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    the airport serving Araraquara is named Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport. Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago List of firsts...
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    Brazilian-Portuguese Jesuit priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão made a hot air balloon, the Passarola, ascend to the skies, before an astonished Portuguese court. It would...
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    envisioned an aerial apparatus named Passarola, which was the predecessor of the hot air balloon. The Passarola was intended to serve as air vessel in...
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    and the Portuguese court. He also claimed to have built a balloon named Passarola (Big bird) and attempted to lift himself from Saint George Castle in Lisbon...
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    a vacuum airship constructed of the fictional material Harbenite. In Passarola Rising, novelist Azhar Abidi imagines what might have happened had Bartolomeu...
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    and the Portuguese court He also claimed to have built a balloon named Passarola (Big bird) and attempted to lift himself from Saint George Castle in Lisbon...
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    Lisbon Academy of Sciences, was founded in 1779. During this time the Passarola was conceived. It was also during the 18th century that natural philosopher...
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    predecessor of other ships of the range. The nonius The mariner's astrolabe The Passarola, the first known airship The Pyreliophorus Tempura Marmalade The drug...
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    Malmesbury (11th century, recorded in the 12th century), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartholomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (1685–1724). The modern age of aviation...
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  • is a fictitious story in a seemingly scholarly essay. His first novel, Passarola Rising (2006), was published by Viking Penguin in Australia, USA, Canada...
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    first were Hautsch and Burattini (1648). Others included de Gusmão's "Passarola" (1709 on), Swedenborg (1716), Desforges (1772), Bauer (1764), Meerwein...
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  • Coloradd, a sign code for aiding colour blind people to recognise colours Passarola, a type of lighter-than-air airship, the predecessor of air balloon Artificial...
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  • University of Bucharest  Romania 5th Team K.U.Leuven KU Leuven  Belgium 6th PASSAROLA Team Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal 7th Nymph Noir Middle East Technical...
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  • has since offered it to the National Library of Australia Azhar Abidi – Passarola Rising Venero Armanno – Candle Life Max Barry – Company James Bradley...
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