A Precarious Measure
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With Benjamin Oppenheimer’s “improvement in fire-escapes,” patented in 1879, you can jump safely from the window of a burning building and land “without injury and without the least damage” thanks to a 5-foot parachute and shock-absorbing shoes.
Samuel Mott patented a similar idea in 1920: an aviators’ helmet that contains a folded parachute that can be “readily released in case of emergency.”
But what if you bail out of an airplane that’s over a burning building?
Oldest Central American Pyramid Discovered
After sheltering jeweled royals for centuries, the oldest known tomb in Mesoamerica—ancient Central America and Mexico, roughly speaking—has been uncovered, archaeologists announced Tuesday.
Apparently caught between two cultures, the 2,700-year-old pyramid in Chiapa de Corzo (map), Mexico, may help settle a debate as to when and how the mysterious Zoque civilization arose, according to excavation leader Bruce Bachand.
Porn goes 3D with ‘Kama-Sutra’
Film heavyweights Roger Ebert and Francis Ford Coppola have both ripped 3D movies as little more than a “juvenile abomination” and way to “make you pay more money,” but the adult entertainment industry has been seduced by the new technology.
Kama-Sutra, from the French pornography producer Marc Dorcel (website NSFW), has been hailed as the “first 3D porn full feature film made for modern stereoscopic TVs,” according to Gizmodo.
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