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* 1260 – Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery.

* 1268 – Nicola Pisano completes the famous octagonal Gothic-style pulpit at the Duomo di Siena.

* 1278 – Nicola Pisano, Italian sculptor ( b. c. 1220 )

* Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery.

* Nicola Pisano completes the famous octagonal Gothic-style pulpit at the Duomo di Siena.

* Nicola Pisano, Italian sculptor

Tradition says that the building was designed by Nicola Pisano.

* Fontana Maggiore, a medieval fountain designed by Fra Bevignate and sculpted by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.

Jacopo della Quercia, a Sienese, must have seen the works of Nicola Pisano and Arnolfo di Cambio on the pulpit in the cathedral of Siena and this must have influenced him.

Nicola Pisano, statue at the Uffizi in Florence

Nicola Pisano ( also called Niccolò Pisano, Nicola de Apulia or Nicola Pisanus ; c. 1220 / 1225 – c. 1284 ) was an Italian sculptor whose work is noted for its classical Roman sculptural style.

Nicola Pisano was probably trained in the local workshops of the emperor Frederick II, and he attended his coronation.

" The head of a young girl " ( now displayed in the Museo del Palazzo Venezia in Rome ), cut in hardstone of Elba, is also ascribed to Nicola Pisano in the same period.

Vasari relates that Nicola Pisano constantly studied these Roman remains and the Roman sculptures from Augustan times seem to have marked a deep impression on him.

The front side was done in his workshop, partially by Nicola Pisano himself but mostly by his assistant Lapo di Ricevuto.

Nicola Pisano was given this commission due to his fame by the Pisa pulpit.

In July 1273 Nicola Pisano was commissioned by the Operai di San Jacopo of Pistoia to make the altar of San Jacopo in the cathedral of San Zeno.

Therefore, surveys of the Italian Renaissance usually begin with the year 1260, the year that Nicola Pisano dated this pulpit in the Pisa baptistery.

However, as the pulpit of the Siena Cathedral shows, Nicola Pisano was still attached to the contemporary Gothic art.

* Burley Cross Postbox Theft ( 2010 ) by Nicola Barker is a polylogic epistolary novel consisting of a bundle of 26 undelivered letters stolen from a mailbox in the titular village of Burley Cross.

There is little doubt that Pacini and his contemporary Nicola Vaccai exerted a stronger influence on Bellini than has been credited before.

A late Hellenistic funerary monument erroneously labelled the " Tomb of Theron " is situated just outside the sacred area, and a 1st-century AD heroon ( heroic shrine ) adjoins the 13th century Church of San Nicola a short distance to the north.

Nicola Roxon is the current Attorney-General.

A marble statue of the apostle San Bartolomeo, by Nicola da Monteforte, is also from the 14th century.

The main attraction of Campobasso is the Castello Monforte, built in 1450 by the local ruler Nicola II Monforte, over Lombard or Norman ruins.

The characters have typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts ; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered ; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, " the fool, the foil, the poor foal " who is destined to come between the other two.

" A more precise description of just what Pope Nicholas ordered constructed is found in the writings of the Viterbese chronicler Nicola della Tuccia, who, in the 1470s, described the new Bagno del Papa as a battlemented building about 30 x 20 m in size with high towers at the corners of its southern facade.

Leading up to the Civil War Nicola Marschall ( 1829-1917 ), a German-American artist, is generally credited with designing both the first official Confederate flag and the grey Confederate army uniform while a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary.

( in the film, Nicola is a little girl who keeps contradicting everything the other characters say ).

Though Polydor's American branch is defunct, in the United Kingdom Polydor remains one of the strongest labels in the country — with artists such as Esmée Denters, Take That, Girls Aloud, N-Dubz, La Roux, Cheryl Cole, Nicola Roberts, Duffy, Klaxons, Delphic, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Saturdays, James Morrison, Kaiser Chiefs, Boyzone, Alphabeat, The Courteeners, S Club 7, S Club 8, Rachel Stevens and Ellie Goulding.

Nicola Stilo ( born 1956 in Italy ), is a jazz and pop instrumentalist, specialising in flute, guitar and piano.

Nicoleta Alexandru ( born 5 November 1968 ), whose stage name is Nicola, is a Romanian singer, best known for representing her country at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.

* March 4: Rescue of Giuliana Sgrena: Liberation of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, during which secret Italian agent Nicola Calipari is killed by US fire.

