After a weekend of fireworks, barbecues and beaches you may be looking to slow down your summer a little. That doesn't mean you have to sit inside letting the season pass by. This weekend offers ...
Kids and adults darted across Belle Isle's Cricket Field on Sunday, eyes trailing upward to hundreds of kites overhead. In a color-speckled sky, on a breezy afternoon, pieces of Detroit history came ...
On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that could ...
A single kite cuts across the sky above Los Angeles State Historic Park, its hexagonal body flipping in the wind. The park sits on the edge of Chinatown, just northeast of downtown L.A. The city ...
Kites were well established in the fourth century B.C. The Chinese made kites from bamboo, silk, wood and fiber. In 1749, two Scottish scientists, Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville, fastened ...
As Bermuda folklore tells it, flying kites on Good Friday became popular here after a minister flew one to illustrate how Jesus rose from the dead. Eugene Harvey doesn’t believe it. The 63-year-old ...
DECATUR - John Sellers found it purely a coincidence that he was helping with Kite Fest on Saturday at Progress City USA, despite a rich family history of kite making. Sellers, now a Realtor with Lyle ...
ZAMA, Japan – Camp Zama leadership attended joint festivals here May 4 celebrating the giant kite, a touchstone of Japanese culture that goes back more than 200 years. The cities of Zama and ...
SAGAMIHARA FAMILY HOUSING AREA, Japan (June 1, 2021) – Members of the Camp Zama community learned about traditional Japanese kites at the Sagamihara Family Housing Area Library here May 28. Not only ...
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