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  2. The Flying Nun - Wikipedia

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    Developed by Bernard Slade, the series centered on the adventures of a community of nuns in the Convent San Tanco in San Juan, Puerto Rico.It focuses on Sister Bertrille, a young, idealistic novice nun who discovers she can fly, whose order teaches largely underprivileged and orphaned children and assists the poor of a diverse Hispanic community (a rare setting for American network television ...

  3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Wikipedia

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    Little Dieter Needs to Fly (German: Flucht aus Laos, lit. 'Escape from Laos') is a 1997 German-British-French documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, and premiered on German television.

  4. List of television theme music composers - Wikipedia

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    Allegretto" (Theme from Wings) David Schwartz - "Themes from Northern Exposure and Arrested Development " Sherwood Schwartz - " The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle " (Theme from Gilligan's Island ) (with George Wyle ), "Theme from The Brady Bunch " (with Frank De Vol ), "Theme from It's About Time " (with Gerald Fried ), "Theme from Dusty's Trail ...

  5. Rescue Dawn - Wikipedia

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    Rescue Dawn is a 2006 epic war drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on the true story of Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), a German-American pilot who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.

  6. Eilmer of Malmesbury - Wikipedia

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    Stained glass window showing Eilmer, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1920. Eilmer of Malmesbury (also known as Oliver due to a scribe's miscopying, or Elmer, or Æthelmær) was an 11th-century English Benedictine monk best known for his early attempt at a gliding flight using wings.

  7. Why I continue to fly, even though it scares me - AOL

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    And that safe period is part of a larger decades-long trend of increasing safety in the United States. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, 706 passengers were killed on US ...

  8. Origin of avian flight - Wikipedia

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    The WAIR hypothesis, a version of the "cursorial model" of the evolution of avian flight, in which birds' wings originated from forelimb modifications that provided downforce, enabling the proto-birds to run up extremely steep slopes such as the trunks of trees, was prompted by observation of young chukar chicks, and proposes that wings ...

  9. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    Slowest. Most flying animals need to travel forward to stay aloft. However, some creatures can stay in the same spot, known as hovering, either by rapidly flapping the wings, as do hummingbirds, hoverflies, dragonflies, and some others, or carefully using thermals, as do some birds of prey.