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38 unusual facts about Milán


Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria

The position made Rainer and his wife the head of the Austrian court at Milan.

Archeosophical Society

The principal groups were in Rome with adhering centers and Milan and probably Tuscany, in particular Pisa, where a group was founded by Renzo Bernadini (1923- 1973) in 1970, and Prato.

Borgholm Castle

During his reign, the Pahr brothers (four engineers and architects from Milan) led a significant rebuilding that took place from 1572.

Christine Atallah

Christine did her musical studies at Concordia University in Montreal and then went to Milan, where she trained and sang alongside some of Italy's great bel canto singers.

Club Dogo

Cosimo Fini, best known as Guè Pequeno, Il Guercio or Lucky Luciano (Milan, December 25, 1980), has been a member since 1999.

Cubana de Aviación accidents and incidents

The aircraft was due to operate a non-scheduled international Havana–MilanCologne passenger service as Flight 9646.

Dietrich-Bugatti

It won an award at the Milan Automobile Exhibition that year and gained the notice of the Baron de Dietrich.

Ellen Beach Yaw

Yaw made some grand opera appearances thereafter in Monte Carlo, including as Ophelia in Thomas' Hamlet in 1902 (her favorite role); Rome, where she sang the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in 1905 (under the name of Elena Elvanna at the Quirinal Theatre - she was the first American singer to make a successful operatic debut in Rome); Naples; Catalonia; and Milan.

Ferrari 166 Inter

It was an elegant coupe designed by Carrozzeria Touring of Milan who had previously created a number of similar Ferrari and Alfa Romeo models.

Fiat APR.2

The cabin could carry 12 passengers, and at the time of its introduction on Ala Littoria's Milan-Turin-Paris route, it was believed to be the fastest airliner in regular service in the world.

Francesco Foscari

His task as doge was to lead Venice in a long and protracted series of wars against Milan, governed by the Visconti, who were attempting to dominate all of northern Italy.

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann

When the revolution of 1848 broke out, the "father of German nationality," as the provisional government at Milan called him, found himself the centre of universal interest.

FS Class E.428

When in the 1930s, in the course of the Fascist government's program of railways development, a new locomotive was needed to provide a fast service on the newly electrified Milan-Rome mainline at 3,000 V DC.

Giovanni II Valente

Confronted with the threat of a new civil war breaking out in the city and the prospect of foreign invasion, the council had to call for the support of the Viscontis of Milan.

Grete Prytz Kittelsen

As one of the leading artists of the Scandinavian Design movement, Kittelsen received several awards and honors in the 1950s, including the Lunning Prize in 1952, and the 1954 Grand Prix at the Triennale in Milan for her enamel collection.

Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro

In 1465 he moved to Milan, where he was in charge of the celebrations for the wedding of Eleonora d'Aragona with the Duke of Bari.

Heinkel He 70

Swissair received a few Heinkel He-70s for express trans-alpine flights between Zurich and Milan in 1934.

Humbert Wolfe

Wolfe was born in Milan, Italy, and came from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff, being of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian.

I Might Be Wrong

The song was first played live as a set-closer in Villa Reale in Milan, Italy, on 19 June 2000, and has become a live favourite.

Junkers J.I

Additionally, one Junkers J.I fuselage exists, at the Science & Technology National Museum in Milan, Italy.

La sonrisa etrusca

The book tell the story of a tough old farmer from southern Italy, who often takes pride at his time served as a partisan during the war, who now had to move in with his son and daughter in law living in Milan due to a serious medical condition.

Legacoop

The Federazione Nazionale delle Cooperative was founded in 1886 in Milan by delegates representing cooperative enterprises.

Lothar Fischer

Then in 1973 he had a solo exhibition in the Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan.

Luigi Cremona

His first appointment was as elementary mathematical master at the gymnasium and lyceum of Cremona, and he afterwards obtained a similar post at Milan.

Luigi dal Verme

After fighting in the war between the Republic of Florence and Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, the latter give him the title of count and several fiefs.

Milan-National Level Cultural festival of SRM University

Vijayakanth was the special attraction in the next edition and in 2011 Milan, M. Balamuralikrishna, Vikram (actor) were the guest of honor and Chief guest respectively.

Milan, New Mexico

Students continue on to Los Alamitos Middle School and Grants High School.

Milan, New Orleans

A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Toledano Street and Louisiana Avenue to the east, St. Charles Avenue to the south and Napoleon Avenue to the west.

Milan, Ohio

The original canal route can be observed and followed today along the Erie MetroParks "Huron River Greenway."

