zeppelin vs blimp
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noun
- German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
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Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.
Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R-101, obviously an enthusiast from an early age.
The Zeppelin airship is back, almost 70 years after it went down in a blaze in an accident in Germany.
Definitions
noun
- any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)
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In his mind, he blasted six large holes in the blimp's gas cells.
Kahit na blimps ay mabagal, carry maliit na timbang, at nangangailangan ng malaking hangars sa bahay ang mga ito, ang isang kumpanya ng Aleman ay magkaroon ng isang ahas-tanga tulad ng disenyo na overcomes ang ilan sa mga shortcomings upang magbigay ng isang bapor sa hangin pangangasiwa na maaaring manatili aloft para sa araw.
He pointed to a dun lionhead that lumbered peaceful as a blimp.
