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20 unusual facts about Arco


A.S.D.C. Pomigliano

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Pomigliano is an Italian association football club located in Pomigliano d'Arco, Campania.

Alfa Romeo 146

The Alfa Romeo 146 (Type 930) is a five-door family hatchback produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo in Pomigliano d'Arco, Italy between 1995 and 2000.

Alfieri clan

In the mid-1980s, the Alfieri clan expanded its hegemony in the province of Naples in different directions towards Pomigliano d'Arco, Agro Nocerino Sarcese along the coastline between Castellamere di Stabia and Torre Annunziata and into the Vesuvius area in the municipalities of Somma Vesuviana, Sant'Anastasia and Volla.

Alphonse D'Arco

On Amuso's instructions, the hitmen placed a dead canary, the sign of an informant, in Facciola's mouth after they killed him.

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

When he died in Arco on 18 February 1895, Archduke Albrecht received a state funeral and was buried in tomb 128 of the Imperial crypt in Vienna.

Ciro Sirignano

Ciro Oreste Sirignano (born 1 October 1985 in Pomigliano d'Arco) is an Italian football player.

Dale Threlkeld

Paintings and drawings by the artist are represented in numerous collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Illinois State Museum, The Atlantic Richfield Collection, the State of Illinois Collections and The Mitchell Museum of Art.

Erling Fløtten

During the third round of the 2010 World Senior Chess Championship in Arco, Italy, Fløtten collapsed at the chessboard, and despite rapid intervention from medical personnel, his life could not be saved.

Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line

Five days later, on Saturday, January 2, 1982, another single RDC collided with an ARCO gasoline tanker truck at the Second Street Pike crossing next to Southampton Station.

Johann Philipp d'Arco

His second in command Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli was stripped of all honours and his sword was broken over him.

D'Arco was born in Arco, Trentino, and already had 30 years distinguished service when he was ordered by Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1703 to defend Breisach to the last man against a French attack under Villars.

Livia d'Arco

Livia d'Arco (c. 1565–1611) was an Italian singer in the court of Alfonso II d'Este in Ferrara.

Livia was the daughter of a minor Mantuan noble, and was perhaps sent to the court in Ferrara because of her musical potential.

Milan Furniture Fair

The standpoint piece for Arco, a 106-year old Dutch company, was the wooden furniture produced by the Israeli designer Shay Alkalay.

Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg

Moritz Franz Friedrich Constantin Alexander Heinrich August Carl Albrecht of Saxe-Altenburg (Eisenberg, 24 October 1829 – Arco, Italy, 13 May 1907), was a German prince of the ducal house of Saxe-Altenburg.

Rock Master

Rock Master is an international climbing competition held every year in Arco.

Rolando Panerai

He sang in many rarely performed Verdi operas on radio broadcast for RAI in 1951 (to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Verdi's death), such as Giovanna d'Arco, La battaglia di Legnano, and Aroldo.

S5G reactor

This nuclear reactor was installed both as a land-based prototype at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho, and on board the USS Narwhal (SSN-671); both have been decommissioned.

Ulrich Neckel

Ulrich Neckel survived the war, only to succumb to tuberculosis while in Arco.

Voicemail

In the early 1980s, VMX sold voice messaging systems to several large corporations, such as 3M, Kodak, American Express, Intel, Hoffmann–La Roche, Corning Glass, Arco, Shell Canada and Westinghouse.


Adam de la Cour

de la Cour has written for various ensembles and soloists across the UK, the US and Europe including Michael Finnissy, Ah! you sitting comfortably (Vicky Wright/Peter Willcock), Laura Moody, Mark Knoop, The Calculators, Arco Collective, Anne Rhodes, Matthew Knowles, Libra Duo (Mark Knoop/Carl Rosman), IXION Ensemble.

Alessandro Carabelli

One of Italy’s leading jazz pianists, over the course of his career he has performed and recorded with some of the most important musicians such as: Bob Mover, Lee Konitz, John Arnold, Gary Windo, Franco Ambrosetti, Franco Cerri, Stefano Bagnoli, Enzo Scoppa, Dodo Goja, Giulio Visibelli, Paolo Pelegatti, Gianni Basso, Fabio Jeger, Tony Arco, Marco Ratti among them.

Angela Dufresne

Contemporary Art Center in New York, the 2005 ARCO Art Fair for Galeria Marta Cervera in Madrid, Miracle on Franklin Street at GV/AS in Brooklyn, The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London, and a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Anna Palm de Rosa

After their wedding in Paris in 1901, the couple moved first to Capri, then finally settled in the Madonna dell'Arco district of Sant'Anastasia near Naples in 1908.

