On this day, two and a quarter centuries ago, two French brothers named Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier sent aloft an unmanned balloon that reached an altitude of over a mile. This was the first public demonstration of hot-air ballooning, and it marks an important point in aeronautical history. Since Daria and her father once . . . oh, wait, that was just Jake. Since Jake once flew in a balloon ("Of Human Bonding") and had to have a tree limb removed from his body later on, this historical factlet is relevant to Daria. Thank you for listening. Um, reading.PPMB
- Miss Ann and Her Five Sisters, by Szcz (continued): An interesting take on several family trees at once.
- Red Centre, by TheSecretSharer (continued): This just gets weirder and better all the time.
Yawning all over the place, have to do a few more things before crashing early. Cheerio!
4 comments:
Hmmm . . . Montgolfier sounds a little bit like Morgendorffer. Maybe there's something in that . . . ?
Name change at Ellis Island?
Phonetically, the names are quite different : the t is mute, the ier sounds like yeah, and there's the on sound that has no equivalent in English.
Meaning wise, it's not better. IIRC, Montgolfier means something like "hill overlooking the bay/sea".
But both names start with "Mo"!
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