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Vetter Mystery Ship

The Mystery Ship was a limited edition motorcycle created by Craig Vetter and released in 1980. Only 10 were built, of which seven were sold. It was based on a Kawasaki KZ1000 motor and modified chassis, with aftermarket magnesium racing wheels, Yoshimura exhaust, and custom Vetter-designed fairing. Frame modifications took two days labor per vehicle. The Mystery Ship influenced the fully faired look of modern sport bikes. Honda's technological tour de force 1981 CX500 Turbo was the bike that followed most closely in its wake. Not far behind were the turbo bikes of Yamaha, Suzuki, and Kawasaki--all of which were attempts to merge style and rider protection with performance. And this trend, when crossed with the full-fairing style of GP bikes, gave us the look of today's sport bikes.

Villa Crespi

Villa Crespi is notable for its scenic tall minaret-like tower. The interior atrium has a dazzling degree of stucco arabesque decoration.

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins is an acclaimed Latvian-American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks.

Voisin III

The Voisin III was a French two-seat bomber and ground attack aircraft of World War I, among the earliest of its kind. It is also notable for being the first aircraft in the war to win an aerial fight and shoot down an enemy aircraft.

Vile

Vile, mail art magazine from the 60s - 70s.

Violets are Blue

Violets are Blue is a movie with Sissy Spacek. After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry, now married and running the local newspaper he's inherited from his father. An awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.

Belmond Villa San Michele

Belmond Villa San Michele, a former monastery, now a hotel, is nestled on a hilltop surrounded by trees and terraced gardens, overlooking the city of Florence below. Dating from the 15th century its facade is attributed to Michelangelo.

Varosha

Varosha is a quarter in the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, it was the modern tourist area of Famagusta. Its inhabitants fled during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and has remained abandoned ever since.

Valley of Flowers National Park

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, Nestled high in West Himalaya, is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, brown bear and blue sheep.

Viaggio a Tulum

In 1966, after a terrifying nightmare, the Italian maestro decided to abandon the making of a film called The Journey of G. Mastorna. Years later, the script was published in Italian newspapers with some illustrations by none other than Milo Manara, whose "Untitled" was a tribute to Fellini and which uncle Federico had liked. The subsequent collaboration on "Trip To Tulum" is a gorgeous blending of Fellini's dream vision and some of the finest illustrations ever put to paper by Manara.

Opus

Encyclopædia of the sublime

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