For example: the similarity of southern continent geological formations had led Roberto Mantovani to conjecture in 1889 and 1909 that all the continents had once been joined into a supercontinent ( now known as Pangaea ); Wegener noted the similarity of Mantovani's and his own maps of the former positions of the southern continents.

* January 10 – Roberto Mantovani, Italian geologist ( b. 1854 )

Most members of the party were former Christian Democrats ( DC ): Giuseppe Pisanu ( former member of the leftist faction of DC and Minister of Interior ), Roberto Formigoni ( President of Lombardy ), Claudio Scajola ( former Minister of the Interior and of Industry ), Enrico La Loggia, Renato Schifani, Guido Crosetto, Raffaele Fitto, Giuseppe Gargani, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Giorgio Carollo, Giuseppe Castiglione, Francesco Giro, Luigi Grillo, Maurizio Lupi, Mario Mantovani, Mario Mauro, Osvaldo Napoli, Antonio Palmieri, Angelo Sanza, Riccardo Ventre and Marcello Vernola are only some remarkable examples.

Most former members of Christian Democracy were identifiable with this tendency ( from Roberto Formigoni to Giuseppe Pisanu, from Claudio Scajola to Enrico La Loggia, from Guido Crosetto to Angelo Sanza, from Maurizio Lupi to Giuseppe Gargani, from Antonio Palmieri to Mario Mantovani ), but also ex-Communists, such as Sandro Bondi and Fernando Adornato, and an ex-Socialist as Gianni Baget Bozzo, a Catholic priest who is in charge of cultural formation, fitted the category, along with former Liberals, as Isabella Bertolini.

One month after the election, on 20 October, while the senate had still to reach a decision and negotiations were actively in place between the Christian Democrats and the Popular Unity, General René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, was shot resisting a kidnap attempt by a group led by General Roberto Viaux.

Arias began serving as mediator between Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti in the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

In a worldwide advertising campaign during the run-up to the 2002 World Cup, he starred as the organiser of " underground " games, ( branded by Nike as " Scorpion KO ") between footballers, such as Thierry Henry, Hidetoshi Nakata, Francesco Totti, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Luís Figo.

The plot was hatched and planned by Roberto di Ridolfi, an international banker who was able to travel between Brussels, Rome and Madrid to gather support without attracting too much suspicion.

Such magazines as Vea, Artistas, and TeVe Guía among other magazines which have often kept the Puerto Rican public informed about the family lives of all the members of the Vigoreaux family, have speculated about the relationship between Luisito, Roberto and their sisters.

The fight was the undercard for a fight between Roberto Durán and Davey Moore.

Another important aspect of boxing in the 1980s was the rivalry between five world champions: Wilfred Benítez, Roberto Durán, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Ahead of the 2007 election, the remaining Radicals divided between those who wanted to find an internal candidate and those who wanted to back a candidate from another movement, mostly former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, supported by former president Raúl Alfonsín.

While Roberto knows nothing about his past it is suggested that he is the nephew of a former high-level StB officer named Karl Ranke, since there is a resemblance between the two.

It is located in the narrow strip of land between the Major Deegan Expressway and the Harlem River, next to Roberto Clemente State Park.

* The Italian party system between parties and coalitions, West European Politics, January 1, 2004 ; Bartolini, Stefano ; Chiaramonte, Alessandro ; D ' Alimonte, Roberto

The Superdome has been the venue of several major boxing events, such as when Muhammad Ali won the world Heavyweight title for the third time by beating Leon Spinks in their rematch, the rematch between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran and the Wilfredo Gomez-Lupe Pintor, Thomas Hearns-Wilfred Benitez doubleheader.

In the first, Marcello coldly kills several lizards in the yard between his home and the home of his neighbor and friend, Roberto.

In 1962, a controversial agreement between Time-Life and Organizações Globo, Roberto Marinho's holding company, gave Marinho access to a sum of over 6 million dollars with which he would buy equipment and build an infra-structure for Globo to begin its television service.

On September 11, 2002 the extradition of Battisti and others was again requested during the meeting in Paris between Italy's Minister of Justice Roberto Castelli and France's Minister of Justice Dominique Perben.

As a broadcaster, he worked for CBS and HBO and was ringside for the famous " No Mas " fight between Roberto Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard.

