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It's A Great Day for the Irish The original Irish-American song was written in 1940 by Roger Edens, one of the many musical directors at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios under the leadership of Arthur Freed for inclusion in the film version of the George M. Cohan 1922 Broadway show Little Nellie Kelly, directed by Norman Taurog.
It's Academic It's Academic is a televised academic quiz competition for high school students, currently airing on two NBC affiliates in Washington, DC (WRC-TV), Charlottesville, Virginia (WVIR), and one CBS affiliate Baltimore, Maryland (WJZ). The show has been on the air since 1961, making it the longest running game show ever.
It's Academic (Australian game show) It's Academic is an Australian children's game show airing on the Seven Network. The show is based on the long running American version of It's Academic, and pits students from different schools against each other in a test of knowledge covering a number of diverse subjects including english, mathematics, science, geography, sport, music and popular culture.
It's All Coming Back to Me Now "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" is a power ballad, written by Jim Steinman in 1983. According to this Reuters report (31 July 2006, accessed 11 September 2006), it was written for the first album in the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy, recorded by Meat Loaf.
It's All Down to Goodnight Vienna The title track to Ringo Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna was a not entirely politically correct party song written by John Lennon. This single contains a unique medley of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" and "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)".
It's All for You "It's All for You" is the unofficial second single by Leona Lewis, released as a download only single on 18 December 2006 on The Schizofreniks record label. The songs were recorded by Lewis prior to her appearance on The X Factor.
It's All in the Game "It's All in the Game" is a song that was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to fit a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Dawes, who would later become the Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.
It's All in Your Head FM: Over the Edge Live on Stage It's All in Your Head FM: Over the Edge Live on Stage is a 2006 album by the sound collage band Negativland. It was compiled from a series of live recordings made by the band in San Francisco and Los Angeles in October of 2005.
It's All in Your Mind "It's All In Your Mind" is the seventh track on Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change. It is perhaps one of the simplest songs on the album lyrically; many phrases are repeated, with 'I wanted to be' iterated nine times.
It's All In The Game (Nena Album) It's All In The Game is the fifth album (and first completely English album) by the German band Nena. It is entirely in English, and are written as translations for the Nena album Feuer und Flamme (Fire And Flame).
It's All Love "It's All Love" is the first single off Rock Star Supernova's debut album. It is track 4 on the album, and one of the four songs off the album that were performed on the reality show, Rock Star: Supernova.
It's All True (Tracey Thorn song) "It's All True" is the first single from singer Tracey Thorn's solo album, Out of the Woods, due in February 2007. The Martin Buttrich Vocal Mix of the single was premiered on November 24, 2006, on Everything But the Girl's, Ben Watt's online radio show, Buzzin' Fly.
It's Always Fair Weather It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by Andre Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film is about three ex-G.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an FX sitcom created by Rob McElhenney about four friends (played by McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson) who run an Irish bar, "Paddy's Pub", in Philadelphia. The series deals with a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, gun control, racism, sexism, religion, slavery, sexual harassment in education and gay rights.
It's Been a Bad Week It’s Been a Bad Week is a British radio comedy on BBC Radio 2, first broadcast on 11 February 1999. It is presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and is also referred to as Punt and Dennis: It's Been a Bad Week.
It's Been a Good Life It's Been a Good Life (2002) is a book edited by Janet Asimov. The book, published by Prometheus Books (ISBN 1-57392-968-9), is a collection of Isaac Asimov's diaries, personal letters, and pieces of his three earlier autobiographies:
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Originally titled "It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas" was written by Meredith Willson in 1951. The song has been recording by many artists but was a hit by Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters with Michell Ayres & his Orch.
It's Better to Travel (album) "it's better to travel" was Swing Out Sister's 1987 debut album and contained the UK hit singles: "Breakout" (which reached No. 4 in the UK chart in October 1986), "Surrender" (No.
It's Called a Heart "It's Called a Heart" is Depeche Mode's fourteenth UK single (released on September 16 1985), and was not released on an actual studio album but was released on the compilation The Singles (81-85) in the same year, along with "Shake the Disease". The American version of The Singles 81>85, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, also includes "It's Called a Heart"'s B-side, "Fly on the Windscreen".
It's Easy For You It's Easy For You is a melancholy country-pop song written by the English songwriting duo Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber which was covered by Elvis Presley during an impromptu recording session in the makeshift recording studio set up in the Jungle Room in Presley's Graceland mansion in 1977. The song was released on his 1977 album Moody Blue and has the dubius honour of being the final song on the last album released during the life of the king of rock 'n' roll.
It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown is a 1984 TV special, featuring Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters, parodying Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Flashdance (1983) as well as a number of popular top 40 hits of the early 1980s.
It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things is a compilation album of early material by the Californian hardcore punk band, Unbroken. It was originally recorded between 1992 and 1995, and released in March, 2000 on Indecision Records.
It's Goin' Down (song) "It's Goin' Down" is the first single from Yung Joc's debut album New Joc City, and is produced by Nitti. Even though it features a snap kind of beat, in the video, people are seen snapping their fingers but no one is shown doing the dance.
It's Gonna Be Me (David Bowie song) "It's Gonna Be Me" is a song written by David Bowie in 1974, and intended for his Young Americans album. When Bowie recorded "Fame" and "Across the Universe" with John Lennon, this song got shuffled away from the album.
It's Gonna Rain It's gonna rain is a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1965; the work is approximately 17 minutes and 50 seconds in length. It was Reich's first major work and a landmark in musical minimalism and process music.
