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http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/text/easter.htm - 0 views

library.thinkquest.org/...easter.htm National Easter Celebration Holiday Religeon
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    Easter is celebrated differently in different countries all around the world
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History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 3 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

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  • ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
  • In 1897 he flew in a balloon for the first time and thereafter became one of the foremost balloonists in France.
  • In 1905 he built an airplane consisting of three box kites connected to each other by bamboo poles, powered by a steam engine.
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  • THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright, the sons of a midwestern minister, displayed a high mechanical aptitude even in their youth. This, coupled with investigative natures, made Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912) ideal inventors. By their early twenties they had built a printing press and designed a new bicycle, which they also manufactured. They became interested in flight by reading about the glider experiments of German aerialist Otto Lilienthal.
  • By December of 1903, the brothers were back at Kitty Hawk with their first powered airplane, a double-winged, box kite-shaped contraption with an undercarriage attached to a stationary monorail track. On Dec. 17 Orville stretched out in the middle of the lower wing and took off on a 12-sec., 120-ft. flight. That same day, Wilbur flew for 59 sec., covering 852 ft.
  • five witnesses
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History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 2 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

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  • Ader kept working to perfect his airplane, and finally, with the financial backing of the French Army, he built Avion III, a flying machine similar in design to the Eole but with a longer wingspan and two four-blade propellers. On Oct. 14, 1897, Ader tested his Avion at Satory with a military observer team present. Ader claimed that that day he had again flown, but three witnesses disagreed with each other about whether Ader actually took off and flew the Avion before it crashed.
  • SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
  • Langley was soon experimenting with models, the first of which were powered by rubber bands
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  • The result was the completion of a series of test planes.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • This 30-lb. craft with a steam engine flew for 1 min. 20 sec. at an altitude of 70 to 100 ft. for a distance of 3,000 ft.
  • It was the first successful flight of an unmanned heavier-than-air flying machine. Langley's Aerodrome Number 6 had mechanical problems that day, but it flew 4,200 ft. in November of 1896.
  • In 1898, at President William McKinley's instigation, the U.S. Army awarded Langley $50,000 to develop a plane that would carry a man aloft. In December, 1903, nine days before the Wrights' test at Kitty Hawk, Langley tried out his new gasoline-powered experimental model. A mishap with the catapult caused the airplane to plunge to the bottom of the Potomac, and Langley gave up his experiments after being criticized by the press for the great expense to the taxpayers.
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History Who Really Invented the Airplane Part 1 - Trivia-Library.com - 0 views

www.trivia-library.com/...vented-the-airplane-part-1.htm Really invented plane
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  • Leonardo da Vinci designed a flying machine in the 15th century, and by the 19th century men were airborne in hot-air balloons, gliders, and huge kites.
  • depended on the whimsy of the wind
  • And so, at the end of the 19th century, enthusiasts around the world joined in the race to invent the first flying machine.
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  • CLEMENT ADER (1841-1925)
  • Clement Ader
  • producing a kite capable of carrying a man aloft
  • build and design countless kites
  • In the early 1870s he created an ornithopter, an engine to which was attached flapping wings, but it failed to fly
  • Ader went to Algeria to study the flight of vultures
  • In order to fly, he decided, a machine must have fixed wings and an engine capable of lifting it off the ground
  • the Eole
  • akeoff and a powered flight of approximately 165 ft.
  • 330 ft.
  • Ader himself did not publicly report this flight until 1906.
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CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan - 0 views

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  • For more than two centuries this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture.
  • During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of both China and Russia.
  • The economy experienced a major slowdown starting in the 1990s following three decades of unprecedented growth, but Japan still remains a major economic power, both in Asia and globally.
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  • Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically powerful economy in the world after the US and the third-largest economy in the world after the US and China, measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis.
  • Some fear that a rise in taxes could endanger the current economic recovery. Debate also continues on the role of and effects of reform in restructuring the economy, particularly with respect to increasing income disparities.
  • China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally declared exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the site of intensive hydrocarbon prospecting
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The History of the Airplane - Orville and Wilbur Wright. - 0 views

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  • Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) requested a patent application for a "flying machine" nine months before their successful flight in December 1903, which Orville Wright recorded in his diary. As part of the Wright Brothers' systematic practice of photographing every prototype and test of their various flying machines, they had persuaded an attendant from a nearby lifesaving station to snap Orville Wright in full flight. The craft soared to an altitude of 10 feet, traveled 120 feet, and landed 12 seconds after takeoff. After making two longer flights that day, Orville and Wilbur Wright sent this telegram to their father, instructing him to "inform press."
  • "flight is possible to man...[and] I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life"
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