As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog...
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27 July 1901: Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first...
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27 July 1901
Wilbur
and Orville Wright
made the first set of test glides near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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17 December 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright of Ohio completed...
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17 December 1903
Orville
and Wilbur Wright
of Ohio completed their historic flight (the world's first powered, sustained, controlled aeroplane flight) with Flyer I at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
158
Guardian Weekly.
(30 March-5 April 2000): 22
8 August 1908: The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville,...
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8 August 1908
The Wright brothers, Wilbur
and Orville
, made their first public flight, round a racecourse at Le Mans in France, nearly five years after their first powered flight in North Carolina.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 August 2016
16 October 1908: Samuel F. Cody of the US was the first to...
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16 October 1908
Samuel F. Cody
of the US was the first to fly an airplane in the British Isles; he took off from Farnborough, Hampshire.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
46
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
340
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 August 2012
16 March 1926: A rocket designed by Robert Goddard at Clark...
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16 March 1926
A rocket designed by Robert Goddard
at Clark University
, Worcester, Massachusetts, made the first free flight of a liquid-fuelled rocket.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
206
Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.