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Avanti Stekene
Avanti (in Italian, meaning 'ahead', 'forward', or 'before', and also an unrelated Sanskrit name) may refer to: Vehicles * Studebaker Avanti, a model of automobile built by Studebaker * Avanti II, a successor model made by Avanti Motor Corporation * Avanti Kart, a racing go-kart manufactured in Italy by JM Racing * DC Avanti, Indian designed sports car from DC Design * Piaggio P.180 Avanti, a business aircraft Companies * Avanti (bicycle company), a New Zealand-based bicycle manufacturer *Avanti Communications, a satellite broadband provider *Avanti Corporation, an electronic design automation company *Avanti West Coast, a British train operating company which operates the West Coast Main Line franchise * Vertriebscenter Avanti, an Austrian chain of gas stations Culture * Avanti (label), a sub-label from Black Hole Recordings * Avanti (magazine), a German women's magazine * ''Avanti'', a 2012 album by Biel Ballester Trio * ''Avanti!'', a 1972 film * Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studebaker Avanti
The Studebaker Avanti is a personal luxury coupe manufactured and marketed by Studebaker Corporation between June 1962 and December 1963. A halo car for the maker, it was marketed as "America's only four-passenger high-performance personal car." Described as "one of the more significant milestones of the postwar industry", the Raymond Loewy-designed car offered safety features and high-speed performance. Called "the fastest production car in the world" upon its introduction, a modified Avanti reached over with its supercharged R3 engine at the Bonneville Salt Flats. In all, it broke 29 world speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Following Studebaker's discontinuation of the model, a succession of five ventures manufactured and marketed derivatives of the Avanti model through 2006. These ventures licensed intellectual property and, in some cases procured parts, through arrangements with the successors to the Studebaker assets. Name Studebaker's advertising agency pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti!
''Avanti!'' (; Italian interjection – 'come in!') is a 1972 comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season.''Avanti!'' on the Internet Broadway Database It was co-produced by Wilder and Diamond's Phalanx Productions and Lemmon's Jalem Productions. The film follows a businessman attempting to recover the body of his father from . I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti Racing Team
Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team p/b Cervelo () was an Australian UCI Continental cycling team focusing on road bicycle racing. Based in Tasmania since its establishment in 2000, the team's original title sponsor was a Tasmanian restaurant chain, Praties, but Genesys Wealth Advisers, an Australian financial planning network, has taken over this role in 2010. The team was founded by Andrew Christie-Johnson and Steve Price. In 2014 team was the top ranked team in Australia's National Road Series (NRS). It has competed overseas in the Tour of Qinghai Lake (2.HC), Tour de Taiwan (2.2) and the Herald Sun Tour (2.1). The team was invited to compete in the Team Time Trial of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships as the Oceania representative. For the 2016 season the team secured the sponsorship of sports nutrition company, IsoWhey Sports. For the 2017 season the team merged with SwissWellness, securing the teams immediate future after Avanti announced they would stop sponsoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti (project)
Avanti was established by the UK Department of Trade and Industry in 2002DTI The Construction Research Programme, February 2007 to formulate an approach to collaborative working in order to enable partners to work together effectively. The project was promoted by the Department of Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandava, Pāṇḍavas. It also contains Hindu philosophy, philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or ''puruṣārtha'' (12.161). Among the principal works and stories in the ''Mahābhārata'' are the ''Bhagavad Gita'', the story of Damayanti, the story of Shakuntala, the story of Pururava and Urvashi, the story of Savitri and Satyavan, the story of Kacha (sage), Kacha and Devayani, the story of Rishyasringa and an Ramopakhyana, abbreviated version of the ''Rāmāyaṇa'', often considered as works in their own right. Traditionally, the authorship of the ''Mahābhārata'' is attributed to Vyasa, Vy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ujjain
Ujjain (, , old name Avantika, ) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the fifth-largest city in Madhya Pradesh by population and is the administrative as well as religious centre of Ujjain district and Ujjain division. It is one of the Hindu pilgrimage centres of Sapta Puri famous for the ''Kumbh Mela'' (Simhastha) held there every 12 years. The ancient and world famous temple of Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga is located in the center of the city. The city has been one of the most prominent trade and political centres of the Indian Subcontinent from the time of the ancient Mahājanapadas until the British colonisation of India. An ancient city situated on the eastern bank of the Shipra River, Ujjain was the most prominent city on the Malwa plateau of central India for much of its history. It emerged as the political centre of central India around 600 BCE. It was the capital of the ancient Avanti kingdom, one of the sixteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti (region)
