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unusual facts about Mondo



Alec MacKaye

Mondo James Dean, an anthology of poetry and short-fiction edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, was dedicated to MacKaye.

Black Emanuelle

Albertini's later movie, Il Mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong (1977, starring Chai Lee) was released as "Yellow Emanuelle" in some markets.

Cesare Vecellio

The crude woodcuts for book assembling contemporary fashion from across the world, De gli Habiti Antichi e Modérni di Diversi Parti di Mondo published in Venice in 1590 by Cesare as if they were his works, may in fact belong to Christopher Krieger from Nuremberg.

Columbus Breaking the Egg

The story told by Girolamo Benzoni in his Historia del Mondo Nuovo of 1565 was that at a meal several of Columbus's detractors began to comment that any number of other people could have found their way to the New World and that Columbus's feat was unremarkable because of its simplicity.

Food history

Montanari, Massimo, Il mondo in cucina (The world in the kitchen).

Gemona del Friuli

South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius trained for the European season in the town of Gemona, running on a Mondo surface track.

Godbluff

The 2005 reissue added live performances by Van der Graaf Generator of two songs from Peter Hammill's album The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974), recorded at a concert at L'Altro Mondo, Rimini, Italy.

Guglielmo Stella

He was artistic collaborator to the journal of La stampa in Venice; also along with Enrico Castelnuovo and Alessandro Pascolato, correspondent del Monde lllustré and of Tour de Monde of Paris, director of the Arte del Mondo Illustrato of Turin and spent some time in Paris.

Hoss Wright

While part of Mondo Generator, he wrote some songs for the album Dead Planet with Nick Oliveri.

Il mondo della luna

The Gotham Chamber Opera presented Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in January 2010, transforming the planetarium into an opera house using the 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA; the director was Diane Paulus.

Kaspar Capparoni

He also works in various fiction television settings, which includes: the soap operas Ricominciamo (2000, TV miniseries), Piccolo mondo antico (TV miniseries), Incantesimo 4 (2001), Elisa di Rivombrosa (2003), La caccia (2005, a TV miniseries directed by Massimo Spano, as the antagonist for Alessio Boni), and for Capri (2006, TV series) alongside actress Bianca Guaccero.

Killing for Culture

Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (1994) is the first book in the Creation Cinema series and deals with death in film and media.

Los Mustang

They also released successful versions of French hits like "Capri se acabó" (Hervé Vilard's "Capri c'est fini"), "Mi Vida" (cover of Alain Barrière hit "Ma vie"), "El Mundo" (based on Jimmy Fontana hit "Il mondo") and many songs from The Beatles.

Marc Levinthal

Levinthal's SF/horror fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines including Mondo Zombie, Eros Ex Machina and Aboriginal Science Fiction, and (with John Skipp) Dark Destiny II and III, and In the Shadow of the Gargoyle.

Marco Ponti

In 2007-2008 he teamed with Italian rockstars Jovanotti and Vasco Rossi for the documentary film La Luna di Giorno - Un ritratto in Movimento (The Moon by Day - A Portrait in Movement, edited in DVD and number one in the charts in January—March 2008) and the music video Il Mondo Che Vorrei.

Mario Di Fiorino

His study of the Italian apocalyptic cult, Gruppo del Rosario, formed the basis of his 1996 book, Se il mondo non finisce: Quando la profezia non si avvera.

Mario Torelli

with Pierre Gros Storia dell'urbanistica : il mondo romano (1988)

Mondo Bobo

Rušinović described his status in Zagreb at the time as being a "total outsider", since Mondo Bobo was his debut feature film.

Mondo Cannibale

Mondo Cannibale (also known as Cannibals, Die Blonde Gottin, White Cannibal Queen and Barbarian Goddess) is a 1980 cannibal film by prolific Spanish exploitation director Jesús Franco which starred a 17-year-old Sabrina Siani .

Mondo Kane

On New Year's Eve 2007/2008, Mondo Kane made their debut at the New Year's Eve Special Show at GIGA Television, and played three of their songs.

Mondo New York

Mondo New York examines the lives and activities of Manhattan performance artists, and features Joey Arias and Rick Aviles.

Pierre Gros

Among his best known works are his collaborative volume, with Mario Torelli, Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano (Laterza, 1988) and his two-volume treatise on Roman architecture, L'architectue Romaine Du début du IIIème siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire vol. 1 Les monuments publics; vol. 2 2. maisons, palais, villas et tombeaux (Picard, 1996–2001).

Ray Mondo

Mondo drummed for the group for nearly two years, appearing on both of their records, the "Mind Disease" single and Kangaroo Court EP.

Ronnie del Carmen

He did Batman Adventures Holiday Special with Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and others, garnering an Eisner Award Best Single Issue in 1995; Batman Black and White Volume Two for DC in 2002; Dark Horse's Aliens Mondo Pest series.

Snow White and the Seven Perverts

It runs about 11 minutes and was included in Bruno Mattei's Sesso Perverso, Mondo Violento (1982), also known as Perversione del Sesso.

Stu Harvey

Before moving to Triple J, Harvey got his start on 979fm in Melton, Victoria, hosting Mondo Bizarro, before teaming up with Nick Kocsis (aka Nick Mondo) and moving the show to 3RRR.

Tony Gatlif

A year later, Gatlif brought the world of the author J. M. G. Le Clézio (pen-name) to the screen in Mondo (1994).

Toto Cutugno

He then won in 1980 with the song "Solo noi", and subsequently finished second in six editions: in 1984 with the song "Serenata" ("Serenade"), in 1987 with "Figli" ("Sons" or "Children"), in 1988 with "Emozioni" ("Emotions"), in 1989 with the song "Le mamme" ("The Mamas"), in 1990 with Ray Charles with the song "Gli amori" ("Loves", but entitled "Good Love Gone Bad" in Charles' version) and in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song "Come noi nessuno al mondo" ("No One Else in the World Like Us").

Umberto Bindi

He is especially known for the popular song he co-wrote with Gino Paoli,Il Mio Mondo ("You're My World"), which he recorded in Italian in 1963.

Yunmen Wenyan

Yunmen's Japanese name, Ummon, was the namesake for a character which was featured prominently in Dan Simmons' acclaimed Hyperion Cantos science fiction series; Simmon's Ummon was a vastly advanced, intelligent AI from the "TechnoCore", who reveals key plot elements to the main characters, through koans and mondo (dialogue).


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