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He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist , as a sailor , and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot .
Robert Kinkead (June 1, 1952 – December 15, 2019), known as Bob, was an American chef and restaurateur based in Washington D.C. He was best known for his eponymous seafood restaurant Kinkead's , which operated from 1993 to 2012 and earned Kinkead the 1995 James Beard Award for best American chef in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Flay received a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984. After culinary school, he started working as a sous-chef, quickly learning the culinary arts. At the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue, Flay was handed the executive chef position a week after the executive chef was fired.
First woman to fly for a major U.S. airline: Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female pilot for a major U.S. airline, American Airlines, in March 1973. First manned flight by an electrically powered aeroplane : was made with a Brditschka MB-E1 , a modified motor glider with an 8–10 kW (11–13 hp) Bosch KM77 electric motor on October 23, 1973.
Robert Garside is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world from 20 October 1997 to 13 June 2003, taking 2,062 days to cover 30,000 mi (48,000 km) across 29 countries and 6 continents. [82] On 1 August 1999, Polly Letofsky left her home in Colorado on a five-year journey spanning four continents and 22 ...
Chef Boiardi eventually made his way to Ohio, where he opened a restaurant with his wife Helen. The Il Giardino d'Italia opened in 1924 and created a buzz in the city of Cleveland.
The first of these "new" Bob Evans Restaurants was located in Chillicothe, Ohio. By the early 1970s, the restaurants had expanded throughout Ohio. Expansion into other states was started in the late 1970s. By 2012, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. was a $1.7 billion restaurant and retail food products company with over 500 restaurants in 19 states. [5]
In 1970 she published the story of her round-the-world flight in the book Three-Eight Charlie. [8] While that book is now out of print, a 50th anniversary edition was later published including maps, weather charts and photos. [8] Three-Eight Charlie is a reference to the call sign, N1538C, of the Cessna 180 Skywagon Mock used to fly around the ...