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42–101 m (138–331 ft) 1French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2(0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Chilly-Mazarin(French:[ʃijimazaʁɛ̃]ⓘ) is a communein the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.9 km (10.5 mi) from the center of Paris. A small part of Orly International ...
Metz. Jules Mazarin[ a] (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino[ b] or Mazarini; [ 5] 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. After serving as a papal diplomat for ...
Safety car. In motorsport, a safety car, or a pace car, is an automobile which limits the speed of competing cars or motorcycles on a racetrack in the case of a caution period such as an obstruction on the track or bad weather. The aim of the safety car is to enable the clearance of any obstruction under safer conditions, especially for ...
The Aurora was an American automobile prototype manufactured by Father Alfred A. Juliano, a Catholic priest, [1] from 1957 to 1958. The Aurora is arguably the first Experimental Safety Vehicle ever made, even before the coinage of the ESV initialism. This safety car was to be available with a Chrysler, Cadillac, or Lincoln engine, built on a ...
Birney. A Birney or Birney Safety Car is a type of streetcar that was manufactured in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. The design was small and light and was intended to be an economical means of providing frequent service at a lower infrastructure and labor cost than conventional streetcars. Production of Birney cars lasted from 1915 ...
Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699), [ 1] was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King ...
More recently, earlier this fall AAA cautioned that the safety systems can't completely protect vehicles from rear-end crashes, particularly those that happen at higher speeds in the 40-mph range ...
Sir Vival. The Sir Vival was a concept car created by Walter C. Jerome of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1958. Jerome created what he termed a "revolutionary vehicle" due to concern about what he saw as 1950s Detroit 's lack of concern for safety and focus on planned obsolescence. While never produced commercially, the Sir Vival featured many ...