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  2. John Wise (balloonist) - Wikipedia

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    On August 17, 1859, he made the first flight of local airmail in the U.S. from Lafayette, Indiana, to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in a balloon named Jupiter, [1] carrying 123 letters and 23 circulars of which one cover was discovered in 1957. [2] His trip of 25 miles (40 km) ended when he was forced to land by lack of buoyancy.

  3. Berkley Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Berkley Historic District is a national historic district located in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings on 4 contributing properties in the hamlet of Berkley built between 1758 and 1856.

  4. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    Jupiter Stores, Division of the S.S. Kresge Company. Operated several stores in Ohio. Including one in Downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio which had been a S. S. Kresge store for many years. Also a location in Downtown Ashland, Ohio. Jupiter was a no frills store. When leases were soon to be up on several S. S. Kresge stores the Jupiter format was put ...

  5. 'Sea of lava' larger than Lake Ontario discovered on Jupiter ...

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    Researchers at University of California Berkeley have obtained an exceptionally detailed map of the largest known lava lake in our solar system.. Located on Jupiter's moon Io, the lava lake known ...

  6. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    In both the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, Jupiter was named after the chief god of the divine pantheon: Zeus to the Greeks and Jupiter to the Romans. [19] The International Astronomical Union formally adopted the name Jupiter for the planet in 1976 and has since named its newly discovered satellites for the god's lovers, favourites, and descendants. [20]

  7. Phyllis Hayford Hutchings - Wikipedia

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    She earned a degree in civil engineering from Northwestern University in 1926, and earned a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1932. [3] Her dissertation was titled "The Galactic Rotation Effect in Open Clusters". [4]

  8. List of observatory codes - Wikipedia

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    PA: Haverford 438: Smith College Observatory ... Berkeley 661: Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, ... Jupiter Observatory; Boca Raton Observatory at Boca Raton ...

  9. Not even DOGE employees know who’s in charge after ... - AOL

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    Who’s really in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)? Even the White House and DOGE employees don't seem to know.