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Calandra
Calandra may refer to: People * Alexander Calandra (1911–2006), American physicist and educator * Davide Calandra (1856–1915), Italian sculptor and cabinet maker * Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586–), Italian mosaic artist * Giuliana Calandra (1936–2018), Italian actor and television journalist * John D. Calandra (1928–1986), American lawyer and politician * Paul Calandra (born 1970), Canadian politician * Peter Calandra, American composer and pianist * Saúl Calandra (1904–1973), Argentine footballer * Thom Calandra (born 1956), American journalist and investor * Tommy Calandra (1941-1998), American guitarist, songwriter, record producer * Mauricio and Giuseppe Calandra, Italian musicians forming the duo Calandra & Calandra Other uses * 8967 Calandra, a main belt asteroid * ''Calandra'' (beetle), a genus of weevils * Calandra lark The calandra lark (''Melanocorypha calandra'') or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterrane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Calandra
Davide Calandra (21 October 1856 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian sculptor and cabinet maker. Biography Davide Calandra was born in Turin into a wealthy family. His father, besides his professional activities of lawyer and hydraulic engineer, was an archaeologist and a well known collector of ancient weapons. Davide's eldest brother, the writer Edoardo Calandra, was a prominent author who wrote the novel ''La bufera'', an example of historical fiction. After attending the Liceo Calandra followed the art lectures of the Accademia Albertina and then joined as a volunteer the cavalry where he attained the military rank of '' Sottotenente'' ( Sub-Lieutenant). In 1878 he worked with his father and his brother to an excavation of the Lombard archaeological site of Testona (Moncalieri). One of Calandra's first sculptures, ''Vigils of Penelope'', was displayed in 1880 at the Turin's Exhibition of Fine Arts. At the 1884 National Exhibition in Turin, he displayed three works: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Calandra
Alexander Calandra (January 12, 1911 – March 8, 2006) was a scientist, educator, and author, perhaps best remembered for his short story, "Angels on a Pin (101 Ways to Use a Barometer)." Early life and education Calandra was born in Brooklyn, New York to Rosina Calandra (née Gagliano) and Lucio Calandra, immigrants from Sicily. Calandra received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1935. He taught there while pursuing his PhD at NYU, where he received an MA in 1938. and a PhD in chemistry in 1940. Career Calandra was a visiting professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1948, acting as assistant to Enrico Fermi, at which time Calandra shifted the focus of his studies from chemistry to physics. During this period, Fermi was working on the nuclear bomb. Fermi brought Calandra to the attention of the Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton, and when Compton moved to St. Louis to become chancellor of Washington University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Calandra
Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586 - c. 1644) was an Italian mosaic artist in the Vatican. He was born at Vercelli in 1586. In the pontificate of Urban VIII, it was found that the dampness of St. Peter's materially affected canvases, and henceforth it was determined to remove the principal pictures, and to replace them with copies in mosaic, of which the first was executed by Calandra, after the ''St. Michael'' of Cesare D'Arpino. With this were ''The Four Doctors of the Church'', ''St. Peter'', ''St. Paul'', and others in the cupolas, after the cartoons of D'Arpino, Romanelli, Lanfranco, Sacchi, and Pellegrini. He also executed a ''Madonna'' after Raphael for the Christina, Queen of Sweden Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death a .... References * 1568 births 1640s d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliana Calandra
Giuliana Calandra (10 February 1936 – 25 November 2018) was an Italian film, television and stage actress, journalist and television hostess. Life and career Born in Moncalieri, Giuliana Calandra debuted in 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''La ricotta'' and appearing in hundreds of films, TV-series and stage works, including works by Dario Argento, Marco Ferreri, Alberto Sordi, Lina Wertmüller, Giorgio Albertazzi, Mario Monicelli, Costa-Gavras, Dino Risi, Sergio Corbucci, Alberto Lattuada. In the 1980s she started a parallel career as journalist and TV-author/presenter, mainly focusing on fashion and entertainment. Calandra died in Aprilia, Lazio, Aprilia on 25 November 2018, at the age of 82. Selected filmography * ''La calandria (1972 film), La calandria'' (1972) - Venegonda * ''Love and Anarchy'' (1973) * ''Story of a Cloistered Nun'' (1973) * ''All Screwed Up'' (1974) - Biki * ''The Beast (1974 film), The Beast'' (1974) - Amalia * ''Terminal'' (1974) * ''La nottata'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John D
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Calandra
Paul A. Calandra (born May 13, 1970) is a Canadian politician who has served as a minister in the Ontario provincial cabinet since 2019. Calandra has been the government house leader for the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party since 2019, minister of legislative affairs since 2021 and minister of long-term care since 2022. Calandra represents Markham—Stouffville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He previously sat in the federal House of Commons from 2008 to 2015 for the Conservative Party, serving as a parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2013 to 2015. In the 2015 federal election, he was a candidate in the Markham—Stouffville riding, created as a result of the federal electoral redistribution of 2012, and was defeated by Jane Philpott. Education Calandra studied history with a minor in political science at Carleton University. His claim on his campaign website in 2007 to have "complet(ed) full-time university studies" was controversial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Calandra
