Human Cannonball gifts-over-100 AIGA and American Illustration

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Human Cannonball gifts-over-100 AIGA and American Illustration"Ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages. You are about to watch an incredible, death defying feat like no other in the world two men shot out of a cannon at the same time!" After the ringmaster's words of hype came a flash, a puff of smoke and a deafening roar as Hugo Zacchini and his brother Mario were catapulted more than 150 feet through the air into a net. The first human cannonball, launched in 1877 at the Royal Aquarium in London, was a