* May 24 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland.

At the time he was meeting Swiss prosecutors Carla Del Ponte and Claudio Lehman from Lugano who were helping to investigate the Mafia's financial holdings in Switzerland.

Ticino River from Locarno to Bellinzona, Passo San Jorio ( 2. 010 m ) and San Jorio valley till to Gravedona divide them from the Lugano Prealps ( south ).

Whenever Arkan was in trouble Dolanc helped him as a reward for his services to the Yugoslav secret state police ( UDBA ), as seen in the escape from the Lugano prison in 1981.

* May 24 – First-ever Eurovision Song Contest from the Kursaal Theatre, Lugano, Switzerland.

Lamport received four honorary doctorates from European universities: University of Rennes and Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in 2003, EPFL in 2004 and University of Lugano in 2006.

Alonso owned a house in Mont-sur-Rolle, near Lake Geneva from 2006 to 2010, and in February 2010 he moved house to Lugano in order to be closer to his new Formula One employer Ferrari.

In the area surrounding Lugano, items from the Copper Age and the Iron Age have been found.

Other documents, dating from 804 and 844 refer to Lake Lugano as Laco Luanasco, and an act of 984 indicates Lugano as a market town.

The four letters on the coat of arms are an abbreviation of Lugano according to documents from 18 October 1208 and 14 November 1209.

After a long rule by the Rusca family, Lugano was freed from the domination of Como, which had been taken over in 1335 by the Visconti.

Discontent continued and in early 1802 a revolt in Capriasca led to the autumn pronunciamento of Pian Povrò, which declared the independence of Lugano from the Helvetic client republic.

Francesco Capra, the préfet during the Helvetic Republic, became the first mayor of Lugano from 1803 until 1813.

This increase was partly due to foreign nationals settling in Lugano ( in 1870 18. 7 % of the population, 1910 43. 6 %) and people from other language areas of Switzerland ( 1870 1. 4 % of the population, 1910 6. 9 %).

Following the Second World War, and particularly during the 1960s and 70s, thanks to an abundant flow of capital from nearby Italy, Lugano experienced a period of exponential growth in banking activities which led to it placing itself as the third financial centre of Switzerland, with over 100 banking institutions present in the town.

Lugano from Mt.

The city includes two exclaves, with Villa Luganese separated from the rest of the city by the municipality of Cadro, whilst a large and sparsely populated section of the city is on the east bank of Lake Lugano and separated from the city by that lake.

In 2000, the tertiary sector offered 90 % of all jobs in Lugano, of which 75 % were occupied by commuters, many of which commute from neighbouring Italy ( approximately 13 % of the active working population ); in the same year tax revenues reached CHF 104 million, of which CHF 59 million were attributable to the banking sector.

About 12. 4 % of the workforce coming into Lugano are coming from outside Switzerland, while 1. 6 % of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.

The view of Lake Lugano from Monte Brè

View of Monte San Salvatore and Lugano, as seen from Monte Brè

Slightly further afield is Monte Generoso (), with a view that encompasses the lakes of Lugano, Como and Maggiore, as well as the Alps from the Matterhorn to the Bernina Range, the Lombardy Plains, and, on a clear day, the city of Milan.

Since 2004, 49 percent of the newspaper has been owned by the publisher of Corriere del Ticino, with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano retaining a majority share of 51 percent.

He has also held positions at Rutgers University ( 1972 ), University of Rome " La Sapienza " ( 1988 ), the Catholic University of Milan ( 1990 ), and the University of Lugano.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Everything from poetry to phonetics, history to histrionics, philosophy to party games has been adapted to the turntable.

The Taylor Scale was adapted from the Minnesota Multiphastic Personality Inventory, with item selection based upon clinical definitions of anxiety.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

The Aramaic alphabet is adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

The scene is adapted from Germania Superior | Roman era gravestones of the region.

The Almoravids veiled themselves below the eyes ( see tagelmust ), a custom they adapted from southern Sanhaja Berbers ( as can still be seen among the modern Tuareg people ), but unusual further north.

This led to the OpenTransport efforts, which re-implemented both MacTCP and AppleTalk on an entirely new code base adapted from the standard STREAMS.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Holst himself adapted the melody of the central section of Jupiter in 1921 to fit the metre of a poem beginning " I vow to thee, my country ".

The film is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody, " The Entertainer ", by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch ( and became a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch, when released as a single from the film's soundtrack ).

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

The song " The Secret Marriage " from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hanns Eisler, and " Englishman In New York " was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp.

" The melody is adapted from Handel's 1722 cantata Se tu non lasci amore, and is in Luckett's view the most successful of the Italian borrowings.

* " I'm Always Chasing Rainbows " w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll ( melody adapted from Chopin )

The melody was adapted from a 1911 hymn by Charles Austin Miles entitled Dwelling in Beulah Land.

A melody from Joseph is very similar to a popular folk melody widely known in Germany which was used as a song in the Imperial German Navy, and adapted, notoriously, as the tune for the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

Saga people adapted the melody and used it to recreate the song " Takeno Shintaro-san ".

The song was sung at football matches by fans of the Republic of Ireland team. The melody of the chorus was adapted for Ally's Tartan Army, the Scotland national football team's anthem for the FIFA World Cup 1978, this was itself adapted as the chorus of Put ' Em Under Pressure, the anthem for the Republic of Ireland team for the FIFA World Cup 1990.

The music was adapted and arranged to Watts ' lyrics by Lowell Mason in 1839 from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel, not least because the theme of the refrain ( And heaven and nature sing ...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio.

Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's " Merry Peasant "

Some were childhood reminiscences, such as Gene Autry's recording " Rancho Grande " from which one of the guitar lines in " Veteran's Day Poppy " was adapted, or the " Shortnin ' Bread " melody used in " Pachuco Cadaver ".

It used a similar melody to Jim Jackson's 1927 " Kansas City Blues " and was itself adapted several years later for " Rock Around The Clock ".

* The melody and chorus of " Back and Forth " was adapted by R. Kelly for Aaliyah's song " Back and Forth ".

Sears ' lyrics are most commonly set to one of two melodies: " Carol ," composed by Richard Storrs Willis, or " Noel ," adapted from an English melody.

In the United Kingdom the tune called " Noel ", which was adapted from an English melody in 1874 by Arthur Sullivan, is the usual accompaniment.

Remarkably, this melody was later appropriated into the formative bluegrass music genre as the basis for the song " Goin ' Home " ( attributed to William Arms Fisher ); it soon became a bluegrass standard and was later adapted into a popular spiritual-style song.

As song lyrics in Tibet usually contained stanzas of 4 lines of 6 syllables each, the lyrics could be easily adapted to almost any melody.

In 1951, Jesse Rogers adapted " Wabash Cannonball " into " Jukebox Cannonball " by retaining the original melody but replacing it with a new set of lyrics.