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Beko has been the official sponsor of the Turkish, Italian and Lithuanian premier basketball leagues, as well as the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. [14] Beko is a partner of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona [15] since 2014 and Turkish football club Beşiktaş JK [16] (having previously been their shirt sponsor from 1988 to 2004 [17]) and Turkmen football club FC HTTU. [18]
It is a subsidiary of Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier [3] and is based in East Tāmaki, New Zealand. Originally an importer of domestic refrigerators , [ 3 ] Fisher & Paykel now holds over 420 patents and bases its identity on innovative design, particularly in the areas of usability and environmental awareness.
New Zealand: 178 m (584 ft) 57 2020 2nd Tallest Residential building in New Zealand. Tallest building by Highest occupiable floor and floor count in New Zealand [9] 61= Chapel Tower Melbourne Australia: 178 m (584 ft) 50 2019 62 Vero Centre: Auckland New Zealand: 170 m (558 ft) 38: 2000: Tallest building in New Zealand from 2000 to 2020. [10 ...
Tallest structure in New Zealand. 2nd tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere. 2 New Plymouth Power Station chimney: New Plymouth: 198 metres (650 ft) none 1974 Decommissioned in 2008 but the chimney still stands. [1] 3 PwC Tower at Commercial Bay: Auckland: 180.1 metres (591 ft) 41 [2] 2020
Indonesian traditional brick stove, used in some rural areas An 18th-century Japanese merchant's kitchen with copper Kamado (Hezzui), Fukagawa Edo Museum. Early clay stoves that enclosed the fire completely were known from the Chinese Qin dynasty (221 BC – 206/207 BC), and a similar design known as kamado (かまど) appeared in the Kofun period (3rd–6th century) in Japan.
New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with 84.3% of the population living in urban areas, and 51.0% of the population living in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000. [311] Auckland, with over 1.4 million residents, is by far the largest city. [311] New Zealand cities generally rank highly on international livability measures.
Māori settled in Otago relatively soon after reaching New Zealand, and the Dunedin area was a major whaling centre and site of early European colonisation. [1] The building boom from the gold rush of the 1860s, coupled with the relative stagnation of the region's population in the 20th century, has led to the preservation of many old ...
Early gas ovens had no thermostats and it was up to the cook to continually adjust a manual valve to keep the oven at the desired temperature. For this and other reasons gas cookers were not popular; most users preferred the coal-fired open kitchen range. The breakthrough came in the 1920s when a manufacturer introduced the Regulo.