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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and entrepreneur.During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.
Jet aircraft enabled American presidents to travel the globe in ways that would have been impractical if not inconceivable before. [1] While Eisenhower was the first president to travel by jet (and the first to travel via helicopter as well), the first airplane trips by a sitting president were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The travel and tourism industries in the United States were among the first economic sectors negatively affected by the September 11 attacks. In the U.S., tourism is among the three largest employers in 29 states, employing 7.3 million in 2004, to take care of 1.19 billion trips tourists took in the U.S. in 2005.
American: 1875: 1937: Explored and photographed South America, Asia, South Pacific Tania Aebi: American: 1966: Held the record as the youngest person and first American woman to sail solo around the world (with stops and assistance) Alexis Alford: American 1998 Youngest person to travel to every country in the world Felicity Aston: British: 1977
Jean Batten in 1937. Aleko Konstantinov – a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 – including a visit to Niagara Falls – provided Bulgarian ...
Image credits: anon #7. I worked in 2 different backpacker hostels in Ireland, i saw the best of and the worst of tourists. Dear Americans, stop thinking every country accepts american dollars ...
A US mountaineer has become the first foreign tourist to die this year during an expedition to scale Mount Everest, according to the US embassy in Nepal.. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, who was a Seattle ...
The book takes place in Roanoke Island and they eventually travel to Croatoan Island. In the 2011 faux-Southern Gothic show The Heart, She Holler the town matriarch, commonly referred to as "Meemaw", is named Virginia Dare. In Season 3 it is confirmed that she is the actual Virginia Dare, "the first white person born on this continent".