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2001 In Italy
Events from the year 2001 in Italy. Incumbents * President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi * Prime Minister: Giuliano Amato (until 11 June), Silvio Berlusconi (starting 11 June) Events * 21 February - ** Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano arrested in Sicily after 38 years on the run. ** Novi Ligure Murder: a mother and child are murdered in Novi Ligure. * 13 May - a general election is held and is won by Silvio Berlusconi. * 20 July–22 July - 27th G8 summit held in Genoa. * 20 July - an anti-globalisation protester at the G8 summit is shot dead by police. * 8 October - Linate Airport disaster: Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686 crashes at Linate Airport in Milan killing 118. * 15 December - The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. *December - The Fiat Stilo is launched to replace the outdated Brava/Bravo. Undated * De-Javu, an Italian house duo is founded. * Editoria & Spettacolo publishing house is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 In Italy
Events from the year 1906 in Italy. Kingdom of Italy *Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946) *Prime Minister – *# Alessandro Fortis (1905–1906) *# Sidney Sonnino (1906) *# Giovanni Giolitti (1906–1909) *Population – 33,718,000 Events The Italian film industry takes shape, led by three major organizations: Cines, founded in 1906 in Rome; and the Turin-based companies Ambrosio Film, founded by pioneering filmmaker Arturo Ambrosio in 1906, and Itala Film. Other companies soon followed in Milan and Naples, and these early companies quickly attained a respectable production quality and were able to market their products both within Italy and abroad. Giosuè Carducci is the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906 "not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces". January * January 9 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto II Of Italy
en, Albert Nicholas Thomas John Maria of Savoy , house = Savoy , father = Victor Emmanuel III of Italy , mother = Princess Elena of Montenegro , birth_date = , birth_place = Racconigi, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy , death_date = , death_place = Geneva, Switzerland , burial_place = Hautecombe Abbey, France , religion = Roman Catholicism , signature = UmbertoII.signature.png , signature_alt = Umberto II of Italy signature Umberto II, full name Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia (15 September 190418 March 1983), was the last King of Italy. He reigned for 34 days, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946, although he had been ''de facto'' head of state since 1944 and was nicknamed the May King ( it, Re di Maggio). Umberto was the only son among the five children of King Victor Emmanuel III and Queen Elena. In an effort to repair the monarchy's image after the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime, Victor Emmanuel transferred his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-José Of Belgium
Marie-José of Belgium (Marie-José Charlotte Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle; 4 August 1906 – 27 January 2001) was the last List of Italian queens, Queen of Italy. Her 34-day tenure as queen consort earned her the nickname "the May Queen". Early life Princess Marie-José was born in Ostend, the youngest child of Albert I of Belgium, King Albert I of the Belgians and his consort, Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876–1965), Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria. Through her mother she was a grandniece of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and of Maria Sophie of Bavaria, last queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. During the First World War, she was evacuated to England where she was a boarding school, boarding pupil at the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School in Brentwood, Essex. She later attended the College of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy, where she first met her future husband. In 1924, Marie-José attended her first court ball. For the occasion she was given an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Italy
Events in the year 2013 in Italy. Incumbents *President: Giorgio Napolitano *Prime Minister: Mario Monti (until 28 April), Enrico Letta (starting 28 April) Events *January 4: The plane carrying Italian stylist Vittorio Missoni crashes in the ocean near Los Roques, Venezuela. *February 11: Benedict XVI announced his resignation as Pope *February 12–16: Marco Mengoni won the Sanremo Music Festival. *February 25: In the general election centre-left coalition led by Pier Luigi Bersani won an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies but in the Senate no party won an outright majority. The anti-establishment Five Star Movement, led by Beppe Grillo, became the first party of the country with 25.5% of votes. *March 13: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio his elected Pope with the name of Francis. *April 2: Zafferana Etnea, a small tourist town in the province of Catania, was covered in ash after Mount Etna erupted. *April 20: Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected President with 738 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Traversa
