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  • Thumbnail for Vehicle registration plate
    registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian...
    139 KB (16,736 words) - 03:28, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garbage Plate
    Plate but under modified names, such as Rochester plates, junkyard plates, trash plates, hot plates, rubbish plates, sloppy plates, or messy plates....
    12 KB (976 words) - 12:55, 6 October 2024
  • Vehicle registration plates (commonly referred to as "number plates" in British English) are the alphanumeric plates used to display the registration...
    132 KB (10,172 words) - 18:16, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Club Atlético River Plate
    Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires....
    74 KB (5,507 words) - 22:33, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vehicle license plates of the United States
    In the United States, vehicle registration plates, known as license plates, are issued by a department of motor vehicles, an agency of the state or territorial...
    93 KB (10,107 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blue-plate special
    Lobster and Chop House" at 141 West 45th Street promised "A La Carte All Hours", "Moderate Prices", and "Blue Plate Specials". A December 2, 1928, article...
    10 KB (1,170 words) - 17:34, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vehicle registration plates of Maryland
    Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1910, when the state began to issue plates. Plates are currently issued by the Motor Vehicle...
    36 KB (591 words) - 19:33, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Automatic number-plate recognition
    Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR; see also other names below) is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle...
    98 KB (10,666 words) - 13:23, 5 November 2024
  • Vehicle registration plates (German: Kraftfahrzeug-Kennzeichen or, more colloquially, Nummernschilder) are mandatory alphanumeric plates used to display the...
    259 KB (11,842 words) - 12:48, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Photographic plate
    Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography. The light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was coated on a glass plate, typically...
    19 KB (2,097 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
  • are used to verify street legality, proof of a valid liability insurance and to identify and recognise the vehicle. The licence plates are made of metal;...
    21 KB (1,151 words) - 09:28, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zone plate
    A zone plate is a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character. Unlike lenses or curved mirrors, zone plates use diffraction instead...
    10 KB (1,324 words) - 18:28, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Golden plates
    According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source...
    143 KB (18,316 words) - 07:56, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the River Plate
    The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.[citation needed][clarification...
    66 KB (7,425 words) - 20:29, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fondouk of French
    classified as a historical monument since 1922. metal plate with the old street name The old Douane street plate of the fondouk The entrance door of the fondouk...
    2 KB (92 words) - 03:58, 3 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Restrictor plate
    A restrictor plate or air restrictor is a device installed at the intake of an engine to limit its power. This kind of system is occasionally used in...
    18 KB (2,670 words) - 18:20, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nickel Plate Road
    operated in the mid-central United States. Commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road", the railroad served parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania...
    26 KB (3,283 words) - 06:07, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for AC/DC
    AC/DC' se pondrán a la venta a partir del próximo lunes" [The 'AC/DC Street' Plates Will Go on Sale from Next Monday]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Archived from...
    179 KB (16,193 words) - 10:28, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lippmann plate
    in 1891 and consists of first focusing an image onto a light-sensitive plate, placing the emulsion in contact with a mirror (originally liquid mercury)...
    11 KB (1,005 words) - 20:01, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 10 Downing Street
    Machine, british-history.ac.uk British History Online, From: 'Plate 111: No. 10, Downing Street: plan of alterations in 1781 Archived 27 September 2013 at...
    94 KB (11,185 words) - 12:35, 12 October 2024
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