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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Schiavo Syndrome.

The ‘comatose’ patient who wasn’t.

The Art of Flying.

W.E. Garrett Fisher: The announcement of the sad death of Mr. Percy S. Pilcher, from an accident to his artificial wings on the 20th of September [1899], was probably the first intimation that people at large had of his experiments. They are highly characteristic, however, of the new departure which has been taken by the art of flight in the last ten years.