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  • Petersons Sports Scholarship and College Athletic Program: Getting your Way
    By trz on April 4, 2009 | No Comments  Comments

    Petersons Sports Scholarship and College Athletic Program: Getting your Way towards becoming a College-Bound Student Athlete

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  • 19th Century Airships and Balloons
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    In the 1800s, we saw advances in ballooning, subsequent to the flight of the Montgolfier in 1783. Thus, it was popular all over the world by mid century. Jean-Pierre Blanchard was famous for his balloon flights all over Europe and America even though he failed at innumerable attempts to create the ornithopter. In 1785, John-Pierre with John Jeffries, a physician crossed the English Channel. They also did the exhibition ascent in Philadelphia in 1793, no less than George Washington was there to witness the event.

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  • Twelve Things You Never Knew About Christmas
    By trz on April 4, 2009 | No Comments  Comments

    1.Christmas trees were first lighted with actual candles, which presented a fire hazard. As a result containers filled with water
    had to be kept near the Christmas tree.

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