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Petta may refer to: People * Bobby Petta, Dutch-Indonesian footballer * Francesco Miano-Petta, retired amateur Italian freestyle wrestler * Gustavo Petta, Brazilian politician * Jason Petta, American physicist * Julia Petta, Italian housewife known as The Italian Bride * Nicholas Pettas, Greek-Danish karateka * Nikos Pettas, Greek professional basketball player * Paolo Petta, Italian computer and cognitive scientist * Xavier Di Petta, an Australian computer programmer Other * ''Petta'' (annelid), a genus of worms * ''Petta'' (film), a 2019 Indian film See also * Peta (other) * Pettah (other) * Pettai (other) * Patti (other) Patti may refer to: People * Patti (given name) * Patti (surname) * Patti caste, a caste in Sri Lanka Places * Patti, Iran (other) * Patti, Punjab, India ** Patti, Punjab Assembly constituency, India * Patti, Sicily * Patti, Uttar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Petta
Alfred Manuel "Bobby" Petta (born 6 August 1974) is a Dutch former professional association football, footballer who played as a left winger (association football), winger. Formed at Feyenoord, he spent most of his career in Britain, most notably with Ipswich Town of the Football League First Division and Celtic F.C., Celtic of the Scottish Premier League. He also had a loan at Fulham F.C., Fulham in the Premier League in 2004, and several years in the Australian A-League with Adelaide United and Sydney FC. Club career Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Petta's early playing career was with Feyenoord, from the age of 13 to 21, but he never became a regular in the first team during that period, having loan spells at FC Dordrecht, Dordrecht'90 and RKC Waalwijk. Petta signed for English Football League First Division, First Division club Ipswich Town in 1996. In July 1999 he moved on a Free transfer (association football), free transfer to Celtic F.C., Celtic of the Scottish Premier L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Miano-Petta
Francesco Miano-Petta (born April 12, 1979, in Naples) is a retired amateur Italian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. He won two bronze medals in the 120-kg division at the Mediterranean Games (2005 and 2009), and finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing his nation Italy. Having worked as a police officer for Polizia di Stato, Miano-Petta trained full-time for the wrestling squad at VVF Padula in Naples, under head coach Luigi Marigliano. Miano-Petta qualified for the Italian squad in the men's 120 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Earlier in the process, Miano-Petta finished third from the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria to guarantee his spot on the Italian wrestling team. He lost two opening matches each to U.S. wrestler Kerry McCoy (0–7) and Kazakhstan's Marid Mutalimov (0–3) by an identical margin, but sailed smoothly with an easy victory over Kyrgyzstan's Yury Mildzihov, who forf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Petta
Gustavo Lemos Petta (born December 26, 1980, in Campinas) is a Brazilian politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ... and former president of Brazil's National Union of Students (''União Nacional dos Estudantes'') from 2003 to 2007. References 1980 births People from Campinas Brazilian communists Communist Party of Brazil politicians Living people 21st-century Brazilian politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo {{Brazil-Deputy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Petta
Jason Robert Petta (born 1975) is a physics researcher, professor, and noted contributor to developments in quantum computing. He is a professor at UCLA, and was formerly Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Petta was born in 1975 in Freeport, Illinois. After graduating from Freeport High School, he attended technical school and worked in construction for two years before enrolling in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.S. degree in engineering physics from that university, as well as both an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. His thesis title was ''Effects of spin-orbit coupling on single quantum states in metallic quantum dots'', completed in 2003 under the advisor Daniel Ralph. After graduating Cornell with his Ph.D., Petta worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Charlie Marcus's research group at Harvard University, participating in experiments trapping and detecting singular electrons and controlling spin sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Petta
Julia Buccola Petta (1892 – March 17, 1921) was a housewife who became known following her death as The Italian Bride. She was the daughter of Filomena Buccola and the wife of Matthew Petta. She died at the age of 29 in 1921 while giving birth to a stillborn son, Filippo. Burial Following her death, Petta was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Hillside. Petta was buried in her wedding dress. According to legend, soon after Petta's death, her mother Filomena began experiencing dreams in which Petta was telling her that she was still alive. No contemporary source has been found to back up the legend; according to her great grandchildren, Filomena's nightmares may have started about five years later, when the family moved to Los Angeles. Filomena moved back and forth between Chicago and Los Angeles until she died in 1945. Six years after Petta's death, Filomena secured permission to have the grave opened and her daughter exhumed. The coffin w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Pettas
Nicholas Pettas (born January 23, 1973) is a Greek- Danish karateka, former heavyweight kickboxer and actor, who fought out of Team Spirit Tokyo, Japan. Pettas mainly competed in the promotion K-1 between 1998 and 2007, and was the winner of the K-1 Japan Grand Prix 2001. Although an undersized heavyweight, Pettas is known for his powerful low kicks and holds notable victories over Yusuke Fujimoto, Nobu Hayashi, Musashi, Gökhan Saki and Péter Varga. Early life and karate career Pettas was born in Mykonos, Greece. Following the death of his father, he moved to Denmark with his mother. After being beaten up in a street fight when he was fourteen, he decided to join a karate school to learn to defend himself. Not knowing which styles there were, he was introduced to Kyokushin by Michael Mattheson, a friend of his brother Tony. He found himself a new following and needed no more schooling, and so at the age of eighteen decided to leave high school in order to save up money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Pettas
