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  • 8 Feb., 1537; feast, 20 July; son of Angelo Emiliani (popularly called Miani) and of Eleonore Mauroceni, joined the army, and in 1508 defended Castelnuovo against the League of Cambray.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • DEMARCO: We've got witnesses who testified that they made complaints about Miani, that he sexually molesting kids back in the fifties when they were students at a school run by the Salesians.

    EXTRA: Salesians Religious Order not part of Catholic Church and other ways to conceal evidence in LA jury trial Nov 5th 2007

  • Karthoum — nor Miani, the Venetian, who, turning the cataracts below Gondokoro, reached the second parallel — nor the Maltese trader, Andrea Debono, who pushed his journey up the Nile still farther — could work their way beyond the apparently impassable limit.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • The “band of little black men” can no longer be held fabulous, since Miani and Schweinfurth added the

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • It was a cynical piece of work, in which Ellenborough goaded the Sind Amirs by forcing an unacceptable treaty on them; when this provoked an attack by the Baluchi warriors, Sir Charles Napier promptly conquered the country, winning the battles of Miani and Hyderabad.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Then on to Kotri, from which place we went to see the battle-field of Miani, where Sir Charles

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Giardinetto Infantile -- and next is a boarded-up dolls 'house, and next the Miani or Palazzo Coletti, with two busts on it, and then the lovely

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • Miani, like Livingstone, lost his life in African travel.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • They spoke a dialect of their own and different from any known African tongue; they were partly understood by an Egyptian sergeant, a native of Soudan, who accompanied them as the sole survivor of the escort with which their donor, Miani, penetrated Monbuttu.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • African tongue; they were partly understood by an Egyptian sergeant, a native of Soudan, who accompanied them as the sole survivor of the escort with which their donor, Miani, penetrated Monbuttu.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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