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50 unusual facts about MILAN


Agnese del Maino

Agnese del Maino (c. 1401 – 13 December 1465) was a Milanese noblewoman and the mistress of Filippo Maria Visconti, the last legitimate Duke of Milan of the Visconti dynasty.

Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria

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

Borgholm Castle

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

Caproni Campini N.1

The other prototype is now on display at the Aeronautical Museum of Vigna di Valle near Rome and the ground testbed is at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

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.

Claudia Rusca

She probably wrote her Sacri concerti à 1–5 con salmi e canzoni francesi (Milan, 1630) for use in the monastery and similar female institutions.

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Cubana de Aviación accidents and incidents

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

David G. Sorensen

Sorensen's international exposure includes exhibits in Mexico city 1964, Basel 1974, Milan and Paris in 1975 and traveling exhibits between 1991-93 in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong.

Dietrich-Bugatti

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

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.

Gary Bertini

Gary studied music at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan, Italy, and at the Paris Conservatoire.

Georgia State Route 30

They travel through rural areas of the county and enter Milan, inside which the concurrency enters Telfair County.

Giovanni Battista Monteggia

He began training as a surgeon at age seventeen in Milan.

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.

Giuseppe Maggiolini

Giuseppe Maggiolini (13 November 1738 – 16 November 1814), himself a marquetry-maker (intarsiatore), was the pre-eminent cabinet-maker (ebanista) in Milan in the later 18th century.

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.

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.

International Commission on Occupational Health

The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), is an international non-governmental professional society, founded in Milan during the Expo 1906 as the Permanent Commission on Occupational Health.

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.

Lothar Fischer

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

Lucile Grahn

She had been appearing with the Paris 'Opera' Ballet; from 1839 to 1845, extending her audience base, Grahn danced in several cities, including London, St. Petersburg, and Milan.

Luigi Cremona

In 1848, when Milan and Venice rose against Austria, Cremona, then only seventeen, joined the ranks of the Italian volunteers.

Luigi dal Verme

When in 1447 the Ambrosian Republic was proclaimed, he joined Francesco Sforza in its defence, contributing to the latter's conquest of Milan.

Luigi Querena

A regular participant in the exhibitions of the Venice Academy, of which he became an honorary member in 1857, he also presented work at the exhibitions of the Brera Academy in Milan, the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in Genoa and the national exhibitions in Naples (1877), Turin (1880) and Milan (1881).

Massimo Campigli

His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the Letteratura magazine, frequenting avant-garde circles and making the acquaintance of Boccioni and Carrà.

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, Indiana

Gene White - Member of the 1954 Milan High School Indiana State Championship Basketball team.

Milan, Michigan

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

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."

O2 Global Network

O2 ("Oxygen") was founded in 1988 in Milan by Niels Peter Flint, Thierry Kazazian, Jorgi Scheicher, Jeremy Quinn and others.

Procaer Picchio

Production of the early, wooden Picchios was carried out by Procaer in Milan, but in the mid 1960s, Frati established General Avia as his own factory to build his designs, commencing with the F.15E.

Robert Förster

His career highlights have been wins in the final (Museo del Ghisallo-Milan) stage 21 of the Giro d'Italia 2006, and stage 15 (Motilla del Palancar – Ford factory, Almussafes) of the 2006 Vuelta.

Roberto Visconti

He was also related to Giovanni II Visconti, and already held a few benefices such as the Provost of Brivio and as the Archpriest of the Metropolitan Church of Milan.

Satyrus of Milan

Appointed prefect to one of the Roman provinces, he resigned his post when Ambrose became Archbishop of Milan in order to assume administration of the secular affairs of the archdiocese.

Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice

The proposed draft was then discussed at length at the United Nations Seventh Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Milan, Italy, in September 1985.

Stephen S. Harding

He died on February 12, 1891 in Milan, Ripley County, Indiana and was buried in the Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Indiana.

Striking clock

The clock of the Beata Vergine (later San Gottardo) in Milan, built around 1330, was one of the earliest recorded that struck the hours.

Sylloge

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

Tebaldi-Zari

The Zari brothers' factory in Bovisio Mombello, Milan, manufactured the Tebaldi-Zari prototype in 1919, but Breda soon bought both the prototype and the design rights to the aircraft from Zari.

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.

UFO sightings in Italy

In 2000, Roberto Pinotti published material regarding the so-called "Fascist UFO Files", which dealt with a flying saucer that had crashed near Milan in 1933 (some 14 years before the Roswell, New Mexico crash), and of the subsequent investigation by a never mentioned before Cabinet RS/33, that allegedly was authorized by Benito Mussolini, and headed by the Nobel scientist Guglielmo Marconi.

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, Padua – 8 April 1897, Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

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.

