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An Oregon Department of Transportation roadside assistance employee assisting a motorist. Roadside assistance, also known as breakdown coverage, is a service that assists motorists, motorcyclists, or bicyclists whose vehicles have suffered a mechanical failure that either cannot be resolved by the motorist, or has prevented them from reasonably or effectively transporting the vehicle to an ...
As time went on, more shops and interactive displays were opened to entertain patrons waiting for a seat [6] at the Chicken Dinner Restaurant. [7] The Berry Market expanded South from Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant along Grand Avenue with the addition of wishing wells, rock gardens [8] with miniature waterfalls, water wheels and a grindstone "Down by the Old Mill Stream", [9] near a ...
Many of the oldest roadside attractions still can be visited today. When travel by car became more affordable for many Americans in the 1920s and 30s, road trips were invented!
At this time the University's president, Fr. William Corby, was given a new telescope by the University's senior class. [9] Fr. Corby was a Civil War veteran and is known for his blessing of the troops before the Battle of Gettysburg. The instrument was a 3-inch aperture achromatic refractor with a focal length of 3 1/2-feet (f/14). The ...
On 12 April 2018, the police said that Rakesh Kumar, who leaked the class 12 economics paper, had leaked class 10 mathematics paper also. [40] Consequently, the Central Board of Secondary Education has put in place a system of "encrypted" question papers, which are supposed to be printed by the schools half an hour before the exam starts. [41]
A Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a proposed type of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) involving road vehicles. [1] VANETs were first proposed [2] in 2001 as "car-to-car ad-hoc mobile communication and networking" applications, where networks could be formed and information could be relayed among cars.
Detroit Red Wings players celebrate after a goal as Edmonton Oilers' Leon Draisaitl (29) skates past during second-period NHL hockey game action in Edmonton, Alberta, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
Traffic barrier with a pedestrian guardrail behind it. Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, [1] in Britain as crash barriers, [2] and in auto racing as Armco barriers [3]) keep vehicles within their roadway and prevent them from colliding with dangerous obstacles such as boulders, sign supports, trees, bridge abutments, buildings, walls, and large storm drains ...