It's Happy Bunny It's Happy Bunny is the name of a character in a series of stickers, buttons, posters, and other merchandise sold at novelty shops across North America. Designed by artist and writer Jim Benton, It's Happy Bunny is a small, smiling bunny, often varying in color, with a slogan printed at its feet.
It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" is an Academy-award winning 2005 song written for the film Hustle & Flow by Memphis hip hop musicians Paul Beauregard and Jordan Houston (both from rap group Three 6 Mafia), and Cedric Coleman. It was performed in the film by stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P.
It's in the Bag (film) It's in the Bag is a 1945 movie starring radio comedian Fred Allen in his only starring role, as the ringmaster of a flea circus whose search for his inheritance, hidden in one of five chairs, leads to a variety of strange encounters.
It's in the Book "It's in the Book" is a recorded comic monologue, partly sung, partly an exhortation in the manner of a revivalist preacher on the subject of Little Bo-Peep. It was marketed as a pop song, and actually made the Billboard charts 1952_in_music, reaching number one.
It's I/It's me It is commonly held that in the statement "It's I" (or "'Tis I"), "be" acts as a transitive verb and thus, I would be incorrect since it should be the object, and the objective case me should be used. In fact, in terms of common usage, especially in informal speech, "It's me" is rather common.
It's Impossible (song) "It's Impossible" is the English version of the Spanish standard "Somos Novios", written by the premier Mexican bolero composer Armando Manzanero. The song was translated into English by Sid Wayne and first recorded by Perry Como in 1971, with the name of "It's Impossible".
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books is the first feature film by Richard Linklater, filmed on Super 8 and edited at a public access tv station, with Linklater starring and handling all production duties.
It's like That (Mariah Carey song) "It's like That" is a pop song written by Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal and Johnta Austin, and produced by Carey, Dupri and Seal for Carey's ninth studio album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). It borrows the hook "it's like that y'all" from the Run-D.
It's Like That (My Big Brother) It's Like That (My Big Brother) is the first single released by Redman for his third album, Muddy Waters. It features fellow rapper K-Solo, is produced by Redman and is co-produced by long time affiliate Erick Sermon.
It's Me or The Dog It's Me or The Dog is a television program produced by Ricochet Productions, in which dog trainer Victoria Stilwell takes on a different problem dog in each program. Stilwell had the idea for the show after watching Supernanny, also produced by Ricochet.
It's My Party (film) It's My Party is one of the first films (1996) to address the topic of AIDS patients dying with dignity. Starring some major Hollywood talent (including Olivia Newton-John, Margaret Cho, Bronson Pinchot, Devon Gummersall, Steve Antin, Bruce Davison, Sally Kellerman, Gregory Harrison and in the lead, Eric Roberts), the film chronicles a two day party hosted by Roberts' character, who has just been diagnosed with Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
It's My Party (song) "It's My Party" is a song popularized by singer Lesley Gore in 1963. This song hit #1 on both the Pop and Rhythm and Blues charts in the United States and #9 in the United Kingdom, becoming her only major hit in the latter country.
It's My Party (television programme) It's My Party was a weekly reality tv show broadcast by RTÉ in summer 2006. The concept of the series was that members of the public would get help and advice from a pair of PR professionals on how to throw a successful party.
It's No Secret "It's No Secret" is an pop-ballad song written by English songwriting team Stock, Aitken and Waterman for Australian singer Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie (1987). The song was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and received a mixed reception from music critics.
It's Not Easy Being Green It's Not Easy Being Green is a programme on BBC2, following Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife, Brigit, son, James and daughter Charlotte as they move into New House Farm, a 300-year-old listed building in Tywardreath, Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire.
It's Not Luck It's Not Luck is a sequel to "The Goal". The plot of this business novel continues to follow the advancement of the main character, Alex Rogo, through the corporate ranks of large manufacturer, UniCo.
It's Not Over (album) It's Not Over is an album by multiple Grammy- and Stellar- award winning gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard, released on January 24, 2006. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top Gospel Charts and #124 on the Billboard Top 200.
It's Not Right but It's Okay "It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a 1999 song by Whitney Houston, and is the second single from her fourth album My Love Is Your Love. Initially featured as the B-Side of "Heartbreak Hotel," it became the album's second single and peaked at number four on the U.
It's Oh So Quiet "It's Oh So Quiet" performed by Björk is a renamed cover of the Betty Hutton song "Blow a Fuse". It remains her biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK singles chart, generating plenty of mainstream airplay.
It's Okay To Be Different It's Okay To Be Different (ISBN 0316666033) (Megan Tingley, 2001) is a children's book by Todd Parr about all types of different kids. It follows storylines such as a kangaroo with a dog in her pouch, which may be interpreted as a metaphor for say an Asian mom with an adoptive African baby.
It's Only Pain "It's Only Pain" is the seventh single by Georgian born songstress Katie Melua and the fourth from her second album, Piece by Piece. The song is said to be about her pain at breaking-up with her boyfriend, Luke Pritchard.
It's Our Thing It's Our Thing is a 1969 album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck imprint. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in England, the Isleys composed this album in the style of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brown funk that was dominating the music industry at the time but with their own flair as explained in their smash title track.
It's Over Now "It's Over Now" is the title of a song written by Brian Wilson for The Beach Boys. The song was originally intended to be on the "Adult/Child" album although when the album was aborted the song sat in the archives for many years.
It's Raining It’s Raining was the first single off the highly-anticipated third album from the Korean R&B singer, Bi. With this single, he presented a brand-new image to his fans, and explored a more upbeat, hip-hop influenced sound.