MT explosive motorboat

The one-pilot vessels were built by the companies Baglietto of Varazze and CABI of Milan, which was also to supply the engines.

Paolo Grassi

The Scuola d'arte drammatica Paolo Grassi ("School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi") in Milan is named in his honor.

Parco di Monza Challenge

The Parco di Monza Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that was played in 2006 at Golf Club Milano in Monza near Milan, Italy.

Sappy

The final live performance of the song was at a February 1994 concert in Milan, Italy.

Sylloge

The author of the Laureshamensis traversed the peninsula between Rome and Ivrea, passing through Milan, Pavia, Piacenza, Ravenna, Spoleto and Vercelli.

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).

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (German: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien - in short: VUW) was founded in 1767 as the world's third school for veterinary medicine (after Lyon and Alfort) by Milan's Ludovico Scotti, originally named k. k. Pferde-Curen- und Operationsschule (literally, "Imperial-Royal School for the Cure and Surgery of Horses").

Versum de Mediolano civitate

The Versum de Mediolano civitate ("Verse of the City of Milan") or Versus in laudem mediolanensis civitatis ("Verse in Praise of the City of Milan") is an early medieval Latin verse encomium (praise) of Milan, written anonymously around 738, during the era of the Lombard Kingdom.

William Ralph Merton

Since German mines could not satisfy the country's metal requirements, the company rapidly developed extensive relations abroad and within a short time Metallgesellschaft was represented in such cities as Basel, Amsterdam, Milan, Brussels, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris.


2000 Milan – San Remo

The 2000 Milan – San Remo was the 91st edition of the monument classic Milan – San Remo bicycle race and was won by Erik Zabel of Team Telekom.

Achille Cattaneo

His works were shown at the Venice Biennale (Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia) in 1924, 1926 and 1928 and in Milan (Esposizione Nazionale di Milano) in 1925 and 1927.

Aisha Duo

The members are Andrea Dulbecco (Vibraphone) and Luca Gusella (Marimba), Italian musicians who began working together after being in the same percussion class at the Conservatory of Milan.

Anarchism in Brazil

Most anarchist newspaper issues can be found in the Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth in Campinas, but there are also examplars in other Brazilian archives, in Milan and in the IISH in Amsterdam.

Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Armando Bini

From there a career blossomed that took him to sing in many theaters throughout Italy, including Florence (National Theater), Milan, Bari and Pisa.

Aureolus

In any event, Postumus ignored his invitation and Aureolus, unsupported by the Gallic usurper, was defeated by Gallienus in a battle on the River Adda east of Milan at a place known for centuries as Pontirolo (from Latin Pons Aureoli i.e. 'The Bridge of Aureolus').

Aurora Pro Patria 1919

On January 3, 2013, the club was hosting A.C. Milan in a friendly, when the crowd aimed racist chants at A.C. Milan players, including M'Baye Niang, Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng.

Banda della Comasina

Along with Vallanzasca, the most famous members of the band were: Antonio Colia, Rossano Cochis, Vito Pesce, Claudio Gatti, Carlo Carluccio and Antonio Furiato, the latter two died in gun battles with policemen, respectively, in Piazza Vetra in Milan, during a visit to a robbery and the motorway A4 exit Dalmine, while the banda, to complete, was organizing the kidnapping of a businessman from Bergamo.

Benedetto Erba Odescalchi

As Archbishop of Milan he focused on pastoral activities, taking as examples Saint Charles Borromeo and Pope Innocent XI.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Bruno Coppi

In 1959 Coppi attained a PhD at the Milan Polytechnic Institute and was subsequently a docent and research scientist at the Polytechnic Institute and the University of Milan.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

Danilo Madonia

During a piano bar evening he befriended the Genoese musician Bob Callero, the bass player of the 1970s prog bands (Osage Tribe and Duello Madre, and played with the artists Lucio Battisti, Patty Pravo and Loredana Berte, Callero offered Madonia a chance to go to Milan and start a tour as keyboard player for Eugenio Finardi in 1982.

Demetrio Albertini

Albertini, born in Besana in Brianza, province of Monza e Brianza, emerged as a product of AC Milan's youth system, and went on to spend 14 highly successful years with the club after debuting as a 17-year-old in 1989.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Domenico Piccichè

Among his musical partners, soprano Arpiné Rahdjian, violist Demetrio Comuzzi, cellists Luca Pincini and Giorgio Gasbarro (first cellist at Palermo Teatro Massimo), dancer Oriella Dorella (étoile at Teatro alla Scala, Milan).

Draka Holding

In 2009, Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian, based in Milan, made a takeover offer for Draka, but doubts began to emerge in August.

