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    Pietro Nobile (born in Campestro (Capriasca), Switzerland, 11 November 1774 – Vienna, Austria, 7 November 1854) was an Austro-Hungarian Neoclassicist architect...
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    Technology under Peter von Nobile, and together with van der Nüll. In 1843, he became professor at the Vienna Academy. Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer was one...
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  • The nobiles (sg. nobilis, transl. 'noble', 'noteworthy') were members of a social rank in the Roman Republic indicating that one was "well known". This...
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    Theseus (Theseustempel). Along with the Burgtor, it was designed by Peter von Nobile. The Hall of Ceremonies and the Neue Burg make up the backdrop of the...
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  • Nobile Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte or Giuseppe Maria di Buonaparte (31 May 1713 – 13 December 1763) was a Corsican politician, best known as the paternal...
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    (alongside, among others, Peter von Nobile, Paul Wilhelm Eduard Sprenger and Carl Roesner), he and his friend August Sicard von Sicardsburg made extensive...
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    myadenosium de Beauchamp, 1939 Bipalium nigrum (Ritter-Zahony, 1905) Bipalium nobile Kawakatsu & Makino, 1982 Bipalium ochroleucum Kaburaki, 1922 Bipalium pennsylvanicum...
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    Venningen Vieregg Vittinghoff Vogt-hunolstein Voit Voit von Rieneck Voit von Salzburg Von Beetzen von Vatz Vorster Waldenburg-Schenkern Waldenfels Walderdorff...
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    Baroness Elisabeth Jaworski von Wolkenstein (1915–1959), who at the time of his birth had been widowed for one year of Nobile Ettore Bernardo Rosboch (1893–1944)...
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    Scuderia Ferrari entered four Sports cars, to be driven by Taruffi, von Trips, Peter Collins and Alfonso de Portago. They also entered Olivier Gendebien...
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    Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852)...
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    Italian Air Force. It was designed by Italian engineer and General Umberto Nobile who commanded the dirigible in his second series of flights around the North...
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  • von Drygalski George J. Dufek Jules Dumont d'Urville Lincoln Ellsworth Edward Evans Edgar Evans Sir Ranulph Fiennes Dwayne Fields John Franklin Peter...
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    when the fortification walls were dismantled. Erected in 1824 by Pietro Nobile according to plans designed by Luigi Cagnola, and inaugurated by Emperor...
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    Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S...
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    Forese Salviati, 5th Duke Salviati, Marchese di Montieri and Boccheggiano, Nobile Romano Coscritto, and his wife, the former Maria Grazia Gawronska. Later...
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  • Peter Finch (born 1916) is an Australian actor whose career spanned more than forty years. Peter Finch on stage, screen and radio at IMDb Peter Finch...
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    Ionian Academy, the first university of the modern Greek state, and the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, the first Greek theatre and opera house...
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    Otto von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 - 15 February 1846) was a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He commanded two naval expeditions...
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    closer at hand, but would have put the principal rooms on a raised piano nobile. This would have given the palace not only a more commanding presence, but...
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    military accomplishments. Above each portal are tall windows of the piano nobile, made distinct from the other windows by their reversed segmented pediments...
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    territorial designation or predicato. The untitled younger son of a baron is a nobile dei baroni and in informal usage might be called a baron, while certain...
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  • colours are yellow, trimmed with blue and black. Aquila is one of only four nobile (noble) contrade; its title was bestowed by the Habsburg emperor Charles...
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    the Orcia river between the DOCG zones of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Here Sangiovese and Trebbiano-based wines are produced...
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    line vanished in the 17th century. Marriages were contracted only with Nobiles and ministerial families from Unterwalden and Lucerne. In the early 14th...
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    second attempt to assassinate William I was made on 2 June 1878 by Karl Nobiling. As the Emperor drove past in an open carriage, the assassin fired two...
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    by aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge, designed by Nobile. They left Spitsbergen on 11 May...
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    throughout the interior of the palace. The first floor, being the piano nobile, is distinguished by windows taller than those of the floors above and below...
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    Immaculata of Austria (9 September 1892 – 3 September 1971); married in 1932 Nobile Igino Neri-Serneri. Archduchess Margaretha of Austria (8 May 1894 – 21 January...
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    wings are advanced and more prominent. Inside the central block, the piano nobile or main floor opened onto a loggia with a triple arcade, reached by a central...
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