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3 unusual facts about Romana


Cecilio Romaña

Cecilio Félix Romaña (1899 – 1997, Barcelona) was an Argentinian physician remembered for describing Romaña's sign.

Colin McDougall

Also slightly further north in Romana in December 1944 during the battle of the Naviglio Canal the company captured a self propelled gun, staff car and an intact bridge, thanks to a flanking movement he initiated when they were first faced with the gun.

Romana's sign

It is named after Cecilio Romaña, an Argentinian researcher who first described the phenomenon.


Academia Romana

Romanian Academy, also known as "Academia Română", a cultural forum founded in 1866, covering the scientific, artistic and literary domains

Carla Lane

Carla Lane, OBE (born Romana Barrack, 5 August 1937) is an English television writer responsible for many sitcoms, including The Liver Birds (1969–78), Butterflies (1978–82), and Bread (1986–91).

Ciro Ippolito

Ippolito continued his activity as film producer with La venexiana (1986) directed by Mauro Bolognini and his television activity with works like La romana by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Gli indifferenti, miniseries by Bolognini, Disperatamente Giulia by Enrico Maria Salerno, Donna d'onore by Stuart Margolin, The Seventh Scroll (Il settimo papiro) by Kevin Condor and Il terzo segreto di Fatima by Alfredo Peyretti.

Clunia

The center of Romana cities, where the cardo maximus and decumanus maximus crossed, frequently receiving the forum of the city, a public square surrounded by porticos.

De Situ Britanniae

William Forbes Skene, in his introduction to Celtic Scotland, written after De Situ Britanniae was debunked, disparaged several once-influential histories that relied on it, including Pinkerton's Enquiry, George Chalmers's Caledonia, Roy's Military Antiquities, and Robert Stuart's Caledonia Romana.

Dimples Romana

Romana, who was taking up BS Tourism in University of Santo Tomas (UST) College of Education, was the courtside reporter on games involving the UST Growling Tigers on the 2002 season of ABS-CBN's coverage of the UAAP men's basketball tournament.

Division of the North

Romana and his men arrived at Santander, Spain, where he was appointed Commander of the Galician Armada.

FC Astra Giurgiu

Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română (Astra-Română Sports Club) was founded on 18 September 1921 by the "Astra-Română" Society, an oil-company owned by Henri Deterding and based in Prahova.

Gordian I

In Ankara Turkey, a funeral inscription has been found that names a Sempronia Romana, daughter of a named Sempronius Aquila (an imperial secretary).

Human rights in Sudan

Pax Romana statement of Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid, to the Fiftieth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, February 1994 accounts of widespread destrucution of hundreds of churches, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, concentration camps, genocide of the Nuba people, systematic rape of women, enslavement of children, torture of priests and clerics, burning alive of pastors and catechists, crucifixion and mutilation of priests.

José David Leudo

José David Leudo Romaña (born 9 November 1993 in Apartadó) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Estudiantes de La Plata as a midfielder.

La Romana

The Woman of Rome (Italian: La Romana), a novel by Alberto Moravia

Landolfus Sagax

Landolfus Sagax or Landolfo Sagace (sagax meaning "expert" or "scholar") was a Lombard historian who wrote a Historia Romana in the last quarter of the tenth century or beginning of the eleventh.

Lucjan Lis

They have two daughters, Laura and Romana, and a son Lucas, a competitive German cyclist.

Luigi Paoletti Vinea

Among his works are Sul Mugnone alle Cascine, Sulle rive del Calambrone, Seravezza dal ponticino sul Rio grande; Paese presso Livorno; Porta Romana strada cencii, Pianura, Lonely Street, Sull'Arno, and In Casentino.

Piața Romană

Between 1997 and 2010, Piața Romană featured a Capitoline Wolf statue, a symbol of Latinity (see also the Capitoline Wolf Statue in Cluj-Napoca).

Romaine lettuce

It apparently reached the West via Rome, as in Italian it is called lattuga romana and in French laitue romaine, both meaning 'Roman lettuce', hence the name 'romaine', the common term in American English.

Roman Walls of Lugo

The Roman Walls of Lugo (Spanish, Galician: Muralla Romana de Lugo) were constructed in the 3rd Century and are still largely intact today, stretching over 2 kilometers around the historic centre of Lugo in Galicia (Spain).

Villa romana de Río Verde

Villa romana de Río Verde is a Roman villa on the coast of Marbella, Spain.

Villanova Monteleone

Villanova Monteleone borders the following municipalities: Alghero, Bosa, Ittiri, Monteleone Rocca Doria, Montresta, Padria, Putifigari, Romana, Thiesi.

Virginia Ramponi-Andreini

The Florentine singer Margherita Romana and the Neapolitan Ippolita Recupita (a singer in Cardinal Montalto's service) were deemed unsatisfactory.


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