Breaking the Sound Barrier
Overview
In 1947, Chuck Yeager (1923- ) became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Not only did he prove that the "sound barrier" could be ...
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Arbil, Iraq (dpa) - The parliament of Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous
Region reached out to Turkey on Wednesday in pursuit of a peaceful
solution to the crisis over possible Turki...
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Residents from the Twin Cities to the southwestern corner of Minnesota and into Iowa reported seeing a flaming object shooting through the sky Wednesday, and experts said they may have been watchin...
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Question 1 of 10:In what year did Count
Gaston de
Chasseloup-Laubat
set the first ever land speed record of 39.2 mph?a) 1898 (1)b) 1910 (0)c) 1918 (0)d) 1926 (0)Question 2 of 10:Which famous car ...
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Today is Friday, May 18, the 138th day of 2007. There are 227 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed "separate but equal" racial segrega...
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New York (dpa) - Syria accused Israel Tuesday of violating its
airspace and dropping "some munitions" without causing human
casualties or property damage, warning that it co...
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Berlin (dpa) - The debate on lowering carbon dioxide emissions and
clean air has overshadowed the issue of road and transport noise with
European legislators preparing a hos...
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From somewhere west of swank and south of sumptuous comes the “S” in this SUV. Lexus doesn’t do sinew and sweat, if that’s what you’re thinking a sport-ute ought to be...
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The Syrian government charged Thursday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old...
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Syria's announcement that it opened fire on Israeli aircraft invading its airspace has raised the question of why Israel would want to heighten tensions just days after stating that war with its en...
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If hunting has a Super Bowl, this is it.At dawn on a September day, as the sky in the east was turning from slate gray to pale orange, 27 invited hunters from around the world set out on the rollin...
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Breaking the Sound Barrier
ROUNDUP: Iraqi Kurdish parliament seeks peace in Turkey crisis
