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unusual facts about Volta



1107 Lictoria

It was discovered by L. Volta on March 30, 1929 at Pino Torinese, Italy, and it was independently discovered by Karl Reinmuth in Heidelberg, Germany on March 19, 1929.

1114 Lorraine

It was independently discovered a day later by L. Volta at Pino Torinese, Italy.

1115 Sabauda

It was discovered by L. Volta on December 13, 1928 at Pino Torinese, Italy.

2011 Volta ao Algarve

The 2011 Volta ao Algarve is the 37th edition of the Volta ao Algarve cycling stage race.

Akropong–Akuapem

This group includes the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Ashanti, the Baoulé, the Brong/Abron, the Fante and the Nzema peoples covering the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Western, Central, and Eastern Regions, as well as portions of the midsection of the Volta Region, and into North Ghana.

Aluizio Coelho

Em 97 era o companheiro de equipe de Dan Wheldon e conquistou em Silverstone uma vitória memorável com direito à pole-position e melhor volta.

Amedzofe

Amedzofe, Ghana, the settlement south of Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana

Angelo Ciccone

: 3rd Stage 5, Volta de Ciclismo Internacional do Estado de São Paulo, Bauru (BRA)

Bell Laboratory

Bell Laboratory, also known as the Volta Laboratory and the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, created in Washington, D.C. by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880.

Bui Dam

According to Charles Wereko-Brobby, then President of the Volta River Authority, Bui Dam was not considered the least–cost option and could not meet “immediate” energy needs.

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional

CSN's principal source of water is the Paraíba do Sul river, which runs through the city of Volta Redonda.

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes is a two disc best of compilation that includes popular and lesser known tracks from Os Mutantes first five albums, O A e o Z, Tecnicolor, and A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat by Rogério Duprat which includes a cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna".

Edison Volta Prize

Edison Volta Prize is awarded biannually by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics.

The award has been established in 2012 by the Centro di Cultura Scientifica "Alessandro Volta", Edison S.p.A and the European Physical Society.

Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo

After co-founding the Gold Coast People's College at Adidome, he set about founding a new private secondary school in Anloga, the first secondary school in the Volta Region.

Forest zone

Many rivers cross the forest zone, with the most important being the Niger and the Volta.

GeForce 1000 Series

It will serve as the introduction for the Volta architecture (GV-codenamed chips), named after the Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery Alessandro Volta.

Gymnarchus

It is found exclusively in swamps and near vegetated edges in the Nile, Turkana, Chad, Niger, Volta, Senegal, and Gambia basins.

Islam in Burkina Faso

In the 15th century the Upper Volta region attracted Muslim merchants and settlements by the opening of the Akan goldfields, and the opportunity to trade in gold, kola nuts, and salt.

John Acquaviva

Robot Needs Oil - Volta (Olivier Giacomotto remix) Definitive

Joseph Conombo

In 1951, Conombo was elected to the French National Assembly, a position he held until Upper Volta gained independence in 1959, even serving as undersecretary of state (1954–1955) in the government of Pierre Mendès France.

Lavolta

What is said to be The Volta (but is actually another dance) can be seen in the dance being performed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in the second season's seventh episode of Showtime's original series The Tudors.

Little Pollon

In addition to its success in Japan, Little Pollon was an extremely popular television program in Italy during the mid-1980s, where it was known as C'era una volta... Pollon (Once upon a time there was... Pollon) and featured a memorable Italian theme song by Cristina D'Avena.

Michael Pärt

He has contributed to award-winning projects such as the BAFTA-winning LazyTown and the Grammy-nominated albums Volta by Björk and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

Mogador-class destroyer

Mogador and Volta comprised the 6th Large Destroyer Division (6e Division de contre-torpilleurs) and were assigned to the Force de Raid based at Brest when the war began.

Nairo Quintana

In 2013, Quintana won stage 3 of the Volta a Catalunya, and the following month, he won the queen stage of the Tour of the Basque Country by sprinting to victory after the final climb in EibarArrate, two seconds before a group of six fellow overall contenders.

Nuno Ribeiro

Nuno Jorge Ribeiro Gaspar (born September 9, 1977 in Sobrado, Valongo) is a Portuguese professional road bicycle racer, he was the winner of the 2003 (Volta a Portugal), he also placed first in the 2009 edition, however he was later disqualified due to testing positive for CERA in a doping test and was banned for two years.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Pasqualino De Santis

He collaborated with Francesco Rosi in C'era una volta (1967), Uomini contro (1970), Il caso Mattei (1972), Lucky Luciano (1974), Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979), Tre fratelli (1981), Carmen (1984), Cronaca di una morte annunciata (1987), Diario napoletano (1992) and La tregua (1996), filmed in Ucrany, where he died.

Patter song

the "Tutti mi chiedono" section in Figaro’s Largo al factotum from Act 1 of Rossini's The Barber of Seville (1816), and the "Signorina, un'altra volta" section in Bartolo's "A un dottor della mia sorte" in the same Act.

Paul Hinojos

In February 2009 at the 51st annual Grammy Awards, Hinojos, along with fellow Mars Volta bandmates was awarded the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song "Wax Simulacra", from the album "The Bedlam in Goliath".

Reactable

Björk's 2007 world tour supporting her 2007 release Volta used the instrument in several songs including "Declare Independence"; Björk's live inaugural use of the instrument took place at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 27, 2007.

Red Volta

The Red Volta is a river that flows through the Upper East region of North Ghana and the international border of North Ghana flowing about 320 km to join the White Volta in the Upper East region of North Ghana and arising in Burkina Faso.

Roupa Nova

Since the 1980s, Roupa Nova has had many hits in Brazil, such as Sapato Velho (Old Shoe), Anjo (Angel), Whisky-a-Go-Go, Linda Demais (So Beautiful), Volta pra Mim (Come back to me), Coração Pirata (Pirate Heart) and Videogame.

Seth Anthony

Seth Anthony started his elementary education at the Bremen Mission School at Keta also in the Volta Region of Ghana in 1920.

The Mars Volta discography

The final lineup of The Mars Volta consisted of the two founding members Omar Rodríguez-López on guitar and production, Cedric Bixler-Zavala on vocals and lyrics, along with Juan Alderete on bass, Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez on keyboards and percussion, and Deantoni Parks on drums.

The Widow

At the concert, the song was dedicated to former Mars Volta member Jeremy Michael Ward, who had died of a drug overdose in May 2003.

Vehicle registration plates of Ghana

There are ten Regions in Ghana: Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta and Western.

Volta Creations

Volta appears to have begun operations in early 2006 as a creative services provider for the advertising, toy and publishing fields, working with well-known brands such as Toyota, McDonald's and Mega Brands' Magnetix toy line.

Volta do mar

Lack of this information may have doomed the thirteenth-century expedition of Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, who were headed towards the as yet unknown Canary Islands and were lost; once there, without understanding the Atlantic gyre and the volta do mar, they would have been unable to beat upwind to the Strait of Gibraltar and home.

Volta Prize

The Volta Prize (French: le Prix Volta) was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801–1802 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the battery.

Volta Redonda

A heavily subsidized symbol of national pride, the Volta Redonda mill embodied the import substitution industrial policies that prevailed in Latin American economies from World War II until the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s.

Volta Redonda Futebol Clube

Volta Redonda Futebol Clube, Volta Redonda or simply by its nickname Voltaço, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Volta Redonda in Rio de Janeiro, founded on February 9, 1976.


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