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Adventurer Flies Across English Channel With Helium Filled balloons
36-year-old Jonathan Trappe of Raleigh, N.C., floated across the English Channel Friday, powered only by a colorful cluster of helium-filled balloons. ...
Engagement Ring Found After Fall From Hot Air Balloon
After saving money for a year to buy an engagement ring for his planned hot-air balloon marriage proposal, James Ng watched as his...
Teens Capture Images of Space with $100 Camera and Balloon
Teenagers armed with only a $100 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth.
Proving that...
Solar “Balloon” Creates 400x More Energy Than Solar Cell
The new Solar “Balloon” by Cool Earth is a concept that creates an “inflatable plastic thin-film balloon, which acts as a solar concentrator...
Lawnchair Takes Flight with Helium Balloons (Video)
In 1982 Larry Walters took flight in his patio chair attached to 45 helium-filled weather balloons. He rose to an altitude of 16,000 feet...
Swedish Maidens’ Choir Sings in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish Language to the Delight of LotR Fans
A choir of cosplaying elves in Sweden sings and performs lyrical works written in Elvish by J.R.R. Tolkien in the ultimate expression of Lord...
Good News in History, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
Rescued Crow Is Boy’s Best Friend, Waiting for Him to Get Home from School Every Day: ‘We’re his flock’
Go find a screwdriver and get ready to screw your jaw back on, because a Danish family has made a video compilation of how...
Good News in History, March 20
205 years ago today, the Burlington Arcade opened in Piccadilly, London. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European shopping gallery and...
High-Speed Railway Progresses Towards a 200-mph Train Line From Dallas to Houston
High-speed rail is a standard form of transport in places like Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan, and Switzerland, but with any luck at all,...
Good News in History, February 21
196 years ago today, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published using the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. Sequoyah, also known as...
Charlotte the Stingray, Single for 8 Years, Celebrated V-day with ‘Impossible’ Litter of Non-Fertilized Eggs
It's hard being alone on Valentine's Day—something that Charlotte the round stingray had experienced for eight years in a row.
But this year she decided...
Good News in History, February 11
2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...
Good News in History, February 10
84 years ago today, In the Mood, by Glen Miller reached #1 on the charts in the US. It's one of those jazz tunes that...
The Tallest Building in America May Soon Be in… Oklahoma?
You may be as surprised as we were to learn the tallest building in America may soon reach for the skies in Oklahoma City,...
Good News in History, January 7
127 years ago today, the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil, held its first performance during the heyday of the city's rubber boom. It was...
Good News in History, December 14
On this day 85 years ago, the commission for Major League Baseball met to establish some rules and agreed on the weight and dimensions...
Good News in History, December 7
425 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born. This Italian master sculptor and architect created the Baroque style, one of the four great...
Dozens of ‘Flash Dads’ Cheer On Students Arriving at Schools in Kentucky–For 7 Years Giving High Fives and Support
If you're a student at a Louisville elementary school, Wednesday might just be your favorite day of the week.
Perhaps because of its reputation as...
Good News in History, December 3
31 years ago today, engineers at the Sema Group used the Vodaphone network and a computer to send the world's first SMS. It revolutionized...