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Girolamo Basso della Rovere Girolamo Basso della Rovere (died September 1, 1507) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic church. A bishop of Recanati in present-day Italy, he was created cardinal on December 10, 1477 by his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV.
Girolamo da Carpi Girolamo Da Carpi (1501 - 1556) (erroneously spelled Giralomo in 1911 EB) was the son of a painter and decorator in the Court of the Duke of Este in Ferrara (Italy). He began painting in Ferrara, by report apprenticing to Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo); but by age 20, he had moved to Bologna, and is considered a figure of Early Renaissance painting of the local Bolognese School.
Girolamo Forabosco Girolamo Forabosco (Venice, 1605 - Padua, 23 January 1679) was an Italian painter of the baroque period. He was active in Padua and Venice, where he was enrolled in the Fraglia dei Pittori between 1634-39 and paid taxes in Venice from 1640-44.
Girolamo Frescobaldi Girolamo Frescobaldi (September, 1583 – March 1, 1643) was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. There is no evidence that the Frescobaldi of Ferrara were related to the homonymous Florentine noble house.
Girolamo Maggi Girolamo Maggi (abt. 1523—March 27, 1572), or Hieronymus Magius was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis Robortello.
Girolamo Mei Girolamo Mei (May 27 1519 – July,1594) was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama. He was born Florence, and died in Rome.
Girolamo Rainaldi Girolamo Rainaldi (1570 - July 15, 1655) was an Italian architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Bernini. His son, Carlo Rainaldi, became an even more notable, more fully Baroque architect.
Girona (province) Girona (Catalan:Girona; Spanish: Gerona) is a province of eastern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida, and by France and the Mediterranean Sea.
Gironès Gironès is a comarca (county) in eastern Catalonia, Spain, bordering Selva, Baix Empordà, Alt Empordà, Pla de l'Estany and Garrotxa. As of 2001, more than half of the comarca's 136,543 people live in the capital, Girona, which is also the capital of the province of Girona.
Girondist The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins), were a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. The Girondists were a group of individuals holding certain opinions and principles in common rather than an organised political party, and the name was at first informally applied because the most brilliant exponents of their point of view were deputies from the Gironde.
Girsanov theorem In probability theory, the Girsanov theorem tells how stochastic processes change under changes in measure. The theorem is especially important in the theory of financial mathematics as it tells how to convert from the physical measure which describes the probability that an underlying instrument (such as a share price or interest rate) will take a particular value or values to the risk-neutral measure which is a very useful tool for evaluating the value of derivatives on the underlying.
Girsu Girsu (modern Telloh, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq) is a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km northwest of Lagash. At the time of Gudea, it was in fact the capital of the Lagash kingdom, and it continued to be its religious center after political power had shifted to Lagash.
Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The College was established on October 16, 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon, as the first residential college for women in England.
Girton, Cambridgeshire Girton is a village of about 1600 households, and 4500 people in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.
Girugamesh girugämesh (ギルガメッシュ or gilgamesh in English) was formed in 2004. After putting out some demo tapes and getting some gigs they final hit it off with their first single, Kaisen Sengen, which hit #10 on the Oricon Indies Chart.
GisaburĹŤ Sugii is an anime director and Nihonga artist born August 20, 1940 in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He is currently a member of the anime studio Group TAC, and is most well known for his work as director of the Touch series and the movie Night on the Galactic Railroad.
Gisacum Gisacum, or Le Vieil-Évreux ("Old Évreux), was a Gallo-Roman religious sanctuary, near the settlement of Mediolanum Aulercorum (Évreux), in the territory of the Eburovices"victors under the patronage of the yew". in northern Gaul (now Normandy).
Gisèle Freund Gisèle Freund (November 19, 1908 or 1912 - March 31, 2000) was a German-born French photographer, famous for her documentary photographs and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book is Photographie et société (1974), about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium.
Gisborne Boys' High School Gisborne Boys' High School is one of the oldest schools in the Gisborne district. Once a co-ed school, going by the name Gisborne High School, the school separated to become Boys' and Girls' High School, sharing The Rectory, a boarding-type part of the schools to cater for out-of-town, rural or international students.
Gisborough Moor Gisborough Moor is a moor in England's North York Moors, lying to the south the town of Guisborough. The summit is a broad flat ridge, with the highest point lying at the southern end, some 2 km south of a trig point.
Gisela Kahn Gresser Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 - December 4, 2000) was one of the first two female chess players in the United States to gain the title of master in 1950 when FIDE created official titles. She was also the first woman to be inducted into the U.
Gisela of Burgundy Gisela of Burgundy (before 952 – July 21, 1006) was the daughter of Conrad of Burgundy, "the Peaceful" (ca 923/5–993), who inherited the Kingdom of Arles, and his second wife, Adelaide of Bellay. By his first, more dynastic, marriage, Gisela's father had produced an heir, Rudolf III (died 1032), so he was free to marry for love and comfort.
Giselda Leirner Giselda Leirner (SĂŁo Paulo, 1928) is a Brazilian writer illustrator and plastic artist. She is the sculptress FelĂ­cia Leirner's daughter, Nelson Leirner's sister and Sheila Leirner and Laurence Klinger's mother.
Gisele Miro Gisele Miro (born November 1, 1968) is a former tennis player from Brazil, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won two singles and one doubles titles in the ITF Circuit, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on April 25, 1988, when she became the number 99 of the world.
Giselher Giselher is a king of Burgundy in the Nibelungenlied, brother to kings Gunther and Gernot. Historically, these may correspond to three sons of king Gebicca, Gundomar, Gislaharius (Giselher), and Gundaharius (Gunther), who ruled the Burgundians in the 410s.
Giselle Giselle, with music by the French ballet and opera composer Adolphe Adam (with additions by Friedrich Burgmüller, and Léon Minkus), and choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a ballet from the Romantic period and was first presented by the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique (today known as the Paris Opera Ballet) on June 28, 1841. It is one of the few ballets of that era which has survived.
Giselle Fernández Giselle Fernández (born May 15, 1961) is an American television journalist. Her appearance on network television include as reporter and guest anchor for CBS Early Show, CBS Evening News, NBC Today, NBC Nightly News, regular host for Access Hollywood, and guest on Dancing with the Stars.
Giselle Khoury Giselle Khoury is a talk show host on the Al-Arabiya television network. She has her own program, "Bilarabi," hosting many prominent and high profile guests, political decision makers, heads of states, prime ministers and ministers of foreign affairs.
Giselle Laronde Giselle Jeanne Marie Laronde-West (born November 6, 1963 in Port of Spain) won the 1986 Miss World contest, representing Trinidad and Tobago. She became the first woman from Trinidad and Tobago to win the title.
Giselle Loren Giselle Loren, sometimes credited as Giselle Achecar, is an actress most famous for her voice-over work in video games and animated series. Her credits include playing Buffy Summers in two Buffy the Vampire Slayer Video Games, Stargirl in Justice League Unlimited and the wife of Curt Connors in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series.
Gishiri The practice of “gishiri cutting”, also known as "gishri cutting" is done in many African villages. A whole range of gynecologic complaints, including difficulty in labor and the inability to vaginally penetrate pre-pubescent girls, are believed to be caused by a vagina that is too narrow.
Giske Bridge Giske Bridge (Giskebrua) is a concrete beam bridge between the islands Valderøya and Giske in Møre og Romsdal county in Norway. The bridge is 552 metres long, the longest span is 52 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 17 metres.
