Franklin's balloons

[alice malice]

OUR MILITANT RESOURCES
HE fall of Antwerp has, not unnaturally, set all our croakers
croaking, and the pessimists have, in private, been indulging in a
series of dismal prognostications. Starting with the perfectly sound
Napoleonic maxim that he who possesses Antwerp possesses a pistol
presented at the mouth of the Thames, they go on to ask what will
happen if not only Ostend but Dunkerque and Calais and the whole of
the coasts of Belgium and of Northern France pass into the enemy's
hands. Not only, they urge, will he have a convenient base for
Zeppelin attacks[...].

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/17th-october-1914/6/our-militant-resources

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:43 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Up, where the air is clear.
>
> On Thursday, October 23, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/ben-franklins-balloons.html
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