19 ), but in 1930 the Japanese government created a ministerial ordinance that allowed cars with engines up to 500 cc to be driven without a license.

Michael " Mick " Doohan AM ( born in Brisbane, Australia ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

He is one of the few 500 cc or MotoGP World Champions to have won a Superbike World Championship race.

In 1994, however, he won his first 500 cc World Championship.

Thereafter, until 1998, he dominated the class, winning five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular ( the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap ), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers ( effectively supplanting 500 cc F3 ), with Lola, Lotus, Cooper and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid 1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined " big bangers " the technology of which largely gave rise to Can-Am but soon died out.

Classes for 50 cc, 80cc, 125 cc, 250 cc, 350 cc, and 500 cc solo machines have existed over time, and 350 cc and 500 cc sidecars.

In 1969, the FIM — citing high development costs for non-works teams — brought in new rules restricting all classes to six gears and most to two cylinders ( four cylinders in the case of the 350 cc and 500 cc classes ).

There were four principal variants of the Trabant, the P50, also known as the Trabant 500, produced 1957 – 1962 ; the Trabant 600, produced 1962 – 1964 ; the Trabant 601, produced 1963 – 1991 ; and the Trabant 1. 1 produced 1990 – 1991 with a VW engine ( making the " 1. 1 " a slight misnomer ).

File: P_50_Trabant. jpg | Trabant P50 Limousine later called Trabant 500 Limousine

File: Fotothek_df_ps_0002918_Stadt_ ^ _Stadtlandschaften_ ^ _Camping. jpg | Trabant P50 Universal later called Trabant 500 Universal

These evolved into significant populations that are best known through the spectacular burials ( dating to c. 500 – 900 CE ) at the Monagrillo archaeological site, and the beautiful polychrome pottery of the Gran Coclé style.

Stonehenge evolved in several construction phases spanning at least 1, 500 years.

" In the original conception of the character, Eega Beeva's look was attributed to him being a highly evolved human from 500 years in the future, namely from the year 2447.

Fossil records indicate that nautiloids have not evolved much during the last 500 million years.

For 500 years after the fall of the Roman empire, the practice of military engineering barely evolved in the west.

In the last fifty years, Brookhaven has evolved very dramatically from a dairy and stock farm economy to a residential community of over 8, 500 people living in over 3, 600 homes, apartments and condominiums and supporting approximately 150 businesses.

In Japan, Betamax had more success and eventually evolved into Extended Definition Betamax, with 500 + lines of resolution, but eventually both Betamax and VHS were supplanted by laser-based technology.

This engine was originally designed as a 2 L Formula 2 engine for the Ferrari 500, but evolved to 2. 5 L to compete in Formula One in the Ferrari 625.

The Vedic period is held to have ended around 500 BC, Vedic religion gradually metamorphosizing into the various schools of Hinduism, which further evolved into Puranic Hinduism.

While the Old Testament writings describe Sheol as the permanent place of the dead, in the Second Temple period ( roughly 500 BCE-70 CE ) a more diverse set of ideas evolved: in some texts, Sheol is the home of both the righteous and the wicked, separated into respective compartments ; in others, it was a place of punishment, meant for the wicked dead alone.

Formula Three ( adopted by the FIA in 1950 ) evolved from postwar auto racing, with lightweight tube-frame chassis powered by 500 cc motorcycle engines ( notably Nortons and JAP speedway ).

The 500 cc formula originally evolved in 1946 from low-cost " special " racing organised by enthusiasts in Bristol, England, just before the Second World War ; British motorsport after the war picked up slowly, partly due to petrol rationing which continued for a number of years and home-built 500 cc cars engines were intended to be accessible to the " impecunious enthusiast ".

Around 500 AD, Old Frankish evolved to Old Dutch, a West Germanic language that was spoken by the Franks and to a lesser extent by people living in the regions conquered by the Franks.

Kawai grand pianos have evolved steadily over the decades -- from the Model 500 / 600 built in the 1960s and 1970s, to the renowned KG Series in the 1980s and early 1990s that became extremely popular among teachers and institutions.

In Japan, Betamax had more success and eventually evolved into Enhanced Definition Betamax with 500 + lines resolution ( DVD quality ), but eventually both Betamax and VHS were supplanted by laser-based technology.

