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4 unusual facts about Isola


A.C. Ponte San Pietro Isola S.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Ponte San Pietro Isola Società Sportiva Dilettantistica (usually referred to as Pontisola) is an Italian association football club located in Ponte San Pietro and also representing the towns of Terno d'Isola and Chignolo d'Isola, Lombardy.

Isola, Alpes-Maritimes

Since April 2010, Isola has been officially twinned with Castiglione di Garfagnana.

Joan Francés Fulcònis

Joan Francés Fulcònis (in classical Occitan; Johan Frances Fulconis as written in his original edition) was a mathematician born in Lieusola (today and in French Isola) ca 1520 and who lived in Nice.

Salvatore Dell'Isola

His other Broadway musicals were South Pacific (1949); Me and Juliet (1953); On Your Toes (1954 revival); Ankles Aweigh (1955); Pipe Dream (1955), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director; and Flower Drum Song, (1958), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director.


Antonio Cabrini

Later on 2008, he briefly contested the Italian TV reality show L'Isola dei Famosi (localized version of Celebrity Survivor).

Calendula maritima

Calendula maritima, the Sea Marigold, occurs only on the Sicilian coast: on the island mainland between Marsala and the Monte Cofano; and on the two nearby islets Isola Grande dello Stagnone and Isola La Formica, in the Province of Trapani.

Cardinals created by Leo X

# Egidio di Viterbo, O.S.A., Master General of the Order of Saint Augustine– cardinal-priest of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola (received the title on 6 July 1517), then cardinal-priest of S. Matteo in Merulana (10 July 1517), cardinal-priest of S. Marcello (9 May 1530), † 12 November 1532

Fort Saint Michael

The fort was built by the Order of Saint John after the 1551 attack, on the peninsula then known as Isola di San Michele formed by Dockyard Creek and French Creek in Grand Harbour.

Gabriella Tucci

Tucci made only two commercial recordings, Pagliacci in 1959, opposite Mario del Monaco, and Il trovatore in 1964, opposite Franco Corelli, but can be heard in a number of "live" performances, including Cherubini's Medea and Donizetti's Il Furioso al Isola di Santo Domingo.

Isola Sant'Antonio

Isola Sant'Antonio borders the following municipalities: Alluvioni Cambiò, Alzano Scrivia, Bassignana, Casei Gerola, Castelnuovo Scrivia, Cornale, Gambarana, Guazzora, Mezzana Bigli, Molino dei Torti, Pieve del Cairo, and Sale.

Luca Dirisio

In the videoclip of "L'Isola degli Sfigati", Luca makes fun of the RAI show L'Isola dei Famosi, the Italian version of CBS show Survivor.

Macrostomum lignano

To date, M. lignano has only been found in locations near Lignano Sabbiadoro (Italy): tidal lagoons on the eastern side of Bibione and the Isola di Martignano, natural and semi-natural beaches of the Laguna di Marano and the Isola Valle Vechia.

Maija Isola

Lesley Jackson, in the aptly titled chapter Op, Pop, and Psychedelia in her textbook Twentieth Century Pattern Design, writes that "from Finland the exuberant all-conquering Marimekko burst on to the international scene" in the 1960s; she illustrates this with one pattern by Vuokko Nurmesniemi, and three by Isola – Lokki, Melooni, and inevitably Unikko.

Marion Hume, writing in Time Magazine, explains that Isola "was able to mastermind an astonishing range, from the intricate and folkloric Ananas (1962)—which remains one of the most popular prints for the home market—to the radically simple, dramatically enlarged, asymmetrical Unikko poppy (1964), originally in red and in blue, which may be one of the most widely recognized prints on earth.".

Ouvrage Rimplas

Rimplas took a small part in France's resistance to the Italian invasion of France in June 1940 against the Italian Livorno Division, which crossed the frontier at Isola.

Paolo Cucco

He was one of the producer of "L'Isola dei Famosi" 3 (Celebrity Survivor), Musicfarm 2 and 3, and Amici di Maria De Filippi 6.

Ritratti

There are several literary references throughout the album,especially in "Odysseus", which references the Odyssey, the Canto 27 of Dante's Inferno, and "L'isola Petrosa", a poem by Foscolo.

Saint Julius

Julius of Novara (died 390), after whom the Isola San Giulio is named

Sarafa Tunji Ishola

Isola was among Ogun State leaders who fell out with the state governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

Seafolly

Seafolly also has a joint venture with Megan Gale for her own-designed swimwear brand, Isola by Megan Gale.

Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso

Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso (Telemachus on Calypso's Island) is an opera by composer Fernando Sor.


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