Tito may refer to: People Mononyms * Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), commonly known mononymously as Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman *Roberto Arias (1918–1989), aka Tito, Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat, and journalist *Tito (footballer, born 1943), full name Nílton Rosa, Brazilian football forward *Terry Francona (born 1959), nicknamed Tito after his father, baseball manager with Cleveland Guardians * Tito (footballer, born 1946), full name Tito José da Costa Santos, Portuguese footballer * Tito (footballer, born 1980), full name Bruno Miguel Areias de Sousa, Portuguese footballer *Tito (footballer, born May 1985), full name Alberto Ortiz Moreno, Spanish footballer *Tito (footballer, born July 1985), full name Roberto Román Triguero, Spanish footballer Family name *Dennis Tito (born 1940), American businessman and astronaut * Diego Quispe Tito (1611–1681), Peruvian painter *Ettore Tito (1859–1941), Italian painter *Paul Tito (born 1978), New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MolecularLab
MolecularLab is an Italian website of science, specialized in science, biotechnology, molecular biology, with news, forums, and events. With over 4 million page views in May 2009 it is the most visited Italian science webzine. Purpose MolecularLab has several objectives: * Providing the latest news and important discoveries in the biotechnology, medical, and molecular fields * Developing the building of a community, allowing the encounter and cultural exchange among researchers, teachers, and companies * Deepening techniques of molecular biology and cellular technologies with an educational section for university students, enriched with video and interactive animations History The site was founded in 2001 with the publication of notes from a degree course. In 2003 the Molecularlab.it site was created and then has gradually added new features: to the didactics was added daily news and then a community. It was the first news organization specializing on Italian science daily. One o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editoria & Spettacolo
The Italian publishing house ''Editoria & Spettacolo di Maximilian La Monica I.i.'' was established in 2001 in Rome. Under the initiative of Maximilian La Monica, they specialize in the publication of theater and spectacle editions. Authors Have been published or are published with Editoria & Spettacolo, among others, the following authors: * Fabio Acca (Italy) * Edoardo Albinati (Italy) * Barbara Alesse (Italy) * Alfonso Amendola (Italy) * Loula Anagnostaki (Greece) * Marino Stefano Angelucci (Italy) * Gian Maria Annovi (Italy) * Carla Romana Antolini (Italy) * Peter Asmussen (Denmark) * Simone Azzurrini (Italy) * Babilonia Teatri (Italy) * Maria Angela Baiardi (Italy) * Andrea Balzola (Italy) * Davide Barbato (Italy) * Nello Barile (Italy) * Alberto Bassetti (Italy) * Sergi Belbel (Spain) * Carmelo Bene (Italy) * Maria Teresa Berardelli (Italy) * Letizia Bernazza (Italy) * Paolo Bignami (Italy) * Peter Biskind (United States) * Paola Bono (Italy) * Guiller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music Duo
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra. Other music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as choirs and doo wop groups. In both popular music and classical music, there are ensembles in which both instrumentalists and singers perform, such as the rock band or the Baroque chamber group for basso continuo ( harpsichord and cello) and one or more singers. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families (such as piano, strings, and wind instruments) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles (e.g., string quartet) or wind ensembles (e.g., wind quintet). Some ensembles blend the sounds of a variety of instrument families, such as the orchestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Music
House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute. It was created by Disc jockey, DJs and music producers from Chicago metropolitan area, Chicago's underground Clubbing (subculture), club culture in the late 1970s, as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. House was pioneered by African Americans, African American DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music expanded to other American cities such as New York City and became a worldwide phenomenon. House has had a large effect on pop music, especially dance music. It was incorporated by major international pop artists including Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson ("Together Again (Janet Jackson song), Together Again"), Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys and Madonna ("Vogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De-Javu
De-Javu was an Italian house duo founded by Dario Melodia, Riccardo Piparo, Francesco Abbate and Alessandro Bunetto. Discography Singles "I Can't Stop" music video was released by Warner Music. References External links Entry for Galleon on Discogs.com Musical groups established in 2001 House music duos Italian musical duos Electronic dance music duos {{Italy-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
