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Sciarra
Sciarra is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra (1708–1763), Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family *Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707–1765), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano * Daniele Sciarra (born 1991), Italian footballer *Emiliano Sciarra (born 1971), Italian game designer *John Sciarra (born 1954), American football player * John Sciarra, Jr., American football player *Laurent Sciarra (born 1973), French basketball player * Mark Sciarra (born 1954), American retired professional wrestler, known as Rip Rogers *Maurizio Sciarra (born 1955), Italian film director *Paul Sciarra, American Internet entrepreneur *Silvana Sciarra (born 1948), Italian judge ; In fiction *Lucia Sciarra, fictional character of the 2015 British spy film ''Spectre'' See also * Sciarra Colonna (1270–1329), Italian member of the powerful Colonna family *Villa Sciarra (Rome) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sciarra
John Michael Sciarra (born March 2, 1954) is a former professional American football safety in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1978 to 1983. He also played receiver for the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League. He played college football at UCLA. Off the field in 1977, John Sciarra established a career in qualified retirement plan administration, as a Third Party Administrator (TPA). He formed National Retirement Services, Inc. ("NRS") in 2001. He sold NRS in 2016 and is currently a consultant and conference speaker for a wide range of businesses and industries. Early years Sciarra was born in Los Angeles, CA the youngest of three children. His parents, Edith and John J Sciarra, raised John and his two older sisters in Alhambra, CA. John attended Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, California, where he was a National Honor Society student and starred in both football and baseball. He was named the CIF Southern Sect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sciarra
Paul Sciarra (born c. 1981) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Pinterest. Early life Sciarra was born circa 1981. He graduated from Yale University. Career Sciarra worked at venture capital firm Radius Ventures, LLC. In 2008 he quit his job, along with Ben Silbermann, to create Cold Brew Labs. That same year, Sciarra, Silbermann and Evan Sharp launched Pinterest, and Sciarra became the President and CEO. In 2012, he left the company but remained on as an advisor. After leaving Pinterest, Sciarra took a role as an entrepreneur-in-residence at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. In 2014, he became executive chairman of Joby Aviation, after making its first outside investment. Personal life Sciarra resides in San Francisco, California. According to ''Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectre (2015 Film)
''Spectre'' is a 2015 spy film and the twenty-fourth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. Directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan, and Jez Butterworth, it stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes. In the film, Bond learns of Spectre, an international crime organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Waltz). Despite initially stating he would not direct ''Spectre'', Mendes confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicolas Winding Refn declined to direct; Mendes became the first to direct successive ''James Bond'' films since John Glen. The inclusion of Spectre and its associated characters marked the end of the ''Thunderball'' controversy, in which Kevin McClory and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel; ''Spectre'' is the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Sciarra (Rome)
Villa Sciarra is a park in Rome named for the villa at its centre. It is located between the neighborhoods of Trastevere, Gianicolo and Monteverde Vecchio. __NOTOC__ Location The best approach is from Viale Trastevere. At the Ministry of Education turn onto Via E. Morosini, then take the first left (Via Dandolo) to make the climb and turn left at Via Calandrelli. In Via Calandrelli there are two entrances which are the first giving on to Piazzale Wurts, designed by Pio Piacentini and the second at Largo E. Mintilli. History In 1653 Cardinal Antonio Barberini bought most of the land within the Janiculum walls between Porta Portese and Porta San Pancrazio to build an estate mainly used as a farm. In 1811 the property was acquired by the Colonna di Sciarra, who gave the villa its current name and enlarged it by acquiring the land belonging to Monastero di San Cosimato. In the 1880s Prince Maffeo Sciarra Colonna went bankrupt and the estate was split and a large part of it became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girolamo Colonna Di Sciarra
Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra (8 May 1708 – 18 January 1763) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family. Biography Born in Rome, he was the brother of Prospero Colonna di Sciarra and grand-uncle of Benedetto Barberini, who, after the merger of the Barberini and Colonna families, was also referred to as Benedetto Barberini Colonna di Sciarra. He was a distant relative of Oddone Colonna, who was elected to the papacy as Pope Martin V. He was also lay abbot of Santa Maria in Sylvis, in Friuli. Between 1756 and his death at Rome in 1763, he was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church The Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church is an office of the papal household that administers the property and revenues of the Holy See. Formerly, his responsibilities included the fiscal administration of the Patrimony of Saint Peter. As regul .... References 1708 births 1763 deaths Girolamo Nobility from Rome 18th-century Italian cardinals Clergy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Sciarra
