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Fortuna

Fortuna \Fortuna\ prop. n. the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche.

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Fortuna, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 10497
Housing Units (2000): 4414
Land area (2000): 4.815261 sq. miles (12.471469 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000055 sq. miles (0.000142 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.815316 sq. miles (12.471611 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25296
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.586742 N, 124.146101 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 95540
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Fortuna, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 31
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 1.000151 sq. miles (2.590378 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012674 sq. miles (0.032826 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.012825 sq. miles (2.623204 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27820
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.911016 N, 103.774263 W
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Fortuna (disambiguation)

Fortuna is the Roman goddess of luck.

Fortuna (Latin for "fortune") can also mean:

Fortuna

Fortuna (, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and personification of luck in Roman religion. She might bring good or bad luck: she could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of Justice, and came to represent life's capriciousness. She was also a goddess of fate: as Atrox Fortuna, she claimed the young lives of the princeps Augustus' grandsons Gaius and Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire.

Her father was said to be Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful (Copia). As Annonaria she protected grain supplies. June 11 was sacred to her: on June 24 she was given cult at the festival of Fors Fortuna.

Fortuna (PRNG)

Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance.

Fortuna (Brazilian singer)

Fortuna is a Brazilian female singer-songwriter of Sephardic Jewish background, and a researcher of the Sephardic tradition since 1992.

Fortuna, whose stage name is Fortunee Safdié Joyce (born in São Paulo, Brazil, c. 1958), is a Brazilian singer and composer of Jewish origin. She has been studying the Sephardic repertoire since 1992. Fortuna has recorded seven CDs and one DVD since then. She has worked on a number of occasions with the Choir of the Monastery of the Monks of St Benedict in São Paulo, and with the Guri Choir, composed of children and adolescents in the city.

Fortuna sings mainly in Hebrew and Ladino, a language used by Sephardi Jews who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula until the fifteenth century, at which time they were expelled by the Catholic Monarchs and scattered through several countries of the Mediterranean basin.

Fortuna (cigarette)

Fortuna is a brand of cigarettes owned by Franco- Spanish company Altadis, and hence a sub-section of British tobacco group Imperial Tobacco. Fortuna contains a blend of American tobacco made mainly from Virginia-type tobacco. Fortuna was first introduced in Spain in 1974 by Tabacalera, a Spanish tobacco conglomerate which is now half of the Altadis corporation.

In 2004, the brand was introduced in Morocco, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Austria, Panama and Finland, in 2007 in Brazil, and in 2008 in the United States. Fortuna cigarettes are manufactured in the United States by Commonwealth Brands in Reidsville, North Carolina.

As of 2006 the brand remains the market leader in Spain.

Fortuna (film)

Fortuna aka Seduced in Sodom aka The Girl from the Dead Sea a 1966 film directed by Menahem Golan. It was released in the United States in 1969 in a dubbed version.

Fortuna (telenovela)

Fortuna is a Mexican Spanish language telenovela produced by Argos Television for Cadena Tres. It stars Andrés Palacios and Lisette Morelos.

Fortuna (company)

Fortuna is a drink beverage company in Poland owned by and part of the Agros Nova. The company was founded in 1987 with the carrot-flavoured Karotka drink in a carton. The company's slogan is "Full of Life". In 2003, the company was bought by the Agros Nova firm; the firm expanded the company's different products, bringing more customers to its products.

Fortuna (Delft)

Fortuna (Korfbalvereniging Fortuna) is a Dutch korfball club located in Delft, Netherlands. The club was founded on 3 February 1957 and they play their home games in the Fortuna-Hal. The team plays in white/red vertically striped shirts and black shorts / skirts.