Peter Calandra is a New York City-based composer and pianist. He is known for his work composing music for television and film as well as conducting and playing piano in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. The former includes the FIFA Men's and FIFA Women's World Cup themes for FOX Sports and, starting 2015, the themes for the Special Olympics World Games and Invictus Games for ESPN, in film, ''13th Child'' (2002), ''Unknown Soldier'' (2004), ''Jellysmoke'' (2005), and '' BearCity 2: The Proposal'' (2012). He has also composed the music for the Kennedy Center Honors. On Broadway, Calandra has played keyboard for ''Miss Saigon'', ''Les Misérables'', and ''The Phantom of the Opera''. He performed in and served as conductor and musical director for the original New York City production of '' Little Shop of Horrors''. In his career as a pianist, he has performed with musical artists and orchestras including Aretha Franklin, The New York Pops, jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saúl Calandra
Saúl H. Calandra (22 October 1904 – 14 May 1973) was an Argentine football (soccer) midfielder who competed in the 1928 Olympic games. He was a member of the Argentine team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He was also a runner up in the 1927 Copa Lipton. Calandra played club football with Estudiantes de La Plata Club Estudiantes de La Plata ( lit. "Students from La Plata"), simply referred to as Estudiantes de La Plata , is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, wh .... References 1904 births 1973 deaths Footballers from La Plata Argentine men's footballers Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Argentina Olympic silver medalists for Argentina Argentina men's international footballers Estudiantes de La Plata footballers Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's association football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Calandra
Thom Calandra (born June 8, 1956, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist, stock investor, and the former editor-in-chief and chief commentator for ''CBS MarketWatch'' from 1996 to January 2004, until his investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Calandra writes for a number of other publications including the revived ''The Calandra Report''. Early life and career Calandra studied English and journalism at the University of Arizona and English literature from City University of New York at Brooklyn College. Calandra was a financial columnist for ''The San Francisco Examiner'' and a London-based editor and columnist for ''Bloomberg News'' in Europe. He was also the online financial editor of '' USAToday.com'', and has contributed to a number of other publications. In 1996, he co-founded MarketWatch, formerly known as DBC News, and served as the founding editor-in-chief. He moved to London in April 2000 and began a joint venture with the ''Financial Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Calandra
Tommy Calandra (November 25, 1941 – July 19, 1998) was an American music songwriter, performer, producer, recording engineer and mentor. Bass player for Raven, writer of Buffalo radio jingles, founder of BCMK Recording Studios and BCMK Records. Early life Calandra was born in Buffalo, NY, the youngest of ten children, born to Dominic and Carmella Middione Calandra. Both of his parents were born in Italy. His father died when he was three years old. He is a graduate of Lafayette High School. As a teenager, he began playing drums and piano and later bass guitar and joined the band Sonic Tones. Career Calandra learned to play the Fender Bass and began playing around Buffalo with a band named Royal Flames. He joined a band called the Premiers and in 1961 joined Stan and the Ravens. Then he played with the Rising Sons, a blues band that played at the Inferno at Glen Park in Williamsville, NY. With the help of disc jockey Joey Reynolds, they recorded and released a record on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calandra & Calandra
Calandra & Calandra are an Italian musical duo formed by the two brothers Maurizio Calandra ( Alcamo, 1 October 1969) and Giuseppe Calandra ( Alcamo, 7 April 1960); the duo has been active since the 1990s. Biography In 2006 Calandra & Calandra performed a modern reinterpretation of Sicilian folk and popular music with other musical influences. In 2014 they produced and realized the event ''Premio Internazionale Tenchiu’ Sicily'', later endorsed by the Regional Department of Culture. Recently, in April 2017, they were the winners of the ''VideoFestival Città di Imperia 2017'' with the best videoclip (prize given by the Lord Mayor of Imperia) Prizes and acknowledgments * Contest La Canzone dell'Estate 2013; “Ora Musica”, and the broadcasting of the song "Sicilianu Tipu Stranu'" * At the 2014 CortiSonanti Prize in Naples: Special Prize for the best photography, and the second place for the category Videoclip (with "Lu Matrimoniu"), after a video clip produced in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8967 Calandra
8967 Calandra, provisional designation ', is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 May 1971, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory, on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in California. It is named after the corn bunting ''(Emberiza calandra)''. Orbit and classification ''Calandra'' is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7–3.4 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (1,952 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.12 and an inclination of 10 ° with respect to the ecliptic. No precoveries were taken prior to its discovery. Survey designation The survey designation "T-1" stands for the first Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey, named after the fruitful collaboration of the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
