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2. Vesna Vulović - Wikipedia

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   Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet. She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment ...

3. Free fall - Wikipedia

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   Free fall. In classical mechanics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it. A freely falling object may not necessarily be falling down in the vertical direction. An object moving upwards might not normally be considered to be falling, but if it is subject to only the force of gravity, it is said to be ...

4. List of elevator accidents - Wikipedia

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   List. An elevator fell about 100 meters at a construction site, killing everyone on board. [ 7 ] A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Markham Colliery. [ 10 ] Protection Island mining disaster: A mine-shaft elevator cable snapped causing the elevator to plunge to the bottom of the mine. [ 11 ] An elevator plunged to the ground at a construction site.

5. Freefall (ride) - Wikipedia

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   The Freefall is an amusement ride developed by Giovanola and marketed throughout the world by Swiss company, Intamin. It was a common ride at major amusement parks until the late 1990s, when the classic freefall rides began being replaced with larger, higher-capacity Drop Tower alternatives. Since then, Freefalls have been disappearing from ...

6. Drop tower - Wikipedia

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   A drop tower is a type of amusement park ride incorporating a central tower structure with one or more gondolas attached. In a typical modern configuration, each gondola carrying riders is lifted to the top of the tower and then released to free fall back down to ground level. This produces a feeling of weightlessness followed by rapid ...

7. Dairy Queen Is Bringing Back Its Fan-Favorite Pumpkin Spice ...

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   On Monday, Dairy Queen dropped its new Fall Blizzard Treat Menu that it says is meant to turn fall dread into a seasonal celebration — and is even giving out free ones to get everyone excited.

8. Collapse of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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   From collapse timing measurements taken from a video of the north face of the building, NIST observed that the building's exterior facade fell at free fall acceleration through a distance of approximately 8 stories (32 meters, or 105 feet), noting "the collapse time was approximately 40 percent longer than that of free fall for the first 18 ...

9. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]