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…of white cotton cloth all of which she picked up and used. I saw a bird flying…so slowly that at first I thought it was a little boy’s kite with a long tail” (Thoreau Journal). Thoreau’s thorough obsession with nature is a clear marker of Transcendental…

…work, perferring to paint, make kites, write in notebooks, or invent toys. He made no friends. Silent and dreamy, he was at the bottom of his class. Oddly, it was a savage kick by a school bully that caused Newton's great mind to awaken. The mild, dreamy…

…of kites.” And “Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold” After this scene the Lords around Macbeth begin to turn against him. Lord: “The son of Duncan From whom this tyrant holds” And eventually…

…, peculiar clouds, birds, aircraft, balloons, kites, aerial flares, meteors and satellites. Between 1647 to 1969 at total of 12,618 reports have been received concerning unidentified flying objects, of which 701 of the reports, or 5.6 percent, were listed…

…is now called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. In his later life Bell was noted for his interest in flying. He did many experiments with kites that could carry a man and heavier than air machines. In 1907, Bell helped organize…

…theory he needed to see whether or not lightning would pass through metal. So he attached a metal key to a kite and flew it in a storm. His experiment proved that lightning was a stream of electrified air, known as plasma. Ben realized that lightning…

…a kite under an intense thunderstorm. He was trying to determine whether lightning was related to electricity. Lightning is better than the fireworks of July 4th. In any one-day, lightning strikes somewhere on Earth's surface, 100 times a second…

…with electricity" today. This obviously led to the invention of the lightning rod. In 1748 he sold his business in order to pursue his interest in science. Shortly after that, in 1752, Franklin pulled off the famous "kite in the storm trick (Sahlman)." In 1757…

…INTRODUCTION The world has never been short of wind. For thousands of years it has turned windmills, flown kites, cooled houses and filled sails. Now, technological advances are breathing new life into our use of wind power as a clean, renewable…

…). Children cannot fly kites, play chess or play with the pigeons since it distracts them from their religious studies. Men must wear beards or face prison until their shaven whiskers grow back. Paper bags are banned since the paper might have been recycled from…