It's Raining Men "It's Raining Men" is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer performed by the Weather Girls in 1982. The song had been offered to a who's who of female singing legends including Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Cher, Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, Gloria Gaynor, and even Barbra Streisand before being accepted by Martha Wash and Izora Armstead of Weather Girls.
It's Raining, It's Pouring… It's Raining, It's Pouring is the 14th episode in season 3 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
It's Scotland's oil It's Scotland's oil was a widely publicised political slogan used by the Scottish National Party (SNP) during the 1970s in making their economic case for Scottish independence. It was argued that the discovery of North Sea oil off the coast of Scotland, and the revenue that it created would not benefit Scotland to any significant degree while Scotland remained part of the United Kingdom.
It's Showtime at the Apollo Showtime at the Apollo (formerly It's Showtime at the Apollo) is a syndicated music television show, first broadcast in 1987, and is produced by the Apollo Theater. The show features live performances from both professional and up-and-coming artists, and also features the Amateur Night competition made popular at the famous Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, where the show is recorded.
It's So Hard "It's So Hard" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. Shortly after the album's release, the song was released as the B-side to the single "Imagine.
It's Such a Beautiful Day It's Such A Beautiful Day is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Star Science Fiction Stories 3 in 1954 and later appeared in Asimov's collection Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).
It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water is the twenty second episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 13 February 1970 on the ITV.
It's the Same Old Song "It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signature songs, and was notably created--from initial concept to commercial release--in exactly 24 hours.
It's That Man Again It's That Man Again (or more commonly ITMA) was a 1940s BBC radio comedy programme. The "Man" referred to in the title was originally Adolf Hitler but this later changed to Tommy Handley, a popular comedian.
It's Time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign of prominent celebrities singing a jingle entitled "It's Time".
It's Time (album) It's Time is an album by the Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. It's Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on the Apple Computer's iTunes Store digital download service.
It's Time (skateboarding video) It's Time is a skate video released by C1RCA in May 2006 and is the company's first ever full-length video. It features Jon Allie, Adrian Lopez, Colt Cannon, Peter Ramondetta, Tony Tave, Windsor James, Sierra Fellers, and introduces, Dennis Durrant.
It's Time to See Religion Die It's Time to See Religion Die is the solo debut album by Brian "Head" Welch, ex-Korn lead guitarist. It failed to reach its original completion and release date of around Christmas 2006, and as of yet its status is unknown.
It's Your Call It's Your Call was released in December 1992 by Reba McEntire. The album featured three Top 5 Billboard hits: "Take It Back" (#5), "The Heart Won't Lie" (#1) and "It's Your Call" (#5).
It's Your Funeral It's Your Funeral is the eleventh episode of the television series The Prisoner. In this episode, a young successor to Number 2 plots to assassinate the retiring Number 2 and ensure his own success in the organization.
It's Your Love "It's Your Love" was the first single released from American Country singer Tim McGraw's Everywhere album. The song, featuring wife Faith Hill, was a massive hit in the United States, reaching number one on Billboard's Country Singles chart for six weeks, and becoming McGraw's and Hill's first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West is a history of the American West. The book's title comes from the lyrics to the traditional cowboy ballad Git Along Little Dogies.
It's Your Thing "It's Your Thing" is an influential funk single by the Isley Brothers. Released in 1969, the funk anthem (and feminist anthem), the song was an artistic response to Motown chief Berry Gordy's demanding hold on his artists after the Isleys left the label in late-1968.
It's-It It's-It, released in October 1992, is a collection of remixes by the Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes. After its release the Sugarcubes disbanded, and Björk went on to have a successful solo career.
Ita Buttrose Ita Clare Buttrose AO OBE (born 17 January, 1942) is an Australian journalist and businesswoman. She is probably best-remembered as the celebrity founding editor of Cleo (magazine), a high-circulation magazine aimed at young single women that was ground-breakingly frank about sexuality (and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds), and later as the editor of the more sedate Australian Women's Weekly.
Ita Wegman Ita Wegman (* February 22, 1876 in Kravang, West Java; †March 4, 1943 in Arlesheim, Switzerland) is known as the co-founder of Anthroposophical Medicine with Rudolf Steiner. In 1921, she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic in Arlesheim, now known as the Ita Wegman Clinic.
Itacare Itacaré is a town located in the cocoa zone of the state of Bahia, south of Salvador, 70 km north of Ilhéus where river Rio de Contas river, which comes from the Chapada Diamantina, meets the Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of approximately 8,000.
Itaconic acid Itaconic acid, or methylenesuccinic acid, is an organic compound that is one of the three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid. Itaconic acid is a white crystalline powder that is soluble in water, ethanol and acetone.
Itadaki Street Itadaki Street (ă„ăźă ăŤă‚ąăăŞăĽă) is a computer board game series originally created by Dragon Quest designer Yuji Horii and published by Enix (now known as Square Enix). The games are similar to Monopoly; players roll dice to advance around a board, purchase unowned property they land on and earn money when opponents land on the player's property.
Itai-itai disease The itai-itai disease (Japanese:イタイイタイ病, literally: ouch-ouch-disease) was the first cadmium poisoning in the world in Toyama Prefecture, Japan in 1950. The cadmium poisoning caused softening of the bones and kidney failures.
Itaipu (composition) Itaipu is a four movement symphonic cantata by Phillip Glass. The composition was written in 1989, and pays homage to the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built on the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil.
Itakhuli Itakhuli or Sukreswar Hill is a small hill on the south bank of the Brahmaputra at Guwahati. The present official residence of the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup District of Assam is located on top of this hill.
