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Super Sports Car of the Twenties
The Mercedes-Benz SSK was the supersportscar of the 1920s, or the hypersportscar even before the term was invented, the fastest car of the time. It was also the last car designed by Ferdinand Porsche for Mercedes-Benz before he left to found his own company and before he designed the first…
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The First Mercedes
The Mercedes Simplex was the first Daimler which was officially named after the daughter of businessman Emil Jellinek. He had a racing team with Daimler cars which he had named after his daughter. Mercedes Jellinek herself never even had a driving license
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Benz Patent Motorwagen
The Benz Patent Motorwagen had been invented by Karl Benz in 1886 and was the very first automobile in the world. His wife Bertha helped to make the invention a success when she did the first journey by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim. On the way she invented brake lining…
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The Infamous Race
Interesting, to read an article about a – no, actually “the” – Formula One race in 1976: “Wolf team manager Frank Williams” (Sir Frank later founded Williams Racing) and “Brabham-Boss Bernie Ecclestone” (later the top boss of Formula One), “brilliant, how Bernie is managing it. Quickly, without talking about money…
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Mercedes Jellinek
The businessman Emil Jellinek had a racing team with Daimler cars around 1900 which he had named after his daughter Mercedes. Later all Daimler cars started to be called that way
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Not The Same And Different
If humans already have a problem understanding or at least accepting other humans who are a bit different from themselves, then how could they understand this universe? Nature is different from us (although we are a product and part of nature) in the way that nature doesn’t plan! There is…
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Back To The Future
Back to the Future. In the second part of the movie series from the eighties with that name Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled into the far future. Precisely the date 21 October 2015 was entered into the controls of the DeLorean time machine. This photo was taken exactly on…
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Cooperation With Russia
For decades Russia and Germany had a good relationship at least in the energy sector, Gazprom was always a reliable partner of Ruhrgas and other German natural gas companies. But now, in 2022, this cooperation is at risk because Europe and America broke their promises to Russia about NATO expansion,…
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Manual Seawall Contact
The crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco Airport in July 2013 happened due to some wrong inputs by the pilot flying the plane. He set a wrong autopilot setting which put the plane into a climb, and to counteract that he reduced the throttles to idle.…
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The Sea-Wet Rock
Out there at the coast of southern China are a group of islands and a peninsula which British seafarers found suitable to colonialise when they arrived there in the 19th century. At that time a small fishermen’s village, it soon grew to a town, then a city, and since the…
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Harbour With Two Entrances
“Hong Kong was chosen by the Englishmen as the location of their settlement with the kind of insight that’s typical for the British. The island on which northern side it is located is mountainous and has a circumference of about eighteen till twenty English miles. Its position has the advantage…
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The Universe at the Big Bang
The size of the universe at the time of the Big Bang was 10^-35 metres, that is one hundred times smaller than a proton, a part of the core of an atom. The universe was also extremely hot at the time of the Big Bang with millions of degrees Kelvin,…
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