Hofuf
Hofuf or Al Hufuf , town (1993 pop. 225,847), E Saudi Arabia. Textile manufacturing, food processing, and Arabian horse breeding are important economic activities. It is also a trade center for dates, wheat, and fruit and has a large mosque. Originally called Hasa, it was the center of the Karmathian movement in the 10th cent. The oil fields of Shimanya are nearby.
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Piccard Follows Family's Footsteps
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Balloonist Bertrand Piccard on Saturday became...physicist grandfather Auguste and his partner...seas. In 1960, Auguste's son, Jacques...depth. Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy...the ideas used by Auguste Piccard in his early flights...
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Balloonist Piccard comes from long line of record-setting pioneers
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...10 miles. Three years later, Auguste Piccard's twin brother, Jean-Felix...ascent in the United States. Auguste Piccard then set about creating a super...history. Some of the ideas used by Auguste Piccard in his early flights such as...
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JACQUES PICCARD
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...nuclear waste at sea. Jacques Piccard was born in 1922 in Brussels into...remote locations. His father, Auguste Piccard, and uncle Jean Felix Piccard...s first passenger submarine, Auguste Piccard, transported around 33,000...
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A Swiss Family's Triple Crown.(Piccard family ballooning tradition)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 2/23/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Jacques's father, Auguste Piccard, took a balloon nearly...balloons. But physicist Auguste Piccard thought he could do...were dead. Jacques Piccard, then 8 years old...afraid," he says. But Auguste and Kipfer landed after...
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Undersea explorer Piccard dies, aged 86
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his Lake Geneva...Exploration ran in the Piccard family. Jacques' physicist father, Auguste, was the first man to take...design the bathyscaphe. Auguste Piccard's great bathyscaphe...
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In family of explorers, this one chose sea Undersea explorer Piccard dies, aged 86.(Front)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 11/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...company said. He was 86. Piccard died at his Lake Geneva...physicist father, Auguste, was the first person...around the world. Jacques Piccard helped his father invent...design the bathyscaphe. Auguste Piccard's great bathyscaphe...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 20 DAYS BALLOONISTS PICCARD, JONES CLOSE IN ON RECORD VOYAGE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/20/1999; 700+ words
; ...correspondents assembled here, Piccard apologized for having disclosed...making it, so we never let up.'' Piccard, 41, is the son and grandson...historic records. His grandