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unusual facts about Leghorn


Leghorn

Livorno, an Italian port city, traditionally known in English as Leghorn


A Bone for a Bone

The Gophers (Mac and Tosh) are playing a gin game in their hole in the ground outside a house, where Tosh loses his fifth game in a row, when Geo P. Dog (otherwise known as 'The Barnyard Dawg' in the Foghorn Leghorn series) digs a hole and dumps a bone on the Gophers and then dirt as he fills the bone in.

Alexander Aubert

The appearance of the Great Comet of 1744 gave him, then a schoolboy at Geneva, a permanent bias towards astronomy; he diligently prepared, however, for a mercantile career in counting-houses at Geneva, Leghorn, and Genoa, and visited Rome in the jubilee year (1750).

Andrew Burnaby

After his return to Europe, he became Chaplain to the British mission at Leghorn in 1762.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

He had visited important counting houses in Europe in 1788 and was a friend of Filippo Filicchi, a renowned merchant in Leghorn, Italy, with whom his firm was a major trading partner.

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

Elizabeth married Fremantle in 1797, after he had rescued her and her family from Leghorn (Livorno) during the 1796 French invasion of Italy and taken them to safety in Corsica.

Italian Naval Academy

The Italian Naval Academy (Italian: Accademia Navale) is a coeducational military university in Leghorn (Livorno), which is responsible for the technical training of military officers of the Italian Navy.

Itek

Richard Leghorn was a former United States Air Force (USAF) aerial reconnaissance expert who had first proposed flying reconnaissance missions over enemy territory in peacetime.

James Newbery

Newbery was the fourth son of William Boxer Newbery, born near Livorno (Leghorn), Tuscany, Italy.

Jean de Thévenot

In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, visiting Goletta and Tunis (Tunisia) on the way, and, after a sharp engagement with Spanish corsairs, one of which fell a prize to the English merchantman, reached Leghorn (Italy) on 12 April.

John Pollexfen Bastard

In 1815 he was conveyed by the Royal Navy to Leghorn (Livorno) for his health where he died the next year and was initially buried in the Old English Cemetery in Livorno, where his monument still stands.

Joseph Castello

Joseph Castello (or Joseph Castilho) (b. ca. 1746, Leghorn, Italy) was an Italian Jewish physician, son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello.

Léopold Zborowski

Léopold Zborowski was Amedeo Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, organizing his expositions and letting the Leghorn artist use his house as an atelier.

Philip Vanbrugh

Philip Vanbrugh married Mary Griffith in Arnold, Nottinghamshire on 24 July 1715 and they had one known child, Philippia, born 1716, la belle consulesse, who married Burrington Goldsworthy of Down House, Dorset, British consul at Leghorn, Italy and later at Cadiz.

Raw! Raw! Rooster!

The opening shows Foghorn Leghorn lounging in the barnyard, being fanned and serenaded by several hens, when a telegram arrives saying that his old college roommate, Rhode Island Red, will be paying him a visit.

Richard William Church

His mother, meanwhile, was remarried to Thomas Crokat, a widowed Englishman of Leghorn.

Simeon ben Zemah Duran

# Ḥiddushe ha-Rashbaẓ, novellæ on and elucidations of Niddah, Rosh ha-Shanah, Kinnim, Leghorn, 1744.


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