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Blundell Park Blundell Park is a football ground in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England and is home to Grimsby Town. In 2004 Blundell Park was listed in The Observer as one of the ten worst football grounds in EnglandSimply the worst - The Observer, October 10 2004.
Blundellsands Blundellsands or Blundell Sands is an area of Great Crosby on Merseyside, England. It is at the northern end of the city of Liverpool and is served by the Blundellsands & Crosby and Crosby Hall Road train stations.
Blunder A blunder is a spectacularly bad decision or action, a mistake or error with detrimental consequences to the party that makes it. It is typically attributable to faulty perception: the result of not reading signs, or misinterpreting available information.
Blunder (chess) In chess, a blunder is a very bad move which is quickly recognised as a very bad move by the player who made it, typically before or directly after his opponent has made his reply move. They are usually caused by some oversight, whether from time pressure (see time control), overconfidence or carelessness.
Blunder Broad Blunder Broad is a fictional character, created in the 1970s by artist Eric Stanton and writer Turk Winter and used by the authors in a great number of pornographic BDSM stories, published over the years in black and white. Blunder Broad, an obvious parody of Wonder Woman, is an inept superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is raped and tortured by her enemies, among whom a lesbian supervillainess variably called Leopard Lady, Pussycat Galore, or Cheetah, and her male sidekick Count Dastardly.
Blunham Blunham () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, about eight miles east of Bedford. The village is just off the A1 road, near Great Barford and Sandy, and is near the confluence of the River Ivel with the River Great Ouse.
Blunt Snowboard Magazine Blunt Snowboard Magazine was an American snowboard magazine published in the 1990s. DC Shoes were the initial publishers of Blunt, which mainly featured advertisements for new, small and independent companies.
Blunt trauma In medical terminology, blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma refers to a type of physical trauma caused to a bodypart, either by impact, injury or physical attack; the latter usually being referred to as blunt force trauma. The term itself is used to refer to the precursory trauma, from which there is further development of more specific types of trauma, such as contusions, abrasions, lacerations, and/or bone fracturing.
Blunt-Headed Salamander The Blunt-headed Salamander (Ambystoma amblycephalum) is a mole salamander from high elevations (9000 ft above sea level) 15 miles west of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. It has both neotenic and terrestrial populations.
Blunted affect Blunted affect is the scientific term describing a lack of emotional reactivity on the part of an individual. The precise boundary between the generally positive personality trait "serious" and the generally pathological "blunted affect" is impossible to describe precisely because it is culture specific and relies on subjective values.
Bluntman and Chronic Bluntman and Chronic are two fictional comic book characters within the movies Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, created by Kevin Smith. Inspired by the two stoners of the View Askew films, Jay and Silent Bob, the actions of the "Doobage Duo", as they are called, usually consist of crashing and smash property and catching criminals by accident.
Bluntsnout smooth-head The bluntsnout smooth-head, black slickhead, cope's bluntsnout smooth-head, or Atlantic gymnast, Xenodermichthys copei, is a slickhead of the genus Xenodermichthys, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, and the Tasman Sea, at depths of 100 to 2,600 m. Its length is from 20 to 50 cm.
BluOnyx BluOnyx is a brand of Mobile Content Server introduced in December 2006 by Agere Systems. The first prototype models of the BluOnyx were demonstrated at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with mass distribution expected later in the year.
Blup Blup Blup Blup Island is a small forested island of the northern coast of Papua New Guinea about 30km offshore from Cape Girgir and is considered part of the Schouten Islands. It is located at Latitude S 3°30'46" and Longitude E 144°35'16".
Blurb A blurb is a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work, usually referring to the words on the back of the book but also commonly seen on DVD and video cases, web portals and news websites.
Blurtonia Blurtonia was a Canadian rock group, formed in May 1999 to play live shows in support of the well-received self-released debut Adventures in the Kingdom of Blurtonia, co-produced by Daryl Smith whose credits include Sloan, Tricky Woo, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Blushes Magazine Blushes was a British spanking magazine, now defunct, part of a stable including 'Blushes Supplement','Whispers' and 'Uniform Girls' which often shared photo-sets. The magazines were available over the counter and featured pictorial sets and stories of young women in uniforms (often school uniforms), naked or in lingerie being spanked by authority figures, usually elderly men.
Blushing To blush is to display a marked redness of one's face; the term is seldom applied except when the redness is construed as a result of embarrassment, shame, or modesty. Blushing is generally distinguished, despite a close physiological relation, from flushing, which is more intensive and extends over more of the body, and seldom has a mental source.
Blussuvoll Skole Blussuvoll skole is a secondary school with grades 8-10 and is situated at Tyholt, near the TV Tower and right next to Strinda. Strinda had been built in 1955, and later building another school right next to it was then a completely new concept.
Blutenburg Castle Blutenburg Castle is an old ducal country seat in the west of Munich, Germany. It was built on the banks of river Würm by duke Albert III in 1438–39 as a hunting-lodge, replacing an older castle burned down in war.
Blutengel Blutengel (German: Blood Angel) is a German electrogoth/neogoth band. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Pain of Progress and the owner of the Fear Section label) after he had to leave Seelenkrank due to contractual and legal problems.
Blutfahne The Blutfahne (Blood flag) was a Nazi Swastika flag which was used in the attempted Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany on November 9, 1923 and one of the most revered objects of the German Nazi Party. The flag was actually that of the 5th SA Sturm that was covered in blood from members of the Nazi Party who had been shot by the Munich Police (primarily from party member Andreas Bauriedl who fell on top of the flag when he was shot and killed).
Blutgericht Blutgericht (literally "blood court" or "blood doom"), or high justice in the Holy Roman Empire referred to the right of a Vogt (a reeve) to hold a criminal court inflicting bodily punishment, including the death penalty.
Bluto Bluto is a cartoon character created in 1933 by Fleischer Studios for its Popeye the Sailor theatrical animated series. The familiar version of Bluto never appeared in the original Thimble Theater comic strip, although a burly villain named "Bluto the Terrible" appears in a 1933 continuing story in the strip.
Blyde River Canyon The Blyde River Canyon is a significant natural feature of South Africa, located in Mpumalanga, and forming the northern part of the Drakensberg escarpment. It is 26 kilometers in length and about 800 meters deep, mostly consisting of red sandstone.
Blyenbergh Blyenbergh (Blijenbergh) was a Danish grain broker and amateur Calvinist theologian who engaged in philosophical correspondence with Spinoza regarding the problem of evil. Their correspondence consisted of 4 letters each, written between December 1664 to June 1665.
Blyth Festival Theatre The Blyth Festival Theatre, located in Blyth, Ontario, Canada, specializes in the production and promotion of Canadian plays. Many of the plays depict the culture and history of rural life in southwestern Ontario.
Blyth Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Blyth Valley (formerly known as Blyth) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Blythe (doll) (pronounced "blahyth" or like the 'bli' sound in "blind") is a doll created in 1972 by the now-defunct American toy company Kenner. Reportedly, she was modeled after drawings by Margaret Keane, similarly to many other dolls of the '60s and '70s.
Blythe Intaglios The Blythe Intaglios are a group of gigantic figures found on the ground near Blythe, California. The intaglios are found east of the Big Maria Mountains, about 15 miles north of downtown Blythe just west of U.
Blytheswood, Ontario Blytheswood is a small village located in the Township of Leamington (formerly Mersea) in Essex County, Ontario, Canada in southern Ontario. The village lies, at the intersection of Highway 77 and Concession 8.
Blytheville Air Force Base Blytheville Air Force Base, now the site of the Arkansas Aeroplex and Arkansas International Airport, has had a long and important history. Activated as an Army airfield on June 10 1942, the field was used as an advanced flying school in the Southeastern Training Command's pilot training program.
Blytt-Sernander The Blytt-Sernander classification, or sequence, is a series of north European climatic periods or phases based on the study of Danish peat bogs by Axel Blytt (1876) and Rutger Sernander (1908). The classification was incorporated into a sequence of pollen zones later defined by Lennart von Post.
BL 16 inch /45 naval gun The BL 16 inch Mark I, BL standing for breech loading, was a British naval gun introduced in the 1920s and used on the Nelson class battleships. The barrel was 45 calibres long, /45 in shorthand, meaning it was 45 x 16 inches = 720 inches long.
BL Lac object A BL Lac object, BL Lacertae object is a type of active galaxy with an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and is named after its prototype, BL Lacertae. In contrast to other types of active galactic nuclei, BL Lacs are characterized by rapid and large amplitude flux variability and significant optical polarization.
BL Lacertae BL Lacertae or BL Lac is a highly variable, extragalactic AGN (active galactic nucleus or active galaxy) originally thought to be an irregular variable star in our own galaxy and so was given a variable star designation in 1941. In 1968 the "star" was identified by Schmidt at the Mount Palomar observatory as a bright, variable radio source and a faint trace of a host galaxy was found.
BLACKstreet BLACKstreet are an American R&B group founded in 1992 by Teddy Riley, a New Jack Swing pioneer known for his work as a member of Guy. The band members are: Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal, Eric Williams, and Mark Middleton (former members of BLACKstreet were Joseph Stonestreet, Levi Little, Dave Hollister, and Terrell Philips).
BLACPMA THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN BULLETIN OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS, or BOLETIN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL CARIBE DE PLANTAS MEDICINALES Y AROMATICAS (ISSN-0717 7917)is a bimonthly scientific publication directed to diverse professionals and technicians linked to the field of the medicinal and aromatic plants. will be accept papers related with the Bulletin areas, they are agronomy, anthropology and etnobotanic, industrial applications, botany, quality and normalization, ecology and biodiversity, economy and market, pharmacology, phytochemistry, legislation, information and diffusion of events, courses, prizes, regulations, news, market questions, reports, bibliography, or any other material type that is important to publish.
BLAST (telescope) The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a submillimeter telescope that hangs from a high altitude balloon. It has a 2 meter primary mirror that directs light into bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350, and 500 µm.
BLATT BLATT is an English-language literary magazine and publishing imprint formed in 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. Dubbed "Bohemia's New Journal of Lit, Art, and Ideas," the magazine's use of the term "Bohemia" reflected the double irony of its location in the capital of the geographical region Bohemia - Prague - while harkening back to the glory days of past urban artistic Bohemias.
BLEU BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) is a method for evaluating the quality of text which has been translated using machine translation. BLEU was one of the first metrics to report high correlation with human judgements of quality.
BLIT (short story) BLIT (which stands for Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a short story written by author David Langford. It features a setting where a highly dangerous type of image called "basilisks" have been discovered; these images contain patterns within them that exploit flaws in the structure of the human mind to produce a lethal reaction, effectively "crashing" them like a badly-programmed computer.
BLT sandwich The BLT is a variety of sandwich containing Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato. The sandwich traditionally has about three strips of fried bacon, leaves of lettuce (traditionally iceberg or romaine), and slices of tomato, all sandwiched between slices of bread or toast which is commonly spread with mayonnaise.
BLU-107 Durandal Named for a mythical medieval French sword, the BLU-107 Durandal is a bomb developed by the French company Matra (now MBDA France, a branch of EADS), specialized in the destruction of airport and airfield runways.
BLU-82 The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, nicknamed "Commando Vault" in Vietnam and "daisy cutter" in Afghanistan, is a 15,000 pound conventional bomb, delivered from an MC-130 transport aircraft. Originally designed to create an instant clearing in the jungles of Vietnam, it has been used in Afghanistan as an anti-personnel weapon and as an intimidation weapon because of its very large lethal radius (variously reported as 300 to 900 feet) combined with a visible flash and audible sound at long distances.
BLUF BLUF (Breeches and Leather Uniform Fanclub) is an international fraternal organization of gay men and MSM sharing a fetishistic interest in leather breeches and uniforms. The leather breeches are worn inside tall leather boots called jackboots.
Bō A bō (棒:ぼう) or kon, is a long staff, usually made of wood or bamboo, but sometimes it is made of metal or plated with metal for extra strength; also, a full-size bō is sometimes called a rokushakubō (六尺棒:ろくしゃくぼう). This name derives from the Japanese words roku (六:ろく), meaning "six"; shaku (尺:しゃく); a Japanese measurement equivalent to 30.
BĹŤsĹŤzoku BĹŤsĹŤzoku (ćš´čµ°ć—Ź) (literally "Violent Running Tribe") is a Japanese subculture very similar to car clubs: gangs of young men who share a common interest in designing (often illegal) modifications for cars and motorcycles. These modifications often include removing the silencing features so that more noise is produced.
Błażej Radler Błażej Radler (born on August 2 1982 in Rydułtowy) is a Polish footballer (defender) playing currently for Górnik Zabrze. He was a member U-18 Poland national football team , which won U-18 European Championship in 2001 .