* Had Stan Ross actually played in Major League Baseball and had 2, 997 hits, he would have been 27th all-time in the Major Leagues between Roberto Clemente who had 3, 000 hits and Sam Rice with 2, 987.

Note: The Acadie Bathurst Titan retired the number 1, carried by Roberto Luongo between 1998-1999, on August 19, 2012.

On April 25, 2011, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to rename the segment of South Lander Street between 16th Avenue South and 17th Avenue South ( immediately south of El Centro ) as South Roberto Maestas Festival Street.

The facility was supposed to be constructed between two local sport venues: the Roberto Clemente Coliseum and Hiram Bithorn Baseball Stadium, about a mile and a half away from the current arena site.

The most important events were the Action of 14 October 1918 between the patrol boat NRP Augusto de Castilho ( commanded by Carvalho Araújo ) and the German submarine U-139, the sinking of the mine-sweeper NRP Roberto Ivens due to a collision with a sea mine, outside Lisbon harbour and the amphibious operations led by the cruiser NRP Adamastor in the border between Portuguese and German Eastern Africa.

The Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, also known as Taça de Prata, or nicknamed Robertão, was a football competition contested between 1967 and 1970 among soccer teams from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais and Paraná states.

On 12 October of the same year, the ground hosted an international friendly match between Brazil and Jamaica, with Roberto Carlos scoring the winner.

* Roberto Duarte da Silva ( 1837 – 1889 ), chemist

Roberto Sacasa Sarria ( 1840 – 1896 ) was the President of Nicaragua from 5 August 1889 to 1 January 1891 and again the 46th from 1 March 1891 to 11 July 1893.

* Mexican — Cantú, Federico: Many works, including The Death of Pierrot ( 1930 – 1934 ), Prelude to the Triumph of Death ( 1934 ), The Triumph of Death ( 1939 ); Montenegro, Roberto: Skull Pierrot ( 1945 ); Orozco, José Clemente: The Clowns of War Arguing in Hell ( 1940s ); Zárraga, Ángel: Woman and Puppet ( 1909 ).

Roberto Burle Marx ( August 4, 1909, São Paulo – June 4, 1994, Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian landscape architect ( as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician ) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous.

* Roberto Battaglia ( 1909 – 1965 ), Italian fencer

She had two sons ( Roberto and an unnamed one ), but both died young.

*" Antwerp " ( novel ), by Roberto Bolaño

* Stepping into the Fire ( 2011 ), directed by Ross Evison and Roberto Velez.

The other five are Willie Stargell ( twice ), Roberto Clemente, Harry Walker, Dick Groat, and Frank Thomas.

These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).

He became involved with Italian Neorealism when Roberto Rossellini, at work on Stories of Yesteryear ( later Rome, Open City ), met Fellini in his shop proposing he contribute gags and dialogue for the script.

Concertos for the instrument were written by Francis Poulenc ( the Concert champêtre, 1927 – 28 ), Manuel de Falla, Bertold Hummel, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Roberto Carnevale.

Roberto ( 1295 – 1345 ), Gentile II's grandson, married Sibilla del Balzo, daughter of the Great Senechal of the Kingdom of Naples.

The medal may be awarded to an individual more than once ( John Kenneth Galbraith and Colin Powell each have received two awards ; Ellsworth Bunker received both of his awards With Distinction ), and may also be awarded posthumously ( for example, Cesar Chavez, Paul " Bear " Bryant, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon Johnson ).

The earliest known story states that in the 1800s, Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresí ( El Pirata Cofresí ), to boost his crew's morale, gave them a beverage or cocktail that contained coconut, pineapple and white rum.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

Roberto and Vera celebrated the Great One's return to form on August 17, 1965 ( one day before Roberto's birthday ), with the birth of their first son, Roberto Clemente, Jr., the first of three children, including Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto.

Ironically ( if fittingly, given the media's frequent-and unwelcome-Americanization of Clemente's given name during his life ), his Hall of Fame plaque read " Roberto Walker Clemente "; in 2000, the plaque would finally be recast to express his name in the proper Hispanic format, " Roberto Clemente Walker ".

Roma, città aperta directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1945 ), Sciuscià directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1946 ), Paisà directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1946 ), La terra trema directed by Luchino Visconti ( 1948 ), The Bicycle Thief directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1948 ), and Bitter Rice directed by Giuseppe De Santis ( 1949 ), are some well-known examples.