Gislebert of Mons Gislebert (or Gilbert) of Mons (c. 1150-1225) was the Flemish chronicler whose Chronicon Hanoniense (Chronicle of Hainaut) is an essential eye-witness source for events affecting his parton Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut
Gislebertus Giselbertus (flourished in the 12th century), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120-1135) of the Cathedral of Saint Lazare at Autun, France-consisting of numerous doorways, tympanums, and capitals-represents some of the most original work of the period. His sculpture is expressive and imaginative: from the terrifying Last Judgment (West Tympanum), with its strikingly elongated figures, to the Eve (North Portal), the first large scale nude in European art since antiquity and a model of sinuous grace.
Gispaxlo'ots The Gispaxlo'ots are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Gispwudwada The Gispwudwada (variously spelled) is the name for the Killerwhale (or "Blackfish") "clan" (phratry) in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska. It is considered analogous or identical to the Gisgahaast (variously spelled; also Gisk'aast) clan in British Columbia's Nisga'a and Gitksan nations.
Gisr el-mudir Gisr el-mudir, located at Saqqara in Egypt, just west of Sekhemkhet's pyramid complex, is a massive enclosure that seems to date from the Second dynasty. The structure was located in the early Twentieth Century, but not investigated until the mid-1990's, when it was found to be masonry of roughly hewn limestone blocks in layers, making it the earliest known stone structure in Egypt.
Gisulf I of Friuli Gisulf I was the first duke of Friuli (then Forum Julii), a nephew of Alboin, first king of the Lombards in Italy, as a son of his brother Grasulf. Alboin appointed him duke around 569 after the Lombard conquest of the region.
Gisulf I of Salerno Gisulf I (also Gisulph, Gisolf, Gisulfo, Gisolfo, Gisulphus, or Gisulfus) (May 930 – November or December 977) was the eldest son of his father, Guaimar II, and his second wife Gaitelgrima. He was associated with his father as prince of Salerno in 943 and he succeeded him on his death in 952.
Gisulf II of Benevento Gisulf II (died between 749 and 753) was the third last duke of Benevento before the fall of the Lombard kingdom. He ruled from 743, when King Liutprand came down and removed Godescalc, to his death up to ten years laterThe Lexikon gives a date of 741 and places the death of Gregory there, making him succeed, not Godescalc, but Gregory.
Gisund Bridge Gisund Bridge (Gisundbrua) is a cantilever road bridge that crosses Gisundet from Finnsnes on the mainland to Silsand on Senja in Troms county in Norway. The bridge is 1147 metres long, the main span is 143 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 41 metres.
GiST In computing, GiST or Generalized Search Tree, is a data structure and API which can be used to build almost any kind of search tree on almost any kind of data. With GiST it is possible to build B+ trees, kd-trees, hB-trees, RD-trees, R-trees and many others.
Git (insult) Git is mild British slang term, used to denote a silly, stupid, annoying or childish person. It is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than prat or wanker, and may often be used affectionately between friends.
Git Up, Git Out Git Up, Git Out is a song from OutKast on their debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik from 1995. It's a conscious Southern story-rap about the dangers of giving into your circumstances and not doing anything with your life.
Gita Govinda The Gita Govinda (Sanskrit गीत गोविन्द) ("Song of the Cowherd") is a work composed in the 12th century by the great poet, Jayadeva of Puri, Orissa. It describes the relationship between Krishna and the gopis (cowgirls) of Vrindavana, and in particular one gopi named Radha.
Gita Jayanti Gita Jayanti or Gita Jayanthi is the celebration of the anniversary of the sacred Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna the Pandava Prince just before the battle of the Mahabharata.
Gita Press The Gita Press, is the world's largest publisher of Hindu] religious texts and is located in [[Gorakhpur city of India's Uttar Pradesh state. It was founded in 1923 by Brahmalina Shri Jayadayalji Goyandka for promoting the principles of Sanatana Dharma.
Gitanas Gitanas is a Mexican telenovela which aired in 2004, it was largely based in the Chilean telenovela Romané and was co-produced by the Mexican company Argos Comunicación and Telemundo. It aired at 9PM EST and PST from late 2004 until mid-2005.
Gitando The Gitando are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Gitane Gitane, based in Machecoul (near Nantes, France), is a major manufacturer in the French bicycle industry; the name "Gitane" means gypsy. The company is one of the most prestigious French brands, along with Peugeot and Motobécane.
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez Gitanjali S. Gutierrez is the lawyer for the defendant Mohammad al-Qahtani, who is held at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay by the United States MilitaryGutierrez is an attorney with the [[Center for Constitutional Rights], a New York-based nonprofit organization.
Gitaroo Man Gitaroo-Man is a video game for the Sony PlayStation 2, published by Koei. The player character is U-1 ("YĹ«ichi": a common Japanese boys' name; pronounced "you-one" in the North American and European releases), a young boy who is frequently ridiculed by classmates and passed over by Little Pico, the girl of his dreams.
Gitga'ata The Gitga'ata (sometimes also spelled Gitga'at or Gitk'a'ata) are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, and inhabit the village of Hartley Bay, British Columbia. The name Gitga'ata in the Tsimshian language means "people of the cane" (as in, a ceremonial stick).
Gith In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Gith is the fictional leader of the thrall rebellion that toppled the illithid empire thousands of years in the past, and founder of the githyanki and githzerai factions (or races). Gith is said to have gone to the plane of Baator to serve Tiamat, the queen of evil dragons, as part of a pact between the Githyanki and Red Dragons which was brokered by her advisor, Vlaakith.
Githead Githead is notable as a rather unlikely musical collaboration that includes Wire's Colin Newman as well as electronic musician Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) alongside ex-Minimal Compact members Malka Spigel and Max Franken.
Githzerai In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, githzerai are extraplanar humanoid creatures, that reside on the Plane of Limbo. The githzerai were created by Charles Stross for the Fiend Folio Tome of Creatures Maleovolent and Benign (1981).
Gitche Manitou Gitche Manitou (or Gitchi Manitou, Gitchie Manitou, Gitchee Manitou, Kitche Manitou; Gichi-manidoo in the contemporary spelling), in traditional Algonquian First Nations culture, is the Great Spirit, the Creator of all things and the Giver of Life. "Manitou" is an Algonquin word for "spirit", and "Gitche Manitou" means "Great Spirit".
Gitchie Manitou State Preserve Gitchie Manitou is a small (91-acre) preserve in Lyon County, in the extreme northwestern corner of Iowa, about 10 miles southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This natural prairie preserve is noted for its ancient Native American burial mounds and precambrian Sioux Quartzite outcroppings, which are about 1.
Gitlaan The Gitlaan are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Gitlakdamix, British Columbia Gitlakdamix or New Aiyansh is a Nisga'a village about 100km north of Terrace, in the heart of the Nass River valley. Though it is located in British Columbia, it is also considered the "capital of the Nisga'a Nation.
Gitmo (documentary) Gitmo: The new rules of war is a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh. Features interviews with Janis Karpinski, Mehdi Ghezali and Geoffrey Miller (MG), among others.
Gits'iis The Gits'iis are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Gitta Sereny Gitta Sereny (born March 13 1921) is a Hungarian-born British biographer, historian and journalist whose writing focuses mainly on the Holocaust and abused children. She is a stepdaughter of the economist Ludwig von Mises.
Gitwilgyoots The Gitwilgyoots are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Gitxsan Nation Gitxsan Nation is a micronation located in the Skeena Watershed of British Columbia, Canada on 30,000 square kilometers of land. The Nation is a matrilineal society that consists of Frog, Eagle, Wolf, and Fireweed Clans.
Gitzaxłaał The Gitzaxłaał are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the nine of those tribes making up the "Nine Tribes" of the lower Skeena River resident at Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.
