Early Airport Design Sketches from "Aeroport Run-Way Theory" by early 20th century aviator Franzen del Mutel

Translated from the original German, these images and excerpts are from what is considered the founding text of aerodrome design at a time when heavier than air flight was less than a decade old. Del Mutel’s designs were mostly visions of structures to be built in a European future where cities had expanded so vastly that large, area-swallowing tracts of land for airports would be unavailable.

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Nom de Pomme’s Guide to Nations: Bulgaria

Thanks for buying the latest edition of Guide, Guide to Nations: Bulgaria. As westerners, it can be difficult to comprehend the cesspool that is this Balkan state. Therefore, as a world traveler, I have done the hard work and gone to this black hole of reason and law to ascertain its purpose and reveal it to the learned world.

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The Beginning

I’d been playin’ them all from the start.

I took a drag from my cigarette and kicked Tanzmetall in the ribs. Nothing but a bloody death rattle from him. He was a goner for sure, and by lucky chance he had saved me some work. NDP was down, and I made sure he stayed down for good.

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Dear Mr. Ted Bowser,

Thank you so much for inviting us to your dinner party last week. Stephanie, Frederick, Marlene, and I all had the most marvelous time. It is somewhat disconcerting, however, that the rest of our group died gruesomely on the way in.

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Liberty City Crime Report

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2008
2:57 P.M. Nico Bellic, 39, of Middle Park East, was arrested in connection with a string of muggings in front of the police station. Suspect was released on bail.

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