In 1960, a B-52 Stratofortress training mission became one of the Cold War’s most unusual aviation accidents. After a crew member mistakenly ejected believing the aircraft was about to crash, the pilot assumed catastrophic failure had occurred and ordered the remaining crew to abandon the bomber.
Remarkably, the aircraft did not immediately fall. Still aerodynamically stable and likely on autopilot, it continued flying unmanned for roughly 50 miles before eventually crashing.
The incident underscored both the risks of early jet operations and the extraordinary stability engineered into the B-52, a high-altitude, long-range bomber designed to remain controllable even under extreme conditions.
The B-52 has since become one of the longest-serving military aircraft in history, with some airframes still in service today and projected to operate into the 2050s—giving certain aircraft a potential operational lifespan approaching a century.
This is real footage from 127 years ago.
A family was performing their acrobatic act in Paris, in 1899, and someone was there to film it...
What you are watching was captured by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, the two Frenchmen who pioneered cinema. Only a few years earlier, in December 1895, they had held the first public screening of projected film in history, using their invention, the Cinématographe.
Now they were pointing their camera at the world around them, recording ordinary life as almost no one ever had before: workers leaving a factory, a train pulling into a station, and this, a family of acrobats throwing their bodies through the air.
The performers were the Kremos, a celebrated troupe who had created their signature act just a few years before this film was made. They were what circus people call icarists, specialists in a breathtaking discipline where one performer lies on their back and launches another into the air with their feet, catching and re-launching them like a juggler using human beings instead of clubs.
The family kept the act alive for generations. Their descendants were still performing, on stages around the world, more than a century after this film was made...
No basta con intenciones, así tengamos la mejor intención del mundo y el mayor dinero, como Arabia Saudita. Se necesita la reunión de personas valientes e inteligentes que crean y descubran incesantemente, tal como en USA.
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A woman at Spring Lake Beach gestures toward a sign as she explains to a lifeguard why she was sunbathing topless, only to learn the rule applied to men. New Jersey, 1939.
Just a few years earlier, men in many U.S. cities risked fines or arrest for appearing shirtless in public.
By the late 1930s, however, many beaches had started permitting men to swim without shirts, leading to signage like the one shown in the photograph.
While shirtless bathing for men quickly became widely accepted, women were still expected—both legally and socially—to keep their chests covered for decades afterward.
In many parts of the United States, rules surrounding female toplessness have only begun to change in recent decades through court decisions and local policy reforms.
Hoy fui a Vivanda en Miraflores y todas las cajas estaban llenas.
“¿Esto es normal?” pregunté a una de las cajeras.
“No, señor. Es por la victoria de Keiko. La gente está más optimista y compra más. Gracias a Dios no ganó el comunista”.
Quedé sorprendido.
Ya se siente el cambio.
One of TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES’ (2003) practical effects was achieved with inflatable air bladders hidden beneath Kristanna Loken’s costume.
She couldn’t stop laughing because a crew member had to pump them up by hand.
“It didn’t always work. Sometimes it popped.”
Concluido el proceso electoral y proclamados los resultados por el JNE, recibo con profundo agradecimiento la confianza que millones de peruanos han depositado en mí.
Empieza una nueva etapa. La asumimos con responsabilidad, humildad y un profundo sentido del deber. Cada día de este proceso de transición es una oportunidad para escuchar, dialogar y llegar preparados al inicio del nuevo gobierno.
A través de estas cuentas, se compartirán los avances de esta etapa y el trabajo que venimos realizando. Los invito a acompañarnos.
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