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Tidbit for Joseph. After reported WuFlu cases in the Veneto Region, all Carnival celebrations in Venice, public and private, have been called off. One of the most iconic traditional Venetian masks is the one with a long, beak-like nose; back in the day these were what physicians wore during plague epidemics in the hope of avoiding contagion. Philosopher Giambattista Vico would have quipped that this is a return of periodical historical cycles.