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• Fiat Panda
  |Body style || 3-door [[hatchback]]<br>[[Cabriolet (automobile)|cabriolet]]<br>[[ Improvements were also made to the interior and the structure. The body was strengthened and fully galvanised on later models, virtually eliminatin
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• Le Mans 24 Hours
  ...a critical parameter for being competitive in Le Mans. This led to special body designs like the "Long Tail" bodies pioneered by [[Charles Deutsch]] and [[ ...weight of car, using high-tech materials, for instance a large part of the body was made of a very thin [[polyester]] sheet reinforced with [[carbon fiber]
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• Medieval cuisine
  ...and eggs were not allowed, only fish. The fast was intended to mortify the body and invigorate the soul, to reinforce the medieval [[dogma]] that the flesh ...duct, so that food would digest very slowly and cause putrefaction of the body and draw bad humors into the stomach. It was also of vital importance that
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• Motorcycle
  A [[plastic]] or [[fiberglass]] shell, known as a ''fairing'', is placed over the frame on some models to shield ...e rake should be chosen so that precessive force from [[countersteer]] and body steering slightly overbalance the leaning forces from the weight of the bik
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• Le Mans 24 hours races
  In, the Ford Mark IV was introduced with a low drag, body. The surprise winners were Americans [[A. J. Foyt]] and [[Dan Gurney]], for ...weight of car, using high-tech materials, for instance a large part of the body was made of a very thin [[polyester]] sheet reinforced with [[carbon fiber]
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• List of James Bond gadgets
  ...n into the floor and comes back up a clean new seat, disposing of the dead body which was sitting on it. ...La Bombe Surprise'' : "Cake" with an "explosive filling", actually a domed shell covered in cake icing covering a small explosive device with a timer. Used
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• Paris-Roubaix
  ...ened! Not a square metre that has not been hurled upside down. There's one shell hole after another. The only things that stand out in this churned earth ar ...d forming on my leg and the bone that broke, without being able to move my body. And the pain, a pain that I wouldn't wish on anyone. The surgeon placed a
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