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For today’s Geo quiz, we’re looking for an Italian city 30 miles west of Venice where a parent’s request to remove the crucifixes from a public school has grown into a 9-year-long legal battle that has reached the halls of Europe’s highest human rights court. The answer is Padua. Anchor David Baron gets the full story from political commentator Sergio Romano, who’s in Milan.

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