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The first Channel crossing by Bleriot July 25, 1909

Photo of Louis Bleriot, found on Wikipedia , it is free of rights.

On 25 July 1909, the Daily Express headlined: "The UK is no longer an island."
Crossing the Channel by a different route than the sea was finally accomplished. At the scene, everyone cheered the triumphant arrival of aviator aboard his monoplane, the Bleriot XI. Upon landing, the reporter rushes Louis
"- Louis, how was the flight?
- The flight went well despite a deviation of 7 kilometers to qualify for favorable winds. I was expecting an improvement weather, on my base camp near Calais, before attempting the crossing.
- What are your feelings after such a voyage?
- For several years, studying the work of Ader or those of the Wright brothers to achieve fly through the air like birds do. This crossing of the Channel, "Channel" is for me to realize my wildest dream that I won several chess, where I always go out and miraculously unscathed.
- And I guess that's why you have been nicknamed "the king of snack!
- Indeed, I have this terrible nickname for my consumption of monoplane.
- Thanks Louis some answers to these and good flights! "

Dawn is the perfect time to Bleriot and his mechanics to make the final touches to the Bleriot XI. It is 4:35 when Louis rushed the French coast and headed towards the cliffs of England. He passed quickly the destroyer who claimed the support and rose between 80 and 100 meters. At 5:12, the Channel is overcome: in 37minutes, Louis traveled 48 km above the sea with a vehicle heavier than the air without instruments! The Bleriot XI was equipped with an engine Annihilated 25ch, lateral control was provided by warping the wings and main gear steerable wheels. This aircraft was the first aircraft engaged in military service and could land even by crosswinds. Louis managed to narrowly beat the brave Latham who, Antoinette, twice in a row, fell into the sea
Louis Blériot was born in the Pas de Calais on July 1, 1872 and died of a heart attack on August 1, 1936. before being a pilot, he was an engineer in the car and all cars were equipped with headlights Bleriot. He became fascinated with new technology, and eventually abandoned the auto industry to devote himself to aviation. His achievement opened the doors to prosperity. He settled Buc and acquired 200 hectares on the plateau. He hired drivers and devoted himself exclusively to the construction of airplanes. He made a magnet Buc life aviation. Falls succeeded but the records also. The meetings were many and attracted a large crowd. The event will be decisive for the development of aeronautics and education of the wings. Louis Bleriot is number 1. Barely twenty years later, Bleriot welcome to Paris Charles Lindberg, the first pilot who crossed the Atlantic.

This text was written by Cindy P High School Charles de Gaulle, Caen .

If you v them learn more about Bleriot consult the website of the Centrale and you will find a biography

If you want to learn about the history of aviation, particularly in Reims , Consul you the booklet "History of Reims in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries "especially p 16 and 17.

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40 years ago: the first man on the moon

On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.
They were part of the Apollo 11 space mission, the third mission to have approached the moon after Apollo 8 and Apollo 10.
Apollo 11 was launched July 16, 1969.
"It's a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" said Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface.

This mission meets the objectives set by U.S. President John F. Kennedy May 25, 1961: "I think this nation should set a goal to succeed before the end of this decade to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth .

Five other missions have allowed astronauts to walk on the moon, the last conducted in December 1972.

Since no man has gone on over the moon.
A new program was launched after a statement January 14, 2004, at NASA headquarters in Washington, the president of the United States at the time, George W. Bush: U.S. astronauts will walk on the moon again 2020.

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Photography is a mage showing Aldrin and NASA found on Wikimmedia , it is in the public domain.


If you are fascinated by space, will visit Enjoy Space the site of the Cité de l'Espace in Toulouse with especially the story of Apollo 11,
You will also find many photos eg preparations for the mission but the mission images.
Finally a interview with Neil Armstrong permetra you know him better.

If you go in the Toulouse area, you can visit the City of space.

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The Eiffel Tower has 120 years, including exhibitions and online documentation.

