Don Rosa's grandfather, Gioachino Rosa, lived in Maniago, a town at the foot of the Alps in Northern Italy, in the province of Pordenone.

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Don Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters.

In 2011, Italian Disney fan forum papersera. net published Don Rosa: A Little Something Special ( edited by Italian Rosa fan Paolo Castagno ), a large folio format, bilingual ( Italian and English ) book about Rosa's life and work, containing interviews with Rosa and articles by many Italian and European Disney artists, Disney scholars, and established art critics commenting on Rosa's work and career, also including many exclusive, rare Rosa drawings and illustrations.

According to Don Rosa's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed member of the clan sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian's wall.

This family tree is based on Don Rosa's McDuck Family Tree, and shows the relationship to the Duck family.

Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

In Don Rosa's " A Letter from Home ", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the Knight Templar treasure hidden in the castle McDuck by one of his ancestors, a Knight himself.

The character was later used by Don Rosa, and appears in three of twelve original chapters of Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

* Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck chart

Don Rosa's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usually only uses magic through magical objects and in The Quest for Kalevala, Magica acknowledges that she can't use magic without a wand.

* Don Rosa's views on Magica De Spell

Adding it to the fact that Don Rosa's stories usually take place in the 1950s, it means it would be impossible for anyone to own a rand in such stories.

In comic writer Don Rosa's stories, Duckburg is located on the west coast of the United States, though other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined.

However, in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: " I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast ... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city.

A map in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck portrays Calisota covering the part of California north of Sacramento.

Don Rosa has said that Scrooge had earned all the money in his bin by himself, but not only does the bin's size possibly contradict this idea, in Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, he said that Scrooge was traveling around the world, starting businesses and having the money sent home.

In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa ( which is Don Rosa's actual name ).

According to Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge first met The Beagle Boys in his Mississippi riverboat days, circa 1880.

Some of Don Rosa's stories feature seven Beagle Boys, but the prison tag of the seventh Beagle Boy is always obscured by something.

According to one of Don Rosa's stories, the Beagle Boys have been known by their prison numbers since their childhood, and they don't even know their real names themselves.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree, Clinton is married to Gertrude Gadwall and their two children are Grandma Duck ( Elvira Coot ) and Casey Coot.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

In 1922, Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards published a now-forgotten expurgated children's version printed under the title The Story of Don Quixote which has nevertheless recently been published on Project Gutenberg.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

Don McLean covered " Crying " in 1980 in a version which hit number 5 in the U. S. and stayed on the charts for 15 weeks ; it was number 1 in the UK for three weeks.

In March 2011, the Tommy James song I'm Alive ( co-written with Peter Lucia ) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer Don Fardon after his version had been used in a Vodafone commercial.

A tartan which looks like Mac Duck Final version is shown on some Don Rosa stories, such as The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter From Home.

Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as Riff, Marlys Watters as Maria, Don McKay as Tony, and Chita Rivera reprising her Broadway role as Anita.

Performances of Don Carlos / Don Carlo in the first half of the twentieth century were rare, but in the post Second World War period it has been regularly performed, particularly in the four-act 1883 ' Milanese ' version.

Finally, stagings and recordings of the original five-act French version of the opera have become more frequent, performances having been given at the Teatro alla Scala in 1970 featuring Plácido Domingo with Katia Ricciarelli, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996, with Roberto Alagna as Don Carlos ( which has been released on CD and DVD ), and at the San Francisco Opera in 1986 and 2003.

A significant 1958 Royal Opera House ( London ) production of Verdi's five-act Italian version of Don Carlos ( with Jon Vickers ) followed, along with a Macbeth in Spoleto in 1958 and a famous black-and-white Il trovatore with scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust at Covent Garden in 1964.

used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Man of La Mancha took most of its dialogue from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote ( from which it was adapted ), and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M.

Don Hopkins developed a NeWS version of SimCity that was built with HyperLook.

The play was again adapted to the world of gangsters in Don Boyd's 2001 My Kingdom, a version which differs from all others in commencing with the Lear character, Sandeman, played by Richard Harris, in a loving relationship with his wife.

In the Portuguese version of El Chavo del Ocho, Don Ramón ( Seu Madruga ) suggests that they do as the TV series of Pede Mais Um ( Ask For Another One ).

Since 1866 Dargomïzhsky had been working on his opera The Stone Guest, a version of the Don Juan story with a Pushkin text that he declared would be set " just as it stands, so that the inner truth of the text should not be distorted ", and in a manner that abolished the ' unrealistic ' division between aria and recitative in favour of a continuous mode of syllabic but lyrically heightened declamation somewhere between the two.

In September 2010, Variety announced that a 3D film version was being planned by producers Don Murphy and Michael Preger.

Don Procopio was revived in Monte Carlo in 1906 ; An Italian version of Les pêcheurs de perles was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 13 November 1916, with Caruso in the leading tenor role ; it has since become a staple at many opera houses.

Notable among their contemporaries were the cultured and technically adroit French baritones Jean Lassalle ( hailed as the most accomplished baritone of his generation ), Victor Maurel ( the creator of Verdi's Iago, Falstaff and Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ), Paul Lhérie ( the first Posa in the revised, Italian-language version of Don Carlos ), and Maurice Renaud ( a singing actor of the first magnitude ).

A couple of primitive cylinder recordings dating from about 1900 have been attributed by collectors to the dominant French baritone of the 1860s and 1870s, Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 1830 – 1914 ), the creator of Posa in Verdi's original French-language version of Don Carlos.

* On 12 April 2011, Copperheart announced signing David Hayter as screenwriter and Don Murphy as executive producer for a film version of Dragonflight, with production expected to begin in 2012.

In 2001, she recorded the audiobook version of Don DeLillo's novel The Body Artist.

A similar disclaimer is also used for the Chilean version of Gigante hosted by Don Francisco's daughter, Vivi.