Caesar's invasion may well have led to the loss of some 40, 000-70, 000 scrolls in a warehouse adjacent to the port ( as Luciano Canfora argues, they were likely copies produced by the Library intended for export ), but it is unlikely to have affected the Library or Museum, given that there is ample evidence that both existed later.

Luciano Pavarotti's stardom is reckoned from a performance alongside Joan Sutherland at the Met, when he " leapt over the " Becher's Brook " of the string of high Cs with an aplomb that left everyone gasping.

It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

Years later, Bonanno wrote in his autobiography that he didn't know about the plan to kill Maranzano, but this is highly unlikely ; Luciano would have almost certainly had him killed as well had he still been loyal to Maranzano.

The Teatro Comunale Modena ( Community Theatre of Modena, but renamed in October 2007 as Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti ) is an opera house in the town of Modena, ( Emilia-Romagna province ), Italy.

As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.

It is not clear how Luciano earned the nickname " Lucky ".

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

* The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano ( 2011 ) – based on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer is currently in the works.

* Boardwalk Empire ( 2010 – present ) – Luciano is portrayed by Vincent Piazza

According to Luciano ’ s evidence, and he is the only one who ever recounted details of the events in any detail, he confirmed that he was appointed as kingpin for the mob, to rule from Cuba until such time as he could find a legitimate way back into the U. S. Entertainment at the conference was provided by, among others, Frank Sinatra who flew down to Cuba with their friends, the Fischetti brothers.

Luciano Caruso ( b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy ) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

The transmission of Sextus's manuscripts through antiquity and the Middle Ages is reconstructed by Luciano Floridi's Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism.

( This movement was the basis for the third movement of Luciano Berio's " Sinfonia ", where it is used as the framework for adding, collage-like, a great many quotations and references to other scores.

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Lucky Luciano ( born Salvatore Lucania ), a Sicilian gangster, is considered to be the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade.

* Clinton Correctional Facility: ( also known as " Dannemora ") One of New York State's maximum-security prisons is located in the Village of Dannemora ( Lucky Luciano once served time there ).

There is some evidence to indicate that the circle of groups and individuals included Hashomer Hatzair, returning war veterans, non-Jewish pilots and engineers and ( with inconclusive evidence ) mobsters such as Meyer Lansky and ( somewhat questionably ) Lucky Luciano.

The American mezzo-soprano Barbara Dever ( born 25 December 1951 ) is an opera singer who has appeared with Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi and James Levine.

The Cotton Club is a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which offers a fictionalized history of the club in the context of race relations in the 1930s and the battles between Madden, Dutch Schultz, Vincent " Mad Dog " Coll, Lucky Luciano, and Ellsworth " Bumpy " Johnson.

Adonis may have met with Luciano in Naples, but there is no proof of it.

According to Luciano Floridi, " informational structural realism " is a variant of structural realism that supports an ontological commitment to a world consisting of the totality of informational objects dynamically interacting with each other.

By 1926, Luciano was considered to be a powerful gangster on the rise.

Luciano was deeply hurt about having to leave the United States, a country he had considered his own ever since his arrival at age ten.

By 1928, Costello and Luciano were considered to be two young, ambitious, and powerful gangsters on the rise.

His character was paired up with Beth Raines ( then Judi Evans Luciano ) and they were considered a " supercouple.

He is also considered Ecuador's first literary critic ; according to Spanish scholar Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Espejo's Nuevo Luciano is the oldest critical work written in South America.

Composers represented at its concerts included Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Hans Werner Henze, Henri Pousseur, Ernst Krenek, Gilbert Amy, Peter Schat and Gilles Tremblay, as well as earlier composers considered part of the Modernist movement in music.

Charles " Lucky " Luciano, also joined the Five Points crew, and was later considered the most powerful criminal in the country.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

Famous performers at Llangollen have included Luciano Pavarotti ( who first competed in 1955 with his father and a choir from their home town Modena ), Red Army Ensemble, Julian Lloyd Webber and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

One of Genovese's early friends was Lucky Luciano, a founding father of the Cosa Nostra.

