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(Alamy)Zeppelins like the Hindenburg offered the most luxurious air travel ever. What was it like to travel in one? Jonathan Glancey looks back on a design classic many wish would return.
Test flights over California in recent months of the prototype Aeroscraft, the first of a new generation of fully rigid airships, have encouraged a new wave of enthusiasm for a form of aerial transport effectively killed off by the fiery fate of the Hindenburg, the most imposing of all pre-war Zeppelins.
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Getty ImagesIrene Obera (l), Emma Maria Mazzenga and Constance Marmour compete at the World Masters Athletics Championships in 2015While many in their 80s and 90s may be starting to take it easy, 85-year-old track star Irene Oberais at the other end of the spectrum.
Setting multiple world athletics records in her age category, she is one of a growing band of "
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She’d rehearsed what to say and written a letter explaining herself.
Now, on an afternoon in early May, Stephanie Gilbert pulled up to a liquor store on a busy stretch of highway in Ellicott City, Md. Customers streamed out the door of Pine Orchard Liquors carrying cartons, bottles clinking.
Gilbert, a 55-year-old African American woman with fair skin, green eyes and curly blond hair, had traveled with her fiancé, Steve Brangman, from a Philadelphia suburb, intent on speaking with the store’s owner, Jungsun Kim.
BEIRUT (AP) — An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas’ No. 2 political leader Tuesday, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel’s war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict.
Saleh Arouri, who was the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war with Israel began, was also a founder of the group’s military wing. His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia.
Explore More The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his teacher with his mother’s gun later bragged about it to a school employee – shockingly claiming, “I shot that bitch dead,” according to newly unsealed search warrants.
After the first-grader shot Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6, reading specialist Amy Kovac held the boy until cops arrived, according to the documentsobtained by WTKR.
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Looking back, what are you proudest of?
When I get asked this, it's always, I get a catch in my throat because, um... You would think that "Roots," because of the magnitude of the impact that it's had on the planet.
You know, some 50-plus countries around the world, "Roots" is universally embraced as an important story for humanity.
But it's really "Reading Rainbow."
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- That is, that's the first line of my obituary.
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Explore More Eduardo Escobar rounded second base with a scream and flexed his arms during his home run trot.
Maybe Escobar was trying to scare off the early season demons that have haunted his 13-year MLB career (especially the last two Aprils with the Mets), have turned him into a target of fan ire and could threaten his playing time if he ever loses the seemingly unwavering support of the dugout.