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• Circuit de Monaco
  ...friction between the pads and the disk, hence lessening braking power. To combat this, [[Juan Pablo Montoya|Montoya]] adopted discs with radial grooves that
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• Marina Militare
  * ''Genio Navale'' (naval [[combat engineering]]) ...battleships, started a long and complex rebuilding process. The important combat contributions of the Italian naval forces after the signing of the armistic
  19 KB (2,480 words) - 08:29, 8 October 2009
• Catalytic converter
  ...possible to add substances like [[vanadium]] to the catalyst wash coat to combat sulfur oxide formation, this will typically reduce the effectiveness of the
  11 KB (1,638 words) - 08:05, 8 October 2009
• Fiat 500
  ...as the ''Nuova 500'', it was marketed as a cheap and practical town car to combat high levels of congestion in Italian cities. Measuring only 2.97 m (9 ft 9
  11 KB (1,713 words) - 17:00, 22 January 2014
• Eddie Irvine
  ...e suffered from back pain which required that his seat be adjusted to help combat this problem. Possibly stemming from this, a journalist suggested he was un
  37 KB (5,196 words) - 22:51, 11 June 2009
• Aeronautica Militare
  |SAR, Combat SAR |SAR, Combat SAR
  28 KB (3,890 words) - 11:59, 8 October 2009
• Turbo
  Some car makers combat lag by using two small turbos (like [[Toyota]], [[Subaru]], [[Maserati]], [
  20 KB (3,092 words) - 23:47, 7 August 2009
• Wankel engine
  ...ine. The design was proposed as the power source for several [[US Marine]] combat vehicles in the late 1980s.
  23 KB (3,604 words) - 09:49, 2 August 2009
• Turbocharger
  Some car makers combat lag by using two small turbos (like [[Toyota]], [[Subaru]], [[Maserati]], [
  19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:22, 8 October 2009
• Diamonds Are Forever
  ...hat guards Willard Whyte. Trina Parks thought it was interesting to have a combat form styled after rhythmic gymnastics and dance, thus she choreographed man
  18 KB (2,838 words) - 13:18, 28 June 2010
• Roman Kingdom
  ...divided the people of Rome between the able bodied men and those unfit for combat. The fighting men became the [[Roman legion]]s consisting of 6000 infantry
  25 KB (4,087 words) - 09:40, 7 October 2009
• List of James Bond gadgets
  ; Virtual Combat Training Simulator : This device allows the user to enter a virtual environ ...including a high-tech first aid kit and portable [[defibrillator]] used to combat poisoning. (The vehicle itself, apart from a bulletproof windshield, appear
  48 KB (7,856 words) - 22:24, 13 September 2009
• Paul Newman
  ...o squadrons were responsible primarily for training replacement pilots and combat air crewmen, placing particular importance on carrier landings. He later fl
  30 KB (4,671 words) - 22:18, 22 September 2009
• 1994 Formula One season
  ...ght in by Williams for the [[1994 French Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]] to combat falling TV viewing figures, Hill broke Schumacher's run of consecutive pole
  52 KB (6,773 words) - 09:03, 7 October 2009
• Bicycle
  ...but it has been used as a method of transporting soldiers and supplies to combat zones. Bicycles were used in the [[Second Boer War]], where both sides used
  53 KB (8,173 words) - 09:32, 25 September 2009
• Gino Bartali
  ...astonished and affronted.<br>Henceforward, the two riders were in personal combat - it often seemed that, as fierce rivals, they cared less about winning a r
  33 KB (4,985 words) - 17:43, 15 January 2012
• Aluminium
  ...of [[theatrical property|prop]] [[sword]]s and [[knives]] used in [[stage combat]].
  35 KB (5,288 words) - 22:04, 13 July 2007
• Car handling
  ...faces and oversteer under hard braking on solid surfaces. Most modern cars combat this by varying the distribution of braking in some way. This is important
  36 KB (5,845 words) - 08:04, 8 October 2009
• Formula One
  ...ent, the [[FIA]] has been taxed with the responsibility of making rules to combat the spiralling costs which affect the smaller teams and to ensure that the
  35 KB (5,462 words) - 09:39, 7 October 2009

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