Piave


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Piave

(Italian ˈpjaːve)
n
(Placename) a river in NE Italy, rising near the border with Austria and flowing south and southeast to the Adriatic: the main line of Italian defence during World War I. Length: 220 km (137 miles)
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The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.
Four people were killed by lightning in Piave, Njoro, Nakuru County.
Constable Cornelius Talaam, based in Piave police post in Njoro, is suspected to have shot his wife of three months, Eunice Wambui, 22, before turning the gun on himself.
The surface of the Comelico Superiore dam, farther north near the Austrian border, was covered with the trunks of trees that had fallen into the Piave river.
The peloton of top national and international cyclists pedalled their way from Richmond to Piave Lines in Catterick Garrison, where the flag dropped to begin the 181-kilometre leg to Scarborough's North Bay.
The funding has been granted for its project proposal entitled 'PIAVE' (Projets Industriels d'Avenir [Promising Industrial Projects]), which is piloted by the General Secretariate for Investment (SGPI) and operated by Bpifrance.
This June marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Piave River, when the Italians checked the German-backed advance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Birks and Hilborn were each credited with a fighter, but the only casualty was Albatros 153.163, which force-landed with a dead engine near Piave di Soligo; its Hungarian pilot, Korporal Sandor Szijjarto, was unhurt.
As the curtain opened, it became clear that Carsen was following the wishes ofVerdi and his librettist Piave by setting the opera in present day; however, Carsen was not totally faithful to all of the original stage directions.
It traces his childhood and youth in Egypt and Italy; his early screenwriting; his films during wartime, including Don Cesare di Bazan, Non canto pi*, and Tutta la cittC canta; different genres, including adventure, horror, fantasy, crime, gothic, the Spaghetti Western, melodrama, and the peplum genre, with discussion of films like Aquila nera, I miserabili, Il cavaliere misterioso, Guarany, O cacula do barulho, Il conte Ugolino, Il figlio di d'Artagnan, Magia a prezzi modici, Il tradimento, La vendetta di Aquila Nera, Vedi Napoli e poi muori, La leggenda del Piave, Spartaco, and L'orrible segreto del Dr.
Commonwealth forces were at the Italian front between November 1917 and November 1918 helping to defend the river Piave, a line which kept the enemy from invading Venice.