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4 unusual facts about Nola


Hanno the Elder

Hanno received the reinforcements landed by Bomilcar, the leading Carthaginian admiral, consisting of 4,000 cavalry and 40 elephants, near Locri and joined Hannibal near Nola later that year.

Meganola brunellus

Poole transferred brunellus to Nola in 1989, but the male genitalia are atypical of this genus.

Nola-Croce del Papa

The discovery of two bodies which had been caught by the Pyroclastic flow as they were fleeing a Volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius led archaeologists to find the lost settlement.

Painter of Nicosia Olpe

Twelve of the forty-five vases where found in different parts of Italy such as Etruria, Capua, Nola, Taranto and South Italy as well.


1510s in music

probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)

Anjanette Comer

Born in Dawson, Texas, to Rufus Franklin and Nola (Dell) Comer, her first major television credit was a guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Gunsmoke, followed by roles in several other dramatic series of the 1960s, such as Dr. Kildare and Bonanza.

Carole Skinner

After a short, but gory reign of terror, Nola was killed by Bea Smith with a zip gun.

Giovanni da Nola

When the viceroy Ramón de Cardona died in Naples in 1522, da Nola built his tomb in Naples, but it was then transported piece by piece to Bellpuig where da Cardona was buried.

Glenn Corbett

In 1977, Glenn joined the cast of the NBC daytime soap opera, The Doctors, playing alongside four-time Emmy winning actress Kim Zimmer, as newlyweds Jason and Nola Aldrich.

Maeve Kinkead

Memorable scenes from this storyline included a public fight at the Civil War-themed Antebellum Ball, in which Vanessa and Nola showed up in the same dress.

Nola Fraser

Nola Therese Fraser (née Chalhoub) is an Australian small business owner, former nurse and former Liberal candidate on two occasions for the seat of Macquarie Fields.

Nola Randall-Mohk

Randall-Mohk was presented with the NSW Lifetime Achievement in Community Service Award by John Hatzistergos, Attorney General and Minister for Citizenship and Peter Primrose, Minister for Volunteering, acknowledging Nola's commitment to meeting the educational needs of disadvantaged adults and their access to suitable vocational opportunities.

White rhinoceros

They are a female named Nola (b. 1974, on loan from 1989 from ZOO Dvůr Králové) and a male named Angalifu (b. 1974, on loan from 1990 from Khartoum Zoo in Khartoum).


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