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  2. La gazza ladra - Wikipedia

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    The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...

  3. The Thieving Magpie (album) - Wikipedia

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    The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".

  4. The Castafiore Emerald - Wikipedia

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    Castafiore leaves for Milan to perform in the opera La gazza ladra (Italian: The Thieving Magpie). Tintin realises that the true culprit responsible for the theft of the emerald and the scissors is a magpie. He explains to Haddock that the scissors must have fallen out of the nest only to be found by Miarka.

  5. A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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    The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.

  6. Thieving Magpie (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    La gazza ladra, an 1817 opera by Rossini; La gazza ladra, 1934 short by Corrado D'Errico; La gazza ladra (animated film) , 1964 Italian animated film about a "real" thieving magpie with soundtrack based on Rossini's opera; Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre; Thieving ...

  7. It turns out Punxsutawney Phil is wrong more often than not - AOL

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    Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil might be the most well-known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new list casts doubt on his accuracy.Phil did so poorly that even nonliving critters outshine ...

  8. Alda Merini - Wikipedia

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    In the time following her wedding, she wrote twenty poems-portraits called La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), later to be released in the volume Vuoto d'amore (Empty Love), together with some works by Pierri. During her time in Taranto, she also finished L'altra verità.

  9. Meet Snowflake, the Only Albino Gorilla on Earth

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    There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.