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unusual facts about Niccolò dell'Arca


Niccolò dell'Arca

The Burgundian elements in his sculpture are attributed by some art historians to his presumed participation in the triumphal arch of the Castel Nuovo in Naples during the 1450s (where he would have known the Catalan sculptor Guillem Sagrera and would be influenced by his style).


2004 Daytona 500

Of the 45 cars entered, the two who failed to qualify were Kirk Shelmerdine, driving his own #72 Ford Taurus, and ARCA veteran Andy Hillenburg in the #90 Ford Taurus, one of Junie Donlavey's final attempts at entering a Cup car.

Andy Hillenburg

Hillenburg also was a technical advisor and provided equipment for the filming of the Bollywood film Ta Ra Rum Pum, which was filmed at Rockingham and also at the ARCA race at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

Antonio Begarelli

He was born at Modena, and is said to have been instructed by Giovanni dell'Abbate, the father of the painter Niccolò.

ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series

The basic rules required the use of a tube frame racing chassis from ARCA approved builders, stock appearing fiberglass body from ARCA approved suppliers, and specification Hoosier Racing Tire.

ARCA Mobile 200

The ARCA Mobile 200 is an ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards race held at the Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama.

Arca Musarithmica

The Arca was followed by, and closely related to another Kircher invention, the Organum Mathematicum, described by Kircher's pupil, Gaspar Schott.

Blake Bjorklund

Although he failed to qualify for the season-opening Daytona and Nashville races, he bounced back with poles at Berlin and Milwaukee and earned his first career victory at Salem Speedway, passing ARCA legend Frank Kimmel with two laps to go.

Brian Johnson, Jr.

In 2008 he competed on a part-time basis in the ARCA West Series racing in three events, posting a win at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway along with two top fives and two top tens as well as one pole.

Brian Keselowski

In 2007, he ran a career-high 12 races in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, splitting time with his family team and the #5 Lucas Oil Pontiac for Bobby Gerhart.

Cedar Lake Speedway

Two of which are World of Outlaws Sprint car racing Champion Donny Schatz,WDRL driver Brady Smith and currect ARCA REMAX, and part time Nascar Nationwide Series driver Steve Arpin.

Charlie Glotzbach

Charles "Charlie" Glotzbach (born June 19, 1938 in Edwardsville, Indiana) is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.

Driver development program

It is widely used in both Formula One (primarily by Red Bull Racing and Renault) and NASCAR, usually consisting of a team signing a driver to a multi-year contract in which they run in minor-league racing divisions (such as the Formula 3 Euro Series & GP2 in Europe, and Late models & ARCA in stock car racing) and gradually work up to the highest levels of motorsport.

Edifício Copan

A short story collection entitled Arca sem Noé - Histórias do Edifício Copan, by Brazilian author Regina Rheda, was published in Portuguese in 1994 and won the 1995 Jabuti prize in Brazil.

Evoor Major Sri krishnaswamy temple

When Arjuna and Krishna arrived at Khandava forest Kanva Maharishi approached them with a request to spare his Arca moorthy(a four handed idol of Vishnu) Krishna grand the request.

German submarine U-196

Oberleutnant Dr. Ing. Heinz Haake of U-196 is buried in a graveyard at Bogor, Java with members of the World War I German East Asia Squadron at Arca Domas, on the slopes of Mount Pangrango, Java.

Grant Enfinger

Moving to Allgaier Motorsports for 2011, Enfinger competed in his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, winning one pole at Berlin Raceway and finishing fourth in series standings at the conclusion of the 2011 season.

Hoosier Racing Tire

The company was founded in 1958, and has since provided tires for use in series sanctioned by IHRA, ARCA, CRA, NASCAR, IMCA, WISSOTA, SCCA, AIS, and Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.

IAR 111

ARCA kept work on the project secret and decided to reveal it to the public in a press conference that took place at BRD headquarters in Bucharest on December 2010.

James Hylton

Hylton was planning on qualifying his #48 car sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans for the ARCA race at Rockingham on April 19, 2009.

Kieran Dynes

Kieran Dynes, born in Clonmore Dungannon, Northern Ireland, is a race car driver currently competing in the European Late model(NASCAR) series, he has also raced in the NASCAR nationwide series and the ARCA remax series in the United States.

L'arca di Noè

L'arca di Noè (Italian for "Noah's Ark") is an album by the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato.

Lowestoft College

Miss C. Musson MBE ATD ARCA was appointed first as head of the Lowestoft School of Art and later also as Principal of the Technical Institute and School of Navigation.

Mike Harper

Mike has interviewed many ARCA and NASCAR stars, television executives/personalities from ESPN, Fox Sports and Speed Channel, and national personalities like wrestler/movie star Bill Goldberg and Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks.

MRD Motorsports

MRD fielded another ARCA driver, this time Rookie of the Year Blake Bjorklund for 12 races in a driver development partnership with NEXTEL Cup team Haas CNC Racing.

Niccolò dell'Abbate

Within two years of his arrival he was drawing a project for a decor commemorating Anne de Montmorency (preparatory drawing at the Louvre).

O Pino

On its path from Arzúa to Santiago de Compostela, The French Way of the Way of St. James in turn passes through the parroquias of Ferreiros, Cerceda, Arca, Pereira and Castrofeito.

Shawna Robinson

She also became the first woman in ARCA history to lead a race when she led several laps at Toledo Speedway.

Stuart Kirby

He raced for Jimmy Spencer in Busch and Trucks, and had a lot of success in ARCA Racing, where he got his first career pole driving a car with the American Boy Scouts logo.

Theatrum Chemicum

Johannes Grasseus alias Chortalasseus, Arca arcani artificiosissimi de summis naturae mysteriis. Constructa ex rustico majore et minore, et physica naturalis rotunda visionem cabalisticum chemicam descripta, quibus accessit appendix anonymi cuiusdam philosophi de via ad aurum potabile perveniendi

Yuri Ahronovitch

In Italy Yuri Ahronovitch was awarded the prize "Arca d'Oro 1991" by the leading Italian newspaper La Stampa and the University of Turin.


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