MBC may refer to:

Broadcasting[link]

• Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Public broadcasting company located in Seoul, South Korea
• Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, a state-run radio company in Malawi, Africa
• Manila Broadcasting Company, Inc., in the Philippines
• Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, a public broadcaster of the Republic of Mauritius
• Middle East Broadcasting Center, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Museum of Broadcast Communications, a museum located in Chicago, Illinois
• Major Broadcasting Cable Network, renamed to Black Family Channel
• Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation, a First Nations radio network in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan
• MBC TV, Oriya language broadcasting network

Internet[link]

• Model of Boxes and Contents, a concept to work with Cascading Style Sheets on the web

Education[link]

• Mary Baldwin College, in Staunton, Virginia, USA
• Master of Business Communication, an academic degree
• Matthew Boulton College, in Birmingham, England
• Minneapolis Business College, located in Roseville, Minnesota, USA
• Morris Brown College, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Entertainment[link]

• Miami Boys Choir, a Jewish contemporary music choir
• a model of Sanyo personal computers built in the 1980s
• Monster Buster Club, a 3D animated series created by Mystery Animation and Jetix
• Moonbase Commander, a turn-based strategy video game

Science and technology[link]

• Manual boost controller, a device which allows an operator to control boost pressure in a forced induction engine
• Meteor burst communications
• Minimum Bactericidal Concentration
• 4-MBC, 4-Methylbenzylidine camphor
• Molecular Biology of the Cell, a journal

Sports[link]

• Malta Boat Club, an amateur rowing club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Manchester Baseball Club, a British baseball club
• Mitteldeutscher Basketball Club, a German basketball club

Miscellaneous[link]

• Makati Business Club, a Filipino private non-stock, non-profit business association
• Manado Boulevard Carnaval, a Fashion Carnaval at every July 16
• Manchester Baseball Club, a British baseball club
• Mercedes-Benz Corporation, a German automobiles manufacturer
• Mercury Brewing Company, a brewing company located in Massachusetts
• Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, an international conservation initiative for biodiversity protection across southern Mexico and Central America
• Metropolitan borough council, a unit of local government in the large cities outside London in the United Kingdom
• Michigan Brewing Company, in Webberville, Michigan, USA
• Minnesota Baptist Conference, one of 13 districts of the Baptist General Conference
• Mono Black Control, a deck archetype in Magic: The Gathering

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Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.

Biography[link]

He was born on 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria.^[1]

In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2]

On 31 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made fibre wing.^[3]

Baumgartner set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.^[4]

He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004^{[citation needed]} and the first person to sky dive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.^[5]

On 12 December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck, then went to the 90th floor (about 390 m (1,280 ft)) of the then tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan.^[6]

[edit] Red Bull Stratos

In January 2010, it was reported that Baumgartner was working with a team of scientists and sponsor Red Bull to attempt the highest sky-dive on record.^[7] Baumgartner was going to make the 120,000 ft (36,600 m) jump from a capsule suspended from a balloon filled with helium, intending to become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier; the feat was scheduled to take place sometime in 2011.^[8][9][10] Joseph Kittinger, who holds the records Baumgartner is attempting to break, was advising Baumgartner during the "Stratos" mission in the hopes of getting scientific data on next-generation full pressure suits.^[7][11] However, on October 12, 2010, Red Bull announced it was placing the project on hold after Daniel Hogan filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, California in April, claiming he had originated the idea of the parachute dive from the edge of space in 2004 and that Red Bull had stolen the idea from him.^[12][13] The lawsuit was resolved out of court in June 2011^[14] and on 5 February 2012, The Daily Telegraph reported that the project would be resumed.^[15]

On 15 March 2012 he completed the first of two test jumps from 71,581 feet (21,818 m). During the jump he spent approximately three minutes and 43 seconds in free fall, reaching speeds of more than 360 miles per hour (580 km/h), before opening his parachute. In total, the jump lasted approximately eight minutes and eight seconds and Baumgartner became only the third person to safely parachute from a height of over 13.5 miles (21.7 km).^[16]

See also[link]

• Michel Fournier, who has been working on a 25 mile jump for several years.^[17]
• Joseph Kittinger, world record holder for skydiving from 102,800 ft
• Yves Rossy, the first man to cross the English Channel using a jet-powered wing

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Red Bull Stratos Project
• Felix Jumping from the Christ Redemeer - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

External media
	Felix Baumgartner