One can imagine Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Jesuits bemoaning loss of that career-making skill.

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Trombone is Italian for "big trumpet": instrument makers in the fifteenth century created the trombone as a bigger, lower-pitched, and improved version of the slide trumpet.

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In the fifteenth century, the Medici family of bankers and merchants rose in Templar-like fashion, amassing vast wealth and influence.

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