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Showing posts with label Udine. Show all posts
31 January 2025

Manuela Di Centa - Olympic skiing champion

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Friulian won five medals at a single Winter Games Manuela Di Centa in action at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway, where she won five medal...
3 August 2023

Omero Antonutti - actor and voice dubber

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Narrator of Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful enjoyed long and successul career Omero Antonutti had success on screen and as a stage actor The...
26 October 2018

Primo Carnera - boxer

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Heavyweight’s career dogged by ‘fix’ rumours Primo Carnera became world heavyweight champion in New York in 1933 The boxer Primo Car...
29 December 2017

Luigi Olivari – flying ace

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First World War pilot claimed 19 victories Luigi Olivari was only 25 when he was killed in a crash near Udine Lieutenant Luigi ...
24 December 2017

Lazzaro Ponticelli – war veteran

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Wounded soldier survived to set records for longevity Lazzaro Ponticelli as a young soldier in the First World War Lazzaro Pontic...
6 July 2017

Cesare Mori - Mafia buster

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'Iron Prefect' who 'eliminated' the Cosa Nostra Cesare Mori was well known for his hard-line methods Cesare Mori, ...
26 February 2017

Angelo Mangiarotti - architect and designer

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Iconic glass church among legacy to city of Milan  Angelo Mangiarotti, pictured at a conference in 2007 Angelo Mangiarotti, regarded ...
25 January 2016

Friuli earthquake

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First of two disasters to rock Italy in the same year Tolmezzo in Friuli Venezia Giulia was said to have been close to the epicentre ...