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Category: /History
…the discovery of electricity, electricity was generated by rubbing glass tubes with silk. Before Ben discovered it he always thought that lightning was an electrical current. Ben decided to tie a metal key to a string attached to a kite. The lightning struck the kite
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…after 2 tries he got the message to come across. Along the way Bell got a new fascination for flying things. He studies birds for hours and made many different styles of kites and filially he tried to make a flying machine with no motor propelled like a kite
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…left his family and moved to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Ben was on his own and became very accomplished. He did a little bit of everything. Ben Franklin as a scientist and inventor is perhaps the most interesting. "Flying a kite in a lightning storm…
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…in such sports as: soccer, boxing, and field hockey. Bangkok has hosted the Asian games several times. A very popular sport in Thailand is the art of kite flying. This is where male and small female kites do acrobats in the pre- monsoon winds…
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Category: /Literature/Poetry
…. The spider stands on a plant called a "heal-all," yet the death of the moth cannot possibly be healed. He carries the dead moth back to his lair effortlessly "like a paper kite," reiterating the delicacy and lightweight nature of the prey and the ease of the kill…
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…. The chance that a UFO is a kite, balloon or bird is less when the UFO is seen at a very high altitude of course at kite could have snapped its string and be floating free. But balloons would burst because of the thinner air pressure and birds do not fly at 30,000…
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…authorities. Sometimes you would send someone else out to duel for you. In the 1600's, there was no sewage in London, so people empties their chamber pots out of their windows. There were birds called kites that lived in London. Kites would scavenge and eat…
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…the flag belt. A. All players must have three flags at the beginning of play. 1. Failure to wear a flag belt at the start of the play, if noticed by an official prior to the snap is a live ball penalty (5 yards). 2. If a runner loses his/her…
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…of another would require eight times the power. We finally became discouraged, and returned to kite-flying, a sport to which we had devoted so much attention that we were regarded as experts. But as we became older, we had to give up this fascinating sport…
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…. Evidently, one of their friends had slipped and fallen off the edge of the cliff and he had been hurt badly. Once I saw what had happened I sent the fastest runner to the road to get help while I had someone else help me. After the runner had started, I…
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