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unusual facts about Roma, Lesotho


Amy Jacot Guillarmod

In 1956/7 she became Head of the Botany Department of the Pius XII College in Roma.


Abdourahman Waberi

In 2010, he was a William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and a visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College, California, a jury member of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and an Academie de France Villa Medici fellow in Roma, Italy.

Arabs in Sweden

It is worth mentioning that many of them might not actually be ethnically Arab but due to the general confusion between the meaning of Arab and other groups coming from the same area (such as the case of Kurds, Berbers, Turkmen, Assyrians, Roma etc.) the exact number of the actual Arab population in the Sweden may be greatly biased.

Avenida de los Insurgentes

Many of Mexico City's emblematic colonias (such as Condesa, Roma, Del Valle, Napoles, San Ángel, Pedregal) are either crossed or on the side of Insurgentes.

Bank AL Habib

Bank maintains correspondent relations with the following international banks: American Express Bank, USA; Banco Di Roma, Italy; Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, Germany; The Royal Bank of Canada, Canada; Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd., Hong Kong.

Carlo Scognamiglio

Keynes and the New Millennium Crisis, Treves Editore, Roma 2009.

Dallas Roma F.C.

Established in 2001, Roma currently plays in the North Texas Premier Soccer Association, a United States Adult Soccer Association-affiliated league, that represents the fifth tier of the American soccer pyramid.

Dino Asciolla

As a violist, he belonged to several instrumental groups like I Virtuosi di Roma, I Musici, Quintetto Chigiano, Quartetto Italiano string quartet from 1977 to 1980.

El Lebrijano

Juan Peña Fernández, also known as Juan Peña "El Lebrijano" or simply El Lebrijano (born 1941) is a Spanish Gitano (Roma) musician, the nephew of Perrate de Utrera.

Emigration from Kosovo

As the population of Kosovo mainly consisted of Kosovar Albanians, emigrant population was of a corresponding composition, with about 90% Albanians besides smaller numbers of Kosovo Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, Turks etc.

Enrico Pace

Other musicians with whom he often performs are horn player Marie Luise Neunecker and pianist Igor Roma.

Erythrina zeyheri

The Plough-breaker (Erythrina zeyheri, named after Karl Zeyher) is a deciduous subshrub from South Africa and Lesotho growing no more than 60 cm tall.

Famo

in 1974 he even declared himself "King of Famo" at a concert at Maseru's Airport Hotel that was attended by Her Majesty 'MaMohato, wife of Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe II.

Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

Rather, the pieces in his collection were inspired by a collection of poems by William Sharp entitled Sospiri di Roma (1891).

Foreign relations of Lesotho

In 13 November 1997, Liz O'Donnell (Irish Minister for State) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.

Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S.

Fortitudo-Pro Roma Società di Ginnastica e Scherma was an Italian football club from the Rione Borgo area of Rome, originally founded in 1908.

François Gény

Two of his brothers became priests, and another one became a teacher in the University of Roma.

Gei Zantzinger

He directed and produced films about the musics of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Lesotho, South Africa, and Brittany.

Giancarlo Gramolazzo

Born in Ortovo, north of Italy, he join the order of Saint Luigi Orione at the age of 12, where he was ordered as a priest in 1973, to become president of the Institute of orphans of Roma-Montemario.

History of Lesotho

The present Lesotho (then called Basutoland) emerged as a single polity under paramount chief Moshoeshoe I in 1822.

Hohenasperg

In May 1940, the prison was used as a way station for families during the first centrally planned deportation of Sinti and Roma out of southwest Germany, west of the Rhine River (Mainz, Ingelheim, Worms).

Hospital Hill fire

An article published in The Western Star suggests there a was a bit of controversy, when over 250 people from Charleville wanted to purchase excursion tickets to Roma.

Italian battleship Regina Elena

Regina Elena, Roma, and the armored cruiser San Marco were stationed in Benghazi, with Regina Elena recently arriving from Tobruk.

