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10 unusual facts about CENTO


Aroldo Bonzagni

Aroldo Bonzagni (24 September 1887 – 30 December 1918) was a painter, draftsman and illustrator born in Cento, Italy.

Benedetto Gennari

He adopted a style influenced by Caravaggio, and by age 19, was working in the household of Mirandola in Cento.

Giuseppe Branzoli

Giuseppe Branzoli (born Cento 1835, died in Rome January 21, 1909) was a violinist, mandolinist, composer, author, educator at the Liceo Musicale di St. Cecilia in Rome, and the founder of the periodical IL mandolin Romano.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

Marcello Provenzale

He was a pupil of the fellow painter from Cento, Paolo Rossetti, but is chiefly distinguished for his talents as a mosaicist.

Metodija Andonov-Čento

The following year, he imposed the use of the Macedonian language in school lectures and was therefore imprisoned at Bajina Bašta and sentenced to death by the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for advocating the use of a language other than Serbo-Croatian.

At the 1938 Yugoslav elections, he was elected deputy but not a Member of Parliament because of a manipulation with the electoral system.

Nathan ben Eliezer ha-Me'ati

His native place seems to have been Cento, hence his name "Me'ati," which is the Hebrew equivalent of "Cento" (= 100).

S.P. Reno Centese A.S.D.

Società Polisportiva Reno Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettante is an Italian association football club from Reno Centese, frazione of Cento, Emilia-Romagna.

U.S. Centese A.S.D. 1986

Unione Sportiva Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica 1986 is an Italian association football club located in Cento, Emilia-Romagna.


1960 Turkish coup d'état

As such, he explicitly stated faith and allegiance to NATO and CENTO in his short address to nation, yet remained vague as for the reasons of the coup.

Bahman Sholevar

He studied Medicine at the University of Tehran, but left his studies before receiving his MD degree to accept a diplomatic post in Turkey, as the Economic Secretary of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).

Carlo Francesco Dotti

he was also known for the arch of Meloncello (1721), the altar of Ivo of Kermartin in San Petronio Basilica and the Renazzo parish church, in Cento, Province of Ferrara.

Castello d'Argile

Castello d'Argile borders the following municipalities: Argelato, Cento, Pieve di Cento, Sala Bolognese, San Giorgio di Piano, San Giovanni in Persiceto, San Pietro in Casale.

Central Treaty Organization

Google News reprints of the Virgin Islands Daily News (Feb 17, 1979) and the Los Angeles Times (Feb 15, 1979) indicate that with the withdrawal of Iran, the secretary-general of CENTO, a Turkish diplomat, called a meeting of the pact's council in order to formally dissolve the organization.

Hosidius Geta

Philip Hardie, "Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento," in Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner (eds), Severan culture (Cambridge, CUP, 2007).

Morelli

Dodici Morelli, sometimes called XII Morelli, municipality of Cento in the Province of Ferrara, Italy

One Hundred Steps

The Modena City Ramblers have recorded a song titled "I cento passi", which contains samples from the movie.

San Giovanni in Persiceto

In the Persiceto we can pinpoint samples of early rural industry: for centuries the inhabitants of the Persiceto cultivated hemp, but then not only the local production (together with cloth machining) flowed to the weekly market, but also the hemp coming from other places (such as for instance Cento and Crevalcore), so that its trade was included in the announcements.

Located in north of its province, near the borders with the ones of Modena and Ferrara, San Giovanni in Persiceto is surrounded by the municipalities of Anzola dell'Emilia, Castelfranco Emilia (MO), Castello d'Argile, Cento (FE), Crevalcore, Sala Bolognese and Sant'Agata Bolognese.

Stefano Satta Flores

He also appeared in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (Kotcheff, 1978), The Terrace (La terrazza, Scola, 1980) and One Hundred Days in Palermo (Cento giorni a Palermo, Tornatore, 1984), playing a variety of roles in more than 60 films,

Tony Sperandeo

In 2001, Sperandeo won the David di Donatello award for Best Supporting Actor in "I cento passi" ("One Hundred Steps"), directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, in which he played the role of Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.