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VA-111 Shkval is a very fast torpedo. Its speed far exceeds that of any standard torpedo currently fielded by NATO. This speed is a result of supercavitation: the torpedo is, in effect, flying in a gas bubble created by outward deflection of water by its specially shaped nose cone and the expansion of gases from its engine. By keeping water from coming into contact with the surface of the body of the torpedo, drag is significantly reduced, allowing extremely high speeds.
Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa built in the first quarter of the 4th century and located in Sicily. It has the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world.
Varya Akulova is a strong Ukrainian woman. She holds two Guinness records and is able to lift up to four times her own body weight.
Vank Cathedral is a cathedral in Iran. The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden.
Vilém Flusser was a media theorist and poetic philosopher.
The Vadoma are a tribe living in the west of Zimbabwe. A substantial majority of this tribe has a condition known as ectrodactyly in which the middle three toes are absent and the two outer ones are turned in, resulting in the tribe being known as the "two toed" or "ostrich footed" tribe.
Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto.
Villa Necchi provides an oasis of calm in the centre of Milan. Surrounded by a beautiful garden with swimming pool and tennis court, the villa is an unexpected find an otherwise hectic city.
The rocket war is an old custom of Vrondados, Greece that began since the time of the Turkish occupation and it still happens every year in the Easter. Firstly the residents of the two parishes, Panagia Erithiani and Saint Mark's, which are facing each other, made extempore little cannons. But all these by the time became extempore rockets, fireworks made from niter, sulphur and gun-powder.
Venetia Scott began her career at British Vogue, and went on to style shoots for numerous magazines including i-D, The Face, Italian Vogue, Self Service, Another Magazine and W.