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14 unusual facts about Pontecorvo


Antonio Lamberto Rusconi

He served as a relator of the S.C. of Good Government from 1775 and as such, he visited several localities of the Papal States in the provinces of Sabina, Marittima e Campagna, Benevento and Pontecorvo.

Armando Pontone

Armando Pontone (born 3 July 1992 in Pontecorvo) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

Bernardo Tanucci

Pope Clement XIII responded with excommunication, whereupon Tanucci occupied the monasteries at Benevento and Pontecorvo, which were not returned to the Roman Church until after the general dissolution of the Society of Jesus in 1773.

Castrocielo

Castrocielo borders the following municipalities: Aquino, Colle San Magno, Piedimonte San Germano, Pontecorvo, Roccasecca.

Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

His election however, was reconsidered and withdrawn two weeks later and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, was elected instead.

Geoffrey Ridel, Duke of Gaeta

Electing their own civil government, they expelled Geoffrey, who continued to rule the country side as duke from his castle at Pontecorvo.

Gualganus Ridel

His reign marked a political separation between Gaeta the city and Pontecorvo, a massive rural castle where the Ridells resided.

John III of Gaeta

On 15 October, Otto granted him the castle of Pontecorvo in recognition of his loyalty (he seems to have become a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire) and his participation in Otto's campaigns against Naples and Capua.

Luca Brandolini

Luca Brandolini, CM (born 25 December 1933) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who currently serves as Bishop of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo.

Brandolini was later named President of the Italian Episcopal Conference's Commission for Liturgy in May 1993, and Bishop of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo on 2 September 1993.

Pope Clement XIII

The Bourbon Kings espoused their relative's quarrel, seized Avignon, Benevento and Pontecorvo, and united in a peremptory demand for the total suppression of the Jesuits (January 1769).

Prince Murat

On the 5 December 1812 Joachim's second son Lucien was also created sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo (of an enclave in the Kingdom of Naples), in succession to Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte by an Imperial Decree.

Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark

In 1810 she worked actively to stop the Duke's attempts to be chosen as successor to the Swedish throne, which were linked with the duke's younger brother Charles August of Augustenburg becoming chosen by Swedes and then dying, after which Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, got elected.

San Giovanni Incarico

San Giovanni Incarico borders the following municipalities: Arce, Ceprano, Colfelice, Falvaterra, Pastena, Pico, Pontecorvo, Roccasecca.


Lev Vasilevsky

Vasilevsky provided Pontecorvo with an escape route through Finland which Pontecorvo used in 1950 after the arrest of Klaus Fuchs.

Marco Pontecorvo

Marco Pontecorvo was initially interested in black and white photography, but eventually became a cinematographer like his father Gillo Pontecorvo.

Solar neutrino problem

However, in 1968 Pontecorvo proposed that if neutrinos had mass, then they could change from one type to another.

Unidentified Black Males

Eugene Pontecorvo asks Finn who would win a boxing fight, Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali if both were in their prime to which Finn is afraid to answer to not anger Eugene and cause another one of his violent outbursts.