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19 unusual facts about Aquila


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It was discovered, September 4, 2003, through the Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey at the Italian Rome Observatory's site on the plateau of Campo Imperatore, located in the Province of L'Aquila, Italy.

Adam d'Ambergau

Also known are other printers using the names Petrus Adamus Mantuanus, Adam Rost (Rome, 1471-1475) and Adam de Rotwil (Aquila, 1482).

Aquila, Inc.

Aquila has its roots in the Solomon Valley Milling Company founded in 1902 by Lemuel K. Green in Osborne, Kansas.

In 1926 he sold it to the Fitkin Group again which merged with the Missouri Public Service Company.

Catholic Democrats

Dr. Patrick Whelan, president of Catholic Democrats, blogged from the Vatican during the meeting, which followed the release of the papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate and the G8 Economic Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, earlier in the week.

Feed the Future Initiative

At the 2009 G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, President of the United States Barack Obama announced a $10.15 billion commitment over 3 years to an initiative that would focus on reducing hunger and poverty in developing countries in Sub-Saharah Africa and South East Asia.

Francesco Amico

For twenty-four years he was professor of theology at Naples, Aquila, and Gratz, and, for five years, chancellor in the academy of the last-named place.

GALLEX

The experiment's main components, the tank and the counters, were located in the underground astrophysical laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in the Italian Abruzzo province, near L'Aquila, and situated inside the 2912 metres high Gran Sasso mountain.

Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila

Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila (1473 – 1522) was a papal protonotary and chamberlain, as well as a friend of the artist Raphael (who painted The Visitation; Raphael designed the palace of Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila in the Borgo for him).

Around 1517 Raphael painted a great Visitation at the request of Marino Branconio, father of Giovanni Battista.

Johannes de Quadris

He was a priest, and originally from the diocese of Valva-Sulmona, in the vicinity of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

Lake Campotosto

From Capitignano the rail line headed to L'Aquila following a course that had earlier been used for the transportation of peat.

The lake is reachable via the Italian State Highway 80 from either L'Aquila or the Adriatic Coast.

Margaret of Parma

In 1567 Margaret resigned her post into the hands of the Duke of Alba and retired to L'Aquila in Italy.

Nicholas Neszmélyi

He led a 200-strong army to help the Hungarians in L'Aquila.

Picenze

Picenze is a frazione of Barisciano, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy, which includes the locality of San Martino, Villa di Mezzo and Petogna.

Recombinant Immunotoxin Collaborative Group

The RICG was formed in 2005 and originally consisted of Dr Aldo Ceriotti and Dr M. Serena Fabbrini (IBBA, CNR, Milan), Professor Marco Colombatti (University of Verona), Professor Rodolfo Ippoliti (University of L'Aquila), Dr Alessandro Pini (University of Siena) and Drs David Flavell & Sopsamorn Flavell (University of Southampton Medical School & Leukaemia Busters).

Ripa di Fagnano Alto

Other villages such as Collepietro and Tocco are also believed to have been founded in the same era, close to when the region's capital L'Aquila, being founded in 1240.

Steve Ferrigno

In the 1920s, Ferrigno was a mid-level leader in the Brooklyn crime family of Salvatore "Totò" D'Aquila, the self-proclaimed "Boss of Bosses" of the New York Mafia.


Akiva ben Joseph

Aquila was a man after Akiva's own heart; under Akiva's guidance he gave the Greek-speaking Jews a rabbinical Bible (Jerome on Isa. viii. 14, Yer. ḳid. i. 59a).

Alfred Mineo

D'Aquila had previously sentenced Morello to death upon his release from prison, along with his ally Umberto Valenti, but through the intervention of Pittsburgh Mafia leader, Nicola Gentile, the death sentence on Morello and Valenti was revoked.

ANZIIF

The supporters, a Lyrebird (Menura superba) and a Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), were chosen to be different from the traditional Australian Kangaroo.

Caetani

Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, princes of Piedimonte, and dukes of Laurenzana, founded by Onorato Gaetani dell'Aquila, count of Fondi, Traetto, Alife and Morcone, lord of Piedimonte and Gioia, in 1454.

Castel del Monte

Castel del Monte, Abruzzo, a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila, Italy

Cesare Fantetti

Conjointly with Pietro Aquila, he engraved the plates from the paintings by Raphael in the Vatican, called Raphael's Bible, thirty-seven of the series being executed by Fantetti, and the remainder by Aquila.

Coat of arms of Romania

Then the coat of arms of Transylvania was placed in the fourth quarter, with the Turul replaced by a black aquila, the third quarter depicted the joined coats of arms of Banat and Oltenia (the bridge of Apollodorus of Damascus and a golden lion respectively), and the coat of arms of Dobruja was placed in an insertion.

Codex Marchalianus

It was suggested by Ceriani in 1890 that the text of the codex represents Hesychian recension; but Hexaplaric signs have been freely added, and the margins supply copious extracts from Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and the Septuaginta of the Hexapla.

DeMUG Baroque Ensemble

He has degrees in Violin (Conservatorio ‘F. Morlacchi’ in Perugia, Italy), Viola (Conservatorio ‘G. Rossini’ in Pesaro, Italy) and Electronic Music (Conservatorio ‘F. Morlacchi’ in Perugia, Italy), and received a master in Violin from the Conservatorio ‘A. Casella’ in L'Aquila, Italy,

Fascist symbolism

Other symbols used by the Italian Fascists included the aquila, the Capitoline Wolf, and the SPQR motto, each related to Italy's ancient Roman cultural history, which the Fascists attempted to resurrect.

Giuseppe Molinari

Giuseppe Molinari (born January 11, 1938 in Scoppito, L'Aquila Province) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of L'Aquila.

Gordian I

In Ankara Turkey, a funeral inscription has been found that names a Sempronia Romana, daughter of a named Sempronius Aquila (an imperial secretary).

Guido Cervo

Also set in the Roman Empire age are Il centurione di Augusto, Il segno di Attila, Le mura di Adrianopoli and L'aquila sul Nilo.

L'Aquila railway station

Train services between L'Aquila and Terni are operated by Ferrovia Centrale Umbra, a company owned by the province of Perugia.

Maramureș

The heavy forested mountains sustain many protected species of plants, such as yew (Taxus baccata), larch (Larix decidua), Swiss pine (Pinus cembra), edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum); and animals, such as lynx (Lynx lynx), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), alpine marmot (Marmota marmota), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).

Petrella

Petrella Liri, a frazione (parish) in the Province of L'Aquila in Italy

Pratola

Pratola Peligna, a municipality in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo

Priscilla and Aquila

The fact that she is always mentioned with her husband, Aquila, disambiguates her from different women revered as saints in Catholicism, such as (1) Priscilla of the Roman Glabrio family, the wife of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, who according to some traditions hosted St. Peter circa AD 42, and (2) a third-century virgin martyr named Priscilla and also called Prisca.

Samuel J. Aquila

Aquila was born on September 24, 1950 in Burbank, California and ordained a priest in 1976 for the Archdiocese of Denver.

San Benedetto in Perillis

In the High Middle Ages, a monastery was built here to serve the peasantry of L'Aquila.

Eventually, the Caracciolo family took control of the area, being replaced in the 18th century by the Celestine Fathers of L'Aquila.

Sergio Parisse

His father, also Sergio, played for L'Aquila where he won the Italian Club Championships in 1967 before his job with Alitalia took him to Argentina in 1970.

Testamentum Domini

The Conclusion (book 2:25-27) brings us back to the injunctions of the Lord as to the keeping of these precepts, a special charge to John, Andrew and Peter, and a statement that copies of the Testament were made by John, Peter and Matthew, and sent to Jerusalem by the hands of Dosithaeus, Sillas, Magnus and Aquila.

Viviane Araújo

On August 29, 2012, after 93 days, she was crowned the winner of the season, beating actor Felipe Folgosi and drag queen Leo Aquila in the final vote, taking home the R$2 million prize.

Zoellner Arts Center

The venue has had a wide array of performers, including: the New York Philharmonic and Itzhak Perlman, the Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu and Laurie Anderson, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, the Aquila Theatre Company, Lily Tomlin, Bernadette Peters and Queen Latifah.