Word: alessandro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wrote a contemporary. When Queen of Sweden, she personally invited scholars from all of Europe to visit her country. For her own edification she commanded the French logical philosopher Descartes to tutor her at 5 a.m. (he contracted flu in the chilly Scandinavian dawns and died). The great composer Alessandro Scarlatti even dedicated an opera...
...Ricci on grounds that she did not accept the indissolubility of marriage at the time she contracted it, which would make it invalid in the eyes of the church. The annulment, if granted, would permit Gassman to wed French Actress Juliette Mayniel, who gave birth to their son Alessandro last month...
...believed Inventor Bert N. Adams in 1939 when he came out of his Queens Village, L.I., kitchen with a battery that seemed to revolutionize the original electrical "pile" devised by Alessandro Volta in 1796. Inventor Adams ultimately won a U.S. patent-and then the U.S. Government itself copied and repatented his battery without paying Adams a dime. Last week the Supreme Court not only agreed that Adams' battery met the U.S. patent test of being new, useful and "nonobvious"; by a vote of 7 to 1, the court also made clear that Adams' patent had been infringed during...
...Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...
...other, a historical show, is the first New York exhibition devoted to the work of such little-seen Genoese painters as Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585) and Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749). Both through...