Fortuna (surname)

Fortuna is the surname of:

  • Brian Fortuna (born 1982), American professional ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor
  • Diana Fortuna (born 1956), American businesswoman
  • Diego Fortuna (born 1968), Italian retired discus thrower
  • Hoji Fortuna (born 1974), Angolan actor
  • Javier Fortuna (born 1990), Dominican professional boxer, WBA Super Featherweight champion
  • Jeric Fortuna (born 1991), Philippine Basketball Association player
  • Józef Fortuna (born 1952), Polish politician
  • Loris Fortuna (1924–1985), Italian left-wing politician
  • Maciej Fortuna, Polish trumpet player, composer and musical educator
  • Manuel Fortuna (born 1985), Dominican basketball player
  • Mario Fortuna (1911–1968), Argentine actor
  • Núrio Fortuna (born 1995), Portuguese footballer
  • Stan Fortuna (born 1957), Catholic priest notable for his evangelical musical contributions
  • Wallace Fortuna dos Santos (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
  • Wojciech Fortuna (born 1952), Polish ski jumper and Olympic champion

Usage examples of "fortuna".

Quando prosperus et jucundus, Amicorum es fecundus, Si fortuna perit, Nullus amicus erit.

When Fanum Fortunae appeared and the gigs turned onto the Via Flaminia for the crossing of the Apennines and the descent into the Tiber Valley, Caepio knew he had won.

Luego regresó a Arabia, juntó sus capitanes y sus alcaides y estragó los reinos de Babilonia con tan venturosa fortuna que derribó sus castillos, rompió sus gentes e hizo cautivo al mismo rey.

Abbia chi regge il ciel cura del resto, O la fortuna se non tocca a lui.

Una mujer hors concours, mi querido amigo: belleza física, fortuna, linaje, figuración: espíritu moderno en vaso de Murano.

Tired and still more vexed, I sat down, and for the next hour I told the history of Roger, when Angelica disappears through the power of the magic ring which the loving knight had so imprudently given her: 'Cosi dicendo, intorno a la fortuna Brancolando n'andava come cieco.

I was still more surprised, and took the liberty of asking her name, and found her to be the famous "Shepherdess," Maria Fortuna, of the Academy of Arcadians.

Camoena, who teaches to sing: let him be both the god Consus for granting counsel, and the goddess Sentia for inspiring sentences: let him be the goddess Juventas, who, after the robe of boyhood is laid aside, takes charge of the beginning of the youthful age: let him be Fortuna barbata, who endues adults with a beard, whom they have not chosen to honor.

Potrete dunque immaginare che, avendo ormai vissuto per quattro anni in Brasile, e avendo ormai cominciato a far fortuna coltivando la mia piantagione, non soltanto avevo imparato la lingua, ma stabilito una rete di amicizie e conoscenze tra gli altri coltivatori e i commercianti di San Salvatore, che era il nostro porto e che, conversando insieme a costoro, avevo spesso raccontato dei miei due viaggi lungo le coste della Guinea, del modo di commerciare coi negri di quel paese e di come fosse facile comperarvi, in cambio di perline, giocattoli, accette, coltelli, forbici, pezzi di vetro e altre inezie del genere, non solo polvere d'oro, spezie e denti di elefante, ma anche innumerevoli schiavi negri di cui c'era in Brasile grande necessità.

Ma se Abernethy stava cercando di infiam­mare l'animo di Grillo con qualche trovata da film di se­conda categoria non ebbe fortuna.

Ergone multitude civitates suas fame, ferro, & flamma vastari, seque, conjuges, & liberos fortunae ludibrio & tyranni libidini exponi, inque omnia vitae pericula omnesque miserias & molestias a rege deduci patientur?

El favor de los astros (la infinita y ubicua red de causas) le había dado la fortuna, que anula las distancias como el tapiz del árabe, y confunde deseo y posesión, y el don del verso, que transforma las penas verdaderas en una música, un rumor y un símbolo, y el fervor, y en la sangre la batalla de Ituzaingó y el peso de laureles, y el goce de perderse en el errante río del tiempo (río y laberinto) y en los lentos colores de las tardes.

Allora per favore fa' un atterraggio di fortuna alla prima rivendita di liquori che vedi passata Oakland».

Citizens who were distinguished by outstanding good or bad luck had a Fortuna.

The huge Cloaca Maxima poured its filth into the river just a little ways upstream, between the Pons Sublicius and the Pons Aemilius farther upriver, just visible past the little round Temple of Hercules (the one all his childhood textbooks had called the Temple of Vesta) and the squarish Temple of Fortuna Virilis.