Itakura, Niigata Itakura (板倉町; -machi) was a town located in Nakakubiki District, Niigata, Japan. On January 1, 2005 the town merged with twelve other towns and villages in a major expansion of the city of Joetsu and no longer exists as an independent municipallity,
Ital Dub Ital Dub is an album by Augustus Pablo originally released in 1974 and sees Tommy Cowan and Warwick Lyn replacing Clive Chin on production duties. The album also features King Tubby as Engineer, a role he would later reprise a number of times during Pablo's career.
Italdesign Scighera The Italdesign Scighera (pronounced Shigeera) was a futuristically-styled concept car designed and constructed by Italdesign of Turin, Italy in 1997. The Scighera was based on the Alfa Romeo 164, and powered by an Alfa Romeo 3-liter V6 engine, and could accelerate from 0-60mph in 3.
Italeri Italeri is a large Italian company that manufactures plastic model kits ranging from aircraft, minature 1/72 and 1/32 historics to various kinds of military vehicles. The company is one of the most popular manufacturers in the minature business, with new kits and sets coming out just about every other month.
Italia Conti Academy Founded in 1911 by the actress Italia Conti, the Italia Conti Academy is Britain’s oldest theatre arts training school. It is the only theatre school to offer full-time in-house courses at secondary, further and higher education levels.
Italia irredenta Italia Irredenta (Unredeemed Italy) was an Italian patriotic opinion movement that emerged after Italian unification. It advocated irredentism among the Italian people as well as other nationalities who were willing to become Italian and as a movement is also known as Italian irredentism.
Italia Mac Italia Mac is an Apple Computer related website founded by Ivan Gobbo and Gabriele Gobbo in 1996, with a primary focus on news and information regarding the Apple Macintosh computers. Today, Italia Mac is one of the largest and most prominent Macintosh-related Italian forum communities and Italian Macintosh user groups on the Internet, with over 1,100,000 posts and over 16,000 members.
Italia Shooters Italia Shooters, also known as Vaughan Italia Shooters are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1998. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, the highest professional soccer league in Canada, and play in the International Division.
Italia Turrita Italia Turrita is a personification or allegory of Italy, characterized by a mural crown, a crown of towers (Turrita means "with towers"), typical of the Italian civic heraldics, of communal origin (coming from classical Greece).
Italian Agile Frog The Italian Agile Frog, Rana latastei, also known as the Lataste's Frog is an endemic frog with a distribution restricted to the plains of northern Italy, the extreme southern tip of Switzerland, the Istrian region of Slovenia and adjacent Croatia.
Italian American internment Italian American Internment in the United States in WW2 is less known than the internment of Japanese-Americans in the same period, and although there are emotional and common-sense similarities, there are important differences that must be observed.
Italian Australians Italian was the fourth largest ethnic group in the 2001 Census of Australia — after "Australian", English and Irish — numbering 800,256 or 4% of respondents.Italian language] was spoken at home by 353,605 persons in [[Australia in 2001, making it the second most commonly spoken language in the country after English, and ahead of Cantonese.
Italian battleship Giulio Cesare Giulio Cesare was an Italian Conte di Cavour-class battleship that served in the Regia Marina in both World Wars before joining the Soviet Navy as the Novorossiysk. Her keel was laid down on June 24, 1910 at Cantieri Ansaldo, Genoa.
Italian battleship Impero The Impero was an Italian Littorio class battleship of the Regia Marina during World War II. She was the third ship of her class, named after the Italian word for Empire, in this case referred to the newly (1936) conquered Italian Empire in East Africa (Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia territories).
Italian beef An Italian beef sandwich consists of thin slices of beef served inside Italian bread or some other crusty bread (often soaked), which has been cut lengthwise and into individual portions. (The "Italian Bread" commonly used in Chicago is a white loaf with a high gluten content and little to no sourdough flavor, made to be reminiscent of what many think of as being Italian restaurant bread).
Italian Bluebell The Italian Bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica, syn. Endymion italicus or Scilla italica), is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial native to the central Mediterranean region in northwestern Italy, southern France and northeastern Spain.
Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars A series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy by Revolutionary French forces and a coalition of European powers. Principal Allied combatants were Austria, Russia and Piedmont although a number of other Italian states also participated.
Italian car number plates Present Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with small blue side-fields on the right and left (see European vehicle registration plates). The current numbering scheme, in use from 1994, is unrelated with the geographical provenience of the car.
Italian coin florin The Italian florin was struck from 1252 to 1523 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard. The "fiorino d'oro" of the Republic of Florence was the first European gold coin struck in sufficient quantities to play a significant commercial role since the seventh century.
Italian commando frogmen COMSUBIN (Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei) is the premier Italian combat frogmen force and one of the Italian special forces. In former times it was called Decima Flottiglia MAS (X MAS).
Italian cruiser Duca degli Abruzzi Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi was an Italian Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II. After the war, she was retained by the Marina Militare and decommissioned in 1961.
Italian cruiser Giovanni dalle Bande Nere Giovanni delle Bande Nere was an Italian Condottieri class light cruiser, named after the homonymous 16th century condottiero and member of the Medici family, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. Her keel was laid down 1928 at Cantieri Navali di Castellammare di Stabia, Castellammare di Stabia; she was launched on 27 April 1930, and her construction was completed in 1931.
Italian cuisine Italian cuisine is extremely varied: the country of Italy was only unified in 1861, and its cuisines reflect the cultural variety of its regions and its diverse history (with culinary influences from Greek, Roman, Norman and Arab civilizations). Italian cuisine is imitated all over the world.
Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945 some 90,000 Allied and 110,000 German soldiers died in ItalyOrgill, The Gothic Line, p6.
It's Academic It's Academic is a televised academic quiz competition for high school students, currently airing on two NBC affiliates in Washington, DC (WRC-TV), Charlottesville, Virginia (WVIR), and one CBS affiliate Baltimore, Maryland (WJZ). The show has been on the air since 1961, making it the longest running game show ever.
It's Academic (Australian game show) It's Academic is an Australian children's game show airing on the Seven Network. The show is based on the long running American version of It's Academic, and pits students from different schools against each other in a test of knowledge covering a number of diverse subjects including english, mathematics, science, geography, sport, music and popular culture.
It's All Coming Back to Me Now "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" is a power ballad, written by Jim Steinman in 1983. According to this Reuters report (31 July 2006, accessed 11 September 2006), it was written for the first album in the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy, recorded by Meat Loaf.
It's All Down to Goodnight Vienna The title track to Ringo Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna was a not entirely politically correct party song written by John Lennon. This single contains a unique medley of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" and "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)".
It's All for You "It's All for You" is the unofficial second single by Leona Lewis, released as a download only single on 18 December 2006 on The Schizofreniks record label. The songs were recorded by Lewis prior to her appearance on The X Factor.
It's All in the Game "It's All in the Game" is a song that was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to fit a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Dawes, who would later become the Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.
It's All in Your Head FM: Over the Edge Live on Stage It's All in Your Head FM: Over the Edge Live on Stage is a 2006 album by the sound collage band Negativland. It was compiled from a series of live recordings made by the band in San Francisco and Los Angeles in October of 2005.
It's All in Your Mind "It's All In Your Mind" is the seventh track on Beck's 2002 album, Sea Change. It is perhaps one of the simplest songs on the album lyrically; many phrases are repeated, with 'I wanted to be' iterated nine times.
It's All In The Game (Nena Album) It's All In The Game is the fifth album (and first completely English album) by the German band Nena. It is entirely in English, and are written as translations for the Nena album Feuer und Flamme (Fire And Flame).
It's All Love "It's All Love" is the first single off Rock Star Supernova's debut album. It is track 4 on the album, and one of the four songs off the album that were performed on the reality show, Rock Star: Supernova.
It's All True (Tracey Thorn song) "It's All True" is the first single from singer Tracey Thorn's solo album, Out of the Woods, due in February 2007. The Martin Buttrich Vocal Mix of the single was premiered on November 24, 2006, on Everything But the Girl's, Ben Watt's online radio show, Buzzin' Fly.
It's Always Fair Weather It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by Andre Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray. Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, the film is about three ex-G.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an FX sitcom created by Rob McElhenney about four friends (played by McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson) who run an Irish bar, "Paddy's Pub", in Philadelphia. The series deals with a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, gun control, racism, sexism, religion, slavery, sexual harassment in education and gay rights.
It's Been a Bad Week It’s Been a Bad Week is a British radio comedy on BBC Radio 2, first broadcast on 11 February 1999. It is presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and is also referred to as Punt and Dennis: It's Been a Bad Week.
It's Been a Good Life It's Been a Good Life (2002) is a book edited by Janet Asimov. The book, published by Prometheus Books (ISBN 1-57392-968-9), is a collection of Isaac Asimov's diaries, personal letters, and pieces of his three earlier autobiographies:
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Originally titled "It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas" was written by Meredith Willson in 1951. The song has been recording by many artists but was a hit by Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters with Michell Ayres & his Orch.
It's Better to Travel (album) "it's better to travel" was Swing Out Sister's 1987 debut album and contained the UK hit singles: "Breakout" (which reached No. 4 in the UK chart in October 1986), "Surrender" (No.
It's Called a Heart "It's Called a Heart" is Depeche Mode's fourteenth UK single (released on September 16 1985), and was not released on an actual studio album but was released on the compilation The Singles (81-85) in the same year, along with "Shake the Disease". The American version of The Singles 81>85, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, also includes "It's Called a Heart"'s B-side, "Fly on the Windscreen".
It's Easy For You It's Easy For You is a melancholy country-pop song written by the English songwriting duo Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber which was covered by Elvis Presley during an impromptu recording session in the makeshift recording studio set up in the Jungle Room in Presley's Graceland mansion in 1977. The song was released on his 1977 album Moody Blue and has the dubius honour of being the final song on the last album released during the life of the king of rock 'n' roll.
It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown is a 1984 TV special, featuring Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters, parodying Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Flashdance (1983) as well as a number of popular top 40 hits of the early 1980s.
It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things is a compilation album of early material by the Californian hardcore punk band, Unbroken. It was originally recorded between 1992 and 1995, and released in March, 2000 on Indecision Records.
It's Goin' Down (song) "It's Goin' Down" is the first single from Yung Joc's debut album New Joc City, and is produced by Nitti. Even though it features a snap kind of beat, in the video, people are seen snapping their fingers but no one is shown doing the dance.
It's Gonna Be Me (David Bowie song) "It's Gonna Be Me" is a song written by David Bowie in 1974, and intended for his Young Americans album. When Bowie recorded "Fame" and "Across the Universe" with John Lennon, this song got shuffled away from the album.
It's Gonna Rain It's gonna rain is a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1965; the work is approximately 17 minutes and 50 seconds in length. It was Reich's first major work and a landmark in musical minimalism and process music.
It's Happy Bunny It's Happy Bunny is the name of a character in a series of stickers, buttons, posters, and other merchandise sold at novelty shops across North America. Designed by artist and writer Jim Benton, It's Happy Bunny is a small, smiling bunny, often varying in color, with a slogan printed at its feet.