Avanti was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (''Great Janapada''), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region. According to the Buddhist texts, the ''Anguttara Nikaya'', Avanti was one of the ''solasa mahajanapadas'' (sixteen great realms) of the 6th century BCE. The ''janapada'' was divided into two parts by the Vindhyas, the northern part had its capital at Ujjayini and the southern part had its centre at Mahishmati. The Avantis, the ancient people belonging to this realm, were described as ''mahavala'' (very powerful) in the Udyoga Parva (19.24) of the Mahabharata.Law, B.C. (1973). ''Tribes in Ancient India'', Bhandarkar Oriental Series No.4, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, pp.337-43 According to the Vishnu Purana (II.3), the Bhagavata Purana (XII.I.36) and the Brahma Purana (XIX.17), the Avantis were associated with the Malava, the Saurashtras, the Abhiras/Yadavas, the Suras, the Karushas and the Arbudas and were described as dwelling along t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti Un Altro!
''Avanti un altro!'' is an Italian game show hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti. It premiered on 5 September 2011, hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti. The international distribution name for the show is "Next One!" and it is owned and distributed by Endemol Shine Group. First phase ''Avanti un altro!'' is a daily game show where players queue up on stage one by one to take part in a high-speed game of knowledge. The host begins the game by calling up the first contestant in line. In most rounds, the host asks the contestant four questions in a given category, each of which has two options for the correct answer. The contestant must answer three of the four questions correctly. If the contestant answers two questions incorrectly, they are eliminated from the game and the host calls the next contestant forward. If the contestant answers three questions correctly, however, he or she is allowed to select a scroll from a rotating table. Most of the scrolls contain cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti! Avanti!
''Avanti! Avanti!'' is a German educational television series, broadcast on NDR in 1977. It is an Italian language course, covering two 13-episode sections. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama * ''4 Blocks (TV series), 4 Blocks'' (TNT Serie, 2017–2019) * ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' (RTL Television, RTL, 1996–present) * ''Babylon B ... German educational television series 1977 German television series debuts 1977 German television series endings Das Erste original programming Italian-language education television programming Italian-language television Italian language {{Germany-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti! (newspaper)
''Avanti!'' (; ) is an Italian daily newspaper, born as the official voice of the Italian Socialist Party, published since 25 December 1896. It took its name from its German counterpart , the newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. History Foundation In the mid-1890s, the Italian Socialist Party owned numerous newspapers and periodical journals published in various parts of the Italian Kingdom, but those had limited runs, and they were funded by the same militants of the Party. However, PSI (the Italian-language abbreviation of the Italian Socialist Party) obtained an important standing in the elections of 1895, and during the IVth Socialist Congress of Florence in July 1896, programs for the editorial development were promoted along with the origination of a nationwide newspaper. The first number of ''Avanti!'' was published on 25 December 1896, on Christmas, because the new newspaper sought to represent Italian socialism as intended as "a new voice that does no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra is a Finnish ensemble that focuses on contemporary music. The ensemble when it performs varies in size from a solo player to a symphony orchestra. Avanti! Chamber Orchestra won the Gramophone Prize with their first recording. The Orchestra also holds a music festival of its own each summer. The organization Avanti! Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1983 at the initiative of conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste and flautist Olli Pohjola. It is an ensemble that varies in size from a solo player to a symphony orchestra depending on the performance. It does not specialize in a particular genre, but they tend to favor contemporary music. One example of this is HumppAvanti!, a collaboration with musician Timo Hietala, which mixed elements of popular and folk music. Their first recording earned them the Gramophone Prize from the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE). The orchestra frequently works with leading Finnish conductors and with int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
