• Thumbnail for Battle of the Queens (Aosta)
    The cow left standing is the winner. Aosta Valley's Battle of the Queens is more than a single event, however. The overall contest takes the form of a...
    4 KB (487 words) - 15:44, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combat de Reines
    Combat de Reines (category Culture of Switzerland)
    place in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France, and in the Aosta Valley of Italy Battle of the Queens (Aosta) Tōgyū, a similar sport in Okinawa, Japan Hunt,...
    3 KB (316 words) - 18:15, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clotilde of France
    by the current queen. She was close to her sisters-in-law, the Duchess of Aosta and the Duchess of Chablais. She was well liked by the members of her...
    27 KB (3,363 words) - 19:48, 13 October 2024
  • countries soon after. Scenes set in the city were filmed in the Aosta Valley region in Italy in Avengers: Age of Ultron, in which local storefronts were...
    384 KB (35,549 words) - 20:39, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Holy Roman Empire
    Aosta or Nice; indicating that Smith's use of "Savoy of Italy" does indeed only refer to Piedmont and Aosta. Excluding the 500,000 inhabitants of the...
    185 KB (21,402 words) - 01:09, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark
    2024. "Her Majesty the Queen Sofía". The Royal Household of His Majesty the King. n.d. Retrieved May 2, 2024. "Duchess of Aosta". The New York Times. Florence...
    102 KB (3,939 words) - 21:04, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bratislava
    and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1563 to 1783; eleven Hungarian kings and eight queens were crowned in St Martin's Cathedral...
    144 KB (11,926 words) - 08:48, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Sicily
    history) Alio, Jacqueline. Queens of Sicily 1061-1266: The Queens Consort, Regent and Regnant of the Norman-Swabian Era of the Kingdom of Sicily, Trinacria, 2018...
    50 KB (5,869 words) - 13:46, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for God Save the King
    Traditionally, the first performance was thought to have been in 1745, when it was sung in support of King George II, after his defeat at the Battle of Prestonpans...
    101 KB (11,761 words) - 15:17, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for George II of Greece
    of Aosta, a cousin of Victor Emmanuel III and the future King of Croatia. Their wedding in Florence was to the dismay of Mussolini, who forbade the Greek...
    83 KB (10,759 words) - 17:07, 22 October 2024