1] by Edward Gibbon (p158)</ref> and is several centuries older that Croatia itself.
 *'''Encyclopedia Britannica'''-Dalmatia:
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-[[File:Pons ferreus by Fausto Veranzio.gif|thumb|left|275px|Fausto Veranzio design bridges.]]
+[[File:Pons ferreus by Fausto Veranzio.gif|thumb|left|275px|Drawing of suspension cable-stayed bridge by Fausto Veranzio in his Machinae Novae]]
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