The Italian Greyhound or Italian Sighthound is an Italian breed of small sighthound. It was bred to hunt hare and rabbit, but is kept mostly as a companion dog.
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.
Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria, is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria. They compete in Serie B, the second division of the Italian football league system.
The World Atlas is the Soviet and later Russian created and produced atlas of the world.
Stielers Handatlas, formally titled Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude, was the leading German world atlas of the last three decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Published by Justus Perthes of Gotha it went through ten editions from 1816 to 1945. As with many 19th century publications, an edition was issued in parts; for example, the eighth edition was issued in 32 monthly parts.
Carlos Enzo Exzequiel Reinoso Valdenegro is a Chilean former footballer and manager who recently managed Mexican club UAT.
Herman Moll was a British cartographer, engraver, and publisher.
Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.
The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the World. The first two editions were created by Barry Winkleman, the editorial director of Times Atlases and Managing Director of Times Books. They were edited by the Oxford Chichele Professor of Modern History Geoffrey Barraclough. It contains large full color plates and commentary on each map or set of maps. Includes approximately 600 maps covering the date span of 3000 BCE to 1975. It has been revised and reprinted for many times and the latest edition is the ninth edition, published in 2015, and reflects on the modern world up to the 21st Century.
The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) is the major Italian national tourist organization.
Adolfo Baloncieri was an Italian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Giancarlo Gregorio Maldonado Marrero is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a striker.
The Club Alpino Italiano is the senior Italian alpine club which stages climbing competitions, operates alpine huts, marks and maintains paths, and is active in protecting the Alpine environment.
SOIUSA is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designed by Sergio Marazzi, Italian researcher and author of the Orographic Atlas of the Alps SOIUSA. His book was presented with the patronage of the Italian Alpine Club on 23 Jan 2006, but has yet to receive any formal acceptance.
Justus Perthes Publishers was established in 1785 in Gotha, Germany. Justus Perthes was primarily a publisher of geographic and historic atlases and (educational) wall maps. He published Petermann’s Geographische Mitteilungen (1855-2004), after having started with publishing the French Almanach de Gotha (1785-1944). In 2016 the publisher was discontinued.
Attilio Celant, 2nd Class / Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, is an Italian economist, geographer and academic.
Charles of Bourbon Hunting Coots on Lake Licola is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Claude Joseph Vernet, commissioned by Charles III of Spain during Vernet's second stay in Naples in 1746. A slightly larger copy now in the Palace of Versailles was commissioned by the Marquis de L'Hôpital, French ambassador to Naples. The prime version was moved from the palace at Caserta in 1938 to the Capodimonte Palace in Naples and now hangs in the National Museum of Capodimonte.
The Istituto Geografico Centrale is a privately owned Italian company based in Turin (Piedmont), known for its guide books and hiking maps mainly concerning the Western Alps and their contiguous areas.