* John of Vellore ( 15th century ), painter of the beginning of the 15th century, the father of Luciano da Velletri, another painter whose work is attested between 1435 and 1441 ;

Other modern roots artists and bands also emerged at this time, including Luciano, Junior Kelly, and Morgan Heritage.

Of the younger generation of artists, Samuele Bersani, Jovanotti, Carmen Consoli, Daniele Silvestri, Cristina Donà, Max Gazzè, Luciano Ligabue, Vinicio Capossela, and Zucchero have often been tagged as modern cantautori.

According to Lach & Kley ( 1993 ), modern historians ( namely, Luciano Petech ) think that the emissaries portrayed had actually come from Turpan, and not all the way from the Moghul India.

The Swingle Singers produce covers ranging from modern classics ( Björk, Annie Lennox, and The Beatles ) to classical music ( Bach, Mozart ) to Contemporary Music ( Luciano Berio, Pascal Zavaro and Azio Corghi ).

In a retrospective review, Allmusic gave it 4. 5 stars out of 5, calling it a " fascinating collection ", and stating that " Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating " In his book Viva Zappa !, Dominique Chevalier wrote that the album is " one of Zappa's most aggressively bizarre works, full of cross-references to free jazz and modern classical musicians such as Luciano Berio.

The modern family was founded by Lucky Luciano, but after 1957 it was renamed after boss Vito Genovese.

During the 1940s, Costello allowed Luciano associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel to expand the family business in Southern California and build the first modern casino resort in Las Vegas.

Three implicated Luciano as controller of organized prostitution in the New York / New Jersey area — one of the largest prostitution rings in American history.

By the late 1930s Dewey's successful efforts against organized crime — and especially his conviction of Lucky Luciano — had turned him into a national celebrity.

With the death of Maranzano, Luciano became the dominant organized crime boss in the United States.

Luciano, under the urging of former Chicago boss Johnny Torrio, set up the Commission to serve as the governing body for organized crime.

Despite the law enforcement surveillance, Luciano was able to greatly expand narcotics trafficking to the United States by Cosa Nostra, making it one of organized crime's most lucrative ventures.

Meyer Lansky ( born Meyer Suchowljansky ; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983 ), known as the " Mob's Accountant ," was a Russian-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles " Lucky " Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the " National Crime Syndicate " in the United States.

In 1927, Costello, Luciano, and former Chicago gangster John " Johnny the Fox " Torrio organized a group of top East Coast rum-runners into a large bootlegging operation.

* Having previously arranged the murder of mafia boss Joseph Masseria on 15 April 1931 in order to consolidate organized crime in New York City under Salvatore Maranzano, mafia boss Lucky Luciano then ordered the murders of Maranzano and those capos of Maranzano and Masseria whom Luciano saw as threats.

With Maranzano's death, Luciano became the pre-eminent organized crime boss in New York City.

In December 1946, Adonis and Luciano met at the famous Havana Conference of U. S. organized crime bosses in Cuba.

In September 1995 Luciano Pavarotti, who organized a grand charity concert almost every year in his hometown of Modena, Italy, held a concert on behalf of the children of Bosnia & Herzegovina, particularly the War Child foundation and its efforts in Mostar.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

In 1930, Luciano finalized his plans to take over the organized crime rackets in New York by destroying the two old-line Mafia factions headed by Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano.

Dewey indicted and convicted several prominent gangsters ; his greatest achievement was the conviction of Lucky Luciano, the organized crime boss of the entire city.

When the war finally ended in 1931, top mobster Charles " Lucky " Luciano reorganized the New York gangs into five organized crime families.

A committee was organized and Pio Banogon was chosen as Chairman with Francisco Absin, Isaac Dionaldo, and Luciano Libo-on as members.

* Charles " Lucky " Luciano: One of the driving forces behind the development of Italian organized crime in the United States served 10 years of a 30-to 50-year sentence for running a prostitution ring before being deported to Italy after World War II.