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• Motobi
  [[Giuseppe Benelli]] passed away in 1957 at the age of 78, leaving his sons, Marco and Luigi, to grapple with the task of keep ...r all, I still had all the jigs and patterns from when I built them in the old days, so restarting production didn't entail much preparation."He also has
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  .... He got a recommendation for a job at [[Bela Egger]] in [[Vienna]] at the age of 18. After work, he sneaked into university classes; he never received an ...bombings of Stuttgart. The company started building the Porsche 356 in the old saw mill in Gmünd and 49 were built, entirely by hand.
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• Ferrari 212
  ...i. Amazingly, Markowski had purchased the first 340 America, at the tender age of fifteen. ...p on the same 340 America which Markowski would purchase as a fifteen year old enthusiast. In rapid succession, Marzotto had Fontana put a shooting brake
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• Ferrari 250 GTO
  ...he last front-engined cars to be truly competitive at such a level. In the age before vintage racing, the 250GTO faced the same fate as any other racing c ...sirability. There was also something of a paradigm shift; instead of being old but lovable racing cars, well-heeled collectors ([[Ralph Lauren]] among the
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• Casey Stoner
  Stoner's family moved him to [[England]] at a young age to further his racing career outside of Australia. He contested the nationa ...s forced to miss much of the latter half of the pre-season testing when an old dirt bike shoulder injury flared up. However, after surgery he was cleared
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• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...One]] racing driver. An enthusiast of cars and fast driving from an early age, he started his professional career in [[snowmobile]] racing in his native ...27 years old and took two years off his age to avoid being considered too old to make it at the highest level of motorsports.
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• Automobile racing
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
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• Automobile safety
  ...ally at risk. In the workplace, 45% of all fatal injuries to workers under age 18 between 1992 and 2000 in the United States resulted from transportation ...ls and jurisdictions recommend or require that children under a particular age, height, and/or weight ride in a [[child seat]] and/or in the back seat, as
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• Motor racing
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
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• Luciano Pavarotti
  ...iovanni Martinelli]], [[Tito Schipa]] and [[Enrico Caruso]]. At around the age of nine he began singing with his father in a small local church choir. Als ...y, the agreement being that Pavarotti would have free room and board until age 30, after which time, if he had not succeeded, he would earn a living by an
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• Capriolo
  ...other changes. At this time Aero Caproni decided also to take part at the age sport races for to give promotional support at commercial bike. Born a spec ...ctober the engineer Giovanni Caproni disappear at the age of only 71 years old and the Aero Caproni, given to Trentino region, has a societary reorganizat
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• Castagna
  ...the era. The motorcar becomes the unquestionable symbol of the industrial age that characterised the end of the 19th Century. ...is present at one of the most important international trade fairs, and the old facility situated in via della [[Chiusa]] is totally refurbished in line wi
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• Phil Hill
  ...g as a mechanic on other drivers' cars. Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to [[England]] as a [[Jaguar (car)|Jaguar]] trainee in 1949 and sign ...d retrospective articles on historic cars and races. He shared his "grand old man" status at R&T with '60s racing rival [[Paul Frère]], who also died in
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• Tazio Nuvolari
  ...olari started out in [[Motorcycle sport|motorcycle racing]] in 1920 at the age of 27. In 1925 he captured the [[List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing Europ Nuvolari gained his license for motorcycle racing in 1915 at the age of 23. His motorcycling career was postponed, however, by the outbreak of [
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• Race car
  ...Raceway.JPG|thumb|250px|right|One of the most famous NASCAR tracks was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]].]] ...Prix took up the sport at around the age of eight, with some testing from age three. Several former motorcycle champions have also taken up the sport, no
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• Ancient Rome
  ...rs usually began seeking husbands for their daughters when they reached an age between twelve and fourteen. The husband was almost always older than the b ...ut [[Greek language|Greek]] and Roman literature and grammar in school. At age 16, some students went on to [[rhetoric]] school. Poorer people did not go
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• History of Naples
  ...e [[Greek language]]). The original Parthenope came to be called, simply, "old city"--''Palaepolis''. The two separate cities grew into a single unit in t ...name; he paved other roads, strengthened and expanded the walls, restored old buildings, and erected new buildings and fortresses, essentially turning th
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• Octopussy
  ...e, as he was 55 years old at the time of filming, and many felt he was too old to play James Bond. He originally announced that he would retire, but retu
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• Motorcycle speedway
  ...al Championship'' This competition is for Swedish riders under 21 years of age. 36 riders are drawn into two Semi-Finals, with the four lowest-ranked ride ...ding a Danish passport, a valid DMU licence, and who are under 21 years of age on [[1 January]] in the year of the competition. Riders wishing to compete
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• Cinema of Italy
  ...ty, with a heavy dose of formal [[morality]] reflecting the culture of the age; the genre was called of ''Telefoni Bianchi'' (white telephones), by the co ...The sad, bitter '''[[Umberto D.]]''' ([[1952]]), the touching story of an old poor man with his little dog, that life forces to beg for alms against his
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