BĹ‚yskawica The BĹ‚yskawica was a submachine gun produced by the Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, a Polish resistance movement fighting the Germans in occupied Poland. A successful construction, it was most probably the only weapon designed and mass produced covertly in occupied Europe.
Břetislav Bakala Břetislav Bakala (February 12 1897 - April 1 1958) was a Czech conductor, pianist, and composer. He studied conducting at the Brno Conservatory with František Neumann, composition with Leoš Janáček at the organ school.
Břidličná nad Moravicí Břidličná nad Moravicí (-Czech, German: Friedland an der Mohra) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic about 12 km southeast of Bruntál. The town lies in the Jeseníky Mountains and has a population of 3,698 as of 2004.
BĹ«tingÄ— BĹ«tingÄ— (German: Butendiekshof or Budendiekshof, ) is a small village at the coast of the Baltic Sea in the north of Lithuania, at the border to Latvia. It belongs to the municipality of Palanga, and is situated 17 km north of the town Palanga.
Bmobile bmobile is a Caribbean mobile telecommunications brand, offered by Cable & Wireless (Caribbean) and its affiliated companies. The company re-branded its mobile services, using the name bmobile throughout the region in 2003, and the brand's colour green has become synonymous with mobile services across the islands.
BM-14 The Soviet made 140mm BM-14 (BM for Boyevaya Mashina - combat vehicle/Battle machine) Katyusha (Russian "Катюша" meaning 'little Katy') type Armored Fighting Vehicle with multiple rocket launchers were built and fielded by the Soviet Union following World War II.
BM-27 The 9P140 Uragan (, 'hurricane'), known as the BM-27 began its service with the Soviet army in the late 1970s as its first modern spin and fin stabilized heavy multiple rocket launcher. This system is capable of launching 220mm rockets from 16 launch tubes mounted on the rear of a ZIL-135 8 by 8 chassis.
BM71 The BM71 is a type of electric multiple unit used by Flytoget for airport express trains on the Gardermobanen line in Norway. The trainsets are similar to the NSB BM73, but have three, rather than four carriages.
BMARC BMARC (The British Manufacture and Research Company) was a UK-based firm designing and producing defence products, particularly aircraft cannon and naval anti-aircraft cannon. It was based on Springfield Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
BMAT BMAT (BioMedical Admissions Test) is an aptitude test used as part of the admissions process for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine or Physiological Sciences in some universities in the UK. It is a descendant of the "MVAT" (Medical and Veterinary Sciences Admissions Test).
BMC journals The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 61 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of Open access to the research articles they publish.
BMC S-Series engine The S-Series is a Straight-4 SOHC internal combustion engine developed by the Austin Rover Group (previously British Leyland), and introduced in 1984 in both the Austin Montego and the Mark 1 Rover 200-series. It was also used in the Austin Maestro from 1985 onwards.
BMD-1 The BMD-1 is a Soviet airborne infantry fighting vehicle, which was introduced in 1969 and first seen by the West in 1970. BMD stands for Boyevaya Mashina Desanta (Боевая Машина Десанта, literally "Combat Vehicle of the Airborne") †.
BMDFM BMDFM (Binary Modular Dataflow Machine) is software, which enables running an application in parallel on shared memory symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) using the multiple processors to speed up the execution of single applications.
BME (website) BME stands for Body Modification Ezine. It is an online magazine that chronicles the current and historical body modification world internationally; covering tattooing, piercing, suspension and ritual, scarification, and similar acts in its public sections.
BMG Heritage Records BMG Heritage Records was the record label of the BMG Strategic Marketing Group reissue division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment which handled the reissue of recordings first issued on the RCA Victor, Arista, Buddah, Windham Hill as well as other labels BMG or predecessor companies acquired over the years. It was founded on November 2001 and formally established on January 1, 2002 as the successor company to the Buddha Records reissue label.
BMI Foundation The BMI Foundation, Inc. is a separate not-for-profit organization founded in 1985 by executives from the collecting society Broadcast Music Incorporated for the purpose of "encouraging the creation, performance and study of music through awards, scholarships, internships, grants, and commissions.
BMI regional bmi regional is a regional airline based in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. bmi regional is a trading name of British Midland Regional Limited which is a subsidiary of bmi operating scheduled passenger services primarily within the UK.