Laurent Sciarra (born 8 August 1973) is a former French professional basketball player. Professional career Sciarra began his professional career in 1990, with Hyères-Toulon Var Basket, and he moved to Paris Basket Racing in 1993. He played with PBR until 1997, when he was a member of the club's French League championship season. Sciarra then moved abroad for one season, playing with Ciudad de Huelva in Spain, and Pallacanestro Treviso in Italy, before returning to Paris. In 2001, Sciarra again moved abroad, and spent a season with Panionios in Greece. Following two more seasons with Paris Basket Racing, Sciarra played with the French club BCM Gravelines, for one season. In 2005, he began to play with the French club JDA Dijon, where he stayed until his transfer to French club Entente Orléanaise 45, in 2008. National team career Sciarra played internationally for the senior men's French national basketball team. He was a member of France's silver-medal winning squad at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiliano Sciarra
Emiliano Sciarra (born December 6, 1971 in Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy) is a game designer of board games, card games and videogames. He is the author of '' Bang!'', a Wild West themed card game published by daVinci Editrice. Biography He has been fascinated by games since when he was 12 years old, and he wrote simple board games and word games for his schoolmates and relatives. In the same time he also showed interest in computers (years later he earned a degree in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome). In 1988 he published his first game: a shoot 'em up videogame for the Commodore 64 called ''Ciuffy'' (Systems Editoriale), created using the software '' SEUCK'' by Sensible Software. Starting from 1999 he wrote several reviews, games and articles for the magazine ''PowerKaos'' and the fanzine ''Un'Altra Cosa'', along with a brief "Little Informal Dictionary of Computer Science" (''Piccolo Dizionario Informale di Informatica''). His topics included logic puzzles, origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Sciarra
Silvana Sciarra (born 24 July 1948) is an Italian jurist and academic. She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 11 November 2014 and serves as its president since 20 September 2022. Career Sciarra was born in Trani. She taught European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute between 1994 and 2003. She was a professor of labour law at the University of Florence and the University of Siena before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian Parliament on 6 November 2014. In the parliamentary election she obtained 630 out of a necessary 570 votes. She was sworn in on 11 November 2014. She is the first woman elected by the Italian Parliament as a Judge of the Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sciarra Colonna
Giacomo Colonna (1270-1329), more commonly known by his bynames Sciarrillo or Sciarra, was a member of the powerful Colonna family. He is most famous for attacking Pope Boniface VIII and for crowning Louis IV of Germany as Holy Roman Emperor. The feud between the Colonna and Pope Boniface VIII The Colonna family, Colonna were a powerful family in papal Rome and constant - but unsuccessful - contenders in papal elections. The stalemate between the Colonna and the Orsini family, Orsini led to the election of Pope Celestine V, who quickly abdicated, and then Pope Boniface VIII Pope Boniface VIII ( la, Bonifatius PP. VIII; born Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 – 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. The Caetani, Caetani family was of b ... in 1294. The new pope, who hailed from the relatively obscure Caetani family, looked for opportunities to enlarge his family's power base, and found one in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospero Colonna Di Sciarra
Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (17 January 1707 – 20 April 1765) was an Italian Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano. He was the brother of cardinal Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra. Biography He was named Cardinal-Deacon in the consistory of 9 September 1743 by Pope Benedict XIV, who granted him dispention for having brother in the College of Cardinals and for not having received the minor orders. He was ordained deacon only in 1745. He acted as prefect of the Apostolic Signature of Grace. He participated in the Papal conclave, 1758. During its celebration he received nomination to the post of Protector of the Kingdom of France (on 9 June 1758).Ludwig von Pastor ''History of the Popes vol. XXXVI'', London 1941, p.151 He died in Rome at the age of 58. Notes External links Consistory of September 9, 1743 18th-century Italian cardinals 1707 births 1765 deaths Colonna family, Prospero {{italy-RC-cardinal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Sciarra
Daniele Sciarra (born 12 July 1991 in Atri) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Chieti on loan from Serie B side Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim .... References External links * * 1991 births Living people Footballers from the Province of Teramo Italian men's footballers Men's association football forwards ASD Barletta 1922 players Delfino Pescara 1936 players ASD Real Agro Aversa players {{Italy-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sciarra
Mark Sciarra (born February 7, 1954) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Rip Rogers. Early life Sciarra was born in Seymour, Indiana on February 7, 1954. He graduated from Seymour High School in 1972 and went on to attend Indiana Central College, graduating in 1976. Sicarra worked as a teacher for a year before deciding to become a professional wrestler. Professional wrestling career Rip Rogers started wrestling in 1975. He formed the "Convertible Blondes" with Pez Whatley and Gary Royal in Angelo Poffo's International Championship Wrestling (ICW) and won the Tag Team Titles with Royal. As with The Fabulous Freebirds defending regional NWA tag team championships with any two of the three members, the Convertible Blondes also used the so-called " Freebird Rule" to defend the ICW Tag Team Championship in this manner. He left the ICW following a dispute with Angelo Poffo's son Randy Poffo, better known by his ring name Randy Savage. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
