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The Defender OCTA is the high-performance variant of the Defender, poised above the Defender V8 as the most capable, most luxurious and fastest model. [25] Firstly, the 4.4L BMW V8 engine , producing 635 PS and up to 750 Nm of torque, is sourced from BMW and also available in the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models. [ 26 ]
Michelin sued the performance artist Momus in 1991 for releasing a song about the trademarked Michelin Man. [20] [21] The song, simply titled "Michelin Man", was released the same year as the third track on his album Hippopotamomus (which also had a hippopotamus-headed version of the Michelin Man on its cover) used the mascot as a metaphor for ...
The first Michelin Guide, published in 1900 The 1911 Michelin Guide for the British Isles. In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars and, accordingly, car tyres, car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, named Guide Michelin (Michelin Guide). [2]
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Full scan of the January 2009 issue of State Magazine, published by the United States Department of State. A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content.
This article contains a complete list of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States. Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The guide was originally developed in 1900 to show French drivers where local amenities such as restaurants and mechanics were.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.