ARNO (AHR-noh)
American
cartoonist
A
river of central Italy
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Peter
Arno (January 8, 1904 - February 22, 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist.
Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr. in New York, New York, and
educated at Yale University, his cartoons were published in The
New Yorker from 1925-1968. They often depicted a cross-section of
New York society from the 1920s through the 1960s. He is interred
at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
Famous
quotations include:
"Tell
me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone
number."
"Well,
back to the old drawing board."
The
Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Arno
River in Florence, Italy
The
river originates on Mount Falterona (1654 meters {5,426 ft}) in
the Casentino area) of the Apennines, and takes a southward
curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through
Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at
Marina di Pisa. With a length of 241 kilometers (149 miles), it
is the largest river in the region. Its tributaries are : the
Sieve (60 kilometers {37 miles}), Bisenzio (49 kilometers {30
miles}), Era, Elsa and Pesa.
It
crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the
Santa Trinita bridge (built by Bartolomeo Ammannati, but inspired
by Michelangelo). The river flooded this city regularly in
historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of
1966, with 4,500 meters³/second (158,916 ft³/s) after a
rain of 437.2 millimetres (17.2 in) in Badia Agnano and 190
millimetres (7.4 in) in Florence, in only 24 hours.
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