Genoa is adjacent to two popular Ligurian vacation spots, Camogli and Portofino.

Except for the Portovenere and Portofino promontories, it is generally not very jagged, and is often high.

The film is based on the 1979 running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an actual cross-country outlaw road race held four times in the 1970s, starting at the Red Ball Garage on 31st Street in New York City ( later the Lock, Stock and Barrel Restaurant in Darien, CT ) and ending at the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California, just south of Los Angeles.

Despite the name, the hotel is owned by Loews Hotels just as Loews Portofino Bay Hotel is.

Portofino (; Ligurian: Portofin ) is an Italian fishing village, and upmarket resort famous for its picturesque harbour and historical association with celebrity visitors.

As of 2007 it counts approximately 34, 000 inhabitants, it is part of the Tigullio Gulf and is located in between Portofino and Chiavari.

Rapallo area is included in the Parco Naturale Regionale di Portofino, encompassing the territory of six communes.

It is also used in IWC's Portofino line without complications simply for its small size.

Less common styles include the Portofino, or cocktail cuff, which is a double cuff closed with buttons, first made by the Jermyn Street shirtmakers Turnbull & Asser, and later popularised by the fictional character James Bond in the films from 1962 onwards.

The resort consists of two theme parks ( Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure ), Universal CityWalk ( a night-time entertainment destination ), and three Loews Hotels ( Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort ).

1 ) Portofino Towers ( 182 feet ).

), Eri piccola così ( You were so small ), Guarda che luna ( Look, What A ( beautiful ) Moon ), Love in Portofino, Porfirio Villarosa, Whisky facile ( Easy Whiskey ).

It is an eponym of a possibly fictional French soldier Nicolas Chauvin who was credited with many superhuman feats in the Napoleonic wars.

Diomus is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as the eponym of the deme Diomeia of the Attic phyle Aegeis: Heracles is said to have fallen in love with Diomus when he was received as guest by Diomus ' father Collytus.

Maecenas is most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become the eponym for a " patron of arts ".

His name is the eponym of chauvinism, a term for excessive nationalistic fervor.

Thomas L. Thompson ( The Bible in History ), however, interprets the Mesha stele as suggesting that Omri is an eponym, or legendary founder of the kingdom rather than an historical person.

An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.

For example, Léon Theremin is the eponym of the theremin.

A synonym of " eponym " is namegiver.

One who is referred to as eponymous is someone who is the eponym of something, for example, " Léon Theremin, the eponymous inventor of the theremin ".

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie ( or Bosey ), an eponym in honour of its inventor Bernard Bosanquet.

Biblical scholars regard this as an eponym rather than an individual, and it is thought possible that the name is a corruption of Halusah ; with the identification of Ziklag as Haluza, this suggests that Ziklag was the original base from which the Philistines captured the remainder of their territory.

As a tribute to him, she decided to build him a tomb so famous that Mausolus's name is now the eponym for all stately tombs, in the word mausoleum.

He is regarded as the eponym of the Mushki tribe of Anatolia.

Hesiod made him the son of Phoenix, eponym of the Phoenicians, thus a figure of Phoenician origin ; his association with Cyprus is not attested before the classical era.

Amyrus, eponym of a Thessalian city, is given by Stephanus of Byzantium as " one of the Argonauts "; he is otherwise said to have been a son of Poseidon and to have given his name to the river Amyrus.

However, Argus is not to be confused with the other Argus, son of Arestor or Polybus, constructor and eponym of the ship Argo and member of the crew from the beginning.

He is the Attic hero and the eponym of the Athenian phyle called Hippothoontis.

He is the eponym of Troy, also named Ilion for his son Ilus.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

Incumbent William Brod is opposed in his re-election bid by Barbara Njust, Miles C. Bubenik and Frank Lee.

`` We are back with the ' Met ' again now that the ' Met ' is back in Chicago '', bulletins Mrs. Frank S. Sims, president of the women's board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

Judge and Mrs. Julian Hazard are now at Laguna Beach, while the Frank Wangemans have moved from Beverly Hills to New York, where he is general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Robert Morse, singing with comically plaintive earnestness, carries most of the burden and is responsible for the high spots in Frank Loesser's score.

He is coming back, isn't he, Frank ''??

For the country there is the term Usono, cognate with the English word Usonia later popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.

One uncommon alternative is " Usonian ", which usually describes a certain style of residential architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).

* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.

According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".

Theologian Frank Stagg cites two reasons why the newer translation is significant:

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in his Dune universe.

Chapterhouse: Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, last in his series of six Dune novels.

2011 also saw the arrival of Frank Foster who was a sexual predator, the first flash of malevolence we see is when Maria Connor visits his home to finalise a deal.

After a bit of flirting Frank thinks Maria is playing hard to get and decides he is getting what he wants there and then, Maria is frightened by this and manages to escape.