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Body Sensors Attached to Astronaut Grissom

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  • 1961-7-26

Body Sensors attached to U.S. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom are examined by Project Mercury equipment specialist Joe W. Schmidt, at Cape Canaveral Florida. The electrodes adhesively attached to the pilot's body permit medical monitors to ascertain t...

Daily Mirror

Bombing of Dessye

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  • 1935-12-16

Actual pictures flown directly from Abyssinia. These photos of the bombing of the American Hospital at Dessye were brought by courier to Addis Ababa whence they were flown direct to Paris by Mr. Roland Falk, a London pilot. Mr. Falk flew part of ...

Planet News Ltd.

Boston Harbour Air Crash

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  • 1960-10-11

A water-logged tail-plane (at left) that tells the story of the Boston harbour air crash in the US. Sixty-two people were killed as the Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra hurtled to its doom. The 11 survivors were seriously injured. The crash was b...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Bruay-en-Artoia near Lille, Northern France

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  • 1959-8-20

This dramatic picture was taken in the little town of Bruay-en-Artoia, near little, Northern France, where a walking competition was being held and the streets were crowded with spectators. A two-year-old-boy left his mother and started crossing t...

The Times of Ceylon Press

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