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The Toyota FCHV and Honda FCX, which began leasing on December 2, 2002, became the world's first government-certified commercial hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, [15] [14] [32] and the Honda FCX Clarity, which began leasing in 2008, was the world's first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle designed for mass production rather than adapting an existing model ...
In an attempt to keep the oil from contaminating the Mississippi River, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources set a controlled burn that lasted for one day and created a smoke plume about 1 mile (1.6 km) high and 5 miles (8 km) long. The pipe failed due to cracking caused by train shipping induced cracking of the pipe being delivered. [66]
Åland (Swedish: ⓘ; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.Receiving its autonomy by a 1920 decision of the League of Nations, [1] it is the smallest region of Finland by both area (1,580 km 2) and population (30,129), constituting 0.51% of Finland's land area and 0.54% of its population.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
Phoenicia (/ f ə ˈ n ɪ ʃ ə, f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ə /), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic maritime civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed [a] (/ æ l ˈ f aɪ. ɛ d /; 27 January 1929 – 30 August 2023) was an Egyptian billionaire businessman whose residence and primary business interests were in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s.
QE2 stern name, October 2008 QE2 bow name, October 2008 The name of the liner as it appears on the bow and stern is Queen Elizabeth 2 , with upper- and lower-case lettering and an Arabic numeral 2 as opposed to the Roman numeral II, distinguishing her from the monarch, Elizabeth II ; it is commonly pronounced in speech as Queen Elizabeth Two ...