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    Default Lotus Esprit S1 - 007 The spy who loved me

    The Lotus Esprit S1 car chase scenes in the tenth spy film in the James Bond series (The spy who loved me) were shot in Sardinia in 1977, precisely in the Emerald Coast and in the Hunt Cape (in Alghero).

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    Default Octopus Garden

    The song Octopus Garden was written by Ringo Starr during a holiday in Sardinia in 1968.

    The idea for the song came when Ringo had temporarily left The Beatles in August 1968. He took his family on a boating holiday in Sardinia. Ringo said, "I wrote Octopus's Garden in Sardinia. Peter Sellers had lent us his yacht and we went out for the day... I stayed out on deck with [the captain] and we talked about octopuses. He told me that they hang out in their caves and they go around the seabed finding shiny stones and tin cans and bottles to put in front of their cave like a garden. I thought this was fabulous, because at the time I just wanted to be under the sea too. A couple of tokes later with the guitar - and we had Octopus's Garden!" It was worked on with George during the Get Back sessions in January 1969. In 1969, George commented, "Octopus's Garden is Ringo's song. It's only the second song Ringo wrote, and it's lovely. Ringo gets bored playing the drums, and at home he plays a bit of piano, but he only knows about three chords. He knows about the same on guitar. I think it's a really great song, because on the surface, it just like a daft kids' song, but the lyrics are great. For me, you know, I find very deep meaning in the lyrics, which Ringo probably doesn't see, but all the thing like 'resting our head on the sea bed' and 'We'll be warm beneath the storm' which is really great, you know. Because it's like this level is a storm, and if you get sort of deep in your consciousness, it's very peaceful. So Ringo's writing his cosmic songs without noticing."







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    Default Black Stallion

    The scenes on the desert island by Black Stallion, a movie directed by Carroll Ballard and produced by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 were shot in Sardinia, on the cliffs of Alghero, on the beach of Piscinas, and on the beach of Li Cossi in the Paradise Coast.

    the sardinian locations of the movie:

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    Sardinia boasts centuries of horse breeding and equestrian traditions.

    It's the italian region with the highest percentage of people who can ride a horse (29% of the inhabitants).



    Today the Island boasts also the highest number of horse herds in Italy.

    https://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/...&v=2&c=394&t=1



    A Sardinian Anglo-Arab horse (the most known horse breed established in Sardinia)

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    Default Sardinia has 4 ski resorts

    Though the highest peak of the island doesn't reach even 2,000 meters above sea level, Sardinia has four ski resorts located on the Gennargentu Range at Separadorgiu, Monte Spada, S'Arena and Bruncu Spina,


    http://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort...taly/sardinia/





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    Default The 2nd european website was developed in Sardinia

    At the CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) was developed the second european website in 1991 (www.crs4.it) by a sardinian student called Antonio Ticca that was employed as a trainee.

    One of the reasons of this was that in 1991 the president of Crs4 was the nobel prize in physics Carlo Rubbia. who previously worked at the Cern in Geneva, the research center in which few time before was invented the first website in the history.

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    Default The first successful clonation of an endangered animal was realised in Sardinia in 2001

    A team of scientists led by the sardinian researcher Pasqualino Loi from the University of Teramo cloned a european mouflon lamb (called Ombretta) from the cells of two dead mouflons.

    The lamb was cloned
    at the Bonassai Wildlife Refuge Center in Sardinia in 2001.





    The mouflon Ombretta with her surrogate mother (a sheep)









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    http://www.abc.net.au/science/articl.../03/380693.htm
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    Default Lake Omodeo was the largest reservoir in Europe

    The Lake omodeo, designed by the engineer Angelo Omodeo, inaugurated in 1924, was for many decades the largest reservoir in Europe. The lake length is 20 km, the surface 29 km2 (11 sq mi) and the water volume is 748,000,000 m3.

    A new dam was built in 1997, dedicated to the Sardinian medieval judge Eleonor of Arborea, it is 582 m long and 120 m wide.




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    Default A nuraghe is become a holy place for Iroquois indians

    The Nuraghè Lò, one of the typical megalithic towers of Sardinia, is considered a holy place by native americans.

    Iokenkwaroni (an Iroquois shaman) and her wife Karaya-Nì visited the prehistoric site during a folk festival, they remained fascinated by the site, which is said to emit a supernatural power, they appointed the nuraghe as a place where worship the Great Spirit Manitou.



    The Nuraghe Lò



    An Iroquois in pilgrimage in front of the nuraghe

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    Default Sardinia is the most militarized region in Italy

    The 61% of the Nato military bases in Italy are located in Sardinia, over 35,000 hectares are declared militarized areas. These bases are used for training the italian army, nato and other allied military forces and to test new weapons.

    An area of 7,200 square miles off the coasts of Sardinia, almost 2 times the island surface, is in addition permanently or temporary off-limits due to nato naval operations.

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