He was born at Roggiano Gravina, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria.

Gravina hellenized the boy's name Trapassi into Metastasio, and intended his adopted son to be a jurist like himself.

On one such occasion in 1709, two men of distinction stopped to listen: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, famous for legal and literary erudition as well as his directorship of the Arcadian Academy, and Lorenzini, a critic of some note.

# John of Gravina ( 1294 – 5 April 1336, Naples ), Duke of Durazzo, Prince of Achaea, and Count of Gravina, married March 1318 ( div 1321 ) Matilda of Hainaut ( 29 November 1293 – 1336 ), married 14 November 1321 Agnes of Périgord ( d. 1345 )

Matilda was invited to marry John of Gravina, Philip's younger brother, by their elder brother, Robert of Naples.

With no male heirs, he is currently to be succeeded as Duke of Gravina by his unmarried brother Benedetto ( b. 1956 ), then by his cousin Don Raimondo Orsini d ' Aragona ( b. 1931 ), whose heir is Don Lelio Orsini ( b. 1981 ).

When Gravina was heavily wounded, a Spanish lieutenant general called Valdez, asserted his own claim to be placed in command of all the allied troops.

Gravina was attracted by the boy's poetic talent and personal charm, and made Pietro his protégé ; in the course of a few weeks he adopted him.

Moved by an affection half maternal, half romantic, and by admiration for his talent, she adopted him more passionately even than Gravina had done.

Caroprese died in 1714, leaving Gravina his heir ; and in 1718 Gravina also died.

The band's debut was entirely recorded and mixed on 2 inch tape, and mixed by Gravina himself at his Melbourne studio, Birdland Studios.

The group began recording its second full-length record, Young & Full of the Devil, at Birdland Studios with producer Lindsay Gravina.

In early 2003 Magic Dirt started recording its fourth album, Tough Love, at Birdland Studios in Melbourne, again produced by Lindsay Gravina.

Ketchikan International Airport is located on Gravina Island across the Tongass Narrows ( 1 / 2 mile ) from Ketchikan and is reached by a ferry service which takes between three and seven minutes and runs at least every half-hour.

The Florentine-Neapolitan army was badly beaten at the Battle of Montecatini on 29 August 1315 ; Philip's younger brother Peter, Count of Gravina and his son Charles of Taranto were both killed.

Debut album " Sing a Song of Revolution " was produced by Lindsay Gravina at Melbourne's Birdland Studios.

Dominic Gravina was professor of theology at the College in 1610, as was Tomás de Lemos ( Ribadavia 1540-Rome 1629 ).

Over $ 200 million was apportioned for the construction of the Gravina Island Bridge in Alaska, which would connect sparsely populated regions at tremendous cost.

The line of Gravina, from the name of the eponymous city in Apulia, is the only existing line of the Orsini.

By marriage, he obtained the title of count of Gravina.

He was made Duke of Gravina by King Alfonso, title definitely assigned to his son Giacomo ( died 1472 ), to which had been added the counties of Conversano, Campagna and Copertino.

The remaining Princely family is represented by Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini d ' Aragona, Duke of Gravina ( b. 1948 ).

He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della Tolfa, from Toritto.

The Museo Belliniano housed in the Gravina Cruyllas Palace, in Catania, preserves memorabilia and scores.

* January 20 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist ( d. 1718 )

* January 6 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist ( b. 1664 )

Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina escaped with the remnant of the fleet and succumbed months later to wounds sustained during the battle.

** Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina and Morrone ( d. 1362 )

The town lies athwart a small canyon, which has been eroded in the course of years by a small stream, the Gravina.

Matera was built above a deep ravine called Gravina of Matera that divides the territory into two areas.

At Gravina ( June 1192 ) he reinforced his papal support by surrendering the royal legateship over Sicily.

* In 2005, Stevens strongly supported federal transportation funds to build the Gravina Island Bridge, which quickly became derided due to its price tag ( approximately $ 398 million dollars ) and as an unnecessary Bridge to Nowhere.

Gravina decided that he should never improvise again, but should be reserved for nobler efforts, when, having completed his education, he might enter into competition with the greatest poets.

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At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

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Armand Bombardier therefore decided to diversify his business, first by producing tracked snowplows sized specifically for use on municipal sidewalks ( replacing horse-drawn vehicles ), then by making all-terrain vehicles for the mining, oil, and forestry industries.

This foray into government policy making, however, ended in a new currency crisis that December and the failure ( compounded by the company's lackluster business performance ) resulted in Born's 1991 ouster from the board ; he was replaced by Chief Operations Officer Octavio Caraballo.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

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By the late 19th century, the traditional business supporters of the UK Liberal Party had joined the Conservatives, making them the party of business and commerce.

While the budget consists of limited amount of donations and business operations owned by the party, its majority comes from the grant of national treasury, the same way that supports the other 8 subordinative registered parties, which making a bizarre exception among modern political parties.

Commodore UK stayed in business by selling old inventory and making computer speakers and some other types of computer peripherals.

By age 16 he had bought his first guitar ( a Harmony acoustic archtop with a sunburst finish ) and begun making contacts in the music business, becoming friends with folk singer Erik Darling, a latter-day member of the Weavers.

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By 1910 new smaller Danish companies began joining the business, and besides making more films about the white slave trade, they contributed other new subjects.

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Therefore, three wealthy business men Ibrahim Al-Mudhaf, Helal Al-Mutairi, and Shamlan Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ( brother of Hussain Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ), led a protest against Mubarak by making Bahrain their main trade point, which negatively affected the Kuwaiti economy.

The Kuomintang pursued a sinicization policy, it was stated that " the time had come to set about the business of making all natives either turn Chinese or get out " by foreign observers of Kuomintang policy.

Darwin was a physician and poet who had studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh ; Boulton had left school at fourteen and started work in his father's business making metal goods in Birmingham at the age of 21.

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By this time he was getting paid a million dollars per film, $ 200, 000 less than top star Paul Newman was making at the time ; yet he was ambivalent about the film business, even with its financial rewards: