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National Central Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze): [1] Located alongside the Arno, the National Library was cut off from the rest of the city by the flood. 1,300,000 items (a third of their holdings) were damaged, including prints, maps, posters, newspapers and a majority of works in the Palatine and Magliabechi collections. [6]
Like Pronto, Riding the Rap centers around Harry Arno, World War II veteran and bookie, now 67 years old.The book also features a reappearance of Joyce Patton, Harry's ex-girlfriend and a former stripper, and her new boyfriend Raylan Givens, an always-gets-his-man old western type law enforcer.
The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, most recently in 1966, with 4,500 cubic metres per second (160,000 cu ft/s) after rainfall of 437.2 millimetres (17.21 in) in Badia Agnano and 190 millimetres (7.5 in) in Florence, in only 24 hours. [citation needed] Before Pisa, the Arno is crossed by the Imperial Canal at La Botte.
UTC-4 (EDT) GNIS feature ID: 1492488 [1] Arno is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Notable people
From the atrium's observation deck and restaurant, guests would have had dizzying views of the city's downtown. Then, in the mid-2010s, Goldin Group, the skyscraper's developer, started having ...
A 1997 made-for-TV film version of Pronto starred Peter Falk, Glenne Headly and James LeGros as Arno, Patton and Givens, respectively. Jimmy Cap had previously appeared in Leonard's previous novel Cat Chaser , and a member of the Crowe family - who appear in Maximum Bob , Gold Coast , and Riding the Rap - appears here.
Map showing Etruria and Etruscan colonies as of 750 BC and as expanded until 500 BC. Etruria (/ ɪ ˈ t r ʊər i ə / ih-TROOR-ee-ə) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, [1] an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria.
Anna lives with her young step-sister, Agnes, and her twice-widowed father, Ephraim Tellwright, in Bursley. Once an active preacher and teacher in the Methodist movement, her father has become a domestic tyrant and, through his miserly attitude to money, a fairly wealthy man.