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51 unusual facts about airship "Italia"


1909 Giro d'Italia

Under this system Luigi Ganna was declared the winner, but had the Giro been a time-based event he would have lost to the third-place finisher Giovanni Rossignoli by 37 minutes.

1986 Giro d'Italia

Out of the seven mountain stages in the race five of them had summit finishes: stage 14 to Sauze d'Oulx, stage 16 to Foppolo, and stage 19 to Peio.

1987 Giro d'Italia

The primarily flat eighteenth stage stretched from Riva del Garda to Trescore Balneario, as the riders prepared to race through the Alps in the next few stages.

1990 Giro d'Italia

The route also contained stage 19 individual time trial, which had a summit finish to Sacro Monte di Varese.

1994 Giro d'Italia

Stage 4 featured the race's first summit finish, with a final climb to the top of Campitello Matese.

1998 Giro d'Italia

Of the mass-start stages that contained mountains, four contained summit finishes: stage 11 to San Marino, stage 14 to Piancavallo, stage 18 to Passo di Pampeago, and stage 19 to Plan di Montecampione.

1999 Giro d'Italia

Of the mountain stages, five ended with summit finishes: stage 5 to Massiccio del Sirino, stage 8 to Gran Sasso d'Italia, stage 15 to Santuario di Oropa, stage 19 to Alpe di Pampeago, and stage 20 to Madonna di Campiglio.

2005 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

The 2005 Rome Masters (also known as the Internazionali BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts.

2006 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

The 2006 Rome Masters (also known as the Internazionali BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on clay courts.

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

Others top seeds competing were Miami Masters champion Nikolay Davydenko, Valencia Open winner David Ferrer, Andy Roddick, David Nalbandian, and James Blake.

The 2008 Rome Masters (also known as the Internazionali BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts.

2009 French Open – Women's Singles

The match was also the conclusion of a series of matches between them during the preceding clay court season, with Kuznetsova beating Safina to win the title in Stuttgart, and Safina avenging the loss by beating Kuznetsova in Rome.

2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, with the men playing from April 25 through May 4, 2009, and the women from May 3 through May 9, 2009.

2010 Estoril Open – Women's Singles

Yanina Wickmayer was the defending champion, but she chose to play in Rome rather than defend 2009 title here.

2010 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11

The Giro reached its southernmost point in this stage, Cava de' Tirreni in Campania.

2010 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21

Bradley Wiggins attacked out of the group of favorites and found his teammate Steven Cummings, a member of the original breakaway, up the road.

2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

It was the 67th edition of the event and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2010 WTA Tour.

2011 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux – Singles

Richard Gasquet was the defending champion but chose to compete in Rome instead.

2011 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

It was the 68th edition of the event and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2011 WTA Tour.

2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

It was the 69th edition of the Italian Open and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2012 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2012 WTA Tour.

2013 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

It was the 70th edition of the Italian Open and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2013 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2013 WTA Tour.

2013 Rally d'Italia

Dani Sordo was the best Citroën finisher in fourth, ahead of Martin Prokop in fifth, while Elfyn Evans finished sixth on his début in a World Rally Car.

Andrés Oliva

He won the Mountains Classification at the 1975 Giro d'Italia and the 1976 Giro d'Italia.

::Mountains Classification (1975, 1976)

Arnaldo Mussolini

In Milan, Arnaldo became managing director of the newspaper founded by his brother, Il Popolo d'Italia, succeeding Manlio Morgagni, who worked in advertising.

Between 1923 and 1927, he dedicated himself to journalism and to various publishing ventures, creating a journal for the Opera Nazionale Balilla, the Domenica dell'Agricoltore (Sunday Farmer), Rivista Illustrata (Illustrated Review), which he co-founded with Manlio Morgagni, Illustrazione Fascista (Illustrated Fascism), Bosco e Historia (Forest and History), while continuing to lead Il Popolo d'Italia.

Bartolomeo Bon

Bartolomeo Bon (also spelled Buon; died after 1464) was an Italian sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia.

Belgian National Time Trial Championships

In 2000 the Rik Verbrugghe was crowned champion, who holds the record for the fastest average speed in a time trial race in a Grand Tour, which he achieved by winning the 2001 Giro d'Italia prologue.

Colleferro

The engineer Leopoldo Parodi Delfino (former senator and son of the founder of the National Bank, then Bank of Italy) and Senator Giovanni Bombrini founded the 'Bombrini Parodi Delfino explosives factory.

Conrad Earnest

With respect to the high performance athlete, Earnest has published several notable papers with colleagues from Spain examining the physiologic characteristics of professional cyclists competing in the three-week Grand Tours of cycling: The Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España.

Derby d'Italia

Juventus chairman Jean-Claude Blanc and Mirella Scirea, widow of Juventus legend Gaetano Scirea, wrote to the ultra groups and publicly urged fans to refrain from using racist chants.

Emilio Faà di Bruno

There he inspected the ironclad Re d'Italia, then under construction for the Italian navy.

