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Vespa was the editor-at-large of the LIFE.com from March 2009 to February 2012. On October 2, 2012, Vespa launched Verge, [2] a web magazine dedicated to discovering new talent. Vespa's first coffee table book, The Art of Discovery, (Rizzoli) was released in October 2014. It is a book of 100 portraits of celebrities along with quotes about an ...
The term scooty has become the generic term for scooter in India [1]. A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, a seat, a transmission that shifts without the operator having to operate a clutch lever, a platform for their feet, and with a method of operation that emphasizes comfort and fuel economy.
Mario Matic (born 23 July 1994) is a Norwegian handball player for AEK H.C. [1] and the Norwegian national team. [ 2 ] On 17 December 2024, he was selected to represent Norway at the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship .
Vespa (Italian pronunciation:) is an Italian brand of scooters and mopeds manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian. The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy, to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio. [1]
The Vespa 400 is a rear-engined microcar, produced by ACMA in Fourchambault, France, from 1957 until 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company. Three different versions were sold, the "Luxe" , "Tourisme" and "GT".
Vespa was born in the town of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, as the youngest of five children of Alessandro Vespa, a civil servant and Ginevra Concetta de Chellis, a teacher. [1] [2] Little is known of his early life, aside from what he subsequently wrote in his autobiography, in which he claims to have been born in 1888 to a poor farmer's family, left the Italian countryside in 1910 to fight in the ...
Vespa ducalis var. soror du Buysson, 1905 Vespa mandarina [sic] soror van der Vecht, 1957 Vespa soror , also known as the southern giant hornet , [ 1 ] is a species of hornet present in India , Northern Thailand , Laos , Northern Vietnam , and parts of South China , including Hong Kong , Guangdong , Fujian , and Hainan Island .
The M6 Presto-Matic was a Chrysler Corporation semi-automatic transmission produced from 1946 to 1953. It was a special manual transmission with a fluid coupling . Although it had just two forward gears, an electric overdrive unit was attached and useful in either gear for a total of four forward speeds.