• Felix Vaccaro, known as the Vaccaro brothers, were Italian-American businessmen originally from Sicily. The brothers were the sons of Stefano Vaccaro, a...
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    Kenneth Dwayne Vaccaro (born February 15, 1991) is an American former football safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and...
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    in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian Arberesh immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador...
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  • executive Tony Vaccaro (1922–2022), American photographer Tracy Vaccaro (born 1962), Playboy Playmate of the Month for October 1983 Vaccaro brothers, Italian-American...
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  • Vincent "Sonny" Vaccaro (born September 23, 1939) is an American former sports marketing executive. He lives in Santa Monica, California. Vaccaro is best known...
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    called “Vaccaro Brothers and Company.” The organization was started by three American brothers of Sicilian heritage- Joseph, Felix, and Lucca Vaccaro- and...
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  • House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018). Vaccaro was born in 2005/2006. He has an older sister and a younger brother. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. In first...
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    Steamship Company, was established in 1906 by the Vaccaro brothers and Salvador D'Antoni as Vaccaro Brothers and Company. However, the quartet had been making...
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    Papa Assunto) Nick LaRocca Carlos Marcello Louis Prima Vaccaro brothers (including Joseph Vaccaro), who established Standard Fruit Robert Maestri Cosimo...
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    companies that concluded an agreement with the Honduras government was the Vaccaro Brothers Company (Standard Fruit Company). The Cuyamel Fruit Company then followed...
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    2014. S. Swiggum and M. Kohli (August 28, 2013). "Standard Fruit Co / Vaccaro Brothers". TheShipList. Retrieved 15 September 2014. Naval History and Heritage...
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    railroad concession from liberal President Miguel R. Dávila in 1910, the Vaccaro brothers and Company helped set the foundation on which the banana republic...
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  • Henry V. Vaccaro is an American businessman and author. His primary business was the Henry V. Vaccaro Corporation, located in Neptune, NJ. The construction...
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    particularly United Fruit after it absorbed Cuyamel in 1930. In 1899, Vaccaro Brothers and Company (later known as Standard Fruit), a New Orleans-based fruit...
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    passenger ship of 5,512 GRT built by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow for Vaccaro Brothers & Company launched 18 February 1930. The ship, along with sister ship...
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  • The Dassler brothers feud was a conflict between two brothers and their respective shoe manufacturers, Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf ("Rudi") Dassler, in the...
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    with anti-labour violence. In 1924, despite the UFC monopoly, the Vaccaro brothers established the Standard Fruit Company (later the Dole Food Company)...
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    Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro (December 20, 1922 – December 28, 2022) was an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in...
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  • playwright had a friend named Marion Black Vaccaro and that the playwright "likely" was aware of how the Vaccaro brothers created their fruit business via said...
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    companies began taking the crop to the United States. In 1889 the Vaccaro brothers of New Orleans, founders of what would become the Standard Fruit and...
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    the attention of big North American banana companies, such as the Vaccaro Brothers' Standard Fruit Company from New Orleans. This new economic activity...
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  • Stemberg George W. Stockwell Thomas Szewczykowski Vivien Twidwell Vaccaro brothers Charles Von der Ahe Wilfred Von der Ahe Cas Walker George Butler Wason...
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  • of Lungro. Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist Vaccaro brothers – Italian-American businessmen Andrew Kaczynski – Journalist and editor...
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  • investigation was stalled. Starting in the 20th century, The Vaccaro Brothers Company, or "Los Hermanos Vaccaro", was a family of Italian origin who traded bananas...
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    occupying forces subsequently became major buyers of the Dassler brothers' shoes. The brothers split up in 1947 after relations between them had broken down...
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  • Fun network and hosted by brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy. Regular episodes of the podcast feature the brothers comedically providing answers...
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    for the Southern Banana Co. By 1925, the trio was all part of the Vaccaro brothers’ upstart New Orleans-based Standard Fruit & S S Co (now part of Dole)...
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    there is a canvas depicting the Souls in Purgatory (1857) by the Vaccaro brothers. The frescoes of the apse and cupola (1887) were painted by C. La Leta...
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  • especially bananas, to the U. S. market, and entrepreneurs like the Vaccaro Brothers of New Orleans and Lorenzo Dow Baker of Boston hoped to capitalize...
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  • development firm specializing in commercial and residential real estate Vaccaro brothers, founders of Standard Fruit Company Donald Valle(1908–1977), founder...
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