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Natural Gas Technology
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class W211 was available as NGT, which stood for Natural Gas Technology. The use of natural gas in a combustion engine means reduced CO2 emissions compared to petrol which makes the car more environmental-friendly. Ruhrgas AG supported employees in getting such a Mercedes-Benz E 200 NGT. These photos…
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Advancement Through Technology
The former Gazprom headquarters in Moscow. Gazprom was founded in 1989 and is the largest natural gas company in the world and the largest company in Russia by revenue. This journey was organised by Gazprom as well as Ruhrgas which imported the Russian gas to Germany. Gazprom has always been…
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Wolfsburg Motor Works
The Autostadt or Automobile City is a large museum complex next to the main Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, where the largest car company in the world has its headquarters. It was opened in 2000 and features pavilions for each brand of Volkswagen Group as well as the Zeithaus or…
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International Automobile Exhibition
News from Daimler respectively DaimlerChrysler at the Frankfurt Motor Show or IAA 2003. Presentation of the Mercedes-Benz Concept CLS, the world’s first four door coupé. With the Maybach 62 they entered the ultra luxury class to compete with Bentley and Rolls Royce. Presentation of the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4, the…
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The Island In The North
Sylt is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Frisia. Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany, the northernmost town is List and the northern part of the…
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Home Of Diplomacy
Although the site has been continuously inhabited since the 2nd century BCE, the world “Kremlin” was first mentioned in the year 1331. It contained the Tsar palace, was later the seat of the Soviet government and nowadays of the President and government of the Russian Federation. The word “Kremlin” means…
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The Natural Gas Company
The Ruhrgas AG, later E.ON Ruhrgas, was Germany’s largest natural gas company. It was founded in 1926 and bought by the energy company E.ON in 2003. For a while Ruhrgas was a shareholder of Gazprom. The Russian company has always been a reliable partner and even compensated losses when certain…
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Legendary Mercedes-Benz
The Mercedes-Benz 190 E or 190 D was the first smaller Mercedes and predecessor of the C-Class. Designed by Bruno Sacco, head of styling at Mercedes-Benz from 1975 to 1999, the W201 debuted at the 1982 Paris Motor Show. Manufactured in both Bremen and Sindelfingen, Germany, production reached 1,879,629 over…
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It Is Running and Running
The VW Beetle, or Volkswagen Type 1 as it was officially called, was the most popular car in Germany until its successor Golf was released, and it is one of the most popular cars of all times. Its production period of 65 years is the longest for any single generation…
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Developing Multipolar World
The BRICS countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa decided during their summit in South Africa from 22 till 24 August 2023 to admit the countries Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the community from 1 January 2024 onwards. Due to that admission it…
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Operation New Century
The unthinkable happened at 8:46 am local time on 11 September 2001, an airplane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, and all who can remember the event know that this alone was shocking and unbelievable enough, but at 9:03 am another plane…
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Terremoto em Marrocos / Terremoto en Marruecos
Terremoto em Marrocos Um terremoto de magnitude 6,8 atingiu Marrocos em 8 de setembro de 2023. O epicentro foi localizado a 73 km a sudoeste de Marrakech, perto da cidade de Ighli. Marrocos está situado na Falha Transformante Açores-Gibraltar, que marca a fronteira entre a Placa Africana e a Placa…
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