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Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italian pronunciation: [korˈtiːna damˈpɛttso]; Ladin: Anpezo, Ampëz; historical Austrian German: Hayden) sometimes abbreviated to simply Cortina, is a town and comune in the heart of the southern Alps in the province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.
Centreville was first established as the county seat of St. Joseph County in 1831. The first county offices were located in a leased house. In 1841, Thomas W. Langley, donated land to the county on which to construct a courthouse and a jail, and the first county courthouse was completed the following year.
The territory of the Republic of Venice extended over approximately 70,000 km 2 (27,000 sq mi) with 2.1 million inhabitants (for comparison, at about the same time England had three million inhabitants, the whole of Italy 11 million, France 13 million, Portugal 1.7 million, Spain six million, and the Holy Roman Empire ten million).
St. Joseph Island is in the northwestern part of Lake Huron.It is part of the Canadian province of Ontario.At 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) in area, it is the sixth largest lake island in the world; the second largest island on Lake Huron, following Manitoulin Island; and the third largest of all the islands on the Great Lakes, trailing Manitoulin and Lake Superior's Isle Royale.
Saint Joseph with the Flowering Rod, by Jusepe de Ribera, early 1630s. Ribera conveys the unexpected wonder of the moment with the lighting from above. Brooklyn Museum. In mosaics in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (432-40) Joseph is portrayed young, bearded and dressed as a Roman of status. [130]
On July 11, 2016, Larry Darnell Gordon, an inmate, opened fire on the third floor of the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan, United States, killing two bailiffs and injuring a sheriff's deputy.
The Great Hall. The Venetian Macao (Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人), is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-story [1] structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m 2) of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas.
St. Joseph is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [3] in Riverdale Township, Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 61. [ 4 ]