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the stubborn argument that air, despite its objections, can be stood upon.

Word originFrom Greek for air sailor, like a sky mariner
Bernoulli mythWings fly mostly by shoving air downward
Older than planesHot air balloons flew 120 years before Wright brothers
Bumblebee paradoxOld math wrongly claimed bees cannot fly
Sound barrierBroken in 1947 by a man with broken ribs
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