Nancy Gibbs

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

American Journalist

Diana Vreeland

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

American Editor

Gondolas represent a rich Venetian cultural tradition and are often associated with romance and history.

Venetian Tradition

In Venice, the person who steers the gondola is called a gondolier, wearing traditional attire.

Gondolier's Role

Gondola in aerospace signifies the component for human occupancy, underscoring its importance for flight.

Flight Component

Gondolas used in balloons and airships offer unique perspectives, commonly linked with adventure.

Airborne Excursions

Gondola lifts are a popular means of reaching high-altitude destinations like ski resorts or scenic viewpoints.

Mountain Access

Though similar to cable cars, gondola lifts are distinctive with enclosed cabins, often used for longer distances.

Cable Car Siblings

Gondolas in railway contexts are primarily related to transporting bulk goods, not passengers.

Freight Transport

Unlike closed boxcars, railway gondolas have an open top, making them suitable for certain types of cargo.

Open Top Feature

 And they've made a dummy of him. That's exactly what it looked like. My gondola will be more simple than that. It's a three sided box, basically. So I've had to do quite a lot of training. This is Morocco last year in the Atlas mountains, training in preparation for some high altitude jumps. This is what the view is going to be like

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 from utilitarian rafts to the Doge's own ostentatious gilded barge. Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city.

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 for your life, like, I don't know what to tell you. You know? You don't watch "Bourne Identity" and go drive your car over a gondola in Venice. Well, yeah, okay, like, if you're a little kid or whatever, of course it's different, but -- Yeah, all right, I remember one thing like that.

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 than if he was walking around in areas like gondolas in places like that so as much as it is always tough for little husana who looks up and gazes upon his dad eating his meal it's the best thing because it means he doesn't have to worry about kind of losing out to other

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 is located here I would see the gorgeous architecture and take a gondola ride through the city I would also make sure to see the museums and eat at the many different pasta or pizza restaurants if I were to trade places with any Explorer

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 understand the project through the eyes of those who are backing it and those opposed to it gondola would bring people all the way down to the confluence and there at the river level they would have a elevated walkway snack bar restroom

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 behavior of of of a young leopard he may be come back a few more times and his circles gonna get a little bit bigger and you know eventually then stay off in some other area and he went down all the way down to gondolas II and he was

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 This is an acryclic sphere. It generates all of the buoyancy, all of the payload for the craft, and the batteries are down here hanging underneath, exactly like a balloon. This is the envelope, and this is the gondola, the payload.

Graham Hawkes: Fly the...

 And we figure that instead of us talking about it, we let you hear what they say and their voices. - The gondola would bring people all the way down to the confluence and there at the river level they would have a elevated walkway,

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 man-made environment focus focus in in the uh method that is uh now routine in in this kind of environment uh that there's a sort of a venetian gondola as a method of