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3 unusual facts about Bona


Bona

Bona AB, is a Swedish family-owned company founded in 1919.

Kremenets Castle

Krements Castle came into existence long before princess Bona Sforza, wife of Polish king Sigismund the First.

Paulinus II of Aquileia

It was at the itinerant palace school (schola palatina) that Paulinus would stay for about ten years and make the acquaintance of other leading scholars of the age, including Peter of Pisa, Alcuin of York, Fardulf, Arno of Salzburg, Albrico, Bona, Riculph, Raefgot, Rado, Lullus, Bassinus, Fuldrad, Eginard, Adalard and Adelbert.


Bona Espero

Esperantists at Bona Espero protect and educate orphans and children of low socio-economic status.

Bona of Savoy

In the first encounter Bona and her chief counsellor, Cicco Simonetta, were victorious, and Ludovico and his brothers were made to leave the city.

Bona of Savoy commissioned the Sforza Book of Hours manuscript, which was painted in about 1490 by a famous court artist, Giovan Pietro Birago.

Bona Sforza

In 1539 Bona Sforza had presided, reluctantly, over the burning of 80-year old Katarzyna Weiglowa for heresy, but this event ushered in an era of tolerance, and her confessor Francesco Lismanino assisted in the establishment of a Calvinist Academy in Pińczów.

Bona Thompson Memorial Center

The Bona Thompson Memorial Center, formerly the Bona Thompson Memorial LIbrary, is a historic building on the original Butler University campus in the Irvington Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Erlewine praised the fact that Lambert was Nashville Stars first "bona fide star the televised music competition has produced."

Dawson City Nuggets

The team had only one bona-fide player, ex-Ottawa star Weldy Young, but he was unable to make it to Ottawa in time, delayed in Dawson City as an election official.

Ernest Martin Jehan

While sailing off the coast of Great Yarmouth on 14 August 1915, Gunner Jehan received news that a merchant ship, the Bona Fide, of 59 tons, had been stopped by the German submarine UB-4 and subsequently scuttled with explosives by a boarding party.

Farina bona

Farina bòna or farina sec'a is a traditional product from Valle Onsernone in Switzerland.

The written and verbal testimonies certify the production of farina bòna in Vergeletto.

Flower Alley

He was bred at Bona Terra Farms by George Brunacini, who was killed in the August 27, 2006, crash of Comair Flight 5191 at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.

Gonzo journalism

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with "telling it like it is", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham—in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Grace Mugabe

Early reports indicated Bona Mugabe was a student at the University of Hong Kong.

Green terror

Although bona fide infectious diseases such as Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ick) do not spontaneously appear due to overcrowding itself, a disease-state results from elevated nitrates.

Hairdresser on Fire

The opening track for Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker is a recording of an argument between Adams and David Rawlings over the inclusion of Suedehead, the A-side of this track, on Bona Drag.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

John Dale Ryan

Ryan's tenure as commander of PACAF and Air Force Chief of Staff also engendered controversy when he was described as one of a group that helped destroy General Jack Lavelle's career after Lavelle gave fighter pilots permission to shoot back at bona fide threats, something previously denied them by rules of engagement.

Marian litany

The earliest known genuine text of a Marian litany is in a 12th-century codex in the Mainz Library, with the title Letania de domina nostra Dei genitrice virgine Maria: oratio valde bona: cottidie pro quacumque tribulatione recitanda est.

Putzeysia wiseri

This species is distributed in the Mediterranean Sea (found off the Gulf of Bona, Algiers) and in the Bay of Biscay.

Singapore International School, Indonesia

The main school is located in Bona Vista, Lebak Bulus and it has seven branches around Indonesia, namely in Kelapa Gading, Kebon Jeruk, Pantai Indah Kapuk (Jakarta), Medan, Cilegon, Semarang, Palembang and Bandung.

Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi

In 2007 she won the Leonardo di Bona-Memorial in Cutro (Crotone).


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