To mark the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, several exhibitions can learn about the history of the tower and its author.

A free exhibition runs until August 30, 2009 as mayor of Paris to present Gustave Eiffel and his works.

The first part presents the various achievements since Gustave Eiffel's railway bridge in Bordeaux (1858-1860) until viaduct passing Garabit by the bridge over the Douro River in Porto (1876) or the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty (1884) and the dome of the observatory of Nice (1885) At that time the Eiffel earn a lot with the sale in the world of "portable bridges," Lots of parts intended to be assembled on site with few resources.

A second part is devoted to the Eiffel Tower which is not his idea but 2 of his house engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier which you can see the drawing before project entitled " tower 300 m high for the city of Paris. "

In 1886, the competition for the architecture of the Universal Exhibition of 1889 provides for the construction of a metal tower with a square base on the Champ de Mars. 107 projects are presented, one can see in the exhibition such as that of Bourdais, who proposed a monumental lighthouse.

Work began in 1887, we see the progress with photographs and the tower was opened March 31, 1889. For the public it is a success: 1,953,122 people visited the tower during the Expo!

But there are many opponents to the construction of the tower with such as "Protest against the Tower of Monsieur Eiffel" Published February 14, 1887 in the newspaper Le Temps and signed big names from the world of literature and art as Maupassant, Gounod, Leconte de Lisle.

Many projects exist destruction of the tower after the World Fair, the tower is "rescued" by installing at the top of the wireless telegraph (radio) in 1905.

The third part of the exhibition shows the last phase of the work of Gustave Eiffel Panama Canal scandal in which his company had built 10 locks, his conviction and rehabilitation that lead to the withdrawal of business and begin a new career as a researcher.

It uses the opportunities offered by the altitude of the tower for meteorological observations, experiences of falling objects. It focuses its attention on aeronautics and develops a laboratory with a wind tunnel to test the behavior of the wind propeller or airplane wings. His laboratory still exists today and is visited during the same time this exhibition (see the website of the Paris city council indicated below).

projects of the 1890 unrealized are also presented: the "Metropolitan Line center "of Paris, the" bridge under the handle "or a laboratory on Mont Blanc.

The last part focuses on the life of Gustave Eiffel and his family, his life and places his way of life bourgeois easy.

If you want to know more, give yourself mayor of Paris , if you can not go there, go to the site presenting in detail the contents of the exhibition.

There is even a proposed route for young audiences: it can be downloaded here

information contained therein can help you to make a plug or a presentation!

Another exhibition, this time until December 31, 2009 at which one can get to visiting the Eiffel Tower but it pays!

You will find all relevant information on the site of the Eiffel Tower

And to prepare a presentation or get more information without leaving your you can also use some of the cards offered to primary teachers Click here

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Kristallnacht: The online exhibition

Exposure to
Holocaust Memorial in Paris (until August 30, 2009) presents Nazi Germany with a big zoom on an event: Kristallnacht.

What's this?
The "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht in German) refers to the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 which unleashed a wave of violence against Jews in Germany and Austria.
This explosion of violence took pretext for the murder of a secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynzpan, a young Polish Jew of German origin. Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, gave the instructions following the Nazi party: loot, set fires, destroy Jewish institutions and private property of the community, pretending to a spontaneous movement of the population.
The pogrom of the "Crystal Night" has the objective of pushing the German Jews to flee en masse. The objective is achieved. The number of potential migrants increases dramatically, but the borders remain closed.

If you can make you the Memorial, you will find practical information by clicking on the image. Otherwise, exposure is partly visible on the site of the Memorial of the Shoah with archive footage (the fire Bamberg Synagogue), the testimony of Erich Elkan, who witnessed the "Kristallnacht", photographs and explanatory texts all visible in the exhibition.

To learn more about Nazi Germany, to complete the course of your teacher, go up on the site by clicking here for the texts of the exhibition and
here to view the documents.

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