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...opened the door of heaven--what of it? And what, too, of that younger America, starting in its career with all our good things, and enfranchised of many of our evils? Did not the December sun now shining look down on thousands slaughtered at Fredericksburg, in a most mad, most incomprehensible quarrel? And is not the public air which European nations breathe at this...

...open firmly. He concluded anyone could jump from any height without any risk at all. It is not known if Leonardo ever tested his design, however, modern parachutists have recreated his invention and tested it by leaping from a moving aircraft. It worked. Aerial Screw (helicopter) Leonardo’s sketch of the Arial Screw was made while he was in Milan, between 1483-1486 and...

...open, which affect their fortunes: and on those mysterious and demoniacal powers which defy our science, and which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours. Who ever read the volume of Sonnets, without finding that the poet had there revealed, under masks that are no masks to the intelligent, the lore of friendship and of love; the confusion of...