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unusual facts about Castel Sant'Elmo


Castel Sant'Elmo

Castel Sant'Erasmo acquired its hexagonal star shape between 1537 and 1547 under the designs of Pedro Luis Escriva from Valencia, a military architect.


Beth Kobliner

Kobliner served as an advisor for Sesame Street's financial education initiative, and appeared in an outreach video with the character Elmo.

Beverly Hills Brats

Scooter devises a plan to fake his own kidnapping to get his parents' attention and enlists the help of two bumbling crooks, Clive (Young) and Elmo (Kirby).

Castel Sant'Angelo

The fortress was the refuge of Pope Clement VII from the siege of Charles V's Landsknechte during the Sack of Rome (1527), in which Benvenuto Cellini describes strolling the ramparts and shooting enemy soldiers.

Montelupo's statue was replaced by a bronze statue of the same subject, executed by the Flemish sculptor Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, in 1753.

Disembowelment

Catholic tradition states that Erasmus of Formiae, also known as Saint Elmo, was finally executed by disembowelment in about A.D. 303, after he had suffered extreme forms of torture during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian and Maximian.

Elmore James

He also influenced many rock guitarists such as The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones (Keith Richards wrote in his book that at the time he met Brian Jones, Brian called himself Elmo Lewis, and that he wanted to be Elmore James), Canned Heat's Alan Wilson and in particular Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer.

Giovanni Battista Savelli

In the controversy with the Orsinis, he was accused of treason by Pope Sixtus IV and was held in Castel Sant'Angelo together with Cardinal Giovanni Colonna.

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

According to Brooks, he played the song while sitting in with Elmo and Patsy at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in December 1978, and after the show they had him make a cassette of the song for them to learn.

Habitual be

To be singing in this example means to sing habitually, not to be singing right now. In one experiment, children were shown drawings of Elmo eating cookies while Cookie Monster looked on.

House of Anguillara

His son Francesco inherited his fame of tyranny and unloyalty: he was excommunicated and imprisoned i Castel Sant'Angelo, while all the family's possession were acquired by the Apostolic Chamber under Pope Paul II.

Meganeuropsis

Meganeuropsis permiana described in 1937 from Elmo, Kansas.

Paolo Antonio Soderini

In Rome he established himself in a house and garden close to Castel Sant'Angelo, where he undertook some informal excavations and assembled a notable collection of antiquities, including Roman sculpture (including the Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus that passed from his heir to the Medici and can be seen today in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence) and inscriptions.

Papal election, 1061

Alexander II excommunicated Honorius II in 1063, but after a counter-synod Honorius II was able to establish himself in Castel Sant'Angelo and wage war against Alexander II for another year before fleeing again to Parma.

Pedro Luis de Borja

In the spring of 1456 he was named Captain-General of the Church and castellan of Sant'Angelo, in the autumn of the same year Pope made him Governor of Terni, Narni, Todi, Rieti, Orvieto, Spoleto, Foligno, Nocera, Assisi, Amelia, Civita Castellana, and Nepi, and at the beginning of 1457 the governorships of the provinces of Patrimony and Tuscany were added to these.

Picabo Street

She appeared in a skit on Sesame Street, where Elmo was looking for Peekaboo Street and he met the real Picabo Street.

Professor Kool

After Professor Kool went off the air, Stu Kerr was on a show called Caboose, which featured a young puppeteer named Kevin Clash, better known today as the man behind Elmo.

St Elmo Courts

St Elmo Courts was a residential high rise building constructed in 1930 in the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand.

St. Elmo Historic District

Elmo Historic District, St. Elmo, Colorado, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed ghost town district that makes up part or all of St. Elmo, Colorado

Tickle Me Elmo

In the South Park episode Black Friday, a commercial is seen for a parody of Tickle Me Elmo called "Stop Touching Me Elmo".

Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association

In 1978 teachers were represented by three unions: the Public Services Association (PSA), led by James Manswell, the Trinidad and Tobago Teachers’ Union, (TTTU), whose leader was St. Elmo Gopaul; and the Secondary School Teachers Association (SSTA) headed by Osmond Downer and which represented teachers in the so-called “prestige” schools in the country.

Victor DiNapoli

Production Designer on Shalom Sesame (1987), The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1994), Elmo Saves Christmas (1996), Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby (2003), and Sesame Street (2005 - 2007)


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