During the ascent of the giant balloon which will take Mr Baumgartner into the icy cold atmosphere and during the freefall, Col Kittinger's role will be to act as the point of contact between the mission control team and Felix Baumgartner.

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These paintings were a source for Piero della Francesca's cycle on the same subject, painted in Arezzo in the middle of the following century, though Gaddi, with happy disregard for realism in scale, hardly anticipates the rigorous perspective and complex geometry of Piero's work, not to mention its cold, clear atmosphere or the figures' graceful stillness.

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She signalled for him to wait, and when she entered the bedroom the air-conditioned atmosphere made her shiver as though she had just stepped into a pool of cold water.

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The new equipment would lower the temperature of the atmosphere in the crematorium from 1, 400 degrees to around 300 degrees by piping in cold water.

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Boston threw on another six, including three in a cold, rainy ninth as the Stadium went vacant and garbage swirled around the outfield, adding to the forlorn atmosphere.

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