Rossini brief biography of abraham lincoln
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Gioacchino Rossini, the Italian operatic composer
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February dates with an Italian connection:
Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512) was born in February. He is the Florentine sailor, merchant and map maker who gave his name, Amerigo, to America. He entered the service of the Medici and lived until 1496 as their agent in Spain at Seville and Cadiz. In 1497, he charted the North and Southern continents naming them Mundus Novus. He made a voyage from Cadiz, on which according to his description, he sailed up the Pacific Coast of America, as far as what is now known as British Columbia, Canada. In 1499, he claimed to have crossed the Atlantic again and completed two other voyages to America in 1501 and 1503. By word of mouth advertising, Amerigo managed to get lots of publicity and his “New World” (Mundus Novus) was described in navigational circles as “Amerigo’s Land”. Centuries later, we became known as Americans and not Columbians after Christopher Columbus.
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Attilio Piccirilli, a Neapolitan immigrant and his five brothers, all gifted sculptors deserve mention in February, the month we celebrate Presidents’ Day (Feb. 16 this year). The head sculptors of the Lincoln Memorial, a monument to our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln, erected in Potomac Park, at Washi
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This day in history — Feb. 20
Today's highlight in history
On Feb. 20, 1816, the opéra bouffe 'The Barber of Seville' by Gioachino Rossini premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome under its original title, 'Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution.'
On this date
In 1792, President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever.
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public's health.
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury's Friendship 7 spacecraft.
In 1971, the National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for about 40 minutes.
In 1986, the Soviet Union sent up the core module of space station Mir (Peace), which would serve as a permanently manned base for the next generation in space. (Mir stayed in orbit until 2001, when it was brought down in a controlled descent, breaking up in the atmosphere.)
In 2003,
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