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Category: Antisocial Activities, Architecture, Crime, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 25, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Crime, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Fads, Sports, Teenagers, 1960s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 22, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Sports, 1960s, Cars
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 12, 2019 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Explosives, Foreign Customs, 1930s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 08, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Movies, Sex Symbols, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 03, 2019 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Performance Art
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 16, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, 1940s, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 19, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Destruction, Food, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, Fictional Monsters, Cars
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 21, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.
The project was never carried out, being cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, with the potential militarization of space that it would also have signified, and because a Moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike. A similar project by the Soviet Union also never came to fruition.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 10, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Explosives, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Government, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s, North America, Russia
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