Michele Mercati ( 8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593 ) was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII.

Mercati was born in San Miniato, Tuscany, the son of Pietro Mercati, physician to Popes Pius V and Gregory XIII.

Ceraunia were collected by many persons over the centuries including Michele Mercati, Superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden in the late 16th century.

After the Games, which proved a success, Vikelas withdrew from the IOC, replaced as a member by the Count Alexander Mercati and as president by Coubertin.

It is not positively certain whether he also become the chief superintendent of the Roman botanical garden which had been laid out about 1566 by one of his most celebrated pupils, Michele Mercati.

Mercati examining the surfaces of the ceraunia noted that the stones were of flint and that they had been chipped all over by another stone to achieve by percussion their current forms.

OMA Rotterdam: the head office is working on a master plan for the White City area of London ; a harbour redevelopment and contemporary art Museum in Riga, the Cordoba Congress Centre in Spain ; the redevelopment of the Mercati Generali in Rome, an architectural centre, offices and housing in Copenhagen, the new head office of Rothschild Bank in London and multi-use towers in Rotterdam and The Hague.

Michele Mercati, Commemorative Medal.

* June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist ( b. 1541 )

Printed by Mercati, " Studi e testi " ( of the Vatican Library ), 7.

" In Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati, vol.

Among prominent figures have been Giuseppe Ripamonti, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, Cardinal Angelo Mai and, at the beginning of the 20th century, Antonio Maria Ceriani, Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, and Giovanni Mercati.

Amongst other things, Mercati collected prehistoric stone tools along with fossils and minerals.

David Clarke describes Mercati as " the archaeological counterpart of Cardano in mathematics, Vesalius in anatomy, Galileo in the physical sciences and Copernicus in astronomy.

In 1928, Arlen married Countess Atalanta Mercati in Cannes, France, to where he had moved.

* Mercati, Angelo, ‘ Intorno alla ‘ Romanità ’ di Natale Alexandre, O. P .’, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 16 ( 1946 ), pp. 5 – 82.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

He was interested in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.

He was interested in Italo Svevo.

These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes.

I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??

He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.

The Soccer Club was organized by undergraduate men interested in playing soccer and promoting the sport.

The compilation work was undertaken by a number of interested crystallographers in the Department of Mineralogy of the University Museum at Oxford.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

As was noted earlier, it is important that in valid, objective study of this sort of communication, the interested sitter should be separated from the sensitive.

The mercenaries were little interested in farming and added nothing to the output of the farm plots on which all work was still done with hoes as late as 1818.

Opera lovers will be interested to learn that this church was the scene for the first act of Tosca.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

The spy ring also was particularly interested in ASDIC, the underwater equipment for detecting submarines, it was testified.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

Tommy was interested in psychiatry, because there was much an understanding nurse could do to help the patients.

The most unbelievable thing about the chance meeting was that he seemed interested in me, too.

M. spectabilis is the species which has produced the largest number of hybrids, five: Miltonia × bluntii when crossed with M. clowesii, Miltonia × cogniauxiae with M. regnellii, Miltonia × flava with M. flavescens, Miltonia × leucoglossa with M. candida and Miltonia × rosina with M. cuneata, furthermore it is possible there is also one with M. moreliana, which has not yet been described because M. moreliana itself was earlier considered a variety of M. spectabilis.

The Weinhaus Huth, with its distinctive corner cupola, was a wedge-shaped structure located in the angle between Potsdamer Straße and Link Straße ( literally " Left Street "), and with entrances in both streets.

Round-stylus and sharp-stylus writing was gradually replaced by writing using a wedge-shaped stylus ( hence the term cuneiform ), at first only for logograms, but evolved to include phonetic elements by the 29th century BC.

Two variants on the couched lance charge developed, the French method, en haie, with lancers in a double line and the German method, with lancers drawn up in a deeper formation which was often wedge-shaped.

The difference between the two was a wedge-shaped strip of land, five miles ( 8 km ) wide at the Indiana border, eight miles ( 13 km ) wide at Lake Erie, and from west to east, an area of about and including the mouth of the Maumee river.

Cuneiform was entirely based on the " wedge-shaped " mark that the end of a cut reed made when pushed into a clay tablet, hence the name " cuneiform " from Latin cuneus = " wedge ".

Its angular and wedge-shaped body was made almost entirely of flat, trapezoidal panels.

Many audiophiles aspired to but could not afford a Nakamichi 1000 or 700 ( whose model number was derived from the list price ), so Nakamichi came out with more economical two-head models such as the Nakamichi 500 and the wedge-shaped 600.

A wedge-shaped building on the diagonal street Leary Way that cuts across Fremont from the adjacent Ballard neighborhood was once home to legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino's Reciprocal Recording studio, where he recorded ( among many other records ) Nirvana's first demos and the band's debut on Sub Pop records, Bleach.

It was a wedge-shaped 2 + 2 sports coupé body style based on the Saab 900 Turbo 16v.

The Probe I, first shown in 1979, was a wedge-shaped design that incorporated a number of drag-reducing features like covered rear wheels and pop-up headlights.

Only the doors and inner structure were carried over, but the wedge-shaped side profile betrayed the car's Princess origins, and it was not considered a truly new model.

Like Sinclair's own ZX Interface 1, the DISCiPLE was a wedge-shaped unit fitting underneath the Spectrum.

The Persians heavily reinforced that side, and the feint was driven back, but at that point, Alexander led the horse companions in their classic wedge-shaped charge, and smashed into the center of the Persian line.

The body was wedge-shaped, finished in distinctive orange and was an unusually short () length and only tall, and shared little with the production version.

The Imperial's nose was more wedge-shaped, while the Fifth Avenue's had a sharper, more angular profile ( the Fifth Avenue was later restyled with a more rounded front end ).

In 2001, its population was 173, in a wedge-shaped territory of 17. 58 km² ( there are 9. 8 inhabitants per kilometre square ).

In the series, a different team of experts performed their missions in a craft known as Voyager, a submarine which featured wedge-shaped wings and large, swept T-tail, and was capable of flight.

The result of this effort was the wedge-shaped three-door hatchback called the Asso di Fiori (" Ace of Clubs ") prototype and show car, that was shown at the 1979 Tokyo Motor Show to rave reviews.

By the end of the 1973 season the best car on the track was probably the new McLaren M23, a wedge-shaped car following the same concept as the Lotus 72 but with more conventional suspension and up to date aerodynamics.

The new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 was a very innovative car featuring torsion bar suspension, hip-mounted radiators, inboard front brakes and an overhanging rear wing.

" The building that gave the area its name, Scollay's Building, was " at one time a wedge-shaped row of wooden buildings, extending from the head of Cornhill to opposite the head of Hanover street, separated Tremont row from Court street ( see Bonner's map, 1722 ); at the southeasterly end the second schoolhouse in the town was erected, 1683-84 ; at various times portions of these buildings were removed, leaving only the Scollay brick building, supposed to have been built by Patrick Jeffrey, who came into possession in 1795 ; ... removed about 1870.