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Vinci Wadia
Vinci may refer to: Places *Vinci, Tuscany, a ''comune'' in the Province of Florence, Italy *Vinci (Golubac), a community in Braničevo District, Serbia People * Alessandro Vinci (born 1987), Italian footballer *Alessio Vinci (born 1968), Italian journalist *Carlo Vinci (1906–1993), American animator *Charles Vinci (1933–2018), American weightlifter *Giovanni Vinci (born 1990), Italian professional wrestler *Leonardo Vinci (1690–1730), Italian composer *Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian polymath *Pietro Vinci (fl. 1525–1584), Italian composer *Roberta Vinci (born 1983), Italian tennis player *Sarah Vinci (born 1991), Australian wheelchair basketball player *Sonia Vinci (born 1971), Australian journalist *Vinci, stage name of Vincy Chan (born 1982), Hong Kong singer *Vinci Montaner (born 1976), Filipino singer Arts and entertainment * ''Vinci'' (board game), a French board game * ''Vinci'' (film), a 2004 Polish movie * ''Vinci'' (play), a 2002 play by Canadian playwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci, Tuscany
Vinci ( , ) is a city in the Italian region of Tuscany and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Florence. The birthplace of Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci lies just outside the town. Main sights * Museo Leonardiano, museum of Leonardo da Vinci. This museum has displays of some of the inventions that are drawn in Leonardo's notebooks. *Casa Natale di Leonardo, the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, situated approximately 3 km to the northeast of Vinci in the frazione of Anchiano. There are some reproductions of his drawings at the house. *Church of Santa Croce, built in the 13th century but later remade in neo-Renaissance style. Twin towns Vinci has two official sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International: * Allentown, USA * Amboise Amboise (; ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home of the French royal court. Geography Amboise lies on the banks of the river Loire, east of Tours. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincy Chan
Vincy Chan (born 16 October 1982) is a Hong Kong-Singaporean Cantopop singer. She began her singing career after winning 1st runner up at the 2005 New Talent Singing Awards and has since been signed with Emperor Entertainment Group. Her best known songs include "Feeling" (感應) and "My Memories are Not My Own" (我的回憶不是我的). Biography Born in Hong Kong, Chan immigrated with her family to Singapore in 1990. She attended Dunman High School in her teens and graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a degree in accounting in 2005. Upon graduating, Chan entered Project Superstar, a singing competition in Singapore and was placed among the top 24 contestants. More substantially, she returned to Hong Kong and won first runner-up and the award for "Best Style" at the 2005 New Talent Singing Awards which led to her being signed by Emperor Entertainment Group. Career Chan launched her solo career in 2006 with the debut single, "Feeling" (感應), for which she q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (rocket Engine)
Vinci is a European Space Agency Cryogenic rocket engine, cryogenic liquid-propellant rocket, liquid rocket engine currently under development. It is designed to power the new upper stage of Ariane 6. Overview Vinci is an expander cycle rocket engine fed with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. Its biggest improvement from its predecessor, the HM7B (which powers the ESC-A), is the capability of restarting up to five times. It is also the first European expander cycle engine, removing the need for a gas generator to drive the fuel and oxidizer pumps. The engine features a carbon ceramic expanding nozzle, extendable nozzle in order to have a large, 2.15 m diameter nozzle extension with minimum length: the retracted nozzle part is deployed only after the upper stage separates from the rest of the rocket; after extension, the engine's overall length increases from 2.3 m to 4.2 m. Development Although the ESC-B development was put on hold in 2003, the Vinci project was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci SA
Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Enterprises. Its head office is in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. Vinci is listed on Euronext's Paris stock exchange and is a member of the Euro Stoxx 50 index. History The company was founded by Alexandre Giros and Louis Loucheur as Société Générale d’Entreprises S.A. (SGE) in 1899. SGE was owned by Compagnie générale d'électricité (CGE), now Alcatel, from 1966 until 1981, when Saint-Gobain acquired a majority stake. Companies acquired by SGE include Sogea (a civil engineering firm founded in 1878), bought in 1986, Campenon Bernard (a civil engineering and development firm founded in 1920), bought in 1988, and Norwest Holst (a British civil engineering firm founded in 1969 by the merger of Holst & Co, established in 1918, and Norwest Construction, established in 1923), bought in 1991. In 1988, SGE was acquired by Compagnie génér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (automobile)
Vinci is a Portuguese-based project for a brand of cars (possibly owned by a development stage company called Retroconcept or Retrosport (both names are referred to in sources)). In 2007 the brand announced the first Portuguese sports car. Its design was inspired by the cars of the 60's and 70's. The car is equipped with the GM LS engine, the same as the Chevrolet Corvette. The rest of car was claimed to be a product of Portuguese engineering (serious doubts on this matter are expressed on the Portuguese Wikipedia page for the car, given that it appears to be a modified Corvette C5 instead of a newly build vehicle using the Corvette's engine), produced with the experience of working for other brands like UMM and Bravia (builder of the Chaimite series of armoured vehicles). The brand, Vinci, is also developing other models like Vinci Sport, Vinci TT (from the Portuguese "Todo-o-terreno" All Terrain) and Vinci Eco (a 'nature-friendly' car). The company wants to forget less suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benelli Vinci
