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unusual facts about Sante


Randy Caparoso

In 1998 Caparoso was the first "Wine & Spirits Professional of the Year" selected by Sante magazine for their yearly "Grand Awards."


Circus of Nero

Sante Bartoli's memoirs record that when Alexander VII was building the left wing of Bernini's colonnade and the lefthand fountain, a tomb was discovered with a bas-relief above the door representing a marriage-scene ("vi era un bellissimo bassorilievo di un matrimonio antico").

Costante Girardengo

He has been immortalised in Italian popular culture through the critically acclaimed song "Il Bandito e il Campione" by Francesco De Gregori that juxtaposes his life with that of his childhood friend the notorious bandit and outlaw Sante Pollastri.

French frigate Carthaginoise

Built in 1782 in La Valette, Sante Elisabeth was launched the year after and served with the Maltese Navy until the island was taken by the French during the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, on 11 June.

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini (b. Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. Noventa Padovana, 26 June 1877) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Jardin botanique de l'Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Clermont-Tonnerre

The garden is described in Actu Santé as containing the oldest two Chinese palms in Europe, the largest Ginkgo biloba in Europe, and excellent specimens of Camelias and Gunnera manicata.

Knut Wulff

In 1980 the company Fleur de Santé was started, owned half by Knut Wulff, and half by Fortia, the publicly traded holding company of Pharmacia.

Larry Garrison

Son of A Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America, won an Edgar Award for best Fact Crime book in 2002.

Louise Poirier

In January 2007, Poirier and a group of 33 climbers from Gatineau climbed Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro with proceeds donated to an orphanage in Moshi a nearby village as well as the Centre de Sante de Gatineau.

Luc Sante

Sante received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992-93, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997, a Grammy for album notes in 1998 (Sante was one of the album note writers for the 1997 re-issue of the Anthology of American Folk Music), and an Infinity Award for writing from the International Center of Photography in 2010.

Maria Luisa Ugolini Bonta

Per the artist's wishes, her body was returned to her beloved Florence and is interred at Porte Sante (Holy Doors) cemetery at the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence.

Ontario Health Insurance Plan

The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (in French: Assurance-Santé de l'Ontario, and commonly known in both languages by the acronym OHIP, pronounced "oh-hip") is the government-run health insurance plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.

Ordre de la Santé publique

The Order of Public Health (French: Ordre de la Santé publique) was a French order of merit, created by presidential decree of President Albert Lebrun on 18 February 1938 and amended on 22 May 1954, and awarded for services to the public health and protection of children.

Portneuf Regional County Municipality

The administrative county seat remained in Cap-Santé while moving from the County Corporation building to a newly built one located further east on 185, Route 138 at a slight distance from the historic village of Cap-Santé.

Poverty in France

April 2005 report on poverty in France by Emmaüs given by its president Martin Hirsch to the ministre des Solidarités, de la Santé et de la Famille Philippe Douste-Blazy

Randy Caparoso

At that time, Caparoso also expanded his profile as a wine journalist; from biweekly wine columnist for The Honolulu Advertiser (from 1981 to 2003) and featured writer for the online Wine Lovers Page (1998–present), to contributing writer for Sante and Practical Winery & Vineyard.

San Francisco Chief

Unlike most Sante Fe streamliners, the San Francisco Chief used the Belen Cutoff and traveled via Amarillo, Texas, bypassing the Raton Pass.

Stefano Pessina

In 1977, he took over his family's pharmaceutical wholesaler in Naples and turned it into Alliance Santé, a Franco-Italian pharmaceutical wholesale group.

Ulane Bonnel

Following their marriage, Bonnel went to France with her husband, who had a distinguished career in the French Navy, rising to be chief of the maritime health service (chef du service santé des gens de mer) in 1969-72 and an internationally recognized biologist associated with the World Health Organization.


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