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A city in Florida, see
A male given name of Italian origin, equivalent to Roland

St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.

A surname derived from the given name
{i} city in Florida (USA); family name; male first name
A town in Florida
a city in Florida, US, which attracts large numbers of tourists, mainly because of Disney World and the Epcot Center. City (pop., 2000: 185,951), central Florida, U.S. Settlement began 1844 around an army post. It was renamed in 1857 to honour Orlando Reeves, an army sentry killed during the Seminole Wars. After 1950 the development of the aerospace complex at Cape Canaveral and, after 1971, of nearby Disney World boosted the city's population and economy. It is also the centre of a citrus farming region. Gibbons Orlando Orlando di Lasso Lawrence Ernest Orlando Orlando Vittorio Emanuele
of Italian origin, equivalent to Roland
a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World

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born 1583, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. died June 5, 1625, Canterbury, Kent English composer and organist. Son of a musician, he became organist of the Chapel Royal 1605 and remained there the rest of his life, serving also as organist at Westminster Abbey for his last two years. A versatile composer, he wrote several Anglican services, some 40 anthems, about 50 secular keyboard pieces, about 35 fantasias for chamber ensembles, and some 15 madrigals
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
born Aug. 8, 1901, Canton, S.D., U.S. died Aug. 27, 1958, Palo Alto, Calif. U.S. physicist. He earned a Ph.D. at Yale University and taught physics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1929, where he built and directed (from 1936) its radiation laboratory. In 1929 he developed the cyclotron, with which he accelerated protons to speeds high enough to cause nuclear disintegration. He later produced radioactive isotopes for medical use, instituted the use of neutron beams to treat cancer, and invented a colour-television picture tube. He worked with the Manhattan Project, converting the Berkeley cyclotron to separate uranium-235 by mass spectrometry. For his invention of the cyclotron, he was awarded a 1939 Nobel Prize, and in 1957 he received the Enrico Fermi Award. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were named in his honour, as was element 103, lawrencium
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
born May 19, 1860, Palermo, Italy died Dec. 1, 1952, Rome Italian politician and prime minister (1917-19). He was elected to Italy's Chamber of Deputies in 1897 and served in cabinet positions from 1903. As prime minister, he led Italy's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, but he was unable to obtain concessions from the Allies for Italian-claimed territory and resigned. As president of the Chamber of Deputies (1919-25), he resigned in protest against the electoral fraud of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party. He was president of the postwar Constituent Assembly (1946-47)
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