Big Luciano, the king of the high seas and Modena's favorite son, was then laid to rest at the Montale Rangone cemetery near his villa outside of town, close to where his parents are buried.

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On Monday, the sports news was a flurry of week-long victories for Italians in winter sports and the fifth consecutive victory for favorite son, Giorgio Rocca.

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Throughout the trip, Benedict has paid tribute to his predecessor, Poland's favorite son, John Paul II, and his goal has been to exhort the inhabitants of Europe's most devoutly Catholic country to show the rest of the continent how to build a society based on Christian values.

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The biggest blow to its image: In September favorite son Roger Federer fumbled away his chances at a tennis grand slam.

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The most impressive mash-up may well be the title track, courtesy of Cameroon's favorite son, Manu Dibango, along with Le Grand Kalle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo.

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One night in 2003, over dinner at L'Ami Louis in Paris, one of Pinault's favorite restaurants, he told his son that the boss's office would be his the next day.

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I've covered caucuses where one party wasn't competing because they had a sitting incumbent president, or in 1992, none of the Democrats came here because Senator Tom Harkin who was a favorite son was running and everyone else decided not to compete.

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Louis's favorite son and its congressman since 1974, dropped out the race after his fourth-place finish in the January 19 Iowa caucuses.

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For car trips with Dax, he uses the Pandora app to create a customized children's music radio station that will play his son's favorite tunes.

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