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41 unusual facts about Italy


2004 Pitch and Putt World Cup

The 2004 Pitch and Putt World Cup was held in Chia, Italy, being the first time for this championship promoted by the Federation of International Pitch and Putt Associations (FIPPA), with 8 national teams in competition.

2007 Pitch and putt European Championship

The 2007 Pitch and putt European Teams Championship held in Chia (Italy) was organized by the Federazione Italiana Pitch and Putt and promoted by the European Pitch and Putt Association (EPPA), with 10 teams in competition.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Although the paper mentions the Telecommunications Act, it also accuses China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, and Italy of stifling the Internet.

Actual idealism

Its ideas, therefore, were key to helping the Fascist party consolidate power in Italy with its own reform, and integral to giving Fascism the content of its philosophical sentiment.

Aer Lualdi L.55

The Aer Lualdi L.55 was a prototype Italian helicopter, a development of the Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53 featuring a far more powerful engine, a 134 kW (180 hp) Lycoming O-360.

Aer Lualdi L.57

The Aer Lualdi L.57 was a prototype Italian helicopter, a further refinement of Lualdi's ES 53 and L.55 designs.

Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi is a family name of the Emilia-Romagna in Italy, and especially from Bologna.

Alfred Galpin

He attended the Sorbonne in Paris in 1931–1932, thereafter during the 1930s living with his wife in fascist Italy where he was a professional composer and pianist.

Almenno

Almenno is an area beside the river Brembo in northern Italy.

Antonio Curò

Antonio Curò (21 June 1828, Bergamo – 10 May 1906) was an Italian engineer and entomologist.

Arvid Andrén

Arvid Andrén (1902 – 1999) was a Swedish classical art historian who focused his work on decorative architectural terracotta sculpture from ancient Italy.

Bombelli

Bombelli is a common Italian surname.

Borkum Riff

Today, Borkum Riff is also sold in India, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Spain, New Zealand, Japan, France, Italy, Germany as well as in several other markets around the world.

David Block

In May, the advance of the 1st Guards Brigade was halted by the enemy dug in on Monte Piccolo, a bleak and stony hill south of Arce.

De Bernardi M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter

Seeking to improve the design, the M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter was developed as a two seat aircraft to be built by CAP in Bergamo, Italy.

Francisco Antonio Camassa

Francisco Antonio Camassa (1588–1646) was an Italian Jesuit scholar who taught at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid.

Fritz Schlumpf

Federico "Fritz" Schlumpf (Omegna, Italy, February, 1906; April 18, 1992) was a French Industrialist of Swiss origins and collector of automobiles.

Geostrategy

Mackubin Thomas Owens notes the similarity between von Bülow's predictions and the map of Europe after the unification of Germany and of Italy.

Gorgona

Gorgona, Italy, the northernmost island in the Tuscan Archipelago

Helen Zimmern

Through her advocacy and translations, Zimmern made European culture - whether that of Germany, or, increasingly, Italy - accessible to English speakers.

Italian colonists in Albania

In addition, southern Italy contained Albanian-speaking communities (Arbëreshë people), who had taken refuge there from the Ottoman invasion of Albania during the Skanderbeg era, and who were favorable to a possible union of Albania and Italy.

Italy's Mare Nostrum

Italy during the first years of World War II had only small and medium tanks (Fiat M13/40 and Fiat M15/42), that were no match for the Allied tanks.

La Casa del Lago

La Casa del Lago is the second and final album by the Italian progressive rock group Saint Just.

Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53

The Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53 was an Italian experimental helicopter designed by Carlo Lualdi around a Hiller-designed rotor system and a gyro stabiliser of his own design.

Luigi Taparelli

Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio (1793–1862) was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who coined the term social justice.

Medical anthropology

The ethnographic evidence supported the criticisms of the institutional custodialism and contributed decisively to policies of deinstitutionalizing psychiatric and social care in general and led to in some countries such as Italy, a rethink of the guidelines on education and promoting health.

Menahem ben Saruq

Thus Rashi in the second half of the eleventh century refers to Menahem as a philological authority; Rashi's grandson, Jacob b. Meïr Tam, composed a work for the special purpose of vindicating Menahem against the attacks of Dunash; and (about 1140) Menahem ben Solomon composed in Italy a dictionary which was based for the most part on the "Mahberet."

Michele Celeste

Michele Celeste is an award-winning Italian playwright.

Mobile phone jammer

Italy: technically not illegal to own, but largely illegal to operate, since the Italian law specifically prohibits the disturbing of radio and telephone communications.

