Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Reduviidae is a large cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators; most other predatory Hemiptera are aquatic.
Eleanora or Eleonora is a female given name, a variant of the name Eleanor. Notable people with the name include: Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess
It was commissioned by the Duke of Mantua, Federico Gonzaga, to be a devotional image for the famous poet Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547). However, it is universally believed that Vittoria gave the Magdalen away to Eleonora Gonzaga, as it was found in her son the Duke of Urbino's collection in 1631. [1]
Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne by François Gérard, c. 1807 Charles, Count Léon. Louise Catherine Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne (13 September 1787 – 30 January 1868) was a mistress of Emperor Napoleon I of France and the mother of his son Charles, Count Léon.
The painting was originally commissioned to be the altarpiece for the chapel of Eleonora of Toledo in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.Shortly after it was completed in 1545, Eleonora's husband, Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, shipped the picture to Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, a chief counselor of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as a diplomatic gift.
Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning crooner who sang the theme song for the classic series The Love Boat, has died.He was 86 years old. The musician died on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at Eisenhower Medical in ...
Eleanor of Arborea or Eleanor De Serra Bas (Sardinian: Elianora de Arbarée / Elianora De Serra Bas, [1] Italian: Eleonora d'Arborea / Eleonora De Serra Bas; 1347 – June 1404) was one of the most powerful and important, and one of the last, judges of the Judicate of Arborea in Sardinia, and Sardinia's most famous heroine. [2]
From both of her marriages Eleonora had a son. Although not mentioned in the main genealogies, her first son, Félix de Guzmán y Carafa, was born around 1669-1670 and disappeared in 1688 while on a voyage to Malta. Suspicions have been raised that he might have been murdered because he was the most likely candidate for his paternal family's ...