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Montebello (other)
Montebello may refer to: Places Australasia * Montebello Islands, Australia Europe * Montebello della Battaglia, Pavia, Italy * Montebello Vicentino, Vicenza, Italy * Montebello di Bertona, Abruzzo, Pescara, Italy * Montebello Ionico, Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy * Montebello sul Sangro, Abruzzo, Chieti, Italy * Montebello, Norway, a neighborhood in the borough of Ullern in Oslo Americas * Montebello, California, United States ** Montebello/Commerce station, a Metrolink train station * Montebello, Quebec, Canada ** Montebello station (Quebec) * Montebello, Antioquia, Colombia * Montebello Lakes National Park, Mexico * Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello, Baltimore, a neighborhood of Baltimore, United States * Montebello, New York, United States * Montebello, Virginia, United States * Montebello (Charlottesville, Virginia), a historic home * Montebello Creek, a tributary of Stevens Creek in Santa Clara County, California * Montebello, Nova Scotia, a neighbourhood of Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montebello Islands
The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago of around 174 small islands, about 92 of which are named, lying north of Barrow Island (Western Australia), Barrow Island and off the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Pilbara coast of north-western Australia. The islands form a marine conservation reserve of administered by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia), Department of Environment and Conservation. The islands were the site of three British atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, in 1952 and 1956. Description The islands of the archipelago have a collective land area of about . The largest islands, Hermite and Trimouille, have an area of and respectively. They consist of limestone rock and sand. The rocky parts are dominated by ''Triodia (grass), Triodia'' hummock grassland with scattered shrubs, while the sandy areas support grasses such as Cyperaceae, sedges, and shrubs, mainly ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí, is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 59 municipalities and is named after its capital city, San Luis Potosí. It is located in eastern and central Mexico and is bordered by seven other Mexican states: Nuevo León to the north; Tamaulipas to the north-east; Veracruz to the east; Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato to the south; and Zacatecas to the north-west. In addition to the capital city, other major cities in the state include Ciudad Valles, Matehuala, Rioverde, and Tamazunchale. History In pre-Columbian times, the territory now occupied by the state of San Luis Potosí contained parts of the cultural areas of Mesoamerica and Aridoamerica. Its northern and western-central areas were inhabited by the Otomi and Chichimeca tribes. These indigenous groups were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Although many indigenous people died during Spanish colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Montebello (other)
Battle of Montebello can refer to two battles, fought near Montebello, Province of Pavia, in Northern Italy: * Battle of Montebello (1800), in which the French defeated an Austrian army (9 June 1800). *Battle of Montebello (1859) The Battle of Montebello was fought on 20 May 1859 at Montebello (now Montebello della Battaglia) in Lombardy, northern Italy. The first major engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence, it was fought between Austrian troops commanded ..., in which a combined Sardinian-French army defeated an Austrian army, during the Austro-Sardinian War (20 May 1859). {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montebello (ship)
* , a 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ... * , an 1890~1910 ship, renamed , 1910~1929, * , an oil tanker of the Second World War * , a French merchant ship built 1900 and wrecked off Kangaroo Island in South Australia in 1906. {{shipindex Montebello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montebello Castle
The Castles of Bellinzona are a group of fortifications located around the town of Bellinzona, the capital of the Swiss canton of Ticino. Situated on the Alpine foothills, the group is composed of fortified walls and three castles named Castelgrande, Montebello and Sasso Corbaro. Castelgrande is located on a rocky peak overlooking the valley, with a series of walls that protect the old city and connect to Montebello. Sasso Corbaro, the highest of the three castles, is located on an isolated rocky promontory south-east of the other two. The Castles of Bellinzona with their defensive walls have been an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. History Pre-History and Roman era Bellinzona has always occupied an important geographic location in the Swiss Alps. It is situated a few kilometres south of Arbedo, where the Ticino and Moesa meet. Several key Alpine pass routes, connecting northern to southern Europe, including the Nufenen, St. Gotthard, Lukmanier and San Bernardino, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montebello Tenuis
''Montebello'' is a monotypic genus of Australian ground spiders containing the single species, ''Montebello tenuis''. It was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1914, who separated the single species from the Liocranidae. It has only been found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... References Gnaphosidae Spiders described in 1914 Spiders of Australia {{Gnaphosidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Montebello
