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4 unusual facts about Galli


Alexander Goedicke

With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov.

Ceibo

Ceibo is Spanish for Erythrina crista-galli

Cockspur thorn

Crataegus crus-galli, a species of hawthorn native to eastern North America.

Mala Kostrevnica

The name Kostrevnica is derived from the Slovene plant name kostreva (or kostreba), referring to cockspur grass or rye brome, thus reflecting the local vegetation.


Black-throated Mango

-- the redirect to crista-galli is in error --> or Stifftia chrysantha; certain ornamental Bignoniaceae like Fountain Tree (Spathodea campanulata) seem more to this bird's liking.

Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

In this terrace, adorned with a fountain from the 1940s, some trees planted during the time of Brotero can still be seen, such as: Cryptomeria japonica, Cunninghamia sinensis and Erythrina crista-galli.

Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena

The Galli-Bibiena family derives its name from the surname and birthplace of papa Giovanni Maria Galli (1625–1665), who was born at Bibbiena (Italy) outside Florence.

Gianna Galli

In 1961 Galli created the role of Catherine in the world premiere of Roberto Rossellini's Uno sguardo dal ponte,which was based on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.

Ida Galli

This role caught the attention of Federico Fellini, who cast Galli in a small part in his 1960 film La dolce vita.

In-tango

The English version was also co-written by Daniela Galli (also known as Dhany) and Paul Sears.

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Leges regiae

It must be remembered that the fire caused by the Galli Senones in 390 or 387 BC was another reason of their disappearance.

Salyes

and by the time of Strabo some authorities considered them a "mixed race" of Galli and Ligurians (hence Celtoligyes); by others a purely Celtic people, who subjugated the Ligures in the Provincia.

Waltharius

Our knowledge of the author, Ekkehard, a monk of St. Gall, is due to a later Ekkehard, known as Ekkehard IV (d. 1060), who gives some account of him in the Casus Sancti Galli (cap. 80).


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