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    purposes, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), or light sources. Modern day balloons are made from...
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    Kavanagh Balloons of Australia, Schroeder Fire Balloons of Germany, Kubicek Balloons of the Czech Republic, and LLopis Balloons of France. Barrage balloon Blimp...
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    Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons...
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  • parties, and they would add balloons to make it more celebratory. Its cover art depicts a woman with her face obscured by balloons, and her left breast exposed...
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    High-altitude balloons are extremely difficult to detect. A 2005 study by the U.S. Air Force's Air University states surveillance balloons often present...
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    has over 500 hot air balloons each year, far from its beginnings of merely 13 balloons in 1972. The event is the largest balloon festival in the world...
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  • Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons", with...
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    forces developed kite balloons, early British barrage balloons were spherical. Sometimes, especially around London, several balloons were used to lift a...
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    balloons and with Internet antennas on the ground, and batteries to store solar power so the balloons could operate during the night. Each balloon's electronics...
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  • Red Balloon or Red Balloons may refer to: The Red Balloon, a 1956 French short film Flight of the Red Balloon, a 2007 film based on the 1956 short film...
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    releasing balloons. Included in their list of "Smart Balloon Practices" is the message that balloons are "Worth the Weight," meaning that all balloons should...
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    helium-filled incendiary balloons have been used alongside the kites. Gazan balloons are devised from helium-filled party balloons or condoms that are strung...
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  • Festival Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest gathering of hot air balloons in the world. Balloons flying above the Ancient Castle of...
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    Positioning System, GPS). Balloons meant to stay at a constant altitude for long periods of time are known as transosondes. Weather balloons that do not carry...
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    non-endoscopic, intragastric balloons offer a promising alternative to historic endoscopic balloons. Non-endoscopic balloons are also a less invasive alternative...
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  • 2018. "6 Balloons". Netflix. Retrieved March 12, 2018. "6 Balloons (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 10, 2021. "6 Balloons Reviews"...
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    can determine how far their balloon flew. Balloon mail is often sent as part of a balloon competition. Historically, balloons were used to transport mail...
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  • Pink Balloons (stylized as pink balloons) is the first full-length studio album by Washington, D.C.-based punk band Ekko Astral. Pink Balloons was recorded...
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    latex party balloons. For nearly 200 years, well into the 20th century, manned balloon flight utilized gas balloons before hot-air balloons became dominant...
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    Balloon modelling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modelling balloons into various shapes, often balloon animals. People who create balloon...
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    needed] The balloons were fabric envelopes filled with hydrogen gas, the flammable nature of which led to the destruction of hundreds of balloons.[citation...
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    scientific balloon missions are unmanned. There are two types of light-gas balloons: zero-pressure and superpressure. Zero-pressure balloons are the traditional...
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    the free dictionary. Balloon phobia or globophobia is a fear of balloons. The most common source of fear is the sound of balloons popping, but individuals...
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    fetishists "revel in the popping of balloons and [others] may become anxious and tearful at the very thought of popping balloons". Though experiencing extreme...
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  • "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, from his debut mixtape, House of Balloons (2011). The...
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    High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally...
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    A balloon debate is a debate in which a number of speakers attempt to win the approval of an audience. The audience is invited to imagine that the speakers...
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    XP, which uses balloons to highlight and explain aspects of various programs or operating system features (Balloons in msdn). Balloon help is also highly...
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    1914, the barrage balloons of World War I and World War II were early examples of tethered balloons. Military observation balloons were also used extensively...
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    people assume that the two balloons will have equal sizes after exchanging air. The behavior of the balloons in the two-balloon experiment was first explained...
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