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Ballooning Over Bullets, and Other Escapes From the Siege of Paris
17 March 2022
On 23 November 1870, a gas-filled balloon carrying five men came to earth near the Belgian city of Leuven, its basket dragging across farmland for several kilometres before the anchor bit and it was brought to a halt. The balloon had taken off from Paris three hours earlier, flying over the Prussian