It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" is an Academy-award winning 2005 song written for the film Hustle & Flow by Memphis hip hop musicians Paul Beauregard and Jordan Houston (both from rap group Three 6 Mafia), and Cedric Coleman. It was performed in the film by stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P.
It's in the Bag (film) It's in the Bag is a 1945 movie starring radio comedian Fred Allen in his only starring role, as the ringmaster of a flea circus whose search for his inheritance, hidden in one of five chairs, leads to a variety of strange encounters.
It's in the Book "It's in the Book" is a recorded comic monologue, partly sung, partly an exhortation in the manner of a revivalist preacher on the subject of Little Bo-Peep. It was marketed as a pop song, and actually made the Billboard charts 1952_in_music, reaching number one.
It's I/It's me It is commonly held that in the statement "It's I" (or "'Tis I"), "be" acts as a transitive verb and thus, I would be incorrect since it should be the object, and the objective case me should be used. In fact, in terms of common usage, especially in informal speech, "It's me" is rather common.
It's Impossible (song) "It's Impossible" is the English version of the Spanish standard "Somos Novios", written by the premier Mexican bolero composer Armando Manzanero. The song was translated into English by Sid Wayne and first recorded by Perry Como in 1971, with the name of "It's Impossible".
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books is the first feature film by Richard Linklater, filmed on Super 8 and edited at a public access tv station, with Linklater starring and handling all production duties.
It's like That (Mariah Carey song) "It's like That" is a pop song written by Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal and Johnta Austin, and produced by Carey, Dupri and Seal for Carey's ninth studio album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). It borrows the hook "it's like that y'all" from the Run-D.
It's Like That (My Big Brother) It's Like That (My Big Brother) is the first single released by Redman for his third album, Muddy Waters. It features fellow rapper K-Solo, is produced by Redman and is co-produced by long time affiliate Erick Sermon.
It's Me or The Dog It's Me or The Dog is a television program produced by Ricochet Productions, in which dog trainer Victoria Stilwell takes on a different problem dog in each program. Stilwell had the idea for the show after watching Supernanny, also produced by Ricochet.
It's My Party (film) It's My Party is one of the first films (1996) to address the topic of AIDS patients dying with dignity. Starring some major Hollywood talent (including Olivia Newton-John, Margaret Cho, Bronson Pinchot, Devon Gummersall, Steve Antin, Bruce Davison, Sally Kellerman, Gregory Harrison and in the lead, Eric Roberts), the film chronicles a two day party hosted by Roberts' character, who has just been diagnosed with Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
It's My Party (song) "It's My Party" is a song popularized by singer Lesley Gore in 1963. This song hit #1 on both the Pop and Rhythm and Blues charts in the United States and #9 in the United Kingdom, becoming her only major hit in the latter country.
It's My Party (television programme) It's My Party was a weekly reality tv show broadcast by RTÉ in summer 2006. The concept of the series was that members of the public would get help and advice from a pair of PR professionals on how to throw a successful party.
It's No Secret "It's No Secret" is an pop-ballad song written by English songwriting team Stock, Aitken and Waterman for Australian singer Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie (1987). The song was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and received a mixed reception from music critics.
It's Not Easy Being Green It's Not Easy Being Green is a programme on BBC2, following Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife, Brigit, son, James and daughter Charlotte as they move into New House Farm, a 300-year-old listed building in Tywardreath, Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire.
It's Not Luck It's Not Luck is a sequel to "The Goal". The plot of this business novel continues to follow the advancement of the main character, Alex Rogo, through the corporate ranks of large manufacturer, UniCo.
It's Not Over (album) It's Not Over is an album by multiple Grammy- and Stellar- award winning gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard, released on January 24, 2006. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top Gospel Charts and #124 on the Billboard Top 200.
It's Not Right but It's Okay "It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a 1999 song by Whitney Houston, and is the second single from her fourth album My Love Is Your Love. Initially featured as the B-Side of "Heartbreak Hotel," it became the album's second single and peaked at number four on the U.
It's Oh So Quiet "It's Oh So Quiet" performed by Björk is a renamed cover of the Betty Hutton song "Blow a Fuse". It remains her biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK singles chart, generating plenty of mainstream airplay.
It's Okay To Be Different It's Okay To Be Different (ISBN 0316666033) (Megan Tingley, 2001) is a children's book by Todd Parr about all types of different kids. It follows storylines such as a kangaroo with a dog in her pouch, which may be interpreted as a metaphor for say an Asian mom with an adoptive African baby.
It's Only Pain "It's Only Pain" is the seventh single by Georgian born songstress Katie Melua and the fourth from her second album, Piece by Piece. The song is said to be about her pain at breaking-up with her boyfriend, Luke Pritchard.
It's Our Thing It's Our Thing is a 1969 album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck imprint. Fully emancipated from three and a half years in Motown Records and encouraged by their international success in England, the Isleys composed this album in the style of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brown funk that was dominating the music industry at the time but with their own flair as explained in their smash title track.
It's Over Now "It's Over Now" is the title of a song written by Brian Wilson for The Beach Boys. The song was originally intended to be on the "Adult/Child" album although when the album was aborted the song sat in the archives for many years.
It's Raining It’s Raining was the first single off the highly-anticipated third album from the Korean R&B singer, Bi. With this single, he presented a brand-new image to his fans, and explored a more upbeat, hip-hop influenced sound.
It's Raining Men "It's Raining Men" is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer performed by the Weather Girls in 1982. The song had been offered to a who's who of female singing legends including Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Cher, Chaka Khan, Teena Marie, Gloria Gaynor, and even Barbra Streisand before being accepted by Martha Wash and Izora Armstead of Weather Girls.
