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1888–89 Aston Villa F.C. season

The 'Invincibles' from Lancashire also ended Villa's bid to win every single home game, with a 2–0 win at Perry Barr in Villa's last home fixture.

Aldemaro Romero en Maracaibo

Aldemaro Romero brings at this album popular folk pieces, as a tribute to the city of Maracaibo, along with Mario Suárez and his group, Héctor Cabrera, Ramón Marquez Villa, the vocal groups Los Cuatro and Los Naipes.

Allison Holker

On December 10, 2013 she and Stephen "tWitch" Boss were married at Villa San-Juliette Winery in Paso Robles, CA, owned by 'So You Think You Can Dance' producer and judge, Nigel Lythgoe.

Andy Lochhead

In 1972 following his contribution to the Villa's promotion to Division 2 he was voted the midlands footballer of the year in a write-in poll conducted by the Birmingham Evening Mail newspaper.

Archduchess Eleonora of Austria

Eleanore and her husband stayed in Austria after the fall of the monarchy and lived in Baden near Vienna, in a large villa Eleanore had inherited from her childless uncle Archduke Rainer of Austria.

Attilly

Villeveque in the west with the villa of the Prince of Monaco, ponds for fishing, and the mill (where it is possible to learn to swim)

Beaulieu-sur-Mer

It was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the archeologist Théodore Reinach and is in the style of an ancient Greek villa at the time of Pericles.

Bob Chatt

From the kick-off, John Devey, the Villa centre-forward, swung the ball out to his inside-left, Dennis Hodgetts.

Celso Torrelio

Celso Torrelio Villa (June 3, 1933, Chuquisaca, Bolivia - April 23, 1999, La Paz) was a military general, a member of the Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces (1981), and de facto President of Bolivia between September 1981 and August 1982.

Christian Wilhelm Allers

Several other books and maps (collections of prints) followed, for the sake of example about Bismarck, so at the beginning of the 1890s he was able to build a villa on Capri.

Davide Antonio Fossati

In 1728 he painted the dining-hall in the monastery of St. Martinsberg at Pressburg; but in 1730 he returned to Venice, and in the next year executed the wall-paintings in the villa at Torre, near Este, as also in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta, near Lauis.

Débora Halász

She has recorded a number of CDs for the BIS and Naxos labels, notably a series of complete piano music by Villa-Lobos, and works by Seixas and Carulli.

Eugippius

After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo).

Fontaine du Fellah

The title refers to an Egyptian fellah, or peasant, but statue appears to be a copy of a Roman statue of Antinous, a favorite of the Emperor Hadrian, which was discovered in the excavation of Hadrian's villa in Tivoli in 1739.

Frances Mayes

The book is a memoir of Mayes buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona in Tuscany, a region of Italy.

Hans Moritz von Brühl

Brühl built (probably in 1787) a small observatory at his villa at Harefield, and set up there, about 1794, a two-foot astronomical circle by Jesse Ramsden, one of the first instruments of the kind made in England.

Hugo Bernatzik

Hugo Bernatzik lived with his family in Heiligenstadt, Vienna in a villa commissioned by his father in 1911, built by the architect Josef Hoffmann and furnished by artists from the Wiener Werkstätte.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

Ladislav Žák

Villa Venera, 1930, Bílovice nad Svitavou - unrealized project of a villa for František Venera

Le dernier sorcier

It was first performed privately on September 20, 1867 at the Villa Turgenev in Baden-Baden and received its first public performance in Weimar on April 8, 1869 (in German translation as Der letzte Zauberer).

Luigi Bolis

Bolis's career was short and intense, he retired at just 39 in 1879 in the midst of success to the banks of the Cherio River at his splendid villa in Gorlago as a farmer.

Marble Hill House

but more commonly thereafter, and provided a standard model for the English villas built throughout the Thames Valley and further afield, for example New Place, King's Nympton, Devon, built between 1746–9 to the design of Francis Cartwright of Blandford in Dorset.

