Description: Founded by Ernesto Ancillotti in 1907, the firm built motor carriages for public transportation. In 1938 Ernesto's son Gualtiero opened a workshop in a very fashionable neighbourhood of Florence at via Santa Monaca, San Frediano, having apprenticed at a nearby Harley Davidson dealership. Gualtiero Ancillotti had been involved in motorcycling for many years, and was a successful sidecar racer. After the war he became well known for his modifications to army surplus WLA Harleys, adding rear suspension. In 1948 rear suspension was quite rare, so one may imagine the intense interest which such a machine generated.
Description: The Los Angeles Aztecs were an American professional soccer team based in Los Angeles, California that existed from 1974 to 1981. The Aztecs competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1974 to 1981 as well as the 1975 NASL Indoor tournament, the 1979–80 and 1980–81 NASL Indoor seasons, and won the NASL Championship in 1974. During their eight years of existence, the Aztecs played at four different venues and were controlled by four different ownership groups, European soccer legends George Best and Johan Cruyff played for the team, and from 1975 to 1977
Description: Laika (1954 – 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who was one of the first animals in space and the first to orbit the Earth. A stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, she flew aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. As the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died of overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit.
Description: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.