Nikolaos "Nikos" Pettas (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Πέττας; born February 28, 1981) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 4 in (1.95 m) tall shooting guard-small forward. Professional career Pettas began playing basketball with the junior teams of Olympiacos. With the senior men's team of Olympiacos, he played in the 1997 McDonald's Championship Final, against the Chicago Bulls. The first season of his pro career, was in the Greek League, during the 1998–99 season. He played in the European-wide 3rd-tier level FIBA EuroChallenge, during the 2007–08 season, with Olympias Patras. National team career Pettas was a member of the junior national teams of Greece. With Greece's junior national teams, he played at the following tournaments: the 1997 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the 1998 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he won a bronze medal, the 1999 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, and the 2000 FIBA Europe Under-20 Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Petta
Paolo Petta is an Italian computer and cognitive scientist who is the head of the Intelligent Software Agents and New Media Research Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His main research areas include cognitive modelling of emotions, human aspects in interactions with artificial systems and coordination of situated cognitive systems. Biography Paolo Petta earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (specialisation: Artificial Intelligence) from the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) in 1994. Since 1996, he is the head of the Intelligent Agents and New Media group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) in Vienna, Austria. Since 1989, he has been teaching at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology, and the Medical University of Vienna on selected topics of Artificial Intelligence, Agent-based Technologies and Cognitive Science Cognitive science is the interdiscipli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Di Petta
Xavier Di Petta is an Australian-American internet entrepreneur, music producer, and internet personality. He is currently "Australia's most followed TikToker" with over twenty-million followers. Di Petta has been featured in The Times' 'Top 25 Under 20' and 'The 15 Smartest Teens on the Planet'. Di Petta has amassed followings that exceed 100 million across various social networks. Early life Di Petta was born and raised in Shepparton, Victoria, a small Australian town two hours north of Melbourne. At six, he represented Australia in the Nintendo World Championships. Di Petta attended the University of Southern California. He started a YouTube account back in 2007, which at one point became the 10th most subscribed to channel in Australia. In 2009, Di Petta "found email addresses for YouTube staffers in a lawsuit document and contacted them directly about a new program that allowed him to make money from his videos." Di Petta has curated for Condé Nast, including GQ and LOVE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petta (annelid)
''Petta ''is a genus in the polychaete Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine Annelid, annelid worms, common name, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called c ...'' ''family'' Pectinariidae''. Systematics There are currently eight recognized species in the genus * '' Petta alissoni'' - Nogueira, Ribeiro, Carrerette & Hutchings, 2019 * '' Petta assimilis'' - McIntosh, 1885 * '' Petta brevis'' - Zhang & Hutchings, 2021 * '' Petta investigatoris'' - Zhang, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2019 * '' Petta pellucida'' - (Ehlers, 1887) * '' Petta pusilla'' - Malmgren, 1866 * '' Petta tenuis'' - Caullery, 1944 * '' Petta williamsonae'' - Zhang, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2019 References Terebellida Annelid genera {{annelid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petta (film)
''Petta'' ( ) is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Karthik Subbaraj and produced by Kalanithi Maran under Sun Pictures. The film stars Rajinikanth, alongside Vijay Sethupathi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sasikumar, Simran, Trisha, Megha Akash, Malavika Mohanan, Mahendran, Bobby Simha, Guru Somasundaram, Aadukalam Naren, Munishkanth, Sananth and Vivek Prasanna. It follows Kaali, a newly-hired hostel warden, who gets dragged into war after his old nemesis Singaaram resurfaces to exact revenge. The film was officially announced in February 2018 under the tentative title ''Thalaivar 165'', as it is Rajinikanth's 165th film as it is the lead actor, and the official title was announced in September 2018. Principal photography commenced in June 2018. It was shot in several locations including Darjeeling, Uttar Pradesh, and wrapped by late-October 2018. The film's music was composed by Anirudh Ravichander, while cinematography and editing were handled by Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peta (other)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; ) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal rights activist Alex Pacheco (activist), Alex Pacheco, the organization first gained attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case.Schwartz, Jeffrey M. and Begley, Sharon. ''The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force'', Regan Books, 2002, p. 161ff. * Pacheco, Alex and Francione, AnnaThe Silver Spring Monkeys in Peter Singer (ed.) ''In Defense of Animals'', Basil Blackwell 1985, pp. 135–147. The organization opposes factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and other activities it considers to be exploitation of animals. The organization's controversial campaigns have been credited with drawing media attention to animal rights issues, but have also been widely criticize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
