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Photography Pioneer Nadar Went on a Mad Balloon Ride That Ended in Near-Catastrophe
Le Géant was an enormous 196-foot-tall gas balloon that photography pioneer Félix Nadar used in his bid to master aerial imagery -- it all ended in a 25-mile-long crash and his wife landing in a river.
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