BMO Nesbitt Burns BMO Nesbitt Burns is a Canadian stock brokerage and wealth management corporation frequently referred to as an Investment bank. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, it is wholly owned by the Bank of Montreal who had purchased Nesbitt, Thomson and Company of Montreal, Quebec in 1987.
BMP-1 The BMP-1 is a Soviet infantry fighting vehicle which was first introduced in the early 1960s. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты, literally "Combat Vehicle of the Infantry") †.
BMP-3 The BMP-3 is a Russian infantry fighting vehicle which was first introduced 1990. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты, literally "Combat Vehicle of Infantry") †.
BMPT BMPT (, ‘Tank Support Fighting Vehicle’) is a new Russian armored vehicle designed to support tank and infantry operations, primarily in urban areas. This vehicle is sometimes nicknamed the "Terminator".
BMRDA Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA) is an autonomous body created by the Government of Karnataka under the BMRDA Act 1985 for the purpose of planning, co-ordinating and supervising the proper and orderly development of the areas within the Bangalore Metropolitan Region (BMR) which comprises Bangalore urban district, Bangalore rural district and Malur taluk of Kolar district.
BMRST Ballistic Missile Range Safety Technology (BMRST) is a mobile system designed and built by Honeywell International in Clearwater Florida, to monitor and provide space-vehicle position data during launches. The BMRST system consists of a control center van and two trailer-mounted tracking antennas.
BMT 12 12 was the BMT's designation for trains that used the BMT Lexington Avenue Line. This number was used on service listings on company maps, but was never displayed on train equipment, nor were trains referred to as "12 trains" in the manner of the current system, but were called Lexington Avenue Line trains.
BMT 60th Street Tunnel Connection The 60th Street Tunnel Connection (also known as the 11th Street Connector) is a short connecting line of the New York City Subway connecting the BMT 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza in Long Island City. The connector does not have any stations.
BMT 63rd Street Line The BMT 63rd Street Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway system. It runs from a connection with the BMT Broadway Line at 57th Street and 7th Avenue north and east to Lexington Avenue–63rd Street, where it stub-ends; a scissors crossover just west of Lexington Avenue provides a connection to the IND 63rd Street Line.
BMT Brooklyn Loops The Nassau Street Loop, also called the Nassau Loop, was a service pattern of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) from 1931 to 1967, when a portion of the line was severed. The Centre Street Loop was a similar service proposal that was never completed.
BMT Canarsie Line The Canarsie Line (sometimes referred to as the 14th Street–Canarsie Line) is a rapid transit line of the BMT Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is used by the service, which is shown in the color gray on the NYC Subway map and on station signs.
BMT Canarsie Line automation The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has plans to upgrade the entire New York City Subway system with Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) technology, that will control the speed and starting and stopping of subway trains. Trains localize themselves based on measuring their distance past fixed transponders located between the rails - about every station or so.
BMT Culver Line The BMT Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, running from Coney Island through Gravesend to Ditmas Avenue, where it becomes the IND Culver Line. Culver Line was originally the popular name of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (owned by Andrew Culver), an excursion railroad line originally opened from a station at the eastern side of Greenwood Cemetery to Coney Island in Kings County, New York (now Brooklyn, New York) in 1875.
BMT Franklin Avenue Line The Franklin Avenue Line (also known as the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and the Brighton-Franklin Line) is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. All service is provided full time by Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains.
BMT Lexington Avenue Line The Lexington Avenue Elevated (also called the Lexington Avenue Line) was the first standard elevated railway in Brooklyn, New York, operated in its later days by the BRT, the BMT and then the City of New York. It was sometimes called the Old Main Line.
BMT Limited Established in 1985, BMT Limited is an international multi-disciplinary engineering, science and technology consultancy offering a broad range of services, particularly in the defence, energy, environment, shipping and general transportation sectors. Its status as an Employee Benefit Trust is notable.
BMT Sea Beach Line The BMT Sea Beach Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, connecting the BMT Fourth Avenue Line subway via a four-track wide open cut to Coney Island in Brooklyn. It has at times hosted the fastest express service between Manhattan and Coney Island, but now carries only local trains.
BMT West End Line The West End Line, now a subway line in Brooklyn, New York City, is a branch line from the Broadway (Manhattan)-Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, serving the communities of Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. It is served full time by the , and rush hours by the , which provides direct access to the financial district.
