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Jasmine Lydia Bligh, television hostess at the British Broadcasting Corporation, aboard a Cierva Rota autogiro of the Royal Air Force with Reginald Alfred Charles Brie, Hanworth, England. Anon., “On a ‘télévisé’ les évolutions d’un autogyre.” Paris-Soir, 21 February 1939, 10.
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Aviation & Space

Come with me Jasmine in my flying machine

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Feb 18, 2019
Hello there, or is it here, my reading friend. No matter. Yours truly is pleased to present you a little something that should pique your interest. Before going too far in this peroration, I thought you might be interested in reading the caption of the photo that initiated it. Said photo was found in the 21 February 1939 issue of a long defunct French right of centre illustrated newspaper, and a very successful one at that, Paris-Soir . Here’s the caption.
A man tries out virtual reality glasses and holds a controller.
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Museum visitors offer valuable input in development of space simulation game

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Feb 15, 2019
As a student in the Game Development program at Algonquin College, I never thought I’d be working on my final, cumulative project at a museum! Perhaps I should give you a little bit of the back story. Thanks to a partnership between Algonquin College and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, a space simulation game in Virtual Reality (VR) is benefiting from the interactive feedback of museum visitors.
A Pontiac Firebird Comanche GT vehicle, Montréal, Québec. Anon., “La Comanche: une auto américaine améliorée par un Montréalais.” La Patrie, 9 February 1969, 12.
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Transportation

Vroom vroom, vroom vroom, with her auto woman, vroom vroom, vroom vroom, of man the soul troubles

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Feb 11, 2019
Hello and… What is it, my reading friend? You seem unseasonably upset today. You do not like the fact that yours truly chose an automobile as a topic for this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee? Well, too bad, so sad, as a former colleague of mine at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, sometimes said in such circumstances. Even though I am not all that interested in automobiles, the title of the 9 February 1969 article that came my way as I pored over the now
The smog from industry creates a silouette against a sunset.
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Keeping track: Pollution and agriculture in Canada

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Feb 7, 2019
Agriculture depends on air, water, and soil — natural resources essential to life — and pollution affects all three. That’s why it’s so critical to have access to a tracking system of released pollutants like the National Pollutant Release Inventory. Agriculture combines science and art to cultivate the soil, produce crops, and raise livestock. From this practise, humans can create products to sustain and enhance their life, such as food, fibres, medicinal plants and more. As such, we come into
A Zavod Imeni Likhacheva ZIL-111 limousine, Moscow. Anon., “–.” L’Action catholique, 1 February 1959, 20.
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A limousine from a den of communist atheists in a catholic newspaper

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Feb 4, 2019
What’s this, my reading friend? You wonder why our blog / bulletin / thingee, dedicated as it is to all things aeronautical and spacey, is once again dealing with something as mundane and boring as an automobile? Well, for starters, yours truly was intrigued by the presence of a photo of a Soviet automobile in a catholic newspaper from Québec, Québec, namely L’Action catholique . Was 1 February 1959, the day when said photo was published, a slow news day? We shall never know. In any event, the
The Moon rocket model of the Canadian Rocket Society, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, 1948. Anon., “Un groupe de Canadiens n’attend que des capitaux pour construire une fusée qui les mènera à la lune.” Photo-Journal, 3 February 1949, 44.
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Aviation & Space

Zoom, zoom, zoom, fly me to the Moon

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Feb 1, 2019
Bienvenue and welcome, my faithful if slightly masochistic reading friend, for another conversation on the wonders of aviation and space as seen through illustrations found all over the place. For this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee, for example, yours truly went back to a frequent source of mine, a long defunct weekly newspaper from Montréal, Québec, Photo-Journal , more specifically the 3 February 1949 issue. Even though I am far more familiar / comfortable with the aviation
Wilfrid "Wop" May and Victor Horner in an Avro Avian, 1920s
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A matter of life and death: Diphtheria outbreak in Little Red River, Alberta

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Jan 28, 2019
In the middle of winter 1929, a serious diphtheria epidemic broke out in the small colony of Little Red River, Alberta (about 800 km north of Edmonton), threatening the health of the entire settlement. A Hudson's Bay Company official had already died from the disease, and several others were sick. Today, people are vaccinated against diphtheria as babies but in 1929 it was a considerable threat, causing sickness and possibly death. By the time of this incident a cure existed for diphtheria, but

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