He was born at Turin in a rich and noble family: his father was a Marquis. In 1822 he graduated in the Military Academy of Turin; then began a military career, which led him to become general in 1856. In the Kingdom of Sardinia he was twice Minister of War in the governments led by Massimo D'Azeglio and Camillo Cavour.
In 1854 La Marmora made a law that improved the quality of the troops, created new academies for officers, retouched the recruitment system, bringing to 60,000 Army soldiers (of which only a quarter in active service, while the rest evaded the lever paying a substitute), doubled the units of riflemen and strengthened the light cavalry at the expense of heavy. Even the artillery, health and administrative apparatus were renovated, as well as logistics services.
In 1855 he resigned from the post of Minister of War because he went to fight in the Crimean War. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 19 July 1859 to 21 January 1860. In the years immediately after the Italian unification, he was governor of Milan and Prefect of Naples.
Member of the "Historical Right", La Marmora was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from 18 September 1864 to 20 July 1866. He resigned from office to go fight the third Italian independence war: on this occasion, however, he committed several strategic errors, which cost a heavy defeat for Italy.
In 1870 he retired from political life. He died in Florence and was buried in Biella in the church of San Sebastiano. His brother, Alessandro La Marmora, founded the corps of Bersaglieri.
Luminous blue variable
Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are massive evolved stars. They show unpredictable and sometimes dramatic variations in their spectra and their brightness.
These unstable supergiants or hypergiants are also known as S Doradus variables. S Doradus is one of the brightest stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
LBVs are extraordinarily rare with just 20 listed in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars as SDor, and some of these are no longer considered to be LBVs.
In their "quiescent" state they are typically B-type stars, occasionally slightly hotter, with unusual emission lines. They are found in a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram known as the "S Doradus instability strip". They are the least luminous have a temperature around 10,000 K and a luminosity about 250,000 times the Sun. The most luminous have a temperature around 25,000 K and a luminosity over a million times the Sun. These are some of the most luminous of all stars.
Their relationship to supernovae is unclear.
The LBV stars P Cygni and Eta Carinae have been known as unusual variables since the 17th century, but their true nature was not fully understood until much more recently. The term "S Doradus variable" was used to describe them as a group in 1974. AE Andromedae is one of the most luminous blue variables in the Andromeda galaxy, M31.
Smygehamn
Smygehamn is a locality in Trelleborg Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,278 inhabitants people lived there. It is the southernmost locality in Sweden.
Östra Torp Church
The Östra Torp Church () is a church building in Smygehamn in Sweden. I belongs to the Källtorp Parish of the Church of Sweden. It was inaugurated on 14 June 1911. It replaced an older church which had been destroyed by a fire in 1909. The church is the southernmost in Sweden.
Marstrand Regatta
The Marstrand Regatta () is a sailing event. It is held outside Marstrand in Sweden in July. It is hosted by the Gothenburg Royal Sailing Society.
Guelph
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Marstrand Church
The Marstrand Church () is a church building in Marstrand in Sweden. It belongs to the Marstrand Parish of the Church of Sweden. The church is supposed to have been built between the late 13th and the early 14th century. It was rebuilt in 1806. In 1912, the church was renovated.
Pistol Star
The Pistol Star is a blue hypergiant. It is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
It is one of many massive young stars in the Quintuplet cluster in the central region of our galaxy. It is about 25,000 light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius. It would be visible to the naked eye as a fourth magnitude star but interstellar gases have blocked it from view.
The Pistol Star was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s.
The star may have ejected almost 10 solar masses of material in giant outbursts perhaps 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. Its stellar wind is over 10 billion times stronger than the Sun's. The star's exact age and future are not known, but it is expected to end in a brilliant supernova or hypernova in 1 to 3 million years. Its mass is equally uncertain, probably around 200 times the sun when first formed. Now it is much less because it has lost so much mass.
Early reports suggested that it might be the most luminous star known, being almost 100 million times as luminous as the Sun.
Later studies, however, have reduced its estimated luminosity. It is now regarded as a candidate luminous blue variable about one-third as luminous as the binary star system Eta Carinae. Even so, it radiates about as much energy in 20 seconds as does the Sun in a year.
A close point source has been discovered hidden in the surrounding nebulosity, but it is not known whether it is a star or even whether it is physically associated.
Löddeköpinge
Löddeköpinge is the second-largest locality in Kävlinge Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 6,290 people lived there.
Barsebäckshamn
Barsebäckshamn is a locality in Kävlinge Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 438 people lived there.
Bjärred
Bjärred is a coastal locality in Lomma Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden, located circa 20 kilometers north of Malmö and 10 kilometers west of Lund. In 2010, 9,542 people lived there.
Clares
Clares is a small village in the province of Guadalajara. It belongs to the region of de Molina-Alto Tajo in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
In 1989 a Special Protection Area (SPA) category A, was created near Clares. It covers 20,000 hectares. There are 12 protected species including: Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus), little bustard (Tetrax tetrax), Dupont's lark (Chersophilus duponti), Common treecreeper (Agateador norteño), Thekla lark (Galerida theklae), and Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata). Other species found in the area are the foxes, badgers, wild cats, vultures and raptors such as buzzards, kestrel and a hawk. Clares also has a private game reserve managed by the Association of Neighbors and Friends, where people can go to hunt boar, deer, hare, rabbit, partridge and quail.
Tin Cup
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Barsebäck
Barsebäck is a locality in Kävlinge Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. It is located circa 4 kilometers east of Barsebäckshamn. In 2010, 524 people lived there. The places also known for the former Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant,
Furulund
Furulund is a locality in Kävlinge Municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. In 2010, 4,180 people lived there.
Getinge
Getinge is a locality in Halmstad Municipality in Halland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,843 people lived there.
Laxvik
Laxvik is a locality in Halmstad Municipality in Halland County in Sweden. In 2010, 475 people lived there.
Tyringe