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• Cesare Sala
  ...ustrian personalities aristocrats. But in the very early years of the 20th century, with increasing success designing bodies, the company began to devote its
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• Board track racing
  ...boards. The genre was popular in the [[United States]] in the early [[20th century]].
  2 KB (338 words) - 09:41, 8 October 2009
• Flying boat
  ...ff, with many of the roles taken over by other aircraft types. In the 21st century, flying boats maintain a few niche uses, such as for dropping water on fore
  5 KB (804 words) - 10:25, 14 June 2009
• Bodywork
  ...-framed motor vehicles remained in production until the middle of the 20th century, for example the [[MG A]] which continued in production until 1962.
  2 KB (319 words) - 15:11, 25 September 2009
• Superleggera
  ...mobile]] construction technology used in Italy from the middle of the 20th century. The name means "super light" in [[Italian language|Italian]], and was pate
  2 KB (281 words) - 10:27, 25 February 2010
• Portofino
  In the early [[20th century]], first [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]],
  3 KB (436 words) - 15:03, 11 February 2009
• Michelotti
  ...was one of the most prolific [[designers]] of [[sports car]]s in the 20th century. He was also responsible for a number of saloon cars and truck cabs.
  4 KB (530 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2009
• Dashboard
  When car radios became available, they were mounted on or underneath mid-20th-century car dashboards.
  3 KB (389 words) - 10:43, 8 October 2009
• Atala
  ...i Ganna winning the Tour of Italy in 1909. Since the beginning of the 20th century, they supported a team of [[cycling]], by participating in the first editio
  3 KB (393 words) - 21:49, 12 December 2016
• Fongri motorcycle
  ...] from [[Tourin]], and studied and designed from the beginning of the 20th century. Founded in 1910, together with a shareholder partner, a company to build m
  3 KB (407 words) - 19:52, 20 December 2010
• Brake (railway)
  ...teepened, and speeds increased, braking became a problem. In the late 19th century, significantly better '''continuous brakes''' started to appear, either ''' In the early part of the 20th century, many British railways employed [[vacuum brake]]s rather than the [[Air bra
  4 KB (667 words) - 09:40, 8 October 2009
• Exotic car
  During the late 20th century, the term Supercar was used to describe "a very expensive, fast or powerful
  2 KB (384 words) - 23:11, 21 November 2009
• Tropea
  The diocese had in the early 20th century 72 parishes, with 78,000 inhabitants, a [[Franciscan]] house, and a house o
  4 KB (520 words) - 12:51, 10 March 2009
• Lipari
  ...y Keller). The last recorded eruptions occurred in the [[5th century|fifth century]] CE when the airborne [[pumice]] covered Roman villages on the island. The ...ontinuous occupation may have been interrupted violently when the late 9th century [[Ausoni|Ausonian]] civilisation site was burned and apparently not rebuilt
  7 KB (1,059 words) - 10:39, 2 October 2009
• Cinque Terre
  ...guria]] region of [[Italy]]. "Discovered" by foreigners in the late [[20th century]] they have come to be among the most touristed areas of Italy. The coastli
  5 KB (709 words) - 07:48, 18 August 2009
• Touring car
  A '''touring car''' was a popular [[car body style]] in the early 20th century, being a larger alternative to the [[runabout (car)|runabout]] and the [[ro
  3 KB (439 words) - 08:18, 8 October 2009
• Favignana
  ...di Islands were hired out to [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchants and in the [[15th century]] the islands were granted to one Giovanni de Karissima, who adopted the gr ...ere first exploited systematically under the Spanish from about the [[17th century]] onwards. Facing severe financial problems from their ongoing wars, the Sp
  6 KB (863 words) - 16:59, 20 November 2009
• Apulia
  ...area for the ancient [[ancient Rome|Romans]], who conquered it in the 4th century BC but also suffered a crushing defeat here in the [[battle of Cannae]] aga ...ently, but Apulia was mostly under firm Byzantine authority until the 11th century, when the [[Italo-Normans|Normans]] conquered it with relative ease.
  9 KB (1,338 words) - 08:11, 8 October 2009
• Regenerative brake
  ...kes have been used in vehicles with electric motors since the early-[[20th century]]. On record, The Warner Electric Brake Corporation was using electric bra
  5 KB (759 words) - 13:01, 18 September 2009
• Culture
  ...w]] by the [[constitution]]. Before the arrival of Christianity in the 1st century A.D. the country was mostly pagan and worshiped the [[Roman Gods]]. Eventua ...s of works by [[Menander]]. During the 16th century and on into the [[18th century]] [[Commedia dell'arte]] was a form of [[improvisational theatre]] , altho
  11 KB (1,610 words) - 08:51, 15 June 2009

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