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Capua

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Capua , town (1991 pop. 18,845), Campania, S Italy, on the Volturno River. It is an agricultural center and occupies the site of ancient Casilinum . Ancient Capua, situated 3 mi (4.8 km) to the southeast, where Santa Maria Capua Vetere (1991 pop. 31,396) now lies, was a Roman town strategically located on the Appian Way. During the second of the Punic Wars it went over (216 BC) to the side of Hannibal, but was retaken by Rome in 211 BC Later it was an important colony under the Roman Empire. After Capua was destroyed (AD 841) by the Arabs, its inhabitants moved to Casilinum and founded... Read more
Casilinum
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... Carthage by the Romans and served as a base of operations against Capua . Under the Romans it was an important military station controlling ... Way over the Volturno River. It seems to have been united with Capua by the middle of the 1st cent. AD It was destroyed by the Saracens ... Read more
Spartacus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... b. Thrace. He broke out (73 BC) of a gladiators' school at Capua and fled to Mt. Vesuvius, where many fugitives joined him. Their ... survivors. Of the captured slaves 6,000 were crucified along the Capua-Rome highway. After the death of Spartacus, 3,000 Roman prisoners ... Read more

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Dettori bids for more Capua glory.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England); 10/10/2004; 277 words ; FRANKIE DETTORI takes another break from the title race to try to win the Premio Vittorio di Capua for the fourth time in the past six years at San Siro, Milan. Dettori, who guided Slickly to win this Group 1 in 2001 and 2002 ... Read more
Horse Racing: Godolphin's Echo Of Light in Italy Group 1; PREVIEW: ITALY Premio Vittorio di Capua G1 San Siro 1m.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England); 10/21/2007; 142 words ; ECHO OF LIGHT bids to give Godolphin their fifth victory in the last nine runnings of the Group 1 Premio Vittorio di Capua in Milan today. The son of Dubai Millennium, who repeated his 2006 victory with an all-the-way success in the Strensall Stakes ... Read more
Agennix and DSM open plant. (News in Brief).(New lactoferrin manufacturing plant in Capua, Italy)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
Chemical Market Reporter; 9/23/2002; 37 words ; Agennix Inc. and DSM Pharmaceutical Products, a business group of DSM NV, have opened a new manufacturing facility on DSM's fermentation site in Capua, Italy. The facility will produce pharmaceutical-grade recombinant human lactoferrin. Read more
Horse Racing: Italian star Ramonti back to best to floor Caradak; REPORT: ITALY Premio Vittorio di Capua G1 San Siro 1m.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England); 10/15/2006; 124 words ; ... Notability and Caradak were yesterday repelled at San Siro by Italy's top miler Ramonti, who took the 1m Group 1 Premio Vittorio di Capua with a brilliant front-running performance. When Endo Botti asked last year's Italian 2,000 Guineas winner for his effort inside ... Read more
"Questo Passo dell'Heresia": Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, 'Spirituali' e Inquisizione
The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2004; Murphy, Paul V; 587 words ; "Questo Passo dell'Heresia": Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, 'Spirituali' e Inquisizione ... study of the career of Pietrantonio di Capua, Archbishop of Otranto, and the investigations ... Born of a Neapolitan noble family, di Capua (1513-1578) began what appeared to be a ... Read more
JOE CAPUA
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle; 2/25/2003; 427 words ; Joe Capua was an amazing little basketball player at ... floor together. Windis came one year after Capua left, and when he was hitting he was amazing ... thought of these two guys this past week. Capua died several years ago and, after a swing ... Read more
Horse Racing: Fortune secures Group 1 victory aboard Linngari; REPORT: ITALY Premio Vittorio di Capua G1 San Siro 1m.(Sports)
The Racing Post (London, England); 10/22/2007; 109 words ; ... Linngari, now trained in France by Alain de Royer-Dupre, to a three-quarter-length win over Golden Titus in the Premio Vittorio di Capua. The British-trained pair of Echo Of Light and Dubai's Touch filled third and fourth, both having had chances in the straight ... Read more
Job Search Turns Client Into Adversary; Employment Firm's Bills Irk Customer
The Washington Post; 8/14/1991; Anne Swardson; 785 words ; When laid-off radio newscaster Joe De Capua had been looking unsuccessfully for work ... returned. What he didn't get was a job. De Capua said he was so broke he had to borrow the ... first contacted Executives Unlimited, De Capua has not had a single interview stemming ... Read more
A vrooming visit to Lamborghini HQ
The Boston Globe; 9/7/1997; Linda Matchan, Globe Staff; 694 words ; ... better, Ferrari or Lamborghini?" Vittorio Di Capua, president and chief executive officer ... answered, without hesitating. "Very good!!" Di Capua said, grinning and pinching him on the ... Somehow you get the impression that Di Capua is genuinely relieved, not that he has ... Read more
Naples towns dogged by garbage crisis
China Daily; 5/23/2007; 481 words ; ... pastel-colored houses and apartment blocks. This is Capua, a small, historic town like many others ... the corner from a large garbage heap in Capua. "They have to find a solution because ... Angelo Rossi is one of many in towns like Capua who is not holding his breath for a solution ... Read more

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