to circumnavigate the globe
71Jones, Brian, and Piccard, Bertrand — ▪ 2000 At midday on March 20, 1999, a balloon carrying Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones 11,000 m (36,000 ft) above Mauritania floated past an imaginary finish line at longitude 9° 27′ W. At that moment, Piccard and Jones became the first… …
72Operation Power Flite — Three B 52Bs of the 93rd Bomb Wing prepare to return to Castle Air Force Base, California, after their record setting round the world non stop flight …
73Bertrand Piccard — Dr. Bertrand Piccard (born March 1, 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist.He was born in Lausanne, Vaud canton. His grandfather Auguste Piccard and father, Jacques Piccard, were noted balloonists and inventors.Growing up in a ballooning… …
74Colin Bodill — (born 1952) is an adventurer and pilot from Nottingham, England. Colin has won the UK microlight championships several times and became the World Champion in 1995. In 1998 he set a new World Speed Record for flying an open cockpit aircraft from… …
75Gray, Robert — ▪ American explorer born May 10, 1755, Tiverton, R.I. died , summer 1806, at sea near eastern U.S. coast captain of the first U.S. ship to circumnavigate the globe and explorer of the Columbia River. Gray went to sea at an early age,… …
76Basque people — Infobox Ethnic group group = Basques Euskaldunak flag caption = 1st row: Arista Sancho III Elcano Loyola Urdaneta Oñate Bolívar 2nd row:Zumalakarregi Gardoqui Garat Iraola Arana Balenciaga Aguirre 3rd row:Garrastazu Larrazábal Perón Laxalt… …
77Solar energy — is the light and radiant heat from the Sun that powers Earth s climate and weather and sustains life. Since ancient times it has been harnessed for human use through a range of technologies. Solar radiation along with secondary solar resources… …
78Space Shuttle Columbia — Columbia OV 102 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS 109(HST 3B)to repair the Hubble Space telescope.This was the final sucessful mission of Columbia before STS 107 OV designation OV 102 Country …
79Mickey Mouse Works — Also known as Disney s Mickey Mouse Works Format Animated series Created by …
80USS Missouri (BB-63) — ( Mighty Mo or Big Mo ) is a U.S. Navy Iowa class battleship, and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built by the United States, and was the site of… …
