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  The Highs and Lows of Human-Powered Flight

  Engadget - James Trew

  On March 19th 2012, YouTube user jarnosmeets80 uploaded a video to YouTube entitled "Flying like a bird | part 14/14." In it, a man donning a set of homemade wings and a helmet with a GoPro attached achieves what many wishful-thinkers, scientists and millennia of wingless bipeds have long dreamed of …

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  H. P. Lovecraft and the Northern Gothic Tongue

  oup.com - OUPblog

  By Roger Luckhurst There is a very specific language of Gothic and horror literature that has its roots buried deep in the history of English: doom has …

• http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/125-everest-maxed-out/jenkins-text

  adg1988

  May 24, 2013