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A Being 737 has ended up in a river after skidding off the runway in Jacksonville, Florida. The flight was contracted by the Department of Defense.

Article source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-injuries-plane-florida-136-041622097.html

“The Car” is the subject of the four episodes of the PBS series Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World, is scheduled to be televised May 8 at 10 p.m. (EDT).

“Go for a ride through the 9,000-year history of the ultimate freedom machine: the car,” PBS promises in its news release.

“The car has transformed the world and revolutionized how humans live, and its development is an incredible story full of astonishing twists and unlikely turns,” the network adds. “From its roots in dogsleds to Henry Ford’s affordable and assembly line-built Model T, viewers will also meet the scientists working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles.”

Bertha Benz drove her husband’s motorcar on the first road trip

The Breakthrough series was created to tell “the amazing story of how humans changed the world” and is told through examining six “revolutionary inventions.”

For “The Car,” visionaries to be featured include:

• Thomas Newcomen, British engineer and inventor “who also was Baptist preacher and blacksmith who invented the atmospheric steam engine — the first practical fuel-burning engine –  in 1712. His invention led to the development of James Watt’s engine.”

•  John “Iron-Mad” Wilkinson, English industrialist “who pioneered the use of cast iron during the Industrial Revolution. His invention, the precision boring machine, created cast iron cylinders which were eventually used in James Watt’s steam engines.”

•  James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist “who  invented the steam engine, which played an integral role in the Industrial Revolution. He improved Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine with

Article source: https://journal.classiccars.com/2019/05/05/pbs-examines-the-car-in-its-breakthrough-series/

The North Museum of Nature and Science has all kinds of sights to see, but a new guest is catching a lot of people’s eyes.

He is a gigantic praying mantis — 13½ feet from wings to the tip of the head — that is floating over the steps to the second floor, its eyes bulging out at the world.

He appeared last month and is expected to be overseeing the museum’s lobby for the next few months at least.

“I wanted people to be able to examine the details of a creature they don’t normally see,” says Robert Fantazier, the artist who created this giant.

The origins of the mantis go back 12 years, to when Richard Fantazier was on the board of the museum, which was planning a show on insects.

He thought of his brother, who is a commercial artist living in Pittsburgh.

“Dick suggested maybe I could make something, and he suggested a mantis,” Robert Fantazier says.

“I am not a bug-o-phile, but I liked the engineering challenge.”

So he began studying the mantis and soon discovered there are more than 2,400 different kinds of species all over the world. They range in size from 3/4 of an inch to 17 inches long and don’t live longer than a year.

They are solely carnivorous, only eating other insects and sometimes, if they are hungry enough, each other.

Democratic strategists Jehmu Greene and Isaac Wright weigh in on the growing field of 2020 Democratic president hopefuls.

Article source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-bidens-momentum-last-crowded-203415427.html