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  • 41Balloon (aircraft) — Ballooning redirects here. For the behavior of spiders and other arthropods, see Ballooning (spider). Not to be confused with Airship or Blimp. Balloon …

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  • 42Ben Abruzzo — Infobox Person name = Ben Abruzzo image size = 150px caption = Ben Abruzzo birth name = birth date = June 9, 1930 birth place = death date = February 11, 1985 death place = death cause = resting place = resting place coordinates = residence =… …

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  • 43The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen timeline — The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is an ongoing graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O Neill. The primary commentator on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (hereto after in this article referred to as… …

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  • 44Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey — The Aviation Hall Of Fame Museum of New Jersey was founded in 1972 and preserves New Jersey s aviation and space heritage. The museum displays historic aircraft, space equipment, artifacts, photographs, art and a model collection, many of which… …

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  • 45Jacques Theodore Saconney — (1874 Torino Italy–1935 Dijon, France) was a Senior French Army General, an innovative scientist and a adventurous military balloonist. He has foreseen the future developments of the French civil and military air forces. His academic works in… …

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  • 46Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-François — born July 4, 1753, Les Andelys, France died March 7, 1809, Paris French balloonist. In 1785 he made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, accompanied by John Jeffries, a U.S. doctor. He invented a parachute in 1785. His balloon… …

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  • 47Abruzzo, Ben L. — ▪ American balloonist born June 9, 1930, Rockford, Ill., U.S. died Feb. 11, 1985, Albuquerque, N.M.       American balloonist who, with three crew mates, made the first transpacific balloon flight and the longest nonstop balloon flight, in the… …

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  • 48Anderson, Maxie — ▪ American balloonist byname of  Max Leroy Anderson   born Sept. 10, 1934, Sayre, Okla., U.S. died June 27, 1983, near Bad Brückenau, W.Ger.       balloonist who, with Ben Abruzzo (Abruzzo, Ben L.) and Larry Newman, made the first transatlantic… …

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  • 49ballooning — UK [bəˈluːnɪŋ] / US [bəˈlunɪŋ] noun [uncountable] the activity of flying in a hot air balloon Derived word: balloonist noun countable Word forms balloonist : singular balloonist plural balloonists …

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  • 50René Descartes — Descartes redirects here. For other uses, see Descartes (disambiguation). René Descartes Portrait after Frans Ha …

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