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    Charles Green (31 January 1785 – 26 March 1870) was the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century. He experimented with coal gas as...
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  • travelled with James Cook Charles Green (balloonist) (1785–1870), England's most famous balloonist of the 19th century Charles Green (bishop) (1864–1944),...
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    friend of the noted balloonist Charles Green, the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century, ascending with Green 27 times and soloing...
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    Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing...
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    require high-grade materials for their envelopes, and they are popular for balloonist sport activity. The first balloon which carried passengers used hot air...
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  • Greece; insects; David Rice Atchison. The police box; chinch bugs; Charles Green (balloonist) had hot-air balloon flight with horse. December 4, 1983 (1983-12-04)...
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  • American meteorologist and balloonist Charles J. Moore, oceanographer, environmentalist and racing yacht captain Charles Moore (botanist) (1820–1905)...
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    Brian Jones (aeronaut) (category British balloonists)
    Brian George Jones OBE (born 27 March 1947) is an English balloonist. Brian Jones, along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted...
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    Percival G. Spencer (category English balloonists)
    the third generation of a family of professional balloonists. He was the eldest son of Charles Green Spencer (1837–1880), who was the son of Edward Spencer...
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    Étienne-Gaspard Robert (category Belgian balloonists)
    techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation. Born in Liège, Prince-Bishopric...
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    Henry Tracey Coxwell (category British balloonists)
    Balloon Experiences (from 1887 to 1890). He was referred to as the foremost balloonist of the last half of the nineteenth century by the English-language periodical...
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    Auguste Piccard (category Swiss balloonists)
    (organic chemist, aeronaut, and balloonist) Jeannette Piccard (wife of Jean Felix) (aeronaut and balloonist) Don Piccard (balloonist) Auguste Piccard was the...
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    character and backstory of the Wizard from Washington Harrison Donaldson, a balloonist, ventriloquist and stage magician who worked for P. T. Barnum. On 15 July...
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    Robert Hollond (category British balloonists)
    balloon attempt in 1836 by the experienced aeronaut, Charles Green. Charles Green, a professional balloonist and aeronaut planned the record attempt which set...
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    Robert brothers (category French balloonists)
    Also present was Joseph Montgolfier, whom Charles honoured by asking him to release the small, bright green, pilot balloon to assess the wind and weather...
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  • (bishop) (born 1926), in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney Don Cameron (balloonist) (born 1939), British balloon manufacturer Donald Cameron, the captain...
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    better weather after it". Pierre Testu-Brissy was a pioneering French balloonist. On 18 June 1786, he flew for 11 hours and made the first electrical observations...
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    Bertrand Piccard (category Swiss balloonists)
    born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His grandfather Auguste Piccard was a balloonist and undersea explorer, and his father Jacques Piccard was an undersea...
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  • flu pandemic in 1919. She subsequently married Percival James Slater, a balloonist in World War I, and promoted to Brigadier in World War II. In 2002, BBC...
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    episodes (1979–1980) as Digger Barnes The Littlest Hobo - Episode: "The Balloonist" (1980) as Gus Appleton (uncredited) Fantasy Island – Episode: "Mr. Nobody/La...
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    after he had developed his own processes. French balloonist, professor and inventor Jacques Charles is believed to have captured fleeting negative photograms...
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    placed in an iron basket; it was controllable and replenishable by the balloonists. In 25 minutes the two men traveled just over five miles. Enough fuel...
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    2014 at the Wayback Machine". CNN. Retrieved 30 April 2014. "Hot-Air Balloonists Crossing Atlantic Break Record". Los Angeles Times. 3 July 1987. Archived...
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  • The player must progress from one Homeworld to the next by talking to a balloonist, who transports Spyro to the next world on a hot air balloon after the...
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  • Susan Sheridan.[citation needed] Lee Scoresby is a skilled "aëronaut" (balloonist) from the country of Texas with an arctic hare dæmon named Hester. Lee...
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    Park) and RAF Henlow respectively. Balloon, (closed) Stamford. The balloonist Mr. H.Green had made a number of ascents in the vicinity in previous years....
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  • include: Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, who became a celebrated aeronaut following her husband's death. Felicity...
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  • Hubert Latham Léon Lemartin Marie Marvingt Jean Mermoz Les Frères Robert, balloonists Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author...
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  • flattery of Cass, a balloonist and Patrick's worldly employer. Elsewhere, Caroline and Mrs Oleson find they are rivals, Nels and Charles join forces to enter...
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  • against The Authority and Metatron. Lee Scoresby, a rangy Texan, is a balloonist. He helps Lyra in an early quest to reach Asriel's residence in the North...
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