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7 unusual facts about Loreto


Francesco Antonozzi

Francesco Antonozzi (Osimo or Loreto, Province of Ancona, 1685 - Rome, 1741) was an Italian painter, depicting religious topics, figures, and landscape.

Giovanni Battista Cavagna

He had been the architect of San Pietro in Valle, Fano and of the Sanctuary at Loreto.

House of Frankopan

In 1294 Nikola Frankopan, gave the Holy House to the Pope to be placed on Papal lands, at Loreto, near Ancona.

Loreto, Marche

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale (formerly the Palazzo Apostolico), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Annibale Carracci as well as a collection of maiolica, and the Shrine of the Holy House (Santuario della Santa Casa).

Lorette

Loreto, Marche, a hill town and commune in Ancona, Italy, called Lorette in French

Loretto

Many are traditional all-girls schools run by the Sisters of Loreto

Sisters of Loreto: formally called the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary


1995 Pacific hurricane season

Officials issued a tropical storm watch and later a warning for Baja California Sur south of La Paz, which was later extended from Loreto on the east coast to San Juanico on the west coast.

2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship

At the inter-provincial stages of the 2010 competition Blackwater CS, Lismore beat Portumna Community School 3-5 to 0-3 and Loreto, Kilkenny beat St. Patrick's College, Maghera 2-11 to 3-07 in the semi-finals.

Alberto Pizango

In response, the government declared a state of emergency in the departments of Cusco, Loreto and Amazonas, a move that gave it the power to send in the army to forcibly remove and arrest the protesters.

Amazonic Spanish

Amazonic Spanish (español amazónico), also known as Loreto-Ucayali Spanish or Jungle Spanish (español de la selva), is a variety of Spanish spoken in the Amazon, especially in the Peruvian Amazon provinces of Loreto and Ucayali.

Andrea Basili

Andrea Basili (Città della Pieve, 16 December 1705 – Loreto, 28 August 1777), was an Italian composer and music theorist.

Anthony Terill

After his noviceship, he was successively penitentiary at Loreto, professor of philosophy at Florence, professor of philosophy and scholastic theology at Parma, director of theological studies and professor of theology and mathematics at the English College, Liège, and for three years rector of the same college where he died with a reputation for "extraordinary piety, talent, learning, and prudence".

Armoured Forces Training Centre

Field Marshal Alexander, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre, inspected the marching troops of the Division on the fields of Loreto airfield and said "if I were to select the best unit commanded by me, I would choose you".

Cedrelinga cateniformis

It is present in Tapiche Ohara's Reserve, a reserve located in Tapiche District, Requena Province, Loreto Region in Peru.

Curepipe

Some of them include Curepipe College, Mauritius College, St. Joseph's College, Loreto College Curepipe and the Royal College Curepipe (see List of secondary schools).

Dante Di Loreto

Prior to joining Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk to create Glee, Di Loreto produced several shows for cable and broadcast television as well as a selection of films.

Dietrichstein tomb

The construction of the Loreto Church was carried out according to the plans by Giovanni Giacomo Tencalla, the Italian architect who constructed the chateaus in Lednice and Valtice for the Liechtensteins.

Dinoponera longipes

Dinoponera longipes have been collected in eastern Peru in the departments of Loreto, Amazonas, Huánuco, San Martín and Pasco, as well as Ecuador in the province of Pastaza.

Giovanni Ferretti

Between 1580 and 1582 he was at Loreto; from 1586 to 1588 at Gemona; in 1589 at Cividale del Friuli; and in 1596 he is recorded as being at Loreto again, this time as maestro di cappella at Santa Casa, a position he held until 1603.

Giuseppe Capponi

From 1857 he was the primo tenore in the choir of the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto, a post he held to the end of his life.

Julio Ducuron

He is of French descent' his parents, Julio Loreto Ducuron and Elsa Lebrone descended from the French Basques of Madiran in the High Pyrenees Mountains.