The production version of the engine, the EJ22 flew on the prototype Eclipse 500 VLJ ( which had evolved from the V-Jet II ), but was subsequently replaced by a Pratt & Whitney engine.

This model later evolved to the VIP 400, VIP 500, and VIP 600.

Since then, it has evolved into a state-of-the-art education facility for about 500 students, with forms from grade 1 to 4 ( Grundschule ) and 5 to 12 ( Gymnasium ).

Farther south, Panama was home to some of the earliest pottery-making, such as the Monagrillo culture dating to about 2500 – 1700 BC ; this culture evolved into significant populations best known for spectacular burial sites ( dating to c. 500 – 900 AD ) and polychrome pottery of the Coclé style.

This private project was quickly adopted by Cosworth itself, and the Parnelli engine evolved into the equally legendary Cosworth DFX, an engine which would go on to win every Indianapolis 500 race and USAC / CART Championship between 1978 and 1987.

The Daily Union evolved quite quickly as a leading newspaper, as its initial circulation of 500 was soon afterward expanded with an even wider circulation and the daily publication was joined by the semi-monthly Steamer Union ( 1851 ) for Atlantic states and European readers, the Weekly Union ( 1852 ), and the semi-annual Pictorial Union ( 1853 ), which featured drawings of towns, landscapes and other scenes of the era.

Linguistic and archeological evidence indicates that Austronesian speakers first reached Sumatra from Taiwan and the Philippines through Borneo and / or Java about 2, 500 years ago, and the Batak probably evolved from these settlers.

He was involved in many of Edison's projects, and was a partner in an early organization which evolved into the General Electric Company, one of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the United States.

Viewed from afar, the CDC looks like a rather stalwart political pyramid: its elected directorate fans out into an array of district leaders and standing committees, and thence into its component clubs and affiliated groups -- 500 or so.

Upon heating, α-berkelium transforms into another phase with an fcc lattice ( but slightly different from β-berkelium ), space group Fmm and the lattice constant of 500 pm ; this fcc structure is equivalent to the closest packing with the sequence ABC.

The Italians suffered about 7, 000 killed and 1, 500 wounded in the battle and subsequent retreat back into Eritrea, with 3, 000 taken prisoner ; Ethiopian losses have been estimated around 4, 000 – 5, 000, but with 8, 000 wounded.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

The World's largest MSW co-composter is the Edmonton Composting Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which turns 220, 000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22, 500 dry tonnes of biosolids per year into 80, 000 tonnes of compost.

Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

Nearly every key player suffered injury and the Northsiders struggled into the All Star break with a disappointing. 500 record.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

The 1, 500 to 1, 800 species of cacti mostly fall into one of two groups of " core cacti ": opuntias ( subfamily Opuntioideae ) and " cactoids " ( subfamily Cactoideae ).

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

At the outer edge of the reef shelf, the bottom slopes very steeply into deep water, at some locations dropping to more than 1, 500 feet ( 457 m ) within 0. 6 miles ( 1 km ) of the shore.

In a typical lightning strike, 500 joule | megajoules of electric potential energy are converted into 500 megajoules ( total ) of light energy, sound energy, thermal energy, and so on.

500, 000 years ago evolving into H. antecessor, H. heidelbergensis and H. neanderthalensis.

Examples of civil gauges into category 4:. 22 LR,. 357 magnum,. 44 magnum,. 500 S & W.

This period of warmth ended about 5, 500 years ago with the descent into the Neoglacial.

Through the Amoraic period ( 200 to 500 CE ) and into the Geonic period, this system was displaced by mathematical rules.

The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

Thereupon Belisarius with 7, 500 men invaded Sicily ( 535 ) and advanced into Italy, sacking Naples and capturing Rome on 9 December 536.

By 1961, a British military mission had converted the constabulary into a combined a brigade of 2, 500 men which also established small air and naval forces in 1961.

An offshoot of this road branches off across a 3, 500 meter pass into the Talas Valley in the northwest.

If Mental Balance ever reaches + 500 /- 500, the character Awakens and either becomes a divine creature or transforms into a demon.

It uses a standard Soviet / Russian FAB-500 general-purpose bomb, with a nominal weight of 500 kg ( 1, 102 lb ), as a warhead, adding a low-light television seeker and guidance fins to turn it into a guided, unpowered glide bomb.