Giubiana The Giubiana is a traditional festivity very popular in Lombardy, especially Brianza, and in Piedmont. On the occasion of the last Thursday in January, bonfires are lit, in which the Giubiana (a puppet of an old witch) burns.
Giudicati The Giudicati (singular Giudicato) were four indigenous kingdoms in Sardinia from about 900 until 1410, when the last fell to the Aragonese. The rulers of the giudicati were giudici (singular giudice), from the Latin iudike (pl.
Giudicato of Arborea The Giudicato of Arborea is an historical region of Sardinia, in the central-west portion of the island. In the Middle Ages Arborea was the seat of one of the four self-ruling hereditary "judicatures" (giudicati) into which the island was divided: Gallura, Logudoro, Arborea, and Cagliari or Calari.
Giudicato of Logudoro The Giudicato of Logudoro (also known as the Giudicato of Torres after Porto Torres) is an historical state which ruled over the the northwest portion of Sardinia from the 10th century through the 13th century. The Guidicato of Logudoro was one of the four Giudicati into which the island was divided.
Giudicárie line The Giudicárie line is a major geologic faultzone in the Italian Alps. It runs from Merano in the northeast as a more or less straight line along the lower part of the Val di Sole, along the Val Rendana (upper Sarca valley) and then along the Chiese valley to the Lago d'Idro (Idro Lake).
Giuga number A Giuga number is a composite number n such that each of its distinct prime factors pi is a divisor of {n over p_i} - 1. Another test is if the congruence nB_{phi(n)} equiv -1 pmod n holds true, where B is a Bernoulli number.
Giugiaro Ford Mustang In 2005, Italian car designer Fabrizio Giugiaro, from the world renowned Giugiaro car design family, went to the Ford Motor Company with a passion to design a future concept inspired by the fifth generation Ford Mustang. As the styling director of Italdesign – Giugiaro S.
Giulia Gam Giulia Gam (born December 28, 1966) is an Italian-born Brazilian actress. Granddaughter of a Dane, she became famous in Brazil after performing the young Jocasta Silveira in the soap opera Mandala and since then started a meteoric career in television, despite being one of the most seminal thespians of Brazil.
Giuliana Sgrena Giuliana Sgrena (born December 20, 1948) is a well-known Italian journalist and author who works for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on 4 February 2005.
Giuliani (turkey) Giuliani is a female wild turkey that has lived in New York's Riverside Park (adjacent to the Hudson River) since 2003 or possibly longer. It is presumed that she entered Manhattan's north end from the Bronx, flying across the Harlem River.
Giuliano di Piero de' Medici Giuliano de' Medici (1453 – 26 April, 1478, Florence), second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty). As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome "sporting golden boy.
Giuliano Giannichedda Giuliano Giannichedda (Gianni Chedda) (born 21 September 1974 in Pontecorvo, Frosinone) is an Italian football (soccer) player, currently playing for Juventus. He is a midfielder, but can also play as a Defender.
Giulietti The Giulietti family is a group of prominent Italians who immigrated to Montreal in 1954. The members of the family have been bestowed with numerous professional and governmental honors including a 1986 award from Bell Canada and the Canadian Governor General's award of excellence in 2000.
Giulietto Chiesa Giulietto Chiesa (born on 4 September 1940 in Acqui Terme, province of Alessandria) is an Italian journalist and politician, Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Independent - Di Pietro-Occhetto List Civil Society, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Giulino di Mezzegra Giulino di Mezzegra is a quarter of the city of Mezzegra, in the province of Como, which has passed into history because it is the place where Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci were assassinated. The execution was carried out by local resistance fighters (partigiani), who had captured the dictator at Dongo (often erroneously considered to be the place where the execution actually took place).
Giulio Ascoli Giulio Ascoli (January 20, 1843 – July 12, 1896), was an Italian Jewish mathematician who taught at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He made contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable and to Fourier series.
