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Matteo Cheda (1968, Locarno) is a Swiss journalist. He is the founder of the consumer magazines Spendere Meglio (1996), L'Inchiesta (1999) and Scelgo io (2002).
Alumnus of the ETH Zürich, he started his career writing for the local newspaper Eco di Locarno then for the daily LaRegione Ticino, as parliament correspondent in Bern.
Consumer rights, quality tests and price comparisons have been Cheda's main area of interest. He published books on various consumer topics including health insurance and labour law.
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The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5–16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with defeated Germany. It also stated that Germany would never go to war with the other countries. Locarno divided borders in Europe into two categories: western, which were guaranteed by Locarno treaties, and eastern borders of Germany with Poland, which were open for revision.
Locarno is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno, located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps. It has a population of about 16,000 (proper), and about 56,000 for the agglomeration of the same name including Ascona besides other municipalities.
The Kalpa Sūtra is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira. Traditionally ascribed to Bhadrabahu, which would place it in the 4th century BCE., it was probably put to writing only after 980 or 993 years after the Nirvana(Moksha) of Mahavira.
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, it is one of the longest-running film festivals, and is also known for being a prestigious platform for art house films. The festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in one of the world's largest open-air screening venues, seating 8,000 spectators.
"Meglio stasera" is a 1963 song in samba rhythm with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Migliacci and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was composed for the 1963 film The Pink Panther where it was performed by Fran Jeffries. In addition to the vocal performance, instrumental portions of the song appear in the film's underscore, sometimes as an introduction to the main "Pink Panther Theme".
Spendere Meglio is a Swiss Italian-language consumer magazine, published in Bellinzona, Ticino.
Someo is a village and former municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.
Mike Di Meglio is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and 2008 world champion in the 125cc class. In 2019, he will compete in the MotoE World Cup aboard an Energica Ego Corsa. Of Italian descent, his paternal grandfather was born in Lentini.
Alessandro "Sandro" Cortese is a German motorcycle racer, currently competing in the World Superbike Championship aboard a Yamaha R1. Cortese won his first world title in the Moto3 class, in 2012., and his second in the Supersport World Championship, in 2018. He lives in Berkheim, Germany.
Dominique Aegerter is a Swiss Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, currently competing in the Moto2 World Championship.
They Have Changed Their Face is a 1971 Italian horror film directed by Corrado Farina and starring Adolfo Celi. The film won the Golden Leopard award for the Best First Feature at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1971.
Visconti Castle Italian: Castello Visconteo is a castle in Locarno, Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Ferdinando Meglio is an Italian fencer. In the team sabre events he won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1980 Summer Olympics and a bronze at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Vincenzo DiMeglio, called also Vincenzo Di Meglio (1903-1987), was an Italian doctor who worked in the Africa Orientale Italiana in the late thirties and during World War II. He was also an Italian Eritrean politician who saved Eritrea from being divided in 1947 between Sudan and Ethiopia
Daniele Gaglianone is an Italian director.
Avintia Racing is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship.
Stefano Bonaccini is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party. He has been the President of Emilia-Romagna since 24 November 2014.
7500 is an 2019 German-American action-thriller film directed by Patrick Vollrath, in his directorial feature-length film debut, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Sherrill Cheda was an American born Canadian librarian, feminist writer and arts administrator. She worked in a number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada before serving as chief librarian at Seneca College. In addition to writing for Chatelaine, she co-founded and edited Emergency Librarian, a publication focused on feminist issues in librarianship, with Phyllis Yaffe. Following her position at Seneca, she worked at the Canadian Periodical Publishers Association and the Ontario Arts Council before taking a position with the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications.