Morgante ( c. 1483 ) by Luigi Pulci, Orlando innamorato ( 1495 ) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando furioso ( 1516 ) by Ludovico Ariosto, and Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso are all indebted to the French narrative material ( the Pulci, Boiardo and Ariosto poems are founded on the legends of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as " Orlando ").

An early example of an orco appears in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster inspired by the Cyclops of the Odyssey ; this orco should not be confused with the orca, a sea-monster also appearing in Ariosto.

* Parts of Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida may have been inspired by the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Salman Rushdie's 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence was partly inspired by Orlando Furioso.

Perhaps the most famous operas inspired by the poem are those by Handel: Orlando ( 1733 ), Ariodante and Alcina ( 1735 ).

Thenceforward Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited year after year studies of animals — admirable groups which reveal him as inspired by a spirit of true romance, as in his Roger and Angelica on the Hippogriff ( 1840 ), drawn from an episode in Orlando furioso, and a feeling for the beauty of the antique, as in Theseus and the Minotaur ( 1847 ), " Lapitha and Centaur " ( 1848 ), and numerous minor works now very highly valued.

Portofino has inspired a re-creation of the sea side town around the harbour at Tokyo DisneySea in Chiba, Japan, a full scale replication, in authentic detail at the Portofino Bay at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, USA, which opened in September 1999.

Jaws is an expanded version of a famous scene on the long-running backlot tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, also inspired by the film, and can be found at Universal Studios Japan near Osaka, and formerly, at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

In addition, several Lynx public bus routes enter the District, with half-hour service between the Transportation and Ticket Center ( and backstage areas at the Magic Kingdom ) and Downtown Orlando and Kissimmee, and once-a-day service to more points, intended mainly for cleaning staff.

The comic book character Orlando is a blend of several fictional characters with the name Orlando as well as being known during the mid-sixties as O while engaged in sexual games with the descendants of the Silling Castle survivors, according to Alan Moore and Kevin O ' Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

The music several classical composers is featured in the film's soundtrack, including pieces by Johann Pachelbel, Orlando di Lasso, Tommaso Albinoni, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

During recent years, Altamonte Springs has been a host city to several local special events in the Orlando area, including Red, Hot, & Boom, a major annual firework festival that takes place every July 3 in celebration of Independence Day.

* The Orlando character who appears in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is an amalgamation of this character and several other fictional Orlandoes / Rolands.

In 1559, Laura Terracina wrote the Discorso sopra il Principio di Tutti I Canti di Orlando Furioso which was linked to Orlando Furioso and in which several of the characters appeared.

There have been several verse translations of Orlando Furioso into English.

As of June 2012, Southwest Airlines offers non-stop service to several Florida cities: Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, as well its focus city in Baltimore, which offers connections throughout the entire Southwest system.

Hard Rock International, continues to expand internationally ( including hotels, casinos, resorts, and condominiums ) through several joint ventures ( Becker Ventures, Ong Beng Seng / Hotel Properties Limited and Loews Hotels ) including hotels in Chicago, Bali, Orlando, Penang, San Diego, Singapore and planned opening in Abu Dhabi, Cancun, Dubai, Hungary, Panama, Punta Cana and Vallarta-as well as hotel-casinos in Hollywood, Florida ; Tampa, Florida ; Biloxi, Mississippi ; Las Vegas, Nevada ; Albuquerque, New Mexico ; and Catoosa, Oklahoma, near Tulsa.

Prior to the 2009 NASL split several other cities had been mentioned as being locations where future USL-1 franchises might be launched, including St. Louis, Missouri ( led by the current PDL franchise St. Louis Lions ), Orlando, Florida ( with Mexican side Pachuca being rumored as connected to it ), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, Hamilton, Ontario, San Antonio, Texas and Ottawa, Ontario.

* On December 5, 2010 in a game televised on ESPN2 against the Washington Generals from HP Field House at Disney World in Orlando, the game saw several landmark events occur.

A portion of the facility was retained under military control to support Naval Training Center Orlando and several Reserve and National Guard units.

Namco Operations managed several large facilities in venues such as Pier 39 in San Francisco, California, and Church Street Station in Orlando, Florida.

During this book Anita also contracts several strains of lycanthropy after having been injured by a wereleopard and Chimera, the split personality of Orlando King, a lycanthrope hunter.

He opened another account with SunTrust Banks in Orlando several days after his arrival, becoming one of nine hijackers to open an account with the bank.

The town has played a conspicuous part in military history: its fortifications date back to Roman times, and it has several traces of the period, including the 1st-century mausoleum of the Roman general Lucius Munatius Plancus at the top of the Monte Orlando.

He portrayed the doomed prince for seven years from 1994 to 2000, winning several Orlando Awards ( the equivalent of the Tony Award ).

The Cecil family fostered several artists in these days, amongst others William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons.

The Eastern United States is home to several airlines, including Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Georgia, US Airways in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, AirTran Airways in Orlando, Florida, United Airlines in Chicago, Illinois, Spirit Airlines in Miramar, Florida, and JetBlue Airways in New York, New York.

" Operation Orlando " soon went into full attack resulting in many sites going down in the next several days.

Verse anthems alternated accompanied solos with choral sections ; the best-known composers of this genre were Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell.

By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including John Dowland, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.

Within this group we should mention composers: Tania León, Orlando Jacinto García, Armando Tranquilino, Odaline de la Martinez, José Raul Bernardo, Jorge Martín and Raul Murciano.

We can mention composers Aurelio de la Vega, Tania León, Orlando Jacinto García and Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz, among others.

He is noted for developing the consort fantasia for viols, being influenced in the 1630s by an earlier generation of English composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, Thomas Lupo, John Coprario and Orlando Gibbons.

Tomás Luis de Victoria, sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria ( 1548 – 20 August 1611 ), was the most famous composer of the 16th century in Spain, and one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.

In the 15th and 16th century composers like Guillaume Dufay, Orlando di Lasso, Josquin des Prez reached European acclaim.

Harriet Cohen dedicated an important effort to the performance of the Tudor composers at a time when this was unusual, and gave recitals of works by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons and also of Henry Purcell.

Composers of their generation, as well as later composers, such as Orlando de Lassus, were influenced by the Italian madrigal.

Additionally, he transcribed vocal motets by contemporary composers such as Josquin des Prez, Clemens non Papa, Nicolas Gombert, and Orlando di Lasso into arrangements for the lute.

The principal Jacobean era composers included Thomas Lupo, Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco.

These are chanted to the ordinary lesson tone and have been relatively neglected by composers, though there are a few settings by Manuel Cardoso and sets of responsories by Orlando di Lasso and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

These range late Renaissance composers such as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, to high Victorian geniuses such as Charles Villiers Stanford, Thomas Attwood Walmisley and to later masters of the form such as Herbert Murrill, Herbert Howells and Basil Harwood.

Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Muffat, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Ritter, Johann Rosenmüller, Domenico Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Philipp Telemann, Manuel Valls, Antonio Vivaldi, and Matthias Weckmann.

Fellowes ' editions of English Tudor church music represent a very significant contribution to 20th Century musical scholarship, bringing to new prominence composers such as Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, whose work was thus made accessible to composers and scholars, notably Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose revision of The English Hymnal was influenced by study of these themes in Fellowes ' editions.

Later composers, such as Orlando de Lassus, were influenced by the Italian madrigal.