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2 unusual facts about Riva


Richard Dalla-Riva

He worked in a number of areas associated with financial crime, including the major fraud and asset recovery squads, and also spent time working for the National Crime Authority.

RIVA

RIVA was a series of Nvidia graphics accelerator cards.


Aquarama

Riva Aquarama, a speedboat model built by Italian yachtbuilder Riva.

Carlos Mauricio Valenti Perrillat

Valenti was part of a group of artists, poets, and writers like Carlos Wyld Ospina, Rafael Rodríguez Padilla, Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Rafael Yela Günther, the De la Riva siblings and Carlos Mérida, who worked very closely with Jaime Sabartés, Catalonian who came to Guatemala from Barcelona, who held a close friendship with Pablo Picasso, and worked as his private secretary since 1935.

Columbia Yachts

Valdes and Threinen sold the company to Whittaker (listed on the NYSE), but Valdes continued as president of the subsidiary Columbia Yacht Corporation, and helped to develop Whittaker Marine Group, which ultimately included Bertram Yachts, Trojan Yachts, Riva, Desco Marine, Kettenburg, Balboa Marine, and Coronado Yachts.

Diana-Maria Riva

Riva starred as Lieutenant Ana Ruiz in the 2010 FOX series The Good Guys as the boss of detectives Dan Stark (West Wing/Studio 60 alum Bradley Whitford) and Jack Bailey (Colin Hanks) in the Dallas Police Department.

Douglas Riva

Receiving a grant from the Beebe Fund, Riva went to Barcelona in 1980, where he studied at the Academia Marshall, founded by Enrique Granados.

A specialist in the music of Granados, Riva is the Assistant Director of the 18 volume critical edition of the Complete Works for Piano of Enrique Granados, directed by Alicia de Larrocha and published by Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, 2001, which is the first complete catalog of the composer's works for piano.

As a recording artist, Riva focuses on Spanish music, and has begun a series of the complete piano works of Granados for the Naxos label.

Enrico Lombardi

The Italian critics and writers Marco Goldin, Michael Loffredo, Nicola Micieli, Claudio Spadoni, Marco Di Capua, Alessandro Riva, Vittorio Sgarbi and Chiara Canali have dedicated him essays and texts.

Fatu-liva

"Fatu-liva" is a theoretically possible transcription of terms like fatu riva ("encircled rock") in some Polynesian languages.

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim

It was his long and heroic defence of the post of Riva on the Lake of Garda which first brought him conspicuously to the front.

José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma

In 1919 Riva-Agüero left for an extended stay in Europe and whilst there he came into contact with the works of radical Catholic rightist authors such as Jacques Bainville and Charles Maurras and soon became a disciple of their ideas.

Riva-Agüero, a descendant of José de la Riva Agüero, studied at the National University of San Marcos and the University of Lima where he completed his PhD, before returning to San Marcos as Professor of History.

Lada Riva

The Riva was still selling well in the United Kingdom and many other western markets in the early 1990s, but the next few years saw a raft of new models come from budget competitors such as Daewoo, Hyundai, Kia and Proton, pushing Lada sales into terminal decline.

Naëla

Thanks to the success in her music career, Naëla was nominated for second in the Shock Award in Colombia to Best New Solo Artist with her single Esta Noche Mando Yo competing with La Bermúdez, Duina del Mar, Rakel and Riva.

Queer Cultural Center

The original directors were: Freddie Niem, Osa Hidalgo-de la Riva, Rudy Lemcke, Lenore Chinn, Greg Day, Pam Peniston, Adrienne Fuzee, Jeff Jones, Blackberri and Carol Stuart.

RIVA 128

In addition, because RIVA 128 can render at resolutions higher than 640x480, the card can offer quality superior to that of Voodoo Graphics, as shown in the above Quake II screenshot.

Riva Valdobbia

Riva Valdobbia borders the following municipalities: Alagna Valsesia, Campertogno, Gressoney-La-Trinité, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Mollia, Rassa, and Rima San Giuseppe.

Scipione Riva-Rocci

Scipione Riva-Rocci (7 August 1863 in Almese, Piedmont – 15 March 1937 in Rapallo) was an Italian internist and pediatrician who was a native of Almese.

The Red Horse

The novel begins in late Spring 1940 in the town of Nomana (a literary depiction of Corti's hometown Besana in Brianza) where the inhabitants live on agriculture, farming, or work in the textile mill owned by the local industrialist Gerardo Riva, Ambrogio's father.

Similarly to Manzoni, Corti mixes fictional individual stories with actual history, going as far as inserting real characters in the plot: for example Father Carlo Gnocchi, Nilde Iotti, Agostino Gemelli, Corti's brother Piero (partly recognizable in Pino Riva).

Viva Riva!

Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra.

Wissam Constantin

Born in Maghdouché, South of Lebanon on August 1, 1986, Wissam is the eldest child of Nadim Constantin and Riva Hayek.


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