Yawata, Kyoto

The city was founded on November 1, 1977 and currently has a sister city in Milan, Ohio


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.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Angels Onlus

The 22nd of December 2008, the song 'Angels', wrote and interpreted by Princess Bee, during the football match 'A goal for the peace', held in San Siro stadium in Milan, has been the inn of football team 'Ambassadors of the Peace', made up by several worldwide football champions which have

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.

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.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

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

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

Fleur Jaeggy

In 1968 she went to Milan to work for the publisher Adelphi Edizioni and married Roberto Calasso.

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.

Giorgio Scerbanenco

As well as in Milan, the writer lived for a long period in Lignano Sabbiadoro, a town on the Adriatic Sea in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani (born 2 July 1772, Milan – 19 February 1832, Karlberg Palace) was an Italian ballet dancer.

Giovanni Stefano Menochio

He was successively superior of Cremona, Milan, and Genoa, rector of the Roman College, provincial of the provinces of Milan and Rome, assistant of Italy, and admonitor to the Fathers-General Caraffa and Piccolomini.

Giuseppe Pagano

In 1931, he moved to Milan to work for the architecture magazine La Casa Bella.

IDBUS

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

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.

Junkers J.I

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

Lamberto Caimi

During his career Laimi worked to films of different genres, often united from having Milan as set, including Eriprando Visconti's film debut A Milanese Story, Duccio Tessari's noir film La morte risale a ieri sera, Umberto Lenzi's poliziottesco Gang War in Milan, Carlo Lizzani's Storie di vita e malavita and Renato Pozzetto's directorial debut Saxofone.

Lila De Nobili

She went on to work on numerous collaborations with Luchino Visconti, working with him at the La Scala opera house in Milan, and Franco Zeffirelli, as well as working with Peter Hall.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

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.

Malpensa Aeroporto railway station

Malpensa Aeroporto railway station, or Malpensa Airport railway station, is located in the Terminal 1 of Malpensa Airport (IATA code: MXP) in Ferno, Varese, near Milan.

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.

Milan Dinčić

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

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.

New Pendolino

Developed by Alstom Ferroviaria, which inherited tilting technology (including that of the British Advanced Passenger Train) after its acquisition of former producer Fiat Ferroviaria, they are built at Alstom’s Savigliano plants, in Piedmont, as well as in Sesto San Giovanni near Milan (which will supply the traction converters).

Nordström's theory of gravitation

Nordström's theories arose at a time when several leading physicists, including Nordström in Helsinki, Max Abraham in Milan, Gustav Mie in Greifswald, Germany, and Albert Einstein in Prague, were all trying to create competing relativistic theories of gravitation.

Opta Sports

Opta Sports is a sports data company with headquarters in London and other offices in Leeds, Munich, Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Montevideo and Amsterdam.

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.

Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda

Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, best known simply as Ospedale Niguarda is largest and one of the most important hospitals in Milan, Italy.

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.

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes

Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Alvarez de Toledo, Count of Fuentes de Valdepero (Zamora, Spain, 1525 – Milan, Italy, 22 July 1610, aged 85) was a Spanish general and statesman.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

The film deals with the reconstruction of the Piazza Fontana bombing that took place in Milan December 12, 1969, and of the tragic events that ensued, from the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, which occurred in mysterious circumstances during an interrogation, to the death of the Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who had led the investigation.

Recombinant Immunotoxin Collaborative Group

The RICG was formed in 2005 and originally consisted of Dr Aldo Ceriotti and Dr M. Serena Fabbrini (IBBA, CNR, Milan), Professor Marco Colombatti (University of Verona), Professor Rodolfo Ippoliti (University of L'Aquila), Dr Alessandro Pini (University of Siena) and Drs David Flavell & Sopsamorn Flavell (University of Southampton Medical School & Leukaemia Busters).

Rodolfo Benini

at the University of Pavia (1897–1907) and at the Bocconi University of Milan (1905–1909).

Salting the earth

Later accounts of other saltings in the destructions of medieval Italian cities are now rejected as unhistorical: Padua by Attila (452)--perhaps in a parallel between Attila and the ancient Assyrians; Milan by Frederick Barbarossa (1162); and Semifonte by the Florentines (1202).

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.

Stephan Ebn

During the Amiche per l'Abruzzo Concert on 21 June 2009 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Stephan joined the stage with Gianna Nannini, Laura Pausini and others to benefit the victims of the earthquake in the Abruzzes.

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).

Thea Garrett

Recently Thea sang with famous Italian singer, Gigi D'Alessio on the opening night of his World tour in Rome and was again invited to sing in Milan, where this time Gigi accompanied Thea on his piano and let her sing one of his favorite songs as a soloist.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

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).