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• Istanbul Racing Circuit
  ...At each end of the paddock, there are two 7-story [[Very Important Person (person)|VIP]] towers.
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• Lancia Musa
  The Musa's front and rear end styling is visually very similar to that of the technically related [[Lancia Ypsilon]], with which i ...door for mp3 files), new body colours and equipment and a [[Very Important Person|VIP]] treatment.
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• Sport touring
  ...ades from simply strapping a bag to the back of any sporty motorcycle to a very specified genre of motorcycle riding for which specific models of motorcycl However, the class has become important and competitive enough that many manufactures now offer purpose-built engin
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• Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
  ...video section. NOCS also expanded its training in [[Very Important Person (person)|VIP]] protection and driving, augmented by training with the well-establis
  6 KB (850 words) - 09:33, 7 October 2009
• Aerodynamics
  ...[Aristotle]], [[Avicenna]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Galileo Galilei]], very little effort was made to develop governing laws for understanding the natu [[Isaac Newton|Sir Isaac Newton]] was the first person to develop a theory of air resistance, making him one of the first aerodyna
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• Bus
  ...s, squeezing them together knee-to-knee (''illustration, left''). Only the very poor remained excluded. A new division in urban society now came to the for ...ntractor, John Stephenson. The streetcars would become even more centrally important than the omnibus in the future of urbanization.
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• Michael Jekot
  '''Michael Jekot''' recalls encountering a sports car for the very first time in 1957. It was a rainy evening and the car was a dark colored P ...irst 356 wood bucks, which were used to form the bodywork, was a much more important element than a finished car. After all, Komenda was instrumental in its des
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• Supercharger
  ...n applications where engine response and [[power (physics)|power]] is more important than any other consideration, such as [[Top Fuel|top-fuel dragsters]] and v ...imler]] (of [[Daimler-Benz]] / [[Daimler-Chrysler]] fame) became the first person to patent a forced-induction system for internal combustion engines. His fi
  15 KB (2,335 words) - 22:54, 14 June 2009
• Fiat Topolino
  ...red in many countries, because, most of the time, customs duties extremely important then in force in all these countries: Dante Giacosa, engineer very pragmatic, will prove to be really the ideal person to invent a new concept at the right time: it was the [[Fiat 600]], then, s
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• Bicycle gearing
  ...ed, when changing gears, the relative difference between two gears is more important than the absolute difference between gears. This relative change, from a lo ...ears have a difference of around 15%. Differences of 25% or more require a very substantial change in [[Cadence (cycling)|cadence]] and often feel excessiv
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• Road bicycle racing
  ...(some events include [[team time trial]]s). The stage winner is the first person to cross the finish line that day or the time trial rider (or team) with th ...nter|sprinter]]. Teamwork between riders (both pre-arranged and ad-hoc) is important in many aspects: to prevent a break from getting away, helping riders in a
  15 KB (2,357 words) - 10:33, 27 September 2009
• Car safety
  ...ally cause more damage to a child than if the feature was not there. It is important to review with others, who may be supervising the child, the rules for car ...handling. Soft high [[histeresis]] [[rubber]], tread and cord design are important.
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• Passive safety
  ...ally cause more damage to a child than if the feature was not there. It is important to review with others, who may be supervising the child, the rules for car ...handling. Soft high [[histeresis]] [[rubber]], tread and cord design are important.
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• Tractor
  ...team tractor]]s. These were built around [[steam engine]]s, which were not very safe and could explode or entangle their operators in the belt driven attac The classic farm tractor is a simple open vehicle with two very large driving wheels on an axle below and slightly behind a single seat (th
  17 KB (2,725 words) - 00:24, 23 June 2009
• Electric vehicle conversion
  For a person interested in sports car performance and appearance, the creation of a sati ...mportant as performance this company offers DIY options and turnkey cars. Very aerodynamic and space for battery options. Retro European styling from the
  15 KB (2,335 words) - 09:11, 7 October 2009
• Castagna
  ...e double phaeton in which the Queen personally competes in one of the most important races of the time: the Susa-Moncenisio. Castagna, with his own motorised creations, is present at one of the most important international trade fairs, and the old facility situated in via della [[Chi
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• The Spy Who Loved Me
  ...ly gave permission for the title to be used. Consequently the film tells a very different story, and was subsequently novelised by [[Christopher Wood (writ ...n Fleming, in that the novel is told in the [[First-person narrative|first-person]] by a young woman named Vivienne Michel. James Bond actually doesn't appea
  24 KB (3,855 words) - 23:55, 11 September 2009
• Roman cuisine
  ...rovinces. In the beginning the differences between social classes were not very great, but the disparity grew as the empire grew. ...larger and more sophisticated meals. Nutritional value was not regarded as important: on the contrary, the [[gourmet]]s preferred food with low [[food energy]]
  18 KB (2,908 words) - 23:41, 11 September 2009
• Ermini
  ...ences and establish interpersonal relationships that in the future will be important. One of the most important person who he met was the engineer Alberto Massimino, they collaborate together in
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• Auto rickshaw
  ...e traditional [[rickshaw]], a small two- or three-wheeled cart pulled by a person, and the [[velotaxi]]. The auto rickshaw is also related to its [[Thailand| ...atic improvement in the quality of air with the switch to CNG, and this is important for a city where it is not uncommon to see pedestrians and drivers wearing
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