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5 unusual facts about Maffei


DRG Class E 77

The engines were delivered by BMAG, Krauss and LHW and had originally still held the State Railways' Class EG 3 title with numbers 22 001 through 031 (Bavarian) or EG 701 to 725 (Prussian).

Jean Garet

It does not contain the Complexiones, a work discovered later by Maffei.

Krauss-Maffei

In 2011, a planned deal to sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia during the time of the Arab Spring caused widespread criticism.

Marcantonio Maffei

He was elected Archbishop of Chieti on July 14, 1553; he succeeded his brother Barnardino Maffei as archbishop.

Risten-Lakviks Museum Railway

the locomotive - Maffei works No. 4127 of 1925 - and became RLJ 3, "Lakvik".


Damian Maffei

Although a lifelong resident of New York, Maffei is unequivocally a more-than-enthusiastic fan of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Fennek

The Fennek, named after the fennec (a species of small desert fox), or LGS Fennek, with LGS being short for Leichter Gepanzerter Spähwagen in German (Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle), is a four wheeled armed reconnaissance vehicle produced by the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Dutch Defence Vehicle Systems.

Francesco Maffei

The Maffei family is of ancient German origin and, more precisely, in the 8th century A.D. derived from the Germanic tribe of the Franks.

Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter

His plays, of which Merope (1774), an adaptation in blank verse of the tragedies of Maffei and Voltaire, and Medea (1775), a melodrama, are best known, were mostly based on French originals and had considerable influence in counteracting the formlessness and irregularity of the Sturm und Drang drama.

Gaetana Goldóni Andolfati

She was celebrated in a number of different roles including Merope in a play by Maffei, and in various heroine roles of Alfieri plays.

George Krauss

After completing his education he worked temporarily in the Maffei Locomotive Works in Munich, then for the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) in Hof, Germany, Kempten and Lindau.

Maranello

Its new library opened in November 2011, and was designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei.

Massimo d'Azeglio

There he remained for twelve years, moving in the literary and artistic circles of the city and in 1834 helping to organise the "Salotto Maffei" salon there, hosted by Clara Maffei.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

After it appeared he might run unopposed in the general election, on April 2 Republican Dale Sweetland, coming off a narrowly unsuccessful September 2007 bid for Onondaga County Executive, announced he'd oppose Maffei.

Pazzi

A Tabernacle for the Sun (2005), the first volume of Linda Proud's Botticelli Trilogy, tells the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy from the point of view of Tommaso de' Maffei, half-brother of one of the conspirators.

Viktor Sidyak

In 1994, Maffei's 1972 team-mate Mario Aldo Montano invited Sidyak to coach the young fencers, including his own son, at his club in Livorno.


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