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Thu Dec-17-09 05:50 AM
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Poll question: What state deserves credit for being the birthplace of flight? |
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Thu Dec-17-09 06:27 AM
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Thu Dec-17-09 03:36 PM
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10. "oldest fossil of flying insect discovered" |
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Thu Dec-17-09 04:17 PM
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:04 AM
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2. As a NC native, I have to pick my home state. |
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Thu Dec-17-09 02:40 PM
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9. Well looser-. As a Ohio native, I pick MY home state!! |
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Thu Dec-17-09 04:37 PM
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Thu Dec-17-09 06:07 PM
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13. Name one Ohioan that flew as high as David Thompson |
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Remember that night he hit his head on the top of the backboard?
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:14 AM
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Is that a reference to Orville and Wilber Wright's sister Gertrude, who became one of the two inaugural members of the Mile High Club?
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:18 AM
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Edited on Thu Dec-17-09 09:19 AM by charlie and algernon
I'm quite sure Ben Franklin invented a plane to help him as he traveled the colonies and then go back and forth from North America to Europe. How else do you suppose a frumpy old man was able to get all those women?
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:24 AM
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5. Gustave Whitehead may have flown in 1899 in Pittsburgh |
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After crashing and being forbidden to continue his experiments there, he moved to Connecticut where he may have flown before the Wright brothers did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
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Thu Dec-17-09 12:33 PM
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depends where in North America birds first appeared.
Maybe Florida? :shrug:
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Thu Dec-17-09 09:23 PM
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17. I agree with you. A completely unbiased opinion, of course. |
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Thu Dec-17-09 02:26 PM
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8. The state of "What the &@*# was I thinking? Get me back on solid ground this instant!" n/t |
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Thu Dec-17-09 07:13 PM
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and the balloons of the Montgolfier brothers. Well, you didn't say 'powered' flight did you?
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Thu Dec-17-09 07:51 PM
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16. Did the Montgolfier brothers ever block Bill Walton's shot? |
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