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If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Harry Seidler

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Harry Seidler
Age: 82 †
Born: 1923
Born: June 25
Died: 2006
Died: March 9
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