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United Kingdom moves to protect basking sharks
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As international leaders in the effort to conserve and protect dwindling shark populations, the Departments of Commerce and Interior recently announced jointly support for the United Kingdom's recent action to protect basking sharks by monitoring trade of this vulnerable fish.
Through the authority provided by the Appendix III listing of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora-commonly known as CITES-the U.K. announced that it will be implementing a certification system to ensure basking sharks are legally imported and exported. This action allows ...
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Mapping the moon.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...SCIENTIFIC MOON Two Jesuits, Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi, created the third and last major...astronomy titled Almagestum Novum and Grimaldi who drew the pictures of the moon. Grimaldi also probably helped Riccioli...
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A permanent outpost on the Moon?; Our watery Moon
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...first lunar map and painted large swaths of the surface blue. Four years later, the Jesuit astronomers Francesco Maria Grimaldi and Giovanni Battista Riccioli published a map of Moon that codified the nomenclature that is still in use, calling...
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 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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BOYS TO MEN, UNINTERRUPTED.(Pasatiempo)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
; ...Among the most memorable were Farinelli (the stage name of Carlo Broschi), Nicolini (Nicolo Grimaldi), Senesino (Francesco Bernardi), and Giovanni Battista Velluti, who continued his career into the early 19th century. The composers who...
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LE LUNE DEL CINEMA
Magazine article from: Cineforum
; ...Conclamata amante del principe Ranieri Grimaldi di Monaco (prima che lui convolasse...caso di coscienza (1969, di Giovanni Grimaldi - oddio, cognome non mente...anni, Frankie Laine (vero nome Francesco Paolo Lo Vecchio), nato a Chicago...
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The castrato's castration.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...private performance, in Pepys's own lodgings, by Giovanni Francesco Grossi (1653-97), called "Cifacca" (or "Siface...decades before the appearance of a castrato (Nicolo Grimaldi, called Nicolini) in a commercial opera house in...
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Onetime superstars of Handel's operas
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Rinaldo,'' and the alto Nicola Grimaldi.The castrato most associated with Handel, however, was Francesco Bernardi, better known as Senesino...moody, Handel had more trouble with Giovanni Carestini, who had a two-octave mezzo...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Angelina Piombino, 87.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...Christopher House of Worcester. Her husband, Francesco, predeceased her on February 4, 1988...wife Gianna, a daughter, Francesca Grimaldi; nine grandchildren; eleven great...Casola di Caserta, Italy, a daughter of Giovanni and Maddalena (Rossetti) Piombino...
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Aggiornamento bibliografico.
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica
; ...Scientifiche Italiane, 1996. Casetti, Francesco, ed. Nuovi paesaggi: Rassegna sui...1996. D'Arcangelo, Maresa, and Giovanni M. Rossi, eds. Gli anni maledetti...Avati. Pescara: Umberto Sala, 1993. Grimaldi, Aurelio. Meri per sempre. Palermo...
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