It's Raining, It's Pouring… It's Raining, It's Pouring is the 14th episode in season 3 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
It's Scotland's oil It's Scotland's oil was a widely publicised political slogan used by the Scottish National Party (SNP) during the 1970s in making their economic case for Scottish independence. It was argued that the discovery of North Sea oil off the coast of Scotland, and the revenue that it created would not benefit Scotland to any significant degree while Scotland remained part of the United Kingdom.
It's Showtime at the Apollo Showtime at the Apollo (formerly It's Showtime at the Apollo) is a syndicated music television show, first broadcast in 1987, and is produced by the Apollo Theater. The show features live performances from both professional and up-and-coming artists, and also features the Amateur Night competition made popular at the famous Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, where the show is recorded.
It's So Hard "It's So Hard" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. Shortly after the album's release, the song was released as the B-side to the single "Imagine.
It's Such a Beautiful Day It's Such A Beautiful Day is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Star Science Fiction Stories 3 in 1954 and later appeared in Asimov's collection Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).
It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water is the twenty second episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 13 February 1970 on the ITV.
It's the Same Old Song "It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signature songs, and was notably created--from initial concept to commercial release--in exactly 24 hours.
It's That Man Again It's That Man Again (or more commonly ITMA) was a 1940s BBC radio comedy programme. The "Man" referred to in the title was originally Adolf Hitler but this later changed to Tommy Handley, a popular comedian.
It's Time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign of prominent celebrities singing a jingle entitled "It's Time".
It's Time (album) It's Time is an album by the Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. It's Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on the Apple Computer's iTunes Store digital download service.
It's Time (skateboarding video) It's Time is a skate video released by C1RCA in May 2006 and is the company's first ever full-length video. It features Jon Allie, Adrian Lopez, Colt Cannon, Peter Ramondetta, Tony Tave, Windsor James, Sierra Fellers, and introduces, Dennis Durrant.
It's Time to See Religion Die It's Time to See Religion Die is the solo debut album by Brian "Head" Welch, ex-Korn lead guitarist. It failed to reach its original completion and release date of around Christmas 2006, and as of yet its status is unknown.
It's Your Call It's Your Call was released in December 1992 by Reba McEntire. The album featured three Top 5 Billboard hits: "Take It Back" (#5), "The Heart Won't Lie" (#1) and "It's Your Call" (#5).
It's Your Funeral It's Your Funeral is the eleventh episode of the television series The Prisoner. In this episode, a young successor to Number 2 plots to assassinate the retiring Number 2 and ensure his own success in the organization.
It's Your Love "It's Your Love" was the first single released from American Country singer Tim McGraw's Everywhere album. The song, featuring wife Faith Hill, was a massive hit in the United States, reaching number one on Billboard's Country Singles chart for six weeks, and becoming McGraw's and Hill's first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West is a history of the American West. The book's title comes from the lyrics to the traditional cowboy ballad Git Along Little Dogies.
It's Your Thing "It's Your Thing" is an influential funk single by the Isley Brothers. Released in 1969, the funk anthem (and feminist anthem), the song was an artistic response to Motown chief Berry Gordy's demanding hold on his artists after the Isleys left the label in late-1968.
It's-It It's-It, released in October 1992, is a collection of remixes by the Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes. After its release the Sugarcubes disbanded, and Björk went on to have a successful solo career.
Ita Buttrose Ita Clare Buttrose AO OBE (born 17 January, 1942) is an Australian journalist and businesswoman. She is probably best-remembered as the celebrity founding editor of Cleo (magazine), a high-circulation magazine aimed at young single women that was ground-breakingly frank about sexuality (and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds), and later as the editor of the more sedate Australian Women's Weekly.
Ita Wegman Ita Wegman (* February 22, 1876 in Kravang, West Java; †March 4, 1943 in Arlesheim, Switzerland) is known as the co-founder of Anthroposophical Medicine with Rudolf Steiner. In 1921, she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic in Arlesheim, now known as the Ita Wegman Clinic.
Itacare Itacaré is a town located in the cocoa zone of the state of Bahia, south of Salvador, 70 km north of Ilhéus where river Rio de Contas river, which comes from the Chapada Diamantina, meets the Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of approximately 8,000.
Itaconic acid Itaconic acid, or methylenesuccinic acid, is an organic compound that is one of the three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid. Itaconic acid is a white crystalline powder that is soluble in water, ethanol and acetone.
Itadaki Street Itadaki Street (ă„ăźă ăŤă‚ąăăŞăĽă) is a computer board game series originally created by Dragon Quest designer Yuji Horii and published by Enix (now known as Square Enix). The games are similar to Monopoly; players roll dice to advance around a board, purchase unowned property they land on and earn money when opponents land on the player's property.
Itai-itai disease The itai-itai disease (Japanese:イタイイタイ病, literally: ouch-ouch-disease) was the first cadmium poisoning in the world in Toyama Prefecture, Japan in 1950. The cadmium poisoning caused softening of the bones and kidney failures.
Itaipu (composition) Itaipu is a four movement symphonic cantata by Phillip Glass. The composition was written in 1989, and pays homage to the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built on the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil.
Itakhuli Itakhuli or Sukreswar Hill is a small hill on the south bank of the Brahmaputra at Guwahati. The present official residence of the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup District of Assam is located on top of this hill.