Fabian Wegmann

::Mountains classification (2004)

Francesco Storace

He began his career at the right-wing newspaper Il Secolo d'Italia, until entering the ranks of the far right party Italian Social Movement (MSI) and later of National Alliance (AN) after repudiation of extremism.

Gaetano Koch

Koch was born in Rome, where he made his name with several major works - Palazzo Koch, seat of the Banca d'Italia, and the two porticoed palazzi which form Piazza della Repubblica, and the central Piazza Vittorio.

Grossglockner High Alpine Road

Grossglockner was featured for a second time in 13th stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

Juan Manuel Gárate

::Mountains classification (2006)

Luigi Freddi

As a futurist and a legionario fiumiano, he edited Il Popolo d'Italia and in 1920 was one of the founders of the student avant-garde within the fighting Fascist party and became director of the review Giovinezza.

Manlio Morgagni

He supported Italian intervention in World War I. From 15 November 1914 to 1919, he was administrative director of Il Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper he co-founded with Benito Mussolini.

Maria Rygier

A World War I interventionist in 1914, she became an editor at the newspaper founded by Benito Mussolini, Il Popolo d'Italia.

Michael Jayston

In the last 2 years, he has read a new abridged recording of Geoffrey Household's sequel Rogue Justice, (also on BBC Radio 7) and in 2010 he also lent his voice to a series of vocal interludes on an album celebrating the Giro d'Italia, released in May by British cycling clothing company Rapha.

Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia

The classification was first calculated in 1933; from 1974 to 2011, the leader of the mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia wore the maglia verde (from Italian: "green jersey"): in 2012, as part of a sponsorship deal, the jersey colour was changed to blue (maglia azzurra).

Natasha Stefanenko

She has also hosted many programmes, including the 2001 edition of Festivalbar, which is an annual series of televised summer concerts performed by both Italian and international pop groups in town squares throughout Italy; and Italia's Next Top Model in 2009.

Piazza d'Italia

Without commercial tenants to subsidize maintenance, and with dwindling city budgets increasingly constrained - first by the incremental phase out of federal government revenue sharing, then due to the regional Oil Bust of the mid- to late-1980s - the plaza rapidly deteriorated, with the fountain rarely in operation and the fanciful neon and incandescent lighting accents going unreplaced and unrepaired.

Essential to the Piazza's design was the full realization of its intended surroundings, which were to have included a rehabilitated historic row of 19th-century buildings facing Tchoupitoulas Street (buildings whose rear abutted the edge of the Piazza).

Piazza Unità d'Italia

The square itself has occasionally been used as a concert venue, with Green Day using the square as a venue for a show on their 99 Revolutions Tour in 2013.

Points classification in the Giro d'Italia

The Azzurri d'Italia classification (English: Azure or Sky Blue Italy) is an award in the Giro d'Italia in which points are awarded for the top three stage finishers (4, 2 and 1 point).

Rosanna Marani

She has collaborated with Il Giornale d'Italia and Il Resto del Carlino under the guidance of Gualtiero Vecchietti and Italo Cucci.

Sidney Sonnino

The newly established Banca d'Italia was the result of a merger of three existing banks of issue (the Banca Nazionale and two banks from Tuscany).

Stella d’Italia

In 1603, in the second edition of his treatise Iconologia, Cesare Ripa associated the symbol with the Italia turrita, and creates a modern version of Italy’s allegorical personification: woman with a star on top of a towered crown, therefore supplied with the Corona muralis and the Stella Veneris.

Tax amnesty

In 2009 the Italian tax amnesty yielded €80 billion, while the Bank of Italy estimated that Italian citizens held around €500bn in undeclared funds outside the country.


1995 Italian Grand Prix

The 1995 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXVI Pioneer Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 10, 1995 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

2011 Tour of Belgium

The stage started with one minute of silence in remembrance of Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt, a former stage winner during the Tour of Belgium who died two weeks earlier as a result of a crash during the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

2012 Gran Piemonte

Among them, the 2008 World Champion Alessandro Ballan, the 2012 Giro d'Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal, the 2006 Milano-Sanremo winner Filippo Pozzato, and the 2008 Olympic Champion Samuel Sánchez.

Achille Vertunni

Later in life, he was named cavaliere della Corona d'Italia, and honorary professor of the Instituto di Belle Arti of Naples and of the Brera Academy of Milan.

Alice Taticchi

Alice Taticchi (born June 25, 1990 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy) is an Italian fashion model, beauty pageant contestant, and the winner of the fourth cycle of Italia's Next Top Model.

Antonio Curò

He was a lepidopterist and published Saggio di un Catalogo dei Lepidotteri d’Italia between 1875 and 1889.

Attilio Deffenu

He became correspondent for the Giornale d'Italia, engaging actively in political life: joining the revolutionary unionism and, in 1913, fighting against the protectionism customs which favoured factories in Northern Italy and penalized the economy of Southern Italy and the islands.

Auto Italia South East

Located on York Way in Kings CrossNorth London, Auto Italia is both an artist-run project space and a site for exhibitions, events and collaboration.

Balilla

His memory is also reported on the present (but composed in 1848) Italian National anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", popularly known as "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy): "I bimbi d'Italia / si chiaman Balilla / il suon d'ogni squilla / i vespri sonò".

Bancopoli

Close personal ties between BPL Managing Director Gianpiero Fiorani and Banca d'Italia Governor Antonio Fazio ensured prompt authorization of BPL's requests, while those of ABN Amro were stalled.

Bar Italia

In July 2011, British artist Ed Gray unveiled a painting of Bar Italia featuring patrons Rupert Everett and John Hurt.

Bracci-Cambini

Therefore several academic books and articles have been written about the family, including In famiglia: Storie di interessi e affetti nell’Italia moderna by Roberto Bizzocchi and Il Casino dei Nobili: Famiglie illustri, viaggiatori, mondanità a Pisa tra Sette e Ottecent by Alessandro Panajia with Giovanni Benvenuti.

Danilo Di Luca

On 22 July 2009, it was announced that Di Luca had tested positive for CERA on 20 and 28 May 2009, during the Giro d'Italia.

Ennio Girolami

Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his film debut at 18 with a role of weight in Fratelli d'Italia by Fausto Saraceni, then appeared in a large number of films, sometimes as main actor, working among others with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini and Giuseppe De Santis.

Gian Giorgio Trissino

In his own composition, l'Italia liberata dai Goti (1547–1548), dealing with the campaigns of Belisarius in Italy, he sought to show that it was possible to write in the vernacular an epic in accordance with the classic precepts.

Giuseppe De Cristoforis

1832 with G Jan and Georges Cuvier, baron Il regno animale distribuito secondo la sua organizzazione opera del Baron Cuvier ; compendiata e recata in lingua italiana per servir di base alla Storia naturale degli animali e d'introduzione al prodromo della Fauna dell'Italia superiore, compreso nei cataloghi sistematici e descrittivi della raccolte zoologiche. Parte IIa., I molluschi Parma : Stamperia Carmignani, 1832.

Giuseppe Prina

Ugo Foscolo, Alcune parole intorno alla fine del Regno d'Italia.

James Ferragamo

James is the son of Ferruccio Ferragamo who is CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. He is a graduate of New York University Stern School of Business.

Judeo-Italian languages

Piuttosto, una notevole differenza fra il giudeo-tedesco e il giudeo-italiano, che ha valore anche per il riguardo scientifico, è che, mentre quello è tanto diverso dalla lingua tedesca da costituire un dialetto a sé stante, questo invece non è essenzialmente una cosa diversa dalla lingua d’Italia, o dai singoli dialetti delle varie provincie d’Italia … ; 256: … era naturale che il gergo giudeo-italiano in breve volger di tempo sparisse… (Umberto Cassuto “Parlata ebraica.”

Mikael Colville-Andersen

As producer for the The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) bicentenary website for Hans Christian Andersen, he and his team won the Prix Italia award at the Radiotelevisione Italiana 57th Prix Italia for Best Website.

PMT Italia

In 2010, PMT Italia has founded PMT Winding Oy in Tehtaankatu, Valkeakoski, Finland.

Quintus Anicius Faustus

Born either in Uzappa in the province of Numidia, or in Praeneste in Italia, it has been speculated that Anicius Faustus was possibly the son of a Sextus Anicius Saturninus and Seia Maxima.

Salvatore Rossi

On May 7, 2013, upon recommendation of Governor Ignazio Visco, the Bank of Italy’s Board of Directors nominated Salvatore Rossi Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, succeeding Fabrizio Saccomanni.

Silvio Appiani

In 1914, Calcio Padova wins the Campionato Veneto-Emiliano di Promozione and go to the Prima Categoria dell'Italia Settentrionale culminating in fourth place behind Vicenza, Hellas Verona and Venezia.

Sylvain Georges

In May 2013 Georges withdrew from the Giro D'Italia after testing positive for Heptaminol.

Televisione Cristiana in Italia

Televisione Cristiana in Italia (TCI), also known as TBNE (Trinity Broadcasting Network Europe), is a free-to-air Italian religious TV channel headquartered in Marnate, Italy.

Tiziana Scandaletti

Numerous recordings for CD labels include: Ariston-Ricordi, Curci (Du Dunkelheit by Giacomo Manzoni, dedicated to her), Edipan, Nuova Era (two monographic CDs on Giorgio Federico Ghedini and other two on Alfredo Casella and Franco Alfano), Stradivarius (three CDs La voce contemporanea in Italia - Voll. 1, 2, 3).

Venetian regional election, 1995

After the election, Giancarlo Galan formed his first government, while Amalia Sartori (Forza Italia) was elected President of the Regional Council.

Virgin Radio Italia

Virgin Radio Italia is a music-based Italian radio station, which started nationwide broadcasting on 12 July 2007 at 12:00 AM (with the song What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramone).

Wei Yanan

Instead, she made her European debut in October at the Maratona d'Italia in Carpi and was the runner-up behind Rosaria Console.