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AM-Lira

The AM-lira (Allied-Military Currency) was the currency issued in Italy by AMGOT after the invasion of Sicily in 1943.


Anton Nanut

Nanut has been bestowed numerous awards for his work, among them the Prešeren Foundation Award (for his interpretations of Beethoven), the Župančič Award, the Croatian Milka Trnina Award, the City of Split Award, a high state decoration of the Republic of Croatia, the Yugoslav award Lira, the Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia.

Battle of Amba Alagi

Prime Minister Crispi's shocked cabinet agreed to advance another 20 million lire (£80,000) to ensure that a disaster could be stopped.

Edward Castronova

It claims, for example, that Norrath has a GNP per capita somewhere between that of Russia and Bulgaria, higher than that of China and India, and that a unit of EverQuest currency is worth more than the Yen or Lira.

Ettore Petrolini

In a single evening, Petrolini once earned four thousand lire.

Giannini sextuplets

The task was not easy; Rosanna Giannini estimated that she washed five loads of laundry every day, and that train travel for the entire family cost 250,000 lira a month (€195 in 2009).

Haunting of Winchester House

The film follows Susan (Lira Kellerman) and Drake (Michael Holmes), a couple who has agreed to act as caretakers of a mansion based loosely on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California.

Jaime Guardia

Considered a master of the Ayacucho regional style of traditional Andean music, he has performed and recorded as a solo act and with the group Lira Paucina.

Jimmy Adar

Jimmy Adar (born 1 November 1987 in Lira) is a Ugandan middle distance runner.

Lira da braccio

The great Italian musicologist Disertori showed that it was possible to reconstruct highly convincing examples of the Lira da Braccio in its early forms, from the meticulous paintings and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio and many other artists from the late 15th/early 16th century, thus opening many exciting possibilities relating to the re-creation of late 15th century performance practice.

National Insurance Corporation

The company has a branch network in the following Ugandan towns; Arua, Busia, Fort Portal, Gulu, Jinja, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Lira, Mbarara, Malaba, Masaka, Masindi, and Mbale.

The Exploding Meatball Sub

Barney indicates that a trip to Spain would cost a lot of "lira", which was the Italian currency (until they switched to the Euro a decade earlier).

Uganda Landmine Survivors Association

The Uganda Landmine Survivors Association is composed of district-level survivor groups across the country and other like minded NGOs and stakeholders whose mandate include addressing landmine related issues, support to landmine survivors and other persons with disabilities, including survivor groups in Apac, Lira, Gulu, Kasese, Kitgum, Oyam and Pader.

Valech Report

The commission included María Luisa Sepúlveda (executive vice president), lawyers Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Luciano Fouillioux, José Antonio Gómez (PRSD president), Lucas Sierra, Álvaro Varela and psychologist Elizabeth Lira.

Victor Vaughn Morris

According to Peruvian researcher Guillermo Toro-Lira, among the notable individuals who attended Morris' Bar were Elmer Faucett (founder of the Faucett Perú airline), José Lindley (founder of the Corporación José R. Lindley S.A. and Inca Kola), Alfred L. Kroeber (the cultural anthropologist), and Richard Halliburton (an adventurer and cultural ambassador to Peru).

Water supply and sanitation in Uganda

In 2007 it provided services to 1.8 million people out of 2.5 million in Kampala, Jinja/Lugazi, Entebbe, Tororo, Mbale, Lira, Gulu, Masaka, Mbarara, Kabale, Kasese and Fort Portal, Bushenyi/Ishaka, Soroti Arua, Masindi, Malaba, Iganga, Hoima, and Mubende.

Zografeion Lyceum

Christakis Zografos, who was living in Paris at the time, made the largest contribution, of 10,000 gold liras.


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