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...Died. Alessandro Cardinal Verde, 93, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Rome. Remaining membership: 56 out of 70 authorized...
Italian Chamber Music (soloists and Societas Musica Orchestra of Copenhagen; Vanguard). A delicious antipasto of Italian baroque, featuring Albinoni's melodies in the Trio Sonata in A, Opus I No. 3 for two violins, cello and virginal; Alessandro Scarlatti's serene Sonata in F; and a highly stylized love song for tenor accompanied by cello and harpsichord, by a 17th century Casanova named Alessandro Stradella. The power of his music was legendary. Once, so a story goes, assassins hired by a prominent Venetian (whose mistress Stradella had carried off) caught up with him in a church where...
Sometimes the estimators were far rougher. Prince Alessandro Torlonia, son-in-law of Spain's former King Alfonso XIII, claimed that his income was $42,400; the collectors estimated...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
...scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...