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Balloon Boy
10/19

Balloon Boy

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Encyclopedia of the Exquisite covers the first parachute (an umbrella contraption launched in Montpellier, France in 1783) and the first hot-air balloon, the ornate aerostatic machine which took off from Versailles as King Louis XVI watched below. Now a Brooklyn…

08/19

The Heights

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uk_viH4Unw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Besides being incredibly beautiful, this video of a rocket launcher falling from space back into the Earth’s atmosphere takes up several threads running throughout Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: clouds, pioneering air-travel (in hot-air balloons and via the first parachute), silence…