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unusual facts about Low-floor bus


Mercedes-Benz Cito

The Mercedes-Benz Cito (coded as O520) was a low-floor midibus built by EvoBus for Continental Europe between 1999 and 2003.


A Red, Red Rose

The song became more popular when Robert Archibald Smith paired it with the tune of "Low Down in the Broom" in his Scottish Minstrel book in 1821.

Acaena sericea

Acaena sericea is a species of low growing perennial plant native to southern Chile and Patagonia.

ATDynamics

The TrailerTail device works by streamlining the air as it comes off the back of a semi-trailer, reducing low-pressure suction drag directly behind the trailer.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Black ghost knifefish

On the other hand, when low-frequency electric fields are generated by external sources instead of the fish itself, a different class of electroreceptor organs is used for this passive electrolocation, called ampullary organs.

Breathing Room

Kathy Justice of Indy Week called it "low on camp and high on suspense", with a plot that resembles the 2006 French cult film 13 Tzameti.

Bucharest Alexeni Airport

Alexeni Airport was a project for a new low-cost airport for Bucharest, located in the Alexeni town, in Ialomiţa County, at 60 km north-east of the capital city of Romania.

Cantre'r Gwaelod

Presenter Neil Oliver visited the sands of Aberdyfi and Ynyslas, near Borth, and examined the remains of the submerged forest and Sarn Badrig which are revealed at low tide, assisted by local historians and dendrochronologists.

Collagen, type I, alpha 1

A specific variation at Sp1 binding site is shown to be associated with increased risk of low bone mass and vertebral fracture, because of the changes the COL1A1 protein produced from one copy of the gene.

Ed Acker

Shortly thereafter, Acker led a group of investors who purchased a controlling interest in Air Florida, a low-cost carrier which reminded Acker of his competition with Southwest in Texas.

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Flometrics

The Pistonless pump is a low pressure pump system originally designed to support NASA projects with the Crew Exploration Vehicle.

Frederick Low

Low presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the 37th Congress but was not permitted to take his seat until a special act of Congress was passed.

Grog

The word originally referred to a drink made with water or "small beer" (a weak beer) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740.

Gun politics in Brazil

The belief of a fundamental natural human right to self-defense, low efficacy of police, high levels of use of illegal weapons in crimes in contrast to a very rare usage of legal weapons, and advocacy by Non Governmental Organizations (N.G.O.) such as the NRA are some of the factors that may have influenced 65% of Brazilian people to decide against the ban.

Iguanita Wildlife Refuge

Consequently, the proposal was approved by Executive Order 23217 from MIRENEM ( currently MINAE ) ICT ( The National Tourism Board) created Iguanita Wildlife Refuge in 1994 to maintain and develop low-impact tourism.

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

It was founded by Leopold II of Belgium to work for the then colony Congo; but it has broadened its scope to the tropics and low and mid-income countries.

Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez

Perez returned to U.S. television following a three-year stint on the three-time Daytime Emmy Award winning, 20th Television-distributed court show, Cristina's Court (2006–09), cancelled due to low ratings.

KBOB-FM

Although "Great Country 105" had a loyal audience (as it played songs from artists such as George Jones and Merle Haggard), the ratings remained low.

KCAH

KCAH-LP, a low-power radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Carthage, Missouri, United States

KCCC

KCCC-LP, a low-power radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Hays, Kansas, United States

KEFC

KEFC-LP, a low-power radio station (100.5 FM) licensed to Turlock, California, United States

KJCQ

KJCQ-LP, a low-power television station (channel 41) licensed to serve Helena, Montana, United States

KTRV-TV

KTRV-TV is repeated on two low-powered translators in the Garden Valley, Idaho area.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve

Sedges and other low plants grow in the wetlands providing food and cover for migrating birds.

Lesbian Harem

Director Hosoyama made Lesbian Harem on a similarly low budget, and designed the film as a tribute to these films, and particularly as an homage to John Waters' Desperate Living (1977).