Mark Montebello ( Mtarfa, Malta, 7 February 1964) is a Maltese priest, philosopher and author. He is mostly known for his controversies with Catholic Church authorities but also for his classic biographies of Manuel Dimech and Dom Mintoff. Private life Montebello, the son of Joseph, a RAF corporal, and Lucrezia (k.a. Grace) née Sultana, a primary school teacher, both from Sliema, was born in Malta at the Mtarfa military hospital, the third of four siblings, and grew up at Sliema. Montebello took his primary education at St. Francis School, Msida (1968–75), his secondary at St. Albert the Great College, Valletta (1975–80), and his higher education at St. Aloysius College, Birkirkara (1980–82). Montebello joined the Dominican Order at Rabat, Malta, in 1980, in which he made his religious profession in 1983. He was ordained a priest in 1989. Controversies Mainly due to his unconventional thinking and candour, unusual for a Catholic priest in the Maltese Islands, si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saviour Montebello
Saviour Montebello (9 June 1762 – 18 April 1809) was a Maltese Doctor of Theology, a professor of philosophy at the University of Malta, and a Parish priest of Bormla. After Napoleon took over the Maltese islands in 1798, Montebello took an active part in the Siege of Malta (1798–1800), resistance of the Maltese against the French around his home-town at Żejtun. Afterwards, when the French Napoleonic forces had been ousted, and the British set up a provisional government in Malta, he was the first to be appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Malta. He held the office for almost four years, mainly teaching logic and metaphysics. He relinquished the Chair because he was appointed parish priest of Bormla, the last to hold the office under this title because subsequently the parish was promoted to a Collegiate church, Collegiate led by Archpriests. He held the office of parish priest for only five years due to his premature death at age 46. Biography Birth an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth ( ) (Scottish Gaelic, Scottish-Gaelic: Baile nan Loch) is a Urban area, built-up community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has 101,343 residents as of 2021 Canadian Census, 2024. History 18th century Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax (former city), Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749. By unilaterally establishing Halifax, the British were violating earlier treaties with the Miꞌkmaq (1726), which were signed after Father Rale's War. The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Miꞌkmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (1749), History of Dartmouth, Dartmouth (1750), Bedford, Nova Scotia, Bedford (Fort Sackville) (1751), Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Lunenburg (1753), and Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevens Creek (California)
Stevens Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 stream in Santa Clara County, California. The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California), Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard. It flows southeasterly through the Stevens Creek County Park before turning northeast into Stevens Creek Reservoir. It then continues north for through Cupertino, California, Cupertino, Los Altos, California, Los Altos, Sunnyvale, California, Sunnyvale and Mountain View, California, Mountain View before emptying into the San Francisco Bay at the Whisman Slough, near Googleplex, Google's main campus. History The creek was originally named Arroyo San José de Cupertino (Spanish language, Spanish for ''Saint Joseph of Cupertino Creek'') by Spain, Spanish explorer Juan Bau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barboursville, Virginia
Barboursville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, Virginia, United States. It is the birthplace of renowned American military commander and president Zachary Taylor. It also contains Barboursville, the home of James Barbour, the 19th governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, after which the community is named. The ruins of his home are now on land owned by one of the Piedmont region's wineries, Barboursville Vineyards. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 177. The community is located at the intersection of VA 20 and US 33. Rural areas outside the community which use the Barboursville ZIP code include portions of Albemarle and Greene counties. In addition to Barboursville, the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District, Hampstead Farm Archeological District, and Burlington are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Barboursville ruins On Christmas Day 1884, 62 years after i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montebello (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Montebello is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. The central section was built in 1819–1820, and consists of three-part facade, with a three bay, two-story central block with single-story flanking wings. The original section has a single pile, brick I-house plan with a central hall flanked by a room on each side. Also on the property is a contributing -story, brick, two-car garage (c. 1920). The house was built by John M. Perry, one of the workmen who worked with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and on his many building projects at the University of Virginia. The University of Virginia purchased the house and property in 1963 an''Accompanying four photos''/ref> and it currently serves as a residence for faculty. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
