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Licata

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Licata (lēkä`tä), city (1991 pop. 41,300), S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea at the mouth of the Salso River. Licata is a seaport, seaside resort, and commercial and industrial center. Sulfur and asphalt are shipped through its port. It was founded in the early 3d cent. B.C. as a refuge for the inhabitants of Gela Gela (jā`lä), city (1991 pop. 61,319), S Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea.
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 after that city's destruction and was called Phintias after the tyrant of Acragas. Off nearby Cape Economus (now Poggio di Sant' Angelo), the Roman consul Regulus won (256 B.C.) a decisive battle in the first of the Punic Wars Punic Wars, three distinct conflicts between Carthage and Rome . When they began, Rome had nearly completed the conquest of Italy, while Carthage controlled NW Africa and the islands and the commerce of the W Mediterranean.
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The authors acknowledge the work done by Kathleen Cashin, PT, MPT, and Lisa Sheldon, PT, MPT, for assistance with data collection, Lina La Licata for clerical support, and Louise Mollinger-Reiman for manuscript review.
``It's good that a witness obtained a vehicle description, and a license number,'' said Detective John Licata of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division.
Richard Licata, executive vice president of corporate communications for Showtime Networks, has done business with Micucci since 1986, when he was head of publicity at HBO.
 
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