Kaka Bag-ao

Raised in Loreto, Surigao del Norte (now part of Dinagat Islands), Bag-ao earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the De La Salle University, and her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the Ateneo de Manila Law School.

Lincoln Borglum

He created several religious works for churches in Texas including the well-known shrine Our Lady of Loreto in Goliad, and wrote three books.

Loreto Aprutino

In the 13th century, the d'Aquino family - Lombard nobility became lords of the town, and though there are legends that Thomas of Aquinas (Tommaso d'Aquino) once took residence in Loreto, evidence of this is obscure.

Loreto Convent School, Delhi

It stems out of the Loreto community which belongs to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary commonly known as Loreto Sisters, founded internationally by English nun, at Saint-Omer in northern France.

Loreto Mandeville Hall

Olivia Wells, crowned Miss Universe Australia in June 2013, completing her Loreto education in 2012, and going on to study medicine at Monash University

Maggie O'Kane

She received secondary education at Loreto Convent, Balbriggan, County Dublin, Ireland; B.A. (Hons) in Politics and History at University College Dublin before studying at the Institut des Journalistes en Europe in Paris.

Manihot walkerae

Walker's Manihot has been collected from the Loreto caliche sand plain in Tamaulipas, where it grew alongside Asclepias prostrata, Manfreda longiflora, and Physaria thamnophila.

Marchigiano dialect

The dialect of Ancona is spoken in the region of the town of Ancona, Porto Recanati, Loreto, Osimo, Jesi, Chiaravalle and Falconara.

Only the speakers of the towns which are closer to Macerata (Osimo, Castelfidardo, Loreto, Porto Recanati) use the article lo as in Italian.

Mariański Choir

Prizes were won at festivals in Międzyzdroje, Caecilianum (2000) and in Warsaw (2004), Loretto and Gorizia in Italy, Košice, Ilava, Mogilev, and in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.

Mission Buenaventura-class transport oiler

Each of the ships was named after a mission or settlement along the El Camino Real in California, the sole exception being Mission Loreto, named for a settlement in Baja California Sur.

Moxo people

Moxeño ethnic identification derives from the combination of different pre-existing ethnic groups in this mission environment, and includes peoples associated with several different missions: Mojeño-Trinitarios (Trinidad mission), Mojeño-Loretanos (Loreto mission), Mojeño-Javerianos, and Mojeño-Ignacianos (San Ignacio de Moxos mission).

Musone

The river then flows southeast and is joined by a tributary south of Osimo before curving northeast near Loreto.

Popes during the Age of Revolution

In 1796 French Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto.

S. M. Cyril

This is often in the children's mother tongues (Bengali or Hindi), but a substantial proportion of the Rainbow students are able to integrate into the English medium Loreto Day School itself.

San Pablo District

San Pablo District, Mariscal Ramón Castilla, in Mariscal Ramón Castilla province, Loreto Region region

Sanctuary of Atotonilco

The three chapels are based on the layout of the Chapel of Loreto in Ancona, Italy.

Sanctuary of Macereto

The 'original' home of the Virgin Mary was transported first from Galilee to Dalmatia and then, in 1294 across to the bandit-infested laurel grove above Porto Recanati, hence the name 'Loreto'.

Scarlet-banded Barbet

Only discovered in 1996 and formally described in 2000, the Scarlet-banded Barbet is endemic to humid highland forest growing on a ridgetop known as Peak 1538 in the remote Cordillera Azul National Park in south-western Loreto, Peru (mistakenly listed as being in Ucayali, Peru, in its formal description).

Trenta, Bovec

A miners' church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Loreto, stands above the settlement on the way to Vršič.

Trsat

In May 1291 Mary's house in Nazareth is said to have appeared here, then mysteriously disappeared later, to be discovered in Italy, in Loreto, where it still stands today as a shrine.

Venrock

On July 19, 2013 it was announced that Daniel Loreto, engineering lead for Twitter and Google is joining Venrock as EIR.


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