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R 101’s ill-fated final flight brought Britain’s long-range dirigible program to a tragic conclusion. In 1904 novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling penned With the Night Mail, a “Story of 2000 AD,” tracing a voyage from London to Quebec by “Postal Packet 162,” an atomic-powered airship. By the 21st century, he predicted, flight would dominate international …
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Daily Quiz for November 21, 2017This American first lady’s Secret Service code name was Rover.
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