Giulio Bizzozero Giulio Bizzozero (1846-1901) was an Italian doctor and medical researcher. He is known as the original discoverer of Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria which is responsible for peptic ulcer disease (although this fact was not generally accepted until the 1990s).
Giulio Caccini Giulio Caccini (October 8 1551 – December 10 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style.
Giulio Cantoni Giulio Leonardo Cantoni ( - 25 July 2005) was the director of the United States' National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Cellular Pharmacology, later renamed the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry.
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi, (December 6, 1682 Sinigaglia - September 26, 1766) was an Italian mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic functions.
Giulio Carpioni Giulio Carpioni (1613-29 January 1678) was an Italian Baroque era painter and etcher. Born probably in Venice, Carpioni studied under Alessandro Varotari (il Padovanino) and was also infuenced by the work of Carlo Saraceni and Jean Leclerc.
Giulio de Florian Giulio de Florian is an Italian cross country skier who competed during the 1960's. He won two bronze medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, earning one in 1962 (30 km) and the other in 1966 (4 x 10 km).
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia (born July 29, 1744, Piacenza, Italy; died April 2, 1830, Rome, Italy) was one of the most prominent cardinals of the early eighteenth century. During this period, the Roman Catholic Church received the greatest threats to its legitimacy for a long time in the shape of the French Revolution and della Somaglia's reputation suffered from this.
Giulio Natta Giulio Natta (Imperia, 26 February 1903 - Bergamo, 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemist, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers. He was born in Imperia, Italy, on February 26, 1903.
Giulio Tremonti Giulio Tremonti (Sondrio, Lombardy, August 18, 1947) is an Italian politician and economist, and was the former Italian minister of Economy and Finance and deputy-prime minister in the governments of Silvio Berlusconi. He is actually Vice-President of Forza Italia.
Giusep Nay Giusep Nay (born August 9, 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the president of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for the years 2005 and 2006. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 after being nominated by the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.
Giuseppè Sergi Giuseppè Sergi (1841, Messina – 1936, Rome) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, notable for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples. According to Sergi, the Mediterranean race arose from primal populations in North Africa, and was related to Hamitic peoples.
Giuseppe Abbamonte Giuseppe Abbamonte (1759-1818) was a Neapolitan statesman who became secretary-general of the Cisalpine Republic in 1798 and a member of the executive commission at Naples. Upon the restoration of the king in 1709 he moved to Milan where he continued in his job until 1805.
Giuseppe Andrews Giuseppe Andrews (born on April 25, 1979, in Key Largo, Florida) is an American actor-writer-director best known for his roles in Detroit Rock City and as a bizarre sheriff in Cabin Fever, small role in Never Been Kissed, as well as appearances in the Smashing Pumpkins videos "1979" and "Perfect". However, he has also written, directed, scored, edited, shot and produced a number of avante-garde films.
Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli (1662-1719) was a Tuscan sculptor and gem-engraver of the late Baroque active in Florence, often using colorful and semi-precious pietra dura, a type of workmanship that became a specialty of Florence. He initially trained with Gaetano Giulio Zumbo.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
Giuseppe Baresi Giuseppe Baresi (born February 7, 1958 in Travagliato, Italy) was an Italian football (soccer) player, who played 559 times for Internazionale, scoring 13 goals. His more famous brother Franco played for bitter rivals A.
Giuseppe Bergman Giuseppe Bergman is the Candide-like protagonist of the works of Italian cartoonist Milo Manara. The anti-heroic Italian youth stars in four graphic novels (comic books) which are an ironic deconstruction of adventure stories and comic books as a medium.
Giuseppe Bergomi Giuseppe Bergomi (born December 22, 1963 in Milan) is a former Italian football (soccer) player, who spent his entire career at Internazionale and was a key member of the Italian national team in the 1980s and 1990s. He is affectionately referred to as "Lo zio" ("the uncle") because of the moustaches he wore when still very young, at the beginnings of his career.

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