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With a top speed of 73 miles per hour (117 km/h), the ride features eight air-time hills. Riders of Apollo's Chariot experience up to 4.1 times the force of gravity on the 2-minute, 15-second ride. Apollo's Chariot operates with three trains with nine cars per train. Riders are arranged four across in a single row for a total of 36 riders per ...
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Le Bassin d'Apollon (The Apollo Basin), also called the Fountain of Apollo or the Apollo Fountain, is a fountain in the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles, France. Charles Le Brun designed the centerpiece depicting the Greek god Apollo rising from the sea in a four-horse chariot. A pond was dug on the site of the fountain in 1639 called "The ...
An inscription on the fountain continues: "At Apollo's feet the Star of Day is indicated by a semi-circle of which the rays spread out in jets of light (the rising sun). The horse's heads represent the horses of Apollo's chariot. Out of the nostrils, water falls into the first basin, to fall there into the second and run away into the large basin.
Celtic chariot burial, France, La Tène culture, c. 450 BC. The Celtic chariot, which may have been called karbantos in Gaulish (compare Latin carpentum), [52] [53] was a biga that measured approximately 2 m (6 ft 6 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) in width and 4 m (13 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in length. British chariots were open in front.
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Nemesis's chariot, a chariot drawn by griffins. Poseidon's chariot, pulled by hippocampi. Rhea's chariot, drawn by lions. Selene's chariot, drawn across the night sky by her bulls or horses. Sol Invictus's chariot, depicted riding a quadriga on the reverse of a Roman coin. Zeus's chariot, drawn by the four directional winds in horse-shape.
AS-201 (Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1-A, or Apollo 1 prior to the 1967 pad fire), flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command and service module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. The spacecraft consisted of the second Block I command module and the first Block I service module.