Itakura, Niigata Itakura (板倉町; -machi) was a town located in Nakakubiki District, Niigata, Japan. On January 1, 2005 the town merged with twelve other towns and villages in a major expansion of the city of Joetsu and no longer exists as an independent municipallity,
Ital Dub Ital Dub is an album by Augustus Pablo originally released in 1974 and sees Tommy Cowan and Warwick Lyn replacing Clive Chin on production duties. The album also features King Tubby as Engineer, a role he would later reprise a number of times during Pablo's career.
Italdesign Scighera The Italdesign Scighera (pronounced Shigeera) was a futuristically-styled concept car designed and constructed by Italdesign of Turin, Italy in 1997. The Scighera was based on the Alfa Romeo 164, and powered by an Alfa Romeo 3-liter V6 engine, and could accelerate from 0-60mph in 3.
Italeri Italeri is a large Italian company that manufactures plastic model kits ranging from aircraft, minature 1/72 and 1/32 historics to various kinds of military vehicles. The company is one of the most popular manufacturers in the minature business, with new kits and sets coming out just about every other month.
Italia Conti Academy Founded in 1911 by the actress Italia Conti, the Italia Conti Academy is Britain’s oldest theatre arts training school. It is the only theatre school to offer full-time in-house courses at secondary, further and higher education levels.
Italia irredenta Italia Irredenta (Unredeemed Italy) was an Italian patriotic opinion movement that emerged after Italian unification. It advocated irredentism among the Italian people as well as other nationalities who were willing to become Italian and as a movement is also known as Italian irredentism.
Italia Mac Italia Mac is an Apple Computer related website founded by Ivan Gobbo and Gabriele Gobbo in 1996, with a primary focus on news and information regarding the Apple Macintosh computers. Today, Italia Mac is one of the largest and most prominent Macintosh-related Italian forum communities and Italian Macintosh user groups on the Internet, with over 1,100,000 posts and over 16,000 members.
Italia Shooters Italia Shooters, also known as Vaughan Italia Shooters are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1998. The team is a member of the Canadian Soccer League, the highest professional soccer league in Canada, and play in the International Division.
Italia Turrita Italia Turrita is a personification or allegory of Italy, characterized by a mural crown, a crown of towers (Turrita means "with towers"), typical of the Italian civic heraldics, of communal origin (coming from classical Greece).
Italian Agile Frog The Italian Agile Frog, Rana latastei, also known as the Lataste's Frog is an endemic frog with a distribution restricted to the plains of northern Italy, the extreme southern tip of Switzerland, the Istrian region of Slovenia and adjacent Croatia.
Italian American internment Italian American Internment in the United States in WW2 is less known than the internment of Japanese-Americans in the same period, and although there are emotional and common-sense similarities, there are important differences that must be observed.
Italian Australians Italian was the fourth largest ethnic group in the 2001 Census of Australia — after "Australian", English and Irish — numbering 800,256 or 4% of respondents.Italian language] was spoken at home by 353,605 persons in [[Australia in 2001, making it the second most commonly spoken language in the country after English, and ahead of Cantonese.
Italian battleship Giulio Cesare Giulio Cesare was an Italian Conte di Cavour-class battleship that served in the Regia Marina in both World Wars before joining the Soviet Navy as the Novorossiysk. Her keel was laid down on June 24, 1910 at Cantieri Ansaldo, Genoa.
Italian battleship Impero The Impero was an Italian Littorio class battleship of the Regia Marina during World War II. She was the third ship of her class, named after the Italian word for Empire, in this case referred to the newly (1936) conquered Italian Empire in East Africa (Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia territories).
Italian beef An Italian beef sandwich consists of thin slices of beef served inside Italian bread or some other crusty bread (often soaked), which has been cut lengthwise and into individual portions. (The "Italian Bread" commonly used in Chicago is a white loaf with a high gluten content and little to no sourdough flavor, made to be reminiscent of what many think of as being Italian restaurant bread).
Italian Bluebell The Italian Bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica, syn. Endymion italicus or Scilla italica), is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial native to the central Mediterranean region in northwestern Italy, southern France and northeastern Spain.
Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars A series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy by Revolutionary French forces and a coalition of European powers. Principal Allied combatants were Austria, Russia and Piedmont although a number of other Italian states also participated.
Italian car number plates Present Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with small blue side-fields on the right and left (see European vehicle registration plates). The current numbering scheme, in use from 1994, is unrelated with the geographical provenience of the car.
Italian coin florin The Italian florin was struck from 1252 to 1523 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard. The "fiorino d'oro" of the Republic of Florence was the first European gold coin struck in sufficient quantities to play a significant commercial role since the seventh century.
Italian commando frogmen COMSUBIN (Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei) is the premier Italian combat frogmen force and one of the Italian special forces. In former times it was called Decima Flottiglia MAS (X MAS).
Italian cruiser Duca degli Abruzzi Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi was an Italian Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II. After the war, she was retained by the Marina Militare and decommissioned in 1961.
Italian cruiser Giovanni dalle Bande Nere Giovanni delle Bande Nere was an Italian Condottieri class light cruiser, named after the homonymous 16th century condottiero and member of the Medici family, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. Her keel was laid down 1928 at Cantieri Navali di Castellammare di Stabia, Castellammare di Stabia; she was launched on 27 April 1930, and her construction was completed in 1931.
Italian cuisine Italian cuisine is extremely varied: the country of Italy was only unified in 1861, and its cuisines reflect the cultural variety of its regions and its diverse history (with culinary influences from Greek, Roman, Norman and Arab civilizations). Italian cuisine is imitated all over the world.
Italian Campaign (World War II) The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945 some 90,000 Allied and 110,000 German soldiers died in ItalyOrgill, The Gothic Line, p6.
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