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4 unusual facts about Castellaneta


Castellaneta

The Rudolph Valentino Museum with exhibits on the life of the famous movie star including movie posters, the bed he slept in as a child in Castellaneta and a reconstruction of a set from the movie "The Son of the Sheik" with the tent used in the film.

The ancestors of Dan Castellaneta, an actor/voice actor best known for his work on The Simpsons, were from the city.

George F. Hopkinson

Fighting was fierce against a strong German rearguard, which set up a number of ambushes and roadblocks to deter the division; one such roadblock was set up near the town of Castellaneta and defended by a unit of Fallschirmjaeger.

Michael Maurex

In 1066, according to the Breve chronicon Northmannicum, Maurex (Mambrica/Mambrita) commanded a fleet that stopped an attempted invasion of the Balkans by Count Geoffrey of Taranto, and in the next year, at the head of a Byzantine army he landed in Apulia and took Bari, Taranto and Castellaneta from the Normans.


Diego's Hair Salon

Diego's customers have included Supreme Court Justices Warren E. Burger and William Rehnquist, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former British Prime Minister John Major, Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl, Apostolic Nuncio Pietro Sambi, former Italian ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and members of the D.C. Council.

I Am Not Homer

She did, however, praise the final track "So Dumb", which features Castellaneta singing a song as his main characters from The Simpsons, Homer, Krusty the Clown, Abraham Simpson, Barney Gumble and Groundskeeper Willie.

Kodos

Kodos, a fictional green one-eyed alien of in The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta.


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