It is uncertain who gave the name, while columnist of Arabic press, Asharq Alawsat, and prominent Egyptian opposition leader Saad Eddin Ibrahim claimed to name it the Lotus Revolution.

Lotus Revolution later became common on western news source such as CNN.

Other names, such as White Revolution and Nile Revolution, are used but are minor terms compare to Lotus Revolution.

the term Lotus Revolution is rarely, if ever, used in the Arab world.

Lotus was already a Ford partner for their Indy 500 project.

It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.

The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that resulted in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

It was cleanly programmed and relatively bug-free, as well as speed gained from being written completely in x86 assembly language ( this remained the case for all versions until 4. 0 when Lotus switched to C ) and wrote directly to video memory rather than use the slow DOS and / or BIOS text output functions.

Lotus 123 became the first " killer app " for PC compatibles, especially as it was available exclusively on that platform and no other computers.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

With this, he proclaimed that devotion and practice based on the Lotus Sutra was the correct form of Buddhism for the current time.

This choice, as Nichiren himself explained, was rooted in passages from the Lotus Sutra.

The Eternal Buddha of the Lotus Sutra was revealed in an imagery of a grand ceremony, which Nichiren regarded as the central doctrine of the Lotus Sutra.

A personal version of Lotus Notes was also included, with a number of template databases for contact management, brainstorming, and so forth.

Lotus 1-2-3 was the leading spreadsheet when DOS was the dominant operating system.

The Chinese scholar A ' de noted this was because the Lotus Sutra says Avalokitesvara takes on the visage of whatever being that would best help pervade the dharma.

Vajrapani's Yaksha-like Narayana form was eventually equated with one of the four staff-wielding " Kimnara Kings " from the Lotus Sutra in 1575.

In 2011, the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in Northwestern United States, was presented to Andy Ricker of restaurant " Pok Pok " in Portland, Oregon, and for Best Chef in Southwestern United States to Saipin Chutima of restaurant " Lotus of Siam " in Winchester, Nevada.

Paul Gravett has also noted that the use of detailed reference material and a picture archive, which Hergé implemented from The Blue Lotus onwards, was " a turning point ... in the maturing of the medium as a whole ".

It was serialised from 1921 to 1928 and was adapted into the first wuxia film, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ( 1928 ).

Hunt believed that it was Patrese's muscling past that caused the McLaren and Lotus to touch, but Patrese argues that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place.

He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.

Padmāsana means " Lotus throne " and is also a term for actual thrones, often decorated with lotus foliage motifs, on which figures in art sit.

The term Jubu was first brought into wide circulation with the publication of The Jew in the Lotus ( 1994 ) by Rodger Kamenetz.

:* Lotus japonicus a model legume used to study the symbiosis responsible for nitrogen fixation.

The Duo 101, so named as either a soft top or hard top could be used, incorporated many key stylistic cues inspired by the Lotus Elan, a 1960s roadster.

Third-party software can be used to synchronize PDAs to other personal information managers that are not supported by the PDA manufacturers ( for example, GoldMine and IBM Lotus Notes ).

The first widely marketed software package to offer digital signature was Lotus Notes 1. 0, released in 1989, which used the RSA algorithm.

Symphony's spreadsheet engine was similar to, but not the same as the one used in Lotus 1-2-3, once the most popular of its kind.

Early Lotus Elise models used aluminum MMC rotors, but they have less than optimal heat properties and Lotus has since switched back to cast-iron.

* Toyota has since used metal matrix composites in the Yamaha-designed 2ZZ-GE engine which is used in the later Lotus Lotus Elise S2 versions as well as Toyota car models, including the eponymous Toyota Matrix.

Prior to that year, Lotus had been restricted from exporting software that used encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits by United States law.

Lotus's headquarters in Cambridge used to be divided into two buildings, the Lotus Development Building ( LDB ) ( on the banks of the Charles River ) and the Rogers Street building, located adjacent to the CambridgeSide Galleria.

Historically, Quattro Pro used keyboard commands similar to Lotus 1-2-3.

* R Abell: " Single Valve Internal Combustion Engine Design and Operation ", SAE Journal, Oct 1923, pp 301-309 ( Another type of non-poppet valve, used also by Lotus in a 2-stroke engine-SAE paper 920779 )

In the early days of less-than-100 % IBM PC compatible systems, Flight Simulator and Lotus 1-2-3 were used as unofficial compatibility test software for new PC clone models.

Cosworth began its association with Lotus Cars by work on the longer stroke version of the Kent, which had a capacity of and was used in the Lotus 7. and units were developed in 1963 for use in Formula B and sports car racing, and a twin overhead camshaft version was developed to power the Lotus Cortina.

The US Lotus Elise and Exige models used the 1. 8L VVTL-i I4 from Toyota's late Celica GT-S and the Matrix XRS which is no longer available new.

The 1ZZ & 2ZZ Toyota engines used have a Lotus ECU with their own fuel mapping.

* Lotus 13: Designation not used

* Lotus 66: designation not used

* Lotus 81 ( 1980 – 1981 ): F1 — designation also used for Sunbeam Talbot rally car