Eugenio Finardi

Together they even emulated the US film Easy Rider by travelling on motorbikes from Milan to Amsterdam.

Federico Ghizzoni

Ghizzoni also sits on the management board at the Bank Austria and is the chairman of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Association in Milan.

Gastone Moschin

Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), he began his career in the 1950s as theatre actor, first with the Stable Theater in Genoa and then with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Milan.

Gian Luca Rossi

He has worked with newspapers Tuttosport, Il Giorno, the monthly Milan-Inter derby and, since 2004, following F.C. Inter also on Antenna 3.

House of Carrillo

Marquis Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1659 and 1664), Governor of Milan, Spanish general and political figure.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

In 1789, Augustinian Carlo Amoretti, Italian Encyclopedist and librarian of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, discovered the authentic Italian manuscript of Antonio Pigafetta among the scattered holdings of the library.

Jean de Reszke

He sang as a boy in Warsaw's cathedral and later studied law at the city's university; but after a few years he abandoned his legal training and went to Milan in Italy to study voice.

Ludovico Tommasi

After his military service in Milan between 1888 and 1891, Tommasi and his brother Angiolo frequented the cultural circle that gravitated around Giacomo Puccini at Torre del Lago, and it was here that he came into contact with several exponents of the Tuscan artistic avant-garde, including Galileo Chini and Oscar Ghiglia.

Marcello Dell'Utri

On May 15, 2007, the Appeal Court in Milan sentenced Dell'Utri and Mafia boss Vincenzo Virga to two years each for attempted extortion of Trapani Basket Ball team by Publitalia, the Fininvest concessionaire.

Mericanel della Brianza

The Mericanel della Brianza is named after the Brianza, a hilly geographical area which extends to the north and north-east of Milan, in the provinces of Monza e della Brianza, Lecco and Como, with a small part of the province of Milan.

Michelino Molinari da Besozzo

Michelino's last known work is the fresco with the Procession of the Magi in the church of Santa Maria di Podone of Milan and fragments in the Rocca Borromeo di Angera (1445–1446).

Milan Dinčić

On the show, Milan Dinčić was given the nickname "Dinča", because there were two "Milans" - Milan Dinčić and Milan Stanković.

Milan, Michigan

A Federal Bureau of Prisons prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI), is in adjacent York Charter Township.

New Italian Epic

In March 2009 the PhD programme Planetary Collegium M-Node, along with the School of Media Design and Multimedia Arts of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan organised the symposium ‘New Italian (Media) Epic’, with the presence of Wu Ming 1, Derrick De Kerckhove, Pier Luigi Capucci, Francesco Monico, and many others including film-makers, artists and media theorists.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Pietro Giordani

He traveled a great deal and settled, at various times, in Piacenza, Bologna and, finally, in Milan, where he became an editor, along with Vincenzo Monti, Giuseppe Acerbi and the geologist Scipione Breislak, of the classicist magazine La Biblioteca Italiana.

Pioltello-Limito railway station

Pioltello-Limito is served by the lines S5 and S6 of Milan suburban railway network, by the regional trains MilanBrescia, and by the RegioExpress trains MilanBergamo and MilanVerona.

Railway stations in Milan

For eleven years, this station served as the terminus of the Milan–Treviglio railway, which is the Lombard section of the Milan-Venice railway.

Stefano Casertano

After collaborations with Italian newspapers such as MF Milano Finanza, Finanza & Mercati, Il Tempo, Aspenia, Limes and others, Casertano joined Milan-based business newspaper Linkiesta in 2010, as international correspondent.

The Blonde Salad

The Blonde Salad is a fashion blog created and run by Chiara Ferragni (born 7 May 1987), an occasional fashion writer and model who attends Bocconi University in Milan as a full-time law student.

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.

Une semaine de bonté

A few of Ernst's sources were identified: these include illustrations from an 1883 novel by Jules Mary, Les damnées de Paris, and possibly a volume of works by Gustave Doré Ernst purchased in Milan.

Violette Verdy

She went on to dance with Les Ballets de Paris (1950; 1953–1954), the London Festival Ballet (1954–1955), La Scala, Milan (1955–1956), and the American Ballet Theatre (1956–1957).

William Candidus

Subsequently he studied under Rouchetti (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti?), of Milan, and in 1880 became a member of the opera at Frankfort am Main, where he remained until the autumn of 1885, when he joined the American Opera Company.

Xavier Vilanova i Montiu

Subsequently, following his family’s advice he moved to Paris to specialize in dermatology at the Hospital Saint Louis, then stayed for a period in Strasbourg and Milan where he received training from other leading scientists.

Yahel Chirinian

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