Volta was born in Como, Italy on 18 February 1745.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

At the age of 13, jazz guitarist Earl Klugh was captivated watching Atkins's guitar playing on The Perry Como Show.

*" And I Love You So " was covered by Elvis Presley, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel and a 1973 hit for Perry Como

His favorite holiday place to do this was in Cadenabbia, Italy, in a rented villa overlooking Lake Como, which has since been acquired as a conference centre by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the political foundation established by Adenauers political party Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

Though having no shortage of romantic conquests, Paganini was once seriously involved with a singer named Antonia Bianchi from Como, whom he met in Milan in 1813.

As prior of more than one Dominican priory during a time of great moral laxity, he insisted on discipline, and, in accordance with his own wishes, he was appointed inquisitor at Como.

Benedetto Odescalchi was born at Como in 1611 ( either on 16 or 19 May ), the son of a Como nobleman, Livio Odescalchi, and Paola Castelli Giovanelli from Gandino.

Wittgenstein wrote the notes for Tractatus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it when a prisoner of war at Como and later Cassino in August 1918.

On 22 July 1262 Ottone Visconti was created archbishop of Milan by Pope Urban IV, against the Della Torre candidate, Raimondo della Torre, Bishop of Como.

In the second half of the fifteenth century, when the Sforza ruled the city, the old Visconti fortress was enlarged and embellished to became the Castello Sforzesco: the seat of an elegant Renaissance court surrounded by a walled hunting park stocked with game captured around the Seprio and Lake Como.

The first decade of the boom was largely concentrated along the South Platte River at the base of the mountains, the canyon of Clear Creek in the mountains west of Golden City, at Breckenridge and in South Park at Como, Fairplay, and Alma.

Pliny the Younger was born in Novum Comum ( Como, Northern Italy ), the son of Lucius Caecilius Cilo, born there, and wife Plinia Marcella, a sister of Pliny the Elder.

He was the grandson of Senator and landowner Gaius Caecilius, born in Como around 61 AD.

A memorial erected in Como ( now CILV5279 ) repeats the terms of a will by which the aedile Lucius Caecilius Cilo, son of Lucius, established a fund, the interest of which was to buy oil ( used for soap ) for the baths of the people of Como.

The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como ( 1228 ), which was intended to have a lateral arch on each side.

Subsequently, the history of Como followed that of the Ducato di Milano, through the French invasion and the Spanish domination, until 1714, when the territory was taken by the Austrians.

At the end of World War II, after passing through Como on his escape towards Switzerland, Benito Mussolini was taken prisoner and then shot by partisans in Giulino di Mezzegra, a small town on the north shores of Como Lake.

Unusually, the master builder's name, Lanfranco, was celebrated in his own day: the city's chronicler expressed the popular confidence in the master-mason from Como, Lanfranco: by God's mercy the man was found ( inventus est vir ).

Vinton's birthplace of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania is also the birthplace of Perry Como.

Atkins produced records for The Browns, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.

There are many historic cities in this part of Italy such as Turin, the manufacturing capital of Italy, Milan, the business and fashion capital of the country, and the important port of Genoa which share the region's visitors with beautiful landscapes like the Lake Como area.

Lake Como has been a popular retreat for aristocrats and wealthy people since Roman times, and a very popular tourist attraction with many artistic and cultural gems.

The lighthouse in Como Lake Park on Cayuga Creek is a place for people of many ages to gather.

Como is also home to many parks, including Scylla Bay Oval home to the highly successful Como-Jannali Crocodiles and the Como Pleasure Grounds which houses both salt and fresh water pools.

Rubén Fuentes wrote dozens of Mexican standards including, " La Culebra ", " Las Alazanas ", " Como Si Nada ", " La Bikina ", " Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra ", " Flor Sin Reteño ", " Ni Princesa Ni Esclava " and " Camino Real de Colima " ( many composed with Silvestre Vargas ).

She appeared on many TV shows including those of Perry Como, Dinah Shore and Jack Paar in 1962, The Tonight Show, plus appearing in The Bell Telephone Hour, The Kraft Music Hall, The United States Steel Hour.

Western Lombard can be divided into four main varieties, referred by many Italian linguists as lombardo alpino ( spoken in the provinces of Sondrio and of Verbania, Sopraceneri of Canton Ticino and Grigioni in Switzerland ), lombardo-prealpino occidentale ( spoken in the provinces of Como, Varese and Lecco, Lugano and its neighbors in Canton Ticino ), basso-lombardo occidentale ( Pavia and Lodi ), and macromilanese ( provinces of Milan, Monza, Novara and Valsesia of Vercelli ).

This 1959 version was also included on the album Season's Greetings from Perry Como and has appeared on many compilations.

