Padua

[ US /ˈpædjuə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a city in Veneto
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  • Padua was famous for its medical school and while he was there Copernicus studied both medicine and astronomy.
  • The frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua are among the most celebrated works in the history of art.
  • A previously mentioned curandera, a mestiza called la Gachupina, working in Tepeji del Río in the late eighteenth century used prayers and orations to solicit the help of Jesus, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and San Antonio de Padua among others when applying herbal remedies. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • It is well known that persons who use the Spa waters or those of La Madonna, in the territories of Padua, or others of an acidulous or vitriolated nature, or who simply swallow drinks by the gallon, pass all off again within an hour or two by the bladder. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
  • The tragedy, recalling the ending of Romeo and Juliet, took place in Padua, 60km (40 miles) from Verona, the setting of Shakespeare's play. Archive 2005-01-01
  • This is a head-to-toe exfoliation which is good for removing dead skin, says Navarce-Padua. Undefined
  • The stipend was small, his agent in Padua was a swindler, and most of the revenue from Seltz was seized by French Jesuits at Strasbourg. Was (Not Was)
  • The cities of Padua and Verona were wiped from the face of the earth; and the last glories of Venice sank for ever beneath the sea as the waters of the Adriatic came - thundering landwards after the hammer-blow from space. Rendezvous With Rama
  • In short, we parted, nor held a correspond-ence in absence: but afterwards meeting, by acci — dent, at Padua, and Jeronymo having, in the interim, been led into inconveniences, he avowed a change of principles, and the friendship was renewed. Sir Charles Grandison
  • And then there's the symphony's scherzo, which is based on a separate piece Mahler wrote using an excerpt about St. Anthony of Padua from the German folk poems "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". Chicagoist
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