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  2. Rolls-Royce Olympus - Wikipedia

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    The Bristol design was the Type 172 and was to be powered by four or six Bristol engines of 9,000 lbf (40 kN) thrust [7] to the Ministry engine specification TE.1/46. The thrust required of the new engine, then designated B.E.10 (later Olympus), would initially be 9,000 lbf (40 kN) with growth potential to 12,000 lbf (53 kN).

  3. 10 of the Most Expensive Items Ever Sold on eBay

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    1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...

  4. List of acquisitions by eBay - Wikipedia

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    Internet Auction Co. Online auction South Korea $ 120,000,000 [10] March 5, 2001: iBazar: Online auction France $ 93,000,000 [11] July 8, 2002: PayPal: E-commerce payment systems United States $ 1.5 × 10 ^ 9 [12] January 31, 2003: CARad.com: Online auction United States — [13] July 11, 2003: EachNet: Electronic commerce China $ 150,000,000 ...

  5. Unusual eBay listings - Wikipedia

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    The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction. [8] [9] In May 2006, the remains of U.S. Fort Montgomery, a stone fortification in upstate New York built in 1844, were put up for auction on eBay. The first auction ended on June 5, 2006, with a winning bid of US$5,000,310.

  6. Proxy bid - Wikipedia

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    Proxy bidding is an implementation of an English second-price auction used on eBay, in which the winning bidder pays the price of the second-highest bid plus a defined increment. It differs from a Vickrey auction in that bids are not sealed; the "current highest bid" (defined as second-highest bid plus bid increment) is always displayed.

  7. P-800 Oniks - Wikipedia

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    The P-800 Oniks (Russian: П-800 Оникс; English: Onyx), marketed in export as the Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby), is a Soviet/Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr. Its GRAU designation is 3M55, the air launched Kh-61 variant was planned but never built.

  8. Generalized second-price auction - Wikipedia

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    The generalized second-price auction (GSP) is a non-truthful auction mechanism for multiple items. Each bidder places a bid. The highest bidder gets the first slot, the second-highest, the second slot and so on, but the highest bidder pays the price bid by the second-highest bidder, the second-highest pays the price bid by the third-highest, and so on.

  9. Model rocket motor classification - Wikipedia

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    The designation for a specific motor looks like C6-3.In this example, the letter (C) represents the total impulse range of the motor, the number (6) before the dash represents the average thrust in newtons, and the number (3) after the dash represents the delay in seconds from propelling charge burnout to the firing of the ejection charge (a gas generator composition, usually black powder ...