Word: globe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free themselves of the others, so the story also moves through Patrick's haunted wanderings and the life of their uncle Oscar whose cardboard clerical collar and designer suits speak of a long history. More Bread or I'll Appear becomes a traditional generational declension that spans the globe and some very untraditional characters...
...message also included quoted criticisms of the gay, lesbian and transgender lifestyle by Mansfield from a 1993 article in the Boston Globe. The message stated that Mansfield's comments conflicted with the mission of the BGLTSA...
...Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced across Mexico from the Pacific on Tuesday, and headed out over the Caribbean. Piccard and Jones have already broken the world record of 14,235 miles set last August by American Steve Fossett...
Even if the Breitling Orbiter team fails to circle the globe -- and there have been an endless series of such attempts in recent years -- the mission serves to highlight how ballooning has both foreshadowed the future and come full circle. Ballooning began as a sport for daredevils with the first crossing of the English Channel in 1785, became the forerunner of a modern air force when it was used as aerial spying tool for the French in 1794, heralded the coming of passenger air service with the subsequent development of blimps, and introduced mankind to space exploration with high-altitude...
...enough cash to pay off Monica's legal bills and those of her friends. Monica's alone are estimated at between $1.5 million and $2 million. She stands to make perhaps $3 million from the book and a British-TV interview that will be sold to stations around the globe...