*" I Believe " ( 1952 ) ( written with Ervin M. Drake, Irvin Graham, and Jimmy Shirl ) ( a hit for Frankie Laine, also recorded by many others, including Perry Como )

Over the years, she has recorded or performed with many international stars, including Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Claus Ogerman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich and Edmundo Ros.

Como is most notable for the old Como Hotel, a historic hotel which was extensively rebuilt after a large fire in November 1996.

Bohr publicly introduced the principle of complementarity in a lecture he delivered on 16 September 1927 at the International Physical Congress held in Como, Italy, attended by most of the leading physicists of the era, with the notable exceptions of Einstein, Schrödinger, and Dirac.

Important figures like Pliny the Elder ( in Como ) and Virgil ( in Mantua ) were born here.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

He has had some influence on twentieth century art ( including the New Zealand painter Melvin Day ) and literary criticism ( e. g., in the " Vies imaginaires " by Marcel Schwob, " Uccello le poil " by Antonin Artaud and " O Mundo Como Ideia " by Bruno Tolentino ).

Billboards Premio Lo Nuestro awarded them six awards, including Best Latin Artist and Song of the Year for " Como La Flor ".

On July 21, 5 new tracks from the album were leaked online, including next single " I Love You ( Te Quiero )" featuring Pitbull alongside " Bailaría Sobre El Fuego ", " Litost ", " Aguardiente " and " Como Si Fuéramos Novios ".

* guest spots on every major television show of the 1950s and 1960s, including those hosted by Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, Art Linkletter, and Jimmy Dean.

Although named by Marsh in 1887 ( including the holotype specimen ), the disarticulated bones were actually collected in 1879 by Edward Ashley at Como Bluff, Wyoming.

Numerous yearly festivals are staged at various locations throughout Coquitlam, including Festival du Bois ( first full weekend in March ), the Water's Edge Festival ( third full weekend in March ), Como Lake Fishing Derby ( last Sunday in May ), BC Highland Games ( last Saturday in June ), and the Blue Mountain Music Festival ( mid-July ).

Lepontic is attested in inscriptions found in an area centered around Lugano, Switzerland, and including the Lake Como and Lake Maggiore areas of Italy.

The park features a variety of attractions, including the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, and is heavily used whenever good weather beckons people to go outside.

Como Island was the site of a major battle between PAIGC and Portuguese forces, in which the PAIGC took control of the island and resisted fierce counterattacks by the Portuguese, including airstrikes by FAP ( Portuguese: Força Aérea Portuguesa ; Portuguese Air Force ) F-86 Sabres.

However, other high schools within the district ( including Como Park, Johnson, and Arlington ) continue to use it for varsity athletics in lieu of their own fields which have not yet been evaluated by the Minnesota State High School League ( MSHSL ).

A number of Italian-American crooners soon found a major youth audience, including Dean Martin, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frankie Laine and, most famously, the " first pop vocalist to engender hysteria among his fans " Frank Sinatra.

She acted in telenovelas ( Desejos de Mulher — " Woman's Desires " and Como uma Onda — " Like a Wave "), theatre ( Moças de Fino Trato ) and TV specials, as well as several photo shoots for magazines and fashion companies ( including a pictorial for Brazilian Playboy in 2004 ), even though she says a career as a model does not appeal to her.

Mainly located in Austria, they extend from the foot of the Bergamo Alps at Lake Como and the Bernina Range in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland along the Liechtenstein shore of the Rhine in the west as far as to the lower promontories east of the Mur river including the Hochwechsel in Austrian Styria.

At some point during the second half of the first season ( and to coincide with the spring 1969 release of the Perry Como ' pop ' recording ) the TV theme was reworked by overlaying lyrics to the same theme music already recorded ( as used previously ) along with updating all the opening character stills, including the addition of a " Biddie & Clancey " screen still.

Many famous guests have stayed there, including Queen Elizabeth II ( four times ) and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Fidel Castro, who was the first head of state to visit the hotel, Charles de Gaulle, and Princess Grace of Monaco, during Expo ' 67, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and George W. Bush.

On 27 October 1992, the band released ¿ Dónde Jugarán Los Niños ?, an album that spawned several hits ( including " Vivir Sin Aire ," " Oye Mi Amor ," " Como Te Deseo ").

A large amount of material of all descriptions, including steelwork, for the railway bridge at Como, was also taken over the tramway from the depot to the wharves, where it was loaded on to a small paddle steamer for conveyance to Como via Botany Bay and Georges River.

In 1950, Winterhalter signed on with RCA Victor, where he arranged sessions for artists including Perry Como, Eddie Fisher and the Ames Brothers ; he also recorded several instrumental albums, among them 1952's Great Music Themes of Television, one of the first collections of TV theme songs ever recorded.

Holbrook Creek is on the west, flowing from a basin including Crater Lake, Blue Lakes, and Como Lake.