The Benelli Vinci is a semi-automatic shotgun manufactured and sold by Benelli Armi SpA. It uses an inertia-driven system of operation, and contains recoil-reducing features. It also features a modular design consisting of the barrel/ receiver module (containing the operating system, free-floating barrel, and bolt), the trigger group/forearm module (containing the trigger assembly, safety, shell carrier and magazine), and the buttstock. The shotgun was named after Leonardo da Vinci. It is Benelli's first shotgun to feature an in-line inertia-driven operating system. It is intended primarily for hunting Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ..., however, on March 15, 2012, Benelli tested the Vinci to NATO standards AC/225 (LG/3-SG/1) 2.5 in which the Vinci passed every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (Rise Of Legends)
''Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends'' is a science fantasy real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, made by Big Huge Games, and published by Microsoft. It is a spin-off of the popular ''Rise of Nations'', released in May 2003. However, rather than being a historical game, it is based in a fantasy world, where technology and magic co-exist. It was released on May 9, 2006 in North America and on various dates around May 26, 2006 in the rest of the world. Gameplay ''Rise of Legends'' retains most of the features from ''Rise of Nations'', like city building, borders, attrition, assimilations, non-depletable resources and the Conquer The World (CTW) campaigns. However, ''Rise of Legends'' also introduces new features of its own, such as city districts, heroes, dominances, a more simplified economy (with only two resources) and neutral, siegeable units and buildings. The reality-based resource wood has been replaced by Timonium. Unlike its predecessor, which offered the playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (play)
Maureen Hunter (born 1948) in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. is a who lives on the Salish Sea at Sechelt, BC. Hunter was born in and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Throughout her professional career, she lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most of her plays were premiered by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Company. They have been performed in theatres across Canada, as well as in the U.S. an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (film)
''Vinci'' is a 2004 Polish comedy heist film written, directed, and produced by Juliusz Machulski. Plot Cuma (Robert Więckiewicz), an art thief, is commissioned to steal ''Lady with an Ermine'' by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been returned from Japan to the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków. Cuma asks his friend Julian (Borys Szyc), a former colleague, for help. Julian goes along with Cuma's plans for the theft, but meanwhile plots to switch the painting for a reproduction, so that the precious original will not be not lost. He consults old forger Hagen (Jan Machulski), who assigns the task of making a copy to the talented student Magda (Kamila Baar). Cast * Robert Więckiewicz as Robert "Cuma" Cumiński * Borys Szyc as Julian "Szerszeń" Wolniewicz * Mieczysław Grąbka as fence Mieczysław "Gruby" * Marcin Dorociński as police commissioner Łukasz Wilk * Kamilla Baar as Magda * Jacek Król as Werbus * Jan Machulski as Tadeusz Hagen Filming Principal photography began Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci (board Game)
''Vinci'' is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts. It resembles a diceless variant of ''Risk'' with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic, and is also similar in some ways to ''History of the World''. The game's name means "to be conquered" in Latin. In 2009, the game's mechanics were re-implemented with several changes and a fantasy-oriented theme as '' Small World'', also credited to Keyaerts, and published by Days of Wonder. Game play Each player begins the game by selecting one of several available civilizations. Each civilization is defined by two tokens, each offering a special ability or special scoring opportunity. Each token also provides the civilization with a number of playing " pawns", to which an extra number is added based on the number of players in the game. The player then makes use of these pawns to capture territory. This is done in a diceless manner: to capture a territory, a player must place a particular number of pawns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinci Montaner
Francis Vincent "Vinci" R. Montaner (born November 27, 1976) is a Filipino singer best known for his work with the band Parokya ni Edgar where he served as a backup vocalist and one of its founding members. He left Parokya ni Edgar in late 2012 after a near 20-year stint with the band but returned in late 2016. Early life and career Montaner was born to Francisco and Mila Montaner and has three siblings nicknamed Chicco, Dikki and Chachi. He finished his lower education levels at the Ateneo de Manila University, and took a college degree course in Public Advertising at the University of the Philippines Manila. He temporarily left the group in 2005 to finish his education but at the same time was able to contribute to their album ''Halina sa Parokya'' and appeared in some of the music videos. He later rejoined the band and appeared on their 2007 album ''Solid''. Montaner is also popularly known by the band's audience as the resident prankster of the group both in music videos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Vinci
Sonia Vinci (born 1971) is a former journalist and co-anchor of ''Nine News'' in Perth. She began a journalist in 1990 at Perth radio 6PR and later became Australia's youngest female news director. During her time at 6PR, Sonia also worked at Channel Seven Perth as a weekend journalist for Seven News, and also read sports news for Seven's Footy Show in 1994. She later worked for regional station GWN as a news anchor before returning to 6PR and the Channel 9 in 2000. She worked initially as a stand-by news anchor, but later became weeknight anchor, and with Dixie Marshall was part of Australia's first female duo news team from 2003–2007. In January 2008, Nine announced that Vinci would host a new Western Australian version of ''A Current Affair ''A Current Affair'' may refer to: * ''A Current Affair'' (Australian TV program), 1971–present Australian current affairs program that airs on Nine Network * ''A Current Affair'' (American TV program), a 1986–1998 American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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