Jakob Finci

He and Dervo Sejdić, a prominent Bosnian Roma and member of the member of Bosnia's Roma Council, have launched an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights on the basis that Bosnia's Constitution violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

Katia Serra

She played for Bologna (1986–1991), Lugo di Ravenna (1994–1997), Modena (1997–1999), Lazio (2002–2003), Bergamo (2003–2004), Atletico Oristano (2004–2005), Agliana and Terme di Cervia (2005–2006), Reggiana (2006–2007), Trento (2007–2008), Roma (2008–2009) and Levante (2010).

KBMI

KRIO-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to serve Roma, Texas, United States, and assigned call sign KMBI from 1982 to 2011

L'esule di Roma

L'esule di Roma was staged for the first time in the twentieth century on 18 July 1982 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, in a concert performance with Katia Ricciarelli, Bruce Brewer and John-Paul Bogart, on the initiative of the Donizetti Society.

Leandro Paredes

Leandro Daniel Paredes (born 29 June 1994) is an Argentine footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Roma, on loan from Boca Juniors.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

May It Be

"May It Be" is a song composed by Irish musician Enya and Roma Ryan featured in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring.

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism

The city of Berlin initially wanted to place it in the less prominent district of Marzahn, where hundreds of Roma and Sinti were held in terrible conditions from 1936.

Moshoeshoe

Moshoeshoe I, c.1786-1870; paramount chief of southern Sotho; founder of Basuto kingdom (later Basutoland, then Lesotho)

Nova Roma do Sul

Nova Roma do Sul (a Portuguese name meaning New Rome of the South) is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Phuthi language

Phuthi is spoken in dozens (perhaps many dozens) of scattered communities in the border areas between where the far northern Eastern Cape meets Lesotho: from Herschel northwards and eastwards, and in the Matatiele area of the northeastern Transkei; and throughout southern Lesotho, from Quthing in the southwest, through regions south and east of Mount Moorosi, to mountain villages west and north of Qacha (Qacha's Nek).

Portuguese Rapid Reaction Brigade

The KIA Comando was 1st Sergeant Roma Pereira, mortally hit when an IED detonated his Humvee.

Preeti Chandrakant

A Goat To The Gods (as Preeti von Roma) is a video collage of behind-the-scenes 'found objects' with Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog, which depicts "an absurd journey into a jungle of veiled madness" revealing the 'doings' of Kinski and Herzog against the backdrop of real Africa.

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Qacha's Nek

The town is home to Lesotho's first and only Snake Park, which is conveniently situated at the foot of the historic Letloepe hill/rock formation, where the cave of Qacha, the son of Baphuthi's Chief Moorosi and after whom the town is named, is situated.

Quthing

Quthing lies in the southern part of Lesotho and borders the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Raffaele Frumenti

1983 Firenze - GALLERIA INTERNAZIONALE GAI Via Tornabuoni - Roma TARTAGLIA ARTE GALLERIA "NOCCHIA" Civitavecchia Roma - GALLERIA DI MARCO - Germania, Gladbeck -"Art Fontana Erika"; Napoli - ART GALLERY "De Gregorio"; Taranto - GALLERIA D'ARTE "Del Core"

Robert Ritter

In 1948, at the behest of Roma survivors of the Porajmos, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office opened an inquiry into Ritter's Nazi-era activities.

Rockcliffe Park Public School

Rockcliffe is twinned with Mokoena Primary School in Butha-Buthe, Lesotho.

Sisters of the Precious Blood

Society of the Precious Blood - An Anglican order of Augustinian nuns, founded in 1905, active in England and Lesotho

Society for Threatened Peoples

In Kosovo the STP-Germany paid for a team that, under the direction of the human rights worker Paul Polansky, worked for the interests of the Roma.

Sophie Chandauka

In January 2009, Chandauka was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Sentebale ('Forget Me Not' in Sesotho), the African children's charity that was established by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry to help vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho, particularly those who have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS.

Sotho phonology

The most stereotypical French-like pronunciations are found in certain rural areas of Lesotho, as well as some areas of Soweto (where this has had an impact on the pronunciation of Tsotsitaal).

Terry Alcock

Alcock scored the "Seasiders"' goal as they lost out 3–1 to Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.

Viktória Mohácsi

After the murder of handball player Marian Cozma by Roma men (see Veszprém stabbing) she commented on TV that "he must have provoked them".


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