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    Oct 3, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  1. Awarding gold medals to astronauts is no small step for lawmakers

    The Write Stuff - Orlando Sentinel
    [From Richard Simon of the Tribune Washington Bureau] WASHINGTON — It’s probably a good thing that Congress didn't plan the moonshot. The House on Monday is expected to authorize the use of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for a Nov. 16 ceremony to...
    2. Feb 16, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  2. Wright Bros. first bicycle shop faces demolition

    The Chain Gang - Orlando Sentinel
    According to the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, a former ice-cream building facing demoliton has preservationists in an uproar because it was built around the first Wright Brothers bicycle shop. Yes, the aviation pioneers were also cycling enthusiasts. Read...
    3. Aug 9, 2011 |Story| Fairfield Weekly

  3. Bridgeport Resident Gustave Whitehead May Have Flown Two Years Before the Wright Brothers

    A locally-bred controversy has snapped at the heels of American icons Orville and Wilbur Wright for years. It is this: Did Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead successfully fly in a powered airplane in 1901, more than two years before the Wright brothers first flew in 1903, or didn't he?
    A locally-bred controversy has snapped at the heels of American icons Orville and Wilbur Wright for years. It is this: Did Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead successfully fly in a powered airplane in 1901, more than two years before the Wright brothers...

    Tags: Air Transportation, Museums, Transportation, Travel, Arts and Culture

    4. Jul 27, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  4. TODAY IN HISTORY

    1789: President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State. 1909: During the first official test of the U.S. Army's first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a...

    Tags: Politics, John Walsh, Adam Walsh, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., U.S. Army

    5. Nov 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Legendary astronauts awarded Congressional Gold Medals

    Nation Now
    Space legends John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were awarded Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday....
    6. Jun 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. School named for Sandra Cisneros to open in Echo Park

    Jacket Copy
    Lots of presidents and neighborhoods lend their names to schools in Los Angeles, but authors, not so much....
    7. Sep 10, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Francis Rogallo dies at 97; engineer invented flexible wing that enabled hang gliding

    Francis Rogallo, an aeronautical engineer who was considered the father of modern hang gliding and other recreational sports for inventing a flexible wing in 1948 that revolutionized nonpowered flight, has died. He was 97.
    Francis Rogallo, an aeronautical engineer who was considered the father of modern hang gliding and other recreational sports for inventing a flexible wing in 1948 that revolutionized nonpowered flight, has died. He was 97. Rogallo died Sept. 1 of natural...

    Tags: Obituaries, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Health and Safety at School, The Washington Post, NASA

    8. Apr 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. John McCain returned from Vietnam determined to lead

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    When John McCain limped home from a Hanoi prison camp in 1973 with a badly injured knee that he could not bend, Navy doctors gave him the bad news: His 15-year career as a jet pilot was over. He would never fly again. But McCain surprised his doctors...

    Tags: Defense, Lawyers, Florida, Washington, DC, Los Angeles Times

    9. May 27, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  9. TV Party: '$40-a-Day'

    Zap2It.com
    In no particular order of preference, here are our favorite things in the world: eating, traveling, spunky women. And so, it makes perfect sense that we would have developed an unhealthy obsession with a woman who's a little Oprah, a little Frommer's...

    Tags: Entertainment, The Beach Boys, eBay Inc., Rachael Ray, Kitty Hawk

    10. Apr 27, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. A drive to save Tempelhof Airport, base of the Berlin airlift

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Gabriele Leech-Anspach was a young mother with a toddler when Soviet authorities suddenly imposed a blockade on West Berlin in 1948, cutting off all road, train and boat access and leaving 2.2 million Berliners stranded on an island of the new Cold War....

    Tags: Air Transportation, Germany, Travel, Washington, DC, Angela Merkel

    11. May 16, 2007 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Island with a view

    In the Outer Banks, the beaches are the star attraction.
    Special to the Sun
    In the Outer Banks, the beaches are the star attraction. Just off the North Carolina coast, the chain of barrier islands stretches more than 90 miles. And for inhabitants and visitors in the 15 towns along the Outer Banks, the beaches rank among the...

    Tags: Oceans, Radishes, Ice Cream, Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Personal Service

    12. Dec 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Business and labor leaders

    Business and labor leaders Russell J. Hammer, 54; former president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce credited with revitalizing the organization (Jan. 28) Peter Newton, 81; Napa Valley vintner who founded Sterling Vineyards...

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Avery Dennison Corporation, Bribery, Restaurant and Catering Industry

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