BMW 003 The BMW 003 was an early turbojet engine produced in Germany during World War II. Work on its design began earlier than the contemporary Junkers Jumo 004 engine, but prolonged developmental problems meant that the BMW 003 entered production much later, and the aircraft projects that had been designed with it in mind had been re-engined with the Jumo powerplant instead.
BMW 1 Series The BMW 1 Series (code name E87) is a Small-luxury car / small family car produced by the German automaker BMW since 2004. Designed to compete against the Audi A3 and Volkswagen Golf, the 1 Series is the only vehicle in its class featuring rear-wheel drive and a longitudinally-mounted engine.
BMW 303 The BMW 303 was the first BMW to use an inline-6 engine and the kidney grill, which today is a hallmark of the company's models. Top speed was approximately 100 km/h (62 mph), and the total 303 production was 2300 units, both saloons and cabriolets were manufactured.
BMW 335i Cabrio The BMW 335i Cabrio, the fourth generation of BMW's 3 Series four-seat convertible makes its world debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on 7 January, 2007. A new dimension in the world of motoring comes with the introduction of a retractable hardtop for the first time in a BMW.
BMW 600 The BMW 600 was a small car produced by BMW from 1957 to 1959. It was an enlarged version of the BMW Isetta (single cylinder engine three-wheeler in the UK/four-wheeler with very narrow rear wheelbase in most other countries) with more power and a slightly more conventional four-wheel configuration.
BMW 8 Series The BMW 8 Series (chassis code BMW E31) is a V8 or V12-engined 2-door 2+2 coupe built by BMW from 1989 to 1999 with a top speed of 186 mph. A common misconception is that the 8 Series has been a successor for the original BMW 6 Series in 1989; instead it was an entirely new value proposition aimed at a different market with a substantially higher price point.
BMW 801 The BMW 801 was a powerful German air-cooled radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German military aircraft of World War II. The engine's cylinders were in two rows of seven cylinders each, the bore and stroke were both 156 mm, giving a total capacity of 41.
BMW 802 The BMW 802 was a large air-cooled radial aircraft engine, built using two-rows of 9-cylinders to produce what was essentially an 18-cylinder version of the 14-cylinder BMW 801. Although promising at first, development dragged on and the project was eventually cancelled to concentrate of jet engines instead.
BMW 803 The BMW 803 was BMW's attempt to build a high-power aircraft engine by "coupling" two BMW 801's back-to-back driving contra-rotating propellers. The result was a 28-cylinder 4-row radial engine, but due to cooling concerns, the entire engine was liquid cooled.
BMW case The BMW Case refers to a notorious hit-and-run incident in New Delhi, India, where a rich and influential businessmen's son in an inebriated condition were alleged to have driven a BMW into a police checkpoint in the wee hours of January 10, 1999.
BMW Compact The BMW Compact was a compact car / small family car, basically a truncated hatch-back version of the BMW 3 Series, produced by the German automaker BMW between 1994 and 2004. It was only available as a 3-door hatchback and initially based on the BMW E36 platform.
BMW E12 The BMW E12 automobile platform was the basis for the 1972 through 1981 BMW 5-Series automobiles and the first platform to bear the 5-Series name: the '5' denoting BMW's fifth 'New Class' platform. Designed as a replacement for the popular Neue Klasse (BMW New Class) mid-sized sedan, the E12 5-Series models were smaller than the large BMW E3 sedan but larger than the two-door 2002 models.
BMW E23 The BMW E23 is an automobile platform that was the basis for the first BMW 7 Series automobile. Replacing the BMW E3 large sedan, the E23 was produced for ten years from 1977 to 1987 and was replaced by the BMW E32 7-Series in 1986.
BMW E24 The BMW E24 automobile platform was the basis for the first production of BMW 6-Series Coupés, manufactured between the 1976 and 1989 model years. Replaced by the E31 chassis 8-Series coupés, the 6-series name reappeared by the BMW E63 chassis beginning in the 2004 model year.
BMW E30 The E30 automobile platform was the basis for the 1982 through 1991 BMW 3 Series entry-level luxury car / compact executive car. It was the successor of the BMW E21 in 1982 and was replaced by the BMW E36 in 1992.

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