Built around 1300, the Florence estate was once owned by the family of Francesco del Giocondo, who commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his wife, Lisa Gherardini—the Mona Lisa. In ...
SFGate: NEWSMAKER PROFILE: Mona Lisa Yuchengco / Champion of Filipino culture / Immigrant publishes magazine that promotes ethnic pride
When Mona Lisa Yuchengco came to the Bay Area in 1982 to take a job with an export company, she was dismayed to find that many Americans held unfavorable attitudes toward Filipino immigrants like ...
NEWSMAKER PROFILE: Mona Lisa Yuchengco / Champion of Filipino culture / Immigrant publishes magazine that promotes ethnic pride
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. Nació en Florencia, Italia, en 1452 y falleció en 1519. Fue a la vez pintor, anatomista, arquitecto, paleontólogo, botánico, escritor, escultor, filósofo, ingeniero, in ...
The Ford Pinto arrived in 1970 as America’s answer to the foreign small car — a homegrown subcompact built for a country suddenly very interested in saving money at the pump. It sold by the millions. It also became one of the most cautionary tales in automotive history. Both things are true, and the story of how they coexist says a lot about the era that produced it. Lee Iacocca, then Ford ...
Ford Pinto: The bestselling sub-compact economy car from the 70s & 80s (and its fatal flaw) Check out the classic Ford Pinto, a coupe hatchback auto that was super popular, that Ford said proved a small economy car didn’t have to be ugly. (They didn’t have to explode, either, and we cover that, too.)
See the 1977 Ford cars: New action-stripe Pintos, sassy sweet-handling Mustang IIs, tricked up trucks and fancy vans. Thunderbirds and LTD IIs in new spring colors. Even a sportier Granada.