It is one of the Italian male names ending in a, with others being Elia ( Elias ), Enea ( Aeneas ), Luca ( Lucas ), Mattia ( Matthias ), Nicola ( Nicholas ), Tobia ( Tobias ).

Nicola Furlong is a Canadian novelist who lives in Sidney, British Columbia.

He is one of the founding members and a current board member of the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives.

Nicola Treehill is a former weaver from Ghealdan, who was engaged to a man named Hyran.

However, the headteacher of the school, Nicola Roth, has been highly critical of School League Tables in the UK and has been reported to have said " It would be better if league tables did not exist ".

Another influence on the choice of surname may have been Nicola Antonio Angeletti ( 1791 – 1870 ), a prominent Italian revolutionary and member of the Carbonari.

The Doctor ( Colin Baker ) and his companion, Peri ( Nicola Bryant ) are shocked, as they believed the Master to have been destroyed.

Since then, there have been personnel changes which included Caitriona Walsh, Nicola Kerr and Vikki James.

Many YSI activists have since risen to prominence in the SNP, including Nicola Sturgeon the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, former party leader John Swinney, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.

Two more completions have been produced since, by the conductor Rudolf Barshai ( 2000 ), and a joint effort by Nicola Samale and Giuseppe Mazzucca ( 2001 ).

He had initially intended to stand for deputy leader himself on a joint ticket with Nicola Sturgeon, who would have sought the leadership.

Journalists working on the Internet have been referred to as J-Bloggers, a term coined by Australian Media Academic Dr Nicola Goc to describe journalists who and gers who produce journalism.

In a 1551 debate in Rome, he espoused traditional views on the role of the three genera in music ( diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic ) over more radical ones put forward by Nicola Vicentino ( Lusitano was deemed to have won the debate ).

Lammy married Nicola Green in 2005 ; the couple have two sons.

WisCon Guests of Honor have included Eleanor Arnason, Iain M. Banks, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Pat Cadigan, Avedon Carol, Terry Carr, Suzy McKee Charnas, Buck & Juanita Coulson, Samuel R. Delany, Charles de Lint, Beverly DeWeese, Gardner Dozois, L. Timmel Duchamp, Suzette Haden Elgin, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Jeanne Gomoll, Nicola Griffith, Andrea Hairston, Barbara Hambly, David Hartwell, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nalo Hopkinson, Ellen Klages, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth A. Lynn, R. A. MacAvoy, Katherine MacLean, George R. R. Martin, Maureen McHugh, Vonda N. McIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Judith Merril, China Miéville, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, Trina Robbins, Mary Doria Russell, Geoff Ryman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Pamela Sargent, Melissa Scott, Nisi Shawl, Stu Shiffman, Sheri S. Tepper, John Varley, Joan D. Vinge, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Howard Waldrop, Connie Willis, Terri Windling, Don & Elsie Wollheim, Susan Wood, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

His facility as a keyboard player must have been paramount, for his competence on Nicola Vicentino's microtonal archicembalo was actively documented throughout his career.

Artists have included Butch Guice, Greg Land, Ed Benes, and Joe Bennett ; Nicola Scott began a stint as artist with issue # 100.

Guitarists who have had works dedicated to them by Dodgson include Julian Bream, Gabriel Estarellas, Angelo Gilardino, Nicola Hall, John Williams, the Eden-Stell Duo and the Fragnito-Matarazzo Duo.

At the end of the serial Marlow and Nicola appear to have repaired their relationship.

Recent years have seen a reliance on weekend celebrity-hosted content and large cash prizes to entice listeners-the award of £ 110, 600 to Nicola Diss, the winner of the popular Magic Mystery Voices contest on 12 January 2006 was the largest cash prize given away on UK radio since 1999, a sum surpassed just a few months later by the prize collected by listener Dawn Muggleton in the Smooth Secret Song competition on London rival 102. 2 Smooth FM, scooping £ 118, 454 on 19 April 2006.

The ' tradename ' " Manna di San Nicola ", i. e. " Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari " might have been a marketing device intended to divert the authorities, since the poison was openly sold both as a cosmetic and a devotionary object in vials that included a picture of St. Nicholas.

This made him one of the three politicians in Italian history to have presided over the three highest-ranked offices in the Italian Republic: President of the Republic, President of the Senate, and President of the Chamber of Deputies ; the others are Sandro Pertini and Enrico De Nicola.

In 1961 the two main secondary schools were founded and still have their headquarters in the city: the State High School Gymnasium Public Ugo Foscolo and the Professional Institute Nicola Garrone.

Quinnell is married to Nicola, and the couple have three children.