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  • The engines on a B-17 are studebaker built wright-cyclone, nine cylinder, R-1820-97 developing 1200 h.p. each.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • My Five Best Ohio LARPS (Live Action Roleplaying Games) myFiveBest Opinions: Historical Western Films astounding stories, at the mountains of madness, Call of Cthulhu, dunwich horror, h.p. lovecraft, Horror of Innsmouth, stephen king, The Shadow out of time, weird tales

    Tales of Horror From H.P. Lovecraft | myFiveBest 2009

  • The thing that scares me about 3D is that the 'normal' folks h.p. fans especially will pay more just to see a movie that has been converted, not shot specifically for 3D.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to Cast Spells in 3-D « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • You may picture me driving that 40 h.p. car for all she was worth over the crisp moor roads on that shining May morning; glancing back at first over my shoulder, and looking anxiously to the next turning; then driving with a vague eye, just wide enough awake to keep on the highway.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • Copper Mine, devouring the road in his 60 h.p. Packard, to cut her off before she reached the Pima river.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • This is a 180 h.p. Diesel motor, constructed for solar oil, of which we were taking about 90,000 litres (about 19,800 gallons).

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • The second lift is by simple centrifugal pumps (about 5 h.p. each).

    Chapter 17 1995

  • A pair of 150 h.p. suction fans drew the noxious fumes out of the room.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • Horsepower (h.p.) = 33 000 foot-pounds per minute = 0.746 kW

    Chapter 7 1980

  • Kilowatt (kW) = 1.36 CV = 1.34 h.p. Cheval-vapeur (CV) = 0.9863 h.p. = 0.736 kW

    Chapter 7 1980

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