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He was towed into the air on a 3 ⁄ 8-inch-wide (9.5 mm), 200-foot-long (61 m) rope prior to gliding independently. [76] At the time, this was the farthest distance traveled in a glider over a body of water. The trip took one hour and six minutes, [77] [78] with 57 minutes spent over Lake Michigan. [79] In 1941, the Sturgeon Bay Vocation ...
From top left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in Afghanistan during the war ...