Low copy number

Low Copy Number (LCN) is a DNA profiling technique developed by the Forensic Science Service (FSS) and in use in some countries since 1999.

Low-definition television

The PlayStation 2 generates 240p/288p if a PlayStation game calls for this mode, as do many Virtual Console emulated games on Wii.

Maine Republican caucuses, 2008

In 2008, although some caucuses were held on February 3, this was the day of Super Bowl XLII and county parties were discouraged from holding caucuses for fear of low turnout.

Maritime archaeology

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the (low salinity) Baltic Sea (where the Vasa was preserved).

Mister Bones

A former low-level supervillain, he reformed and joined the Infinity Inc. team, then later the (fictional) Department of Extranormal Operations (a government agency which regulates superhero activity) as a bureaucrat, eventually rising to the rank of Regional Director for the Eastern Seaboard.

Muniz Casmuniz 52

A low-wing cantilever monoplane with a 185hp (138kW) Continental E185 flat six engines mounted on the leading edge of wing.

New Beer's Eve

The beer had to have an alcohol content less than 3.2% (4% ABV), compared to the 0.5% limit of the Volstead Act, because 3.2% was considered too low to produce intoxication.

Nomadic pastoralism

It is found in areas of low rainfall such as the Arabian Peninsula inhabited by Bedouins, as well as Northeast Africa inhabited by Somalis (where camel, sheep and goat nomadic pastoralism is especially common).

Pasir Ris MRT Station

Pasir Ris was the first eastern terminus station of the East West Line, installed with Rite Hite Revolution High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fans and have been operating since 9 July 2012 together with Simei.

Philabundance

The Citizens Bank Foundation, the charitable arm of the Citizens Financial Group,Inc., donated $25000 in July 2010 to Philabundance for low-income families in the Delaware Valley.

Same language subtitling

This idea was struck upon by Brij Kothari, who believed that SLS makes reading practice an incidental, automatic, and subconscious part of popular TV entertainment, at a low per-person cost to shore up literacy rates in India.

Sanitary napkin

In order to meet the need for achieving an inexpensive solution to tackle unsanitary and unhygienic practices in countries like India, Arunachalam Muruganantham from rural Coimbatore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India developed and patented a machine which could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost.

Sucker pole

Bicycle theft is fed mainly from the fact that it generates about $350 million annually and that the risk to criminals is relatively low even compared with stealing an IPhone, a television, or a car in cities such as San Francisco and Chicago which are considered "bike friendly" cities.

TBN repeaters in the Tampa Bay DMA

The Trinity Broadcasting Network operates four low-powered satellite stations in the Tampa Bay market.

Tenor cornett

For example, see: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10 by Giovanni Gabrieli and Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn SWV 40 (from the great Psalmen Davids of 1619) by Heinrich Schütz, both of these works feature low cornetto lines written in the C tenor clef.

Walter L. Griffin

Through the early 1920s, Griffin ground out low-budget Westerns starring Bob Custer, Franklyn Farnum and Al Hoxie.

WBGR

WBGR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to Bangor/Dedham, Maine, United States

WBKM

WBKM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 46) licensed to Chana, Illinois, United States

Werf

WERF-LP, a low-power radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Gainesville, Florida, United States

Weston Airport

Also operated from the airfield was a flying school for private pilots with several Tiger Moth trainer biplanes, an Auster high-wing monoplane and from 1960 two Morane-Saulnier-Rallye four-seater low-winged aeroplanes.

WGCT

WTBT-LD, a low-power television station (channel 45) licensed to serve Tampa, Florida, which held the call sign WGCT-LP or WGCT-LD from 2007 to 2012

Willis Kent

Its films, about 40 in all, consisted mostly of low-budget westerns, many of which starred short-lived cowboy star and former football player Lafayette Russell (aka Reb Russell), and cheap, sensationalist exploitation epics.

Wrought

Wrought iron, iron with a very low carbon content that has been wrought (hammered) by hand.

WUFR

WUFR-LP, a low-power radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to Umatilla, Florida, United States


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