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To promote automobile manufacturing in Canada, the APTA (also known as the "Auto Pact") in the 1960s had provisions prohibiting sales of certain United States-made cars. . General Motors responded by offering certain makes of cars manufactured in Canada primarily for the Canadian market such as Acadian, and Beaumont, which started as an offering in the Acadian line, but later became its own ...
Comet (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), also known as the Great Comet of 2024 and formally designated as C/2023 A3, is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.
1972 Great Daylight Fireball above the United States and Canada: First scientifically observed [24] 71.4: 100: March 29, 2006: 2006 Earth-grazing Fireball above Japan [25] 98.7: 44: October 13, 1990: 1990 Earth-grazing Fireball above Czechoslovakia and Poland: First captured from 2 distant locations, which enabled computing its orbit by ...
Manhattan is unique in the U.S. for intense use of public transportation and lack of private car ownership. While 88% of Americans nationwide drive to their jobs, with only 5% using public transport, mass transit is the dominant form of travel for residents of Manhattan, with 72% of borough residents using public transport to get to work, while ...