Yearly Archives: 2013

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Italian architect Luigi Prina made his first model aircraft at the age of 16. In his mid 60s, after a successful career in building design, he met painter and boat builder Eugenio Tomiolo who challenged him to make one of his model boats fly.

In the twenty years since, Prima has dedicated his retirement to creating delicate, fully functional flying models worthy of Leonardo DaVinci.

MORE: Luigi Prina: The Ships That Sail Through The Clouds (Blinking City)

Photos by Gianluca Giannone.

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On November 14, 1963, the Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile shot into space from the South Atlantic at 17,000 miles per hour. This unmanned booster would eventually carry the Gemini space capsules, NASA’s second manned mission to space, succeeding Mercury and preceding Apollo. But what made that fateful November morning particularly noteworthy was something else: Mounted on the second stage of the missile was a camera that offered a preview of what the astronauts would see from space and provided the first-ever footage from the cosmos.

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icelandThe first leg of tonight’s World Cup qualifier.

Iceland, whose team is quite literally comprised of amateurs contains some part timers, are now a game away from Rio.

Helped by the best supporters in the world.

Iceland Croatia Live (BBC)

Previously: COYBICE