Archive for February 16th, 2007
What if you were sucked up to 22,000 feet?
A survivor: Ewa Wisnierska. Picture: AAP
A PARAGLIDER is being hailed “the luckiest woman in the world” after surviving a violent storm that sucked her up higher than the peak of Mt Everest.
Ewa Wisnierska, 35, was catapulted upwards like a leaf at speeds of up to 20 metres per second to a height of almost [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2007 under Survival.
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Today in History - February 16
1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has become the country’s youngest ever premier.
At the age of 32, he has been sworn in as Prime Minister in the Cabinet Room of the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Dr Castro led the resistance against the seven-year military rule of President Fulgeneio Batista and commanded [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2007 under History.
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