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  2. Minecraft modding - Wikipedia

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    A Minecraft mod is a mod that changes aspects of the sandbox game Minecraft. Minecraft mods can add additional content to the game, make tweaks to specific features, and optimize performance. Thousands of mods for the game have been created, with some mods even generating an income for their authors.

  3. Franz Reichelt - Wikipedia

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    Franz Reichelt (16 October 1878 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt [1] or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born [2] French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.

  4. Adrian Nicholas - Wikipedia

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    He is best known for his successful test in July 2000 of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452–1519) parachute design, proving it to be in retrospect the world's first working parachute. [1] A modified pyramidal design was later also successfully tested by his Swiss colleague Olivier Vietti-Teppa.

  5. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    Persson's most popular creation is the survival sandbox game Minecraft, which was first publicly available on 17 May 2009 [37] and fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson left his job as a game developer to work on Minecraft full-time until completion. In early 2011, Mojang AB sold the one millionth copy of the game, several months later ...

  6. Parachute - Wikipedia

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    Štefan Banič patented an umbrella-like design in 1914, [23] and sold (or donated) the patent to the United States military, which later modified his design, resulting in the first military parachute. [24] [25] Banič had been the first person to patent the parachute, [26] and his design was the first to properly function in the 20th century.

  7. Adeline Gray (parachutist) - Wikipedia

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    She volunteered to test the first nylon parachute, which DuPont agreed to. [2] On June 6, 1942, she became the first person to jump wearing a nylon parachute, doing so from 2,500 feet (760 m) at Brainard Field, Connecticut. [2] [3] [4] Media reports from the time remarked on Gray's calm demeanor before the test, which was her 33rd parachute jump.

  8. Who exactly is Geronimo -- and why do we say his name ... - AOL

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    Aubrey was a private in the U.S. Army during the 1940s, when the army was beginning to have soldiers parachute from airplanes as a new method of deployment, according to Today I Found Out. His ...

  9. Pioneer Aerospace Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In June 1942, Adeline Grey was the first person to successfully test the human-rated parachute. This led to Pioneer becoming the world's leading manufacturer of parachutes, producing 300 per day at the height of WWII. A Canadian subsidiary The Pioneer Parachute Company of Canada Ltd operated in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Canada from 1954 until 1962.