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In 1866, he won the first known ski jumping competition in Telemark, Norway. The first of these contraptions hit the market in 1908 in Schollach, Germany, after being invented by hotelier Robert ...

Designed to gather and preserve biological evidence found on the body of a person reporting a sexual assault, it introduced ...

Lorcana artist Whitney Pollett comes from a family of talented and industrious artists, and like her grandfather, has ...

They really pioneered the practice of aeronautical engineering we see today." Who invented the first successful airplane depends on how people define an aircraft, Paone said. Wilbur and Orville ...

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The history of aviation has followed a fascinating trajectory. Leonardo da Vinci first envisaged manned flight way back in the 15th century. Then came hot-air balloons, followed by gliders and ...

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By Josephine Sedgwick The fair, with 77 exhibitors, is a mini-museum, featuring arts, antiquities and design objects, from old masters to art jewelry. By Walker Mimms The National Gallery in ...