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4 days ago · Volkswagen Jetta. The Volkswagen Jetta ( listen ⓘ) is a compact car / small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen since 1979. Positioned to fill a sedan niche above the firm's Golf hatchback, it has been marketed over seven generations, variously as the Atlantic, Vento, Bora, City Jetta, Jetta City, GLI, Jetta, Clasico, and ...
22 hours ago · Álvaro Bautista (pictured in 2022) will enter as the defending world champion. The 2024 Superbike World Championship will be the 37th season of the Superbike World Championship . The season is scheduled for the inaugural FIM Women’s Motorcycling World Championship as a support class, held over six rounds at selected European tracks using ...
1 day ago · Etymology. Until the 16th century, sharks were known to mariners as "sea dogs". This is still evidential in several species termed "dogfish," or the porbeagle.The etymology of the word shark is uncertain, the most likely etymology states that the original sense of the word was that of "predator, one who preys on others" from the Dutch schurk, meaning 'villain, scoundrel' (cf. card shark, loan ...
1 day ago · A cross-section of a tire showing ply orientations. Tire construction spans pneumatic tires used on cars, trucks, and aircraft, but also includes non-automotive applications with slow-moving, light-duty, or railroad applications, which may have non-pneumatic tires.
1 day ago · Lifetime risk: 1 in 400 individuals [7] Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ), also known as motor neurone disease ( MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare and terminal neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. [3] ALS is the most common form of the ...
1 day ago · Rocket. A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome. A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin/spool') [nb 1] [1] is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. [2]
3 days ago · News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called " hard news " to differentiate it from soft media .