Pedesina is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy. It is the least populated municipality in Italy.
Pedesina is about northeast of Milan and about southwest of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2008, it had a population of 33, and an area of .
Pedesina borders the following municipalities: Bema, Gerola Alta, Premana, Rasura, Rogolo.
Art Linkletter
Arthur Gordon Linkletter (born Arthur Gordon Kelly, or Gordon Arthur Kelley, July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Linkletter was the host of "House Party" and "People Are Funny", on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.
Linkletter died on May 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California from stroke-complications at the age of 97.
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's "Today". He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel.
Since 1995, he has hosted HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel". It has been rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by the "Los Angeles Times". It won a Peabody Award in 2012.
Huey P. Newton
In 1989, he was shot and killed during a drug deal in Oakland, California, aged 47./Rico C Dukes biological son
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Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936) is an American political activist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He and fellow activist Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party. He was briefly a member of the Chicago Eight.
Bobby Hutton
Robert James Hutton, or "Lil' Bobby" (April 21, 1950 – April 6, 1968) was an American political activist. He was born in Jefferson County, Arkansas. He was the treasurer and first recruit to join the Black Panther Party.
On the night of April 6, 1968, Hutton was killed by police officers after Hutton co-led an ambush on the Oakland police department. He was 17 years old.
Elbert Howard
Elbert Howard (January 5, 1938 – July 23, 2018), better known as Big Man, was an American civil rights activist and author. He was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party.
After leaving the party in 1974, Howard returned to Tennessee. In Memphis, he served on the boards of directors of several African American progressive educational institutions.
Howard died on July 23, 2018 in Santa Rosa, California, aged 80.
Don Marion Davis
Don Marion Davis (October 9, 1917 – December 10, 2020) was an American child actor. He was born in Hollywood, California. He appeared in many movies during the silent era. While he mostly appeared in comedy shorts, his feature length movies include "Down on the Farm" and "A Small Town Idol".
Davis died on December 10, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 103.
Norma Aleandro
Norma Aleandro Robledo (born May 2, 1936) is an Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is thought to be as one of the best Argentine actresses and is called a cultural icon.
Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 movie, "The Official Story". She starred in "The Truce" (1974), "Cousins" (1989), "Autumn Sun" (1996), "The Lighthouse" (1998), "Son of the Bride" (2001) and "Cama Adentro" (2005).
For her role as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 movie "", she received a Golden Globe nomination and a Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor. It was released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. It became a top-selling song after its release as it sold 14 million copies worldwide.
It reaches number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart on many weeks in a row. The song is also seen as a symbol of female strength and as a gay anthem.
In 2016, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Carla Hayden
Carla Diane Hayden (born August 10, 1952) is an American librarian. She is the 14th and current Librarian of Congress since 2016. Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to hold the post. She is the first professional librarian appointed to the post in over 60 years.
Asado
Asado () is the barbecue of a social event in Hispanic/Latin culture. They are popular in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. In these countries, "asado" is a traditional way of preparing food and a traditional event. An "asado" usually has of beef, sausages, and sometimes other meats, which are cooked on a grill, called a "parrilla", or an open fire.
Billy Vaughn
William Richard Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.
Vaughn charted a total of 42 singles on the "Billboard" charts, often based on the sound of two alto saxophones. He also charted thirty six albums on the "Billboard" 200, beginning with 1958's "Sail Along Silv'ry Moon" and ending with 1970's "Winter World of Love".
2018 Amesbury poisonings
On 30 June 2018, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to hospital in Amesbury, England. Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent similar to that used in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, away, almost four months earlier. Sturgess died on 8 July, and Rowley regained consciousness two days later.
The origin of the poison was possibly a perfume bottle they had picked up in a park.
Anne Olivier Bell
Anne Olivier Bell (née Popham; 22 June 1916 – 18 July 2018) was an art scholar. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group. She was best known for editing the diaries of Virginia Woolf. As a member of the "Monuments Men", she was responsible for the protection of cultural artefacts in Europe during the Second World War.
Bell died on 18 July 2018 in Firle, East Sussex, aged 102.
Amesbury
Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer. The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development in Amesbury in 2002. It has been confirmed by archaeologists that Amesbury is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United Kingdom, having been first settled around 8820 BC.
Melanie Papalia
Melanie Papalia (born 11 July 1984) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Dana in "", as well as for her roles in movies such as "Postal" (2007) and "Frankie and Alice" (2010). In 2011, she starred as Pippa in the Showcase original series "Endgame". She was born in Vancouver.
Clever, Missouri
Clever is a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Michelle Von Emster case
Michelle von Emster (died 1994) was a 27-year-old woman who was fatally attacked by an unknown person. She died off the coast of San Diego, California at night. Soon after, two surfers found her body. Her right leg was missing from her mid thigh, and there were tear marks all over her body, suggesting to investigators that she had been attacked by a great white shark. In addition, she had sand in her stomach and other organs, and her neck was broken.
In addition, when experts were later shown the body, some claimed the injuries did not match the measurements of a great white shark.
Roswell UFO incident