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Volta and Como
Volta was born in Como, Italy on 18 February 1745.
In 1794, Volta married an aristocratic lady also from Como, Teresa Peregrini, with whom he raised three sons: Giovanni, Flaminio and Zanino.
Como was the birthplace of many historically notable figures, including the ( somewhat obscure ) poet Caecilius who is mentioned by Catullus in the 1st century BCE, the far more substantial literary figures of Pliny the Elder and the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, the scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Meazza scored two goals on his debut in a 6 – 2 win against Milanese Unione Sportiva in the Coppa Volta in Como, leaving old " Poldo " Conti speechless The " Gazzetta dello Sport ", the day after his official debut in the Italian championship on 12 September 1927, praised his game " intelligent, fresh, quick ", something that didn't happen very frequently during those days.
He scored two goals on his debut in a 6 – 2 win against Milanese Unione Sportiva in the Coppa Volta di Como.

Volta and now
Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.
Volta realized that the frog's leg served as both a conductor of electricity ( we would now call it an electrolyte ) and as a detector of electricity.
Ghana gets 97 % of its energy from damming lake Volta and exports much of this to neighboring countries, however organisations such as the Ghana Nuclear Society have advocated the introduction of nuclear power into Ghana and indeed the country now has an atomic energy commission.
The lock of Volta Grimana blocked the old channel, now the Po di Levante, which flows to the Adriatic through Porto Levante.
* August 5 – Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso, becomes independent from France.
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Yako, Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ), French West Africa
In 1952 Westermann and Bryan expanded Kwa to the various Lagoon languages of southern Ivory Coast and to what are now called the Volta – Niger languages of southern Nigeria.
Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo ( born June 30, 1942 ) was President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983, when he was overthrown in a coup d ’ état which brought Thomas Sankara into power.
Colonel Saye Zerbo ( born 27 August 1932 ) was a President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 25 November 1980 to 7 November 1982.
French West Africa () was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan ( now Mali ), French Guinea, Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ), Dahomey ( now Benin ) and Niger.
The Conseil de l ' Entente (" Council of Accord " or " Council of Understanding ") is a West African regional co-operation forum established in May 1959 by Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) and Dahomey ( now Benin ), and joined in 1966 by Togo.
British Togoland's capital was Ho, which now serves as the capital of Ghana's Volta Region, which include much of the territory of the former mandate.
The southern part of the territory is now the Volta Region of Ghana.
Maurice Yaméogo ( December 31, 1921 – September 9, 1993 ) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso.
His destinations included Tahiti ( 1933 ); United States, Japan, and China ( 1934 and 1937 ); Italy, Spain, Sudan ( now Mali ), Niger, Upper Volta, Togo and Dahomey ( now Benin, 1935 ); the West Indies ( 1936 ); Mexico ( 1937, 1939, and 1957 ); the Philippines and Indochina ( now Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, 1938 ); Guatemala and Ecuador ( 1939 ); Senegal ( as a conscript, 1940 ); Argentina ( 1941 ), Peru and Bolivia ( 1942 and 1946 ); and finally Brazil ( 1946 ).
Togoland was a German protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana.
These included Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan ( now Mali ), French Guinea ( now Guinea ), Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) and Dahomey ( now Benin ).

Volta and called
The Gur family was previously called Voltaic following the French name ( langues ) Voltaïques ( named after the Volta river ).
It is also called La volta, Volta, Volte.
For this reason Volta called it elettroforo perpetuo ( the perpetual electricity bearer ).
The Nyo group collapses Stewart's Potou – Tano and Ga – Dangme branches and also includes the ungrouped languages of southern Ivory Coast, while the Ka / Na Togo and Gbe languages are called Left bank because they are spoken on the eastern side of the Volta River.
A year later Bell called Tainter to what would become his Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C., where he would work for the next several years.
Volta Redonda Futebol Clube, Volta Redonda or simply by its nickname Voltaço, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Volta Redonda in Rio de Janeiro, founded on February 9, 1976.
( Upper Volta is today called Burkina Faso.

Volta and after
In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.
This kind of cell includes the Galvanic cell or Voltaic cell, named after Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, both scientists who conducted several experiments on chemical reactions and electric current during the late 18th century.
The phenomenon was dubbed galvanism, after Galvani, on the suggestion of his peer and sometime intellectual adversary Alessandro Volta.
After the controversy with Volta, Galvani kept a low profile partly because of his attitude towards the controversy, and partly because his health and spirits had declined, especially after the death of his wife, Lucia, in 1790.
A Galvanic cell, or Voltaic cell, named after Luigi Galvani, or Alessandro Volta respectively, is an electrochemical cell that derives electrical energy from spontaneous redox reaction taking place within the cell.
The AOF subsequently expanded to neighbouring French-ruled territories: Dahomey was added in 1904, after having been put under colonial tutelage in 1892 ; Mauritania in 1920, and when the territory of Upper Volta was divided from French Sudan by colonial decree in 1921, it automatically also entered the AOF.
Soon after Independence in 1960, UDV-RDA became the only legal political party in Upper Volta and a civilian dictatorship was set up.
Also, American rock band The Mars Volta have a song named after the mountain.
The city started expanding again after World War II and especially the reconstitution of the colony of Upper Volta in 1947, despite the fact that Ouagadougou had been selected as its capital.
According to legend, a noble Genoese lady named Auria or Oria della Volta fell in love with a noble pilgrim who was going to Jerusalem for the First Crusade ; his name was Arduino di Narbonne but their children were named after the mother — de Oria, the children of Oria.
Ella rapidly ages as she is stripped of her powers, but after Leon is brought in on her secret and is granted the power to see Thelma, he helps to revive her using the Volta.
Named after physicist Alessandro Volta.
:* Volta Conference an interwar cycle of cultural meetings, named after physicist Alessandro Volta.
* Volta ( crater ), a crater on the moon named after Alessandro Volta
* Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle named after the physicist
Volta Redonda, newly promoted to the first division of Campeonato Carioca surprised the football fans and the press, and won the traditional and prestigious Taça Guanabara ( the first turn of Campeonato Carioca ), after defeating strong teams such as Vasco da Gama.
However, in a radio interview conducted by Radionica Colombia on 28 October 2008, Cedric Bixler-Zavala revealed that after returning from the South American leg of the current Mars Volta tour, they will return to the United States and record new material for a future De Facto release.
Other group of streets are named after great scientists Einstein, Volta, Lister, Edison and Marconi or Biblical figures such as Goliath, Gideon and Esther.
Voltaic Solidarity ( in French: Solidarité Voltaïque ) was a political alliance in Upper Volta formed after the territorial elections in 1957.

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