"Forget Sarah Palin: Tim Pawlenty Is the GOP's Secret Weapon for 2012" http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a... [If it's not another Left/ Right Hack...Fine.]
On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin—named for one inventor of hydrogen airships, Graf (Count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin—departed its Friedrichshafen, Germany, home base on its 418th flight, bound for Recife, Brazil. At the height of the Christmas season, the 776-foot-long dirigible carried 19 passengers, holiday mail and a load of freshly cut Christmas trees.
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