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Moneta

American  
[moh-nay-tuh, maw-ne-tah] / moʊˈneɪ tə, mɔˈnɛ tɑ /

noun

  1. Ernesto Teodoro 1833–1918, Italian journalist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.

  2. (in Roman religion) an epithet of Juno.


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He’s also president of Moneta Gardens Improvement, a nonprofit that supports low-income families in Hawthorne, and founded the South Bay Universal Child Development Center preschool, known as the Castle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

The first iterations of the French press—sans seal—were invented in 1852, but a version similar to the one we use today was patented in the United States in 1929 by Attilio Calimani and Giulio Moneta.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

The prize has gone to journalists before: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta of Italy, for example, won in 1907 for promoting pacifism; Carl von Ossietzky of Germany won in 1936 for discovering Nazi rearmament.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021

Maher is now five points clear of Renwick in the leading rider race, while Bost and Italian Luca Maria Moneta have also moved above Brash, who has dropped to fifth.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2012

By the wealth of a people Galiani, Della Moneta II, c.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

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