Marlon Harewood

His next Villa goal did not come until October when he scored in a 1–1 draw with Litex Lovech in the UEFA Cup.

Medici giraffe

Lorenzo had built special stables for it, either at the family's villa at Poggio a Caiano or in the Via della Scala in Florence itself, with heating to protect it from the damp Florentine winters.

Mértola Municipality

Agricultural products grown in the villae nearby and valuable minerals (silver, gold and tin) obtained from the lower Alentejo region were sent from the fluvial port of Mértola via the Guadiana to Southern Hispania and the Mediterranean.

Mexican Revolution

In 1916, in retaliation for Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the death of 16 United States citizens, President Wilson sent forces commanded by Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa.

Monique Villa

In June 2013, Monique Villa spoke at the TEDxHousesofParliament event highlighting how the Thomson Reuters Foundation is reshaping modern philanthropy through the power of data, news and information.

Nakano Corporation

Major recent works include Changi Business Park, The Metropolitan Condominium, St Thomas Suites, and Villa Rachatewi in Bangkok.

Pedro Moreno

He was born in Hacienda de La Daga, a community in the city of Villa de Santa María de los Lagos (later renamed Lagos de Moreno in his honor).

Piola Vago

Piola Vago is a band that was started in the slums of Villa de Los Andes (Fuerte Apache)

Roman villa of Santo André de Almoçageme

In Santo André de Almoçageme, Sintra, Portugal, is located the westernmost villa of the Roman Empire with occupation from the second to the sixth centuries AD.

Rose O'Neill

Her properties included Bonniebrook; an apartment in Washington Square in Greenwich Village that inspired the song Rose of Washington Square; Castle Carabas in Connecticut; and Villa Narcissus on the Isle of Capri, Italy.

Saifee Villa

In 1978, after the death of Syenda Taher Saifuddin, his heir Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, in the memory of his fathers' visits, changed the name from "Lakshmigiri" to "Saifee Villa" (where the word "Saifee" is derived from the name Saifuddin).

Settefinestre

Aside from the villa at Settefinestre, there are remains of comparable contemporary villas at Colonne and Provincia.

Sudhir Joshi

Born in Dadar, Joshi attended Pinto Villa (branch of Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya) and later Kirti College to obtain his BA Economics.

Tales of Two People

The rich young Duke of Belleville (pronounced Bevvle) visits his villa near Hampstead Heath, but late at night, he feels lonely and bored.

The Three Philosophers

The current name of the work derives from a writing of Marcantonio Michiel, who saw it in a Venetian villa.

Tipitapa

In 1929, the city's name was changed to "Villa Stimson" after the U.S. government sent Henry L. Stimson.

Villa Atma

Amongst the fellow artists who visited Szymanowski in Villa Atma were Artur Rubinstein, Serge Lifar and Emil Młynarski.

Villa Aujourd’hui

She named this villa, Today, after her home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Villa Borghese gardens

In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night.

Villa di Castello

The villa also housed some of the great art treasures of Florence, including Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterpieces The Birth of Venus and Primavera.

Villa Grimaldi

The forced voyeurism exercised at Villa Grimaldi has been likened to places like Abu Ghraib.

Villa Il Gioiello

He made frequent visits to the students of Villa Castelli, and the young Vincenzo Viviani and Evangelista Torricelli assisted Galileo until his death.

Villa Le Balze

In December 1979, the Marquesa Margaret Rockefeller de Larrain, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, gifted the Villa le Balze to Georgetown University.

Villa Mosconi Bertani

The Villa is situated in Valpolicella, the viticultural center of the province of Verona and a zone producing Amarone Classico DOCG and Valpolicella Classico DOC.

Villa Noailles

Villa Noailles features prominently in Man Ray's film Les Mystères du Château de Dé.

Wolfsbrunn

Schloss Wolfsbrunn, formerly a grand villa, now a hotel, in Hartenstein, Saxony

Xara

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th-century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.

Yapacaní

Yapacaní (or Villa Yapacaní) is the largest town in the province of Ichilo in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz.


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