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley

Arco-Valley might have decided to kill Eisner to prove himself "worthy" after he had been rejected for membership of an ultra-nationalist group, the Thule Society, because he was partly of Jewish descent.

Arch of Constantine

Patrizio Pensabene and Clementina Panella, Arco di Costantino: tra archeologia e archeometria, Rome 1999 (in Italian)

ARCO Arena I

Its official name of "ARCO Arena" is believed to be the first example of an NBA team selling naming rights to a brand new facility: in this case, rights were sold to the Atlantic Richfield Company, which is now a subsidiary of BP.

Arco Norte

Plans are for the Arco Norte to be extended at its western end from the junction with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road to Atlacomulco and the junction with Mexican Federal Highway 126, a route to Guadalajara.

Banda do Casaco

The first album released was 1975's Dos Benefícios de um Vendido no Reino dos Bonifácios followed by Coisas do Arco da Velha in 1976 which won the "Album of the Year" award in Portugal, notable for the appearance of Cândida Branca Flor on vocals.

Bela Borsody Bevilaqua

Dürer also painted another castle owned by the Bevilacqua family: View of Arco (1495) was a watercolour and gouache on paper now displayed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Boutros Romhein

He graduated in sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, and in 1990 set up his own studio and sculpture centre, Arco Arte.

CheyTac Intervention

On the Discovery Channel TV show Future Weapons April 9, 2007 episode "Massive Attack" the host Richard Machowicz, a former United States Navy SEAL, made 3 out of 6 shots, hitting a human-sized sheet of metal at a distance of 2,530 yards (2,313 m) at Arco Pass in Idaho.

Clark Waddoups

Clark Waddoups (born 1946 in Arco, Idaho) is the 15th judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.

Free Burma Coalition

Under the leadership of Zarni, then a graduate student at University of Wisconsin–Madison, it galvanized principally American students, attracted much media attention, and helped force over forty multinational corporations to withdraw from Burma, including ARCO, PepsiCo, and Texaco.

Jack J. Grynberg

According to court records, it was Grynberg who provided the introductions and data for BG, BP, Statoil, ARCO, Transworld Oil and others to enter the region in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Luigi Cagnola

He died at Inverigo in August 1833, five years before the completion of the Arco della Pace in Milan.

Melinda Rackham

As an artist and commentator on identity, locality and sexuality in networked, 3d multi-user, game and mobile environments her artworks were widely exhibited during the first wave of internet art (1995–2003) in exhibitions such as Art Entertainment Network, Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, File, ISEA, European Media Art Festival, transmediale, lab3D.

Pat Marcy

Alderman Fred Roti and Democratic Committeeman John D'Arco, Sr., both of whom also had close ties to the Chicago Outfit, took their direct orders from Marcy.

Renaud Garcia-Fons

He got formal musical training at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with François Rabbath who taught him his special technique of playing arco.

Richard Farnes

Before joining Opera North in 2004, Farnes had conducted The Secret Marriage, The Marriage of Figaro, Joan of Arc, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin, Gloriana and Tosca for the company, as well as the world première of The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt.

Robert Orville Anderson

Anderson led ARCO's move from New York to Los Angeles in 1972, when it opened Atlantic Richfield Plaza on Flower street, which unfortunately and disastrously, from a preservation and cultural perspective, displaced (Richfield Tower Morgan, Walls & Clements, built 1928-1929, demolished 1968-1969.)

Sabbionara Castle

In 1509 the castle was conquered by the troops of Maximilian I of Austria who, after painting his insignia on the façade, gave it to the counts of Arco.

Screaming Trees

Barrett contributed playing drums on two albums by Nando Reis a Brazilian musician: Para Quando O Arco Irís Encontrar O Pote de Ouro (2000) together with Peter Buck from R.E.M. and A Letra A (2003).

Sportroccia

Sportroccia was the first international competition of rock climbing and was held for four editions in Bardonecchia and Arco.

The Rainbow Thief

It was released in cinemas in London (May 1990), Italy (Il Ladro dell'arcobaleno, 1990), France (Le voleur d'arc-en-ciel, Paris, 1994) and, after, Spain (El ladrón del Arco iris, Cine Doré, Madrid, 2011); but it was never released in American cinemas.

Va, pensiero

Other recent research has discussed several of Verdi's works from the 1840s (including Giovanna d'Arco and Attila) emphasising their ostensible political meaning.