Der Horch P 240 „Sachsenring“ war ein repräsentativer Oberklasse-Pkw mit Sechszylindermotor, der vom VEB Horch Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorenwerke Zwickau von 1956 bis 1959 hergestellt wurde. Das Fahrzeug wurde zunächst als Horch P 240 vorgestellt und trug dann die Bezeichnung Horch P 240 „Sachsenring“.Nach Umfirmierung in die VEB Sachsenring Kraftfahrzeug- und …

The 240 mm howitzer M1, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", was a towed howitzer used by the United States Army.The 240 mm M1 was designed to replace the World War I era 240 mm howitzer M1918, which was based on a 1911 French design and was outdated by World War II.. The project to replace the M1918 began in 1941. The 240 mm howitzer was the most powerful …

A precise date is specified by the ISO week-numbering year in the format YYYY, a week number in the format ww prefixed by the letter 'W', and the weekday number, a digit d from 1 through 7, beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday. For example, the Gregorian date Monday, 12 December 2022 corresponds to day number 1 in the week number 50 of 2022, and is written …

Area codes 301 and 240 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland.The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises Maryland's portion of the Greater Washington, D.C. metro area, portions of southern Maryland, along with rural western Maryland.This includes the communities of Cumberland, …

MAN Truck & Bus SE (formerly MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, pronounced [ˈman ˈnʊtsˌfaːɐ̯tsɔʏɡə ʔaːˈɡeː]) is a subsidiary of Traton, and one of the leading international providers of commercial vehicles.Headquartered in Munich, Germany, MAN Truck & Bus produces vans in the range from 3.0 to 5.5 t gvw, trucks in the range from 7.49 to 44 t gvw, heavy goods vehicles up to 250 t …

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBS, BCBSA) is a federation, or supraorganization, of, in 2022, 34 independent and locally operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people. It was formed in 1982 from the merger of its two namesake organizations: Blue Cross was founded in 1929 and became the Blue Cross …

The DIN connector is an electrical connector that was standardized by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German Institute for Standards, in the early 1970s. The male DIN connectors (plugs) feature a 13.2 mm diameter metal shield with a notch that limits the orientation in which plug and socket can mate. The range of DIN connectors, different only in the configuration of …

The BMW M52 is a straight-6 DOHC petrol engine which was produced from 1994 to 2000. It was released in the E36 320i, to replace the M50.The BMW S52 engine is a high performance variant of the M52 which powered the American and Canadian market E36 M3 from 1996 to 1999.. In 1998, the "technical update" (M52TU) upgrades included adding variable valve timing to the …

Volvo 240 var en vidareutveckling av Volvo 140 och presenterades 1974. På de första årgångarna av Volvo 240 kan man tydligt se släktdragen i fronten från konceptbilen Volvo VESC. 240 (inklusive Volvo 260) hade stora försäljningsframgångar och är Volvos mest tillverkade modellserie med sina cirka 2,86 miljoner exemplar. [1] Den indelades precis som sin …

Terminology. The term "supervolcano" was first used in a volcanic context in 1949. Its origins lie in an early 20th-century scientific debate about the geological history and features of the Three Sisters volcanic region of Oregon in the United States. In 1925, Edwin T. Hodge suggested that a very large volcano, which he named Mount Multnomah, had existed in that region.