Morselli

As of 2013, in Italy there are approximately 1,200 people with the surname Morselli, approximately half of which reside in Emilia-Romagna.

Neo-Guelph

The Neo-Guelph or Neo-Guelphism movement was a Nineteenth century Italian political society which wanted to unite Italy into a single kingdom with the Pope as its king.

Opera Nazionale Balilla

Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning, as an addition to school education, between 1926 and 1937 (the year it was absorbed into the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio, GIL, a youth section of the National Fascist Party).

OSCON

Oscon, Open Source CONtract, the most used open-contract in Italy.

Paul Triquet

On 14 December 1943 during the attack on Casa Berardi, Italy, when all the other officers and half the men of his company had been killed or wounded, Captain Triquet dashed forward and, with the remaining men, broke through the enemy resistance.

Pearle Opticians

The Pearle chain of opticians in Europe has more than 1000 branches in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Finland and Estonia.

Pedmore

It became a local landmark, offering restaurant facilities that later incorporated the Tuscana Italian restaurant as well as 20-bedroom hotel.

Ramadan Offensive

The attack thus shocked Italy and plunged it into a three-day mourning period.

Roman theatre, Cartagena

The scaenae frons had three semicircular exedras and decorated by two orders of columns, with bases and capitals in Luni's marble, and shaft in pink travertine of Mula.

Silvercraft SH-4

The Silvercraft SH-4 is an Italian three-seater light helicopter designed and built by Silvercraft SpA and was the first Italian helicopter to gain Italian and FAA certification.

Stoloteuthis leucoptera

In the Mediterranean Sea, it is specifically found in the northern and southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, and off Gorgona Island.

Tigana

Action is centered on the Peninsula of the Palm which shares a common culture and language, but, like medieval Italy, is not a unified nation, comprising instead nine provinces with a long history of internecine struggle.


1685 in art

Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)

2011 European Masters Games

The 2011 European Masters Games is the second edition of the multi-sport event for masters sport, scheduled to take place between 10–20 September 2011 in the areas of Lignano Sabbiadoro and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy.

A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Alfred Gause

Bodo Zimmermann is in the background Gause rejoined Rommel in his postings in Italy and Northern France.

Ankur Bhatia

The film was selected in over 10 film festivals worldwide, including Cannes Film Festival Short film Corner in France and River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival in Italy.

Auxilia

After the Batavi regiments were withdrawn from Britain to Italy in 66, Civilis and his brother (also a prefect) were arrested by the governor of Germania Inferior on a fabricated accusation of sedition.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Carlo Farina

From 1629 to 1631, he was a prominent member of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn, until he returned to Italy, where he worked in Parma and later in Lucca until 1635.

César Civita

Civita diversified Editorial Abril after 1945, hiring a number of talented illustrators and cartoonists from both Argentina and Italy, among them Hugo Pratt, Mario Faustinelli, Alberto Ongaro, Ivo Pavone, Héctor Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia, Dino Battaglia, and Paul Campani.

Cesare Segre

Cesare Segre (born 4 April 1928 in Verzuolo, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).

Cetraro

According to Fonti a manager of Enea paid the clan to get rid of 600 drums of toxic and radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the US, with Somalia as the destination, where the waste was buried after buying off local politicians.

Cherimoya

The first planting in Italy was in 1797, and it became a favored crop in the Province of Reggio Calabria.

Clodovero Ferri

A native of Cropani ,a little town in Calabria, Italy, Clodoveo Ferri graduated cum laude at the University of Pisa and later specialized in internal medicine and rheumatology.

Comuni of the Province of Lucca

The following is a list of the 35 comuni of the Province of Lucca, Tuscany, in Italy.

Drava

The Drava flows through Innichen/San Candido in Italy, Lienz, Spittal an der Drau, Villach, and Ferlach in Austria, Dravograd, Vuzenica, Muta, Ruše, Maribor, Ptuj, and Ormož in Slovenia, Varaždin and Osijek in Croatia, and Barcs in Hungary, being navigable for about 90 km from Čađavica in Croatia to its outfall.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

Fernando Fernández de Córdova, 2nd Marquis of Mendigorría

In May 1849 he was sent to Italy to help to protect Pope Pius IX against the Italian Revolution of 1848.

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis

After the war he returned to Italy to complete his studies in engineering at the University of Turin.

Georgi Milanov

On 7 September 2012, Milanov scored his first international goal in a 2–2 home draw against Italy during 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale

A change of scene being deemed necessary to insure his recovery, he obtained, through Dr. Batty, the post of medical attendant to Edward, fifth earl of Oxford, who was then on a tour in Italy.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

James Tont operazione U.N.O.

James Tont operazione U.N.O. or Operation Goldsinger is a 1965 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond directed by Bruno Corbucci.

Juan Cruz Gill

In 2011, he traveled to Venezuela and signed for Estudiantes de Mérida and the next year, Cruz Gill returned to Chile and joined to Primera B side Unión Temuco, team of the Chilean star Marcelo Salas, who currently is retired after a successful career at his country Argentine and Italy.

Leon Golub

While in Italy, both Golub and Spero were profoundly influenced by the figurative works of Etruscan and Roman art, whose narratives addressed ancient themes of power and violence.

Louis I of Hungary

The Renaissance style came directly from Italy during the Quattrocento to Hungary foremost in the Central European region.

Ludwig Hans Fischer

A pupil, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, of Eduard von Lichtenfels in painting, of Louis Jacoby in engraving, and of William Unger in etching, he completed his studies traveling in Italy, Spain, North Africa, Egypt, and India, and afterwards settled in Vienna.

Marxism–Leninism

However, that was followed by a brief Allied military intervention by the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and others against the Bolsheviks.

Mentonasc dialect

It is still spoken by a minority (approximately 10%) in the city of Menton and in the following municipalities: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Castellar, Castillon, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès and Sospel, near the border with Italy.

Monte Civetta

Monte Civetta (3,220 m) is a mountain in the Dolomites, in the Province of Belluno in northern Italy.

Nicola Francesco Haym

His career began as a cellist in Italy, and he arrived in London in 1701: he swiftly became master of the 2nd Duke of Bedford's chamber music.

Pepe Oriola

He left the first round in Italy in a three way tie for first place in the Yokohama Trophy with Stefano D'Aste and Alex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one.

Piero Calamandrei

The German general Albert Kesselring who was responsible for various war crimes during the Nazi occupation of Italy had been sentenced to death, a sentence that was later commuted.

Poeticon astronomicon

The Poeticon astronomicon was not formally published until 1482, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, Italy.

Polish Cemetery at Casamassima

The cemetery is maintained by the municipality of Casamassima and the Polish Honorary Consul General in Bari, Italy.

Quattro pezzi sacri

The first performance in Italy, again without the Ave Maria, was conducted in Turin on 26 May 1898 by Arturo Toscanini who had talked to Verdi.

Red Hill filling station

Noyes may have been inspired by the design by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen for Skovshoved Petrol Station in 1936, German designer Lothar Gotz's new garage in Wiesbaden from the 1950s, and the distinctive forecourt fittings used by AGIP in Italy in the 1960s.

Roberto Sabatino Lopez

He taught for many years at Yale University as a Sterling Professor of History with a great passion also for the history of the Commons in Italy and Europe in general.

Sallie Wilson

She then choreographed two ballets,Pandora's Box and Eve, in Italy for her fellow ballerina and longtime friend Carla Fracci.

Santa Maria in Organo

The church's origin dates to the 6th–8th century, at the time of the Ostrogoth and Lombard dominations in Italy.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Seventh Municipality of Naples

The Seventh Municipality (In Italian: Settima Municipalità or Municipalità 7) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Sir William Fitzherbert, 1st Baronet

After leaving Paris they visited the major cities of Italy, including Rome and Florence, where Fitzherbert commissioned portraits of himself and his companion from Thomas Patch and Pompeo Batoni respectively.

Soldo

It quickly became widespread in Italy where it was coined in Genoa, Bologna and numerous other cities.

Sustainable Tourism CRC

: The University has a total of eight campuses, and also a centre in Prato, Italy.

The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Foscolo's work was also inspired by the political events that occurred in Northern Italy during the Napoleonic period, when the Treaty of Campoformio forced Foscolo to go into exile from Venice to Milan.

The Symphonic Ellington

Recorded at Salle Wagram, Paris on January 31, 1963 (tracks 3 & 6), at Solna-Sundbyberg, Sweden on February 8, 1963 (tracks 1 & 2), at Hamburg, Germany on February 14, 1963 (track 4) and at at Studio Zanibelli, Milan, Italy on February 21, 1963 (track 5).

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2013

In Trentino, where the President is elected directly by the people, Ugo Rossi (Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, supported also by the Democratic Party, the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party and other minor parties) was elected by a landslide (58.1%).

We Begin

“The Melancholy of Departure” takes its title from a 1916 work by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.