Word: hindenburg
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...frail. The most famous reaction to disaster is that poignant cry from a radio reporter sent to cover the landing of the airship Hindenburg in New Jersey in 1937. Suddenly it goes up in flames. Bodies burn and fall pitiably. "Oh, the humanity!" Everyone has heard the cry, but it is puzzling. It has little logical meaning. It is but the primal expression of anguished fellow feeling for the fate of unknown human forms falling from the sky. At times like that we literally feel the humanity...
...scooter to meet Germany's stringent regulatory standards. The Aqwon can hit 30 m.p.h. with its two-stroke engine, but the biggest challenge was building a fuel tank that could safely store the hydrogen. In case of accident or fire, the Aqwon's tank simply freezes. If only the Hindenburg had had one of those. INVENTOR Aqwon AVAILABILITY Prototype only. Estimated cost: $6,400 TO LEARN MORE aqwon.com...
Other recordings inducted into the registry include the radio broadcast of the Hindenburg crash from 1937, Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio production of “War of the Worlds” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech from...
...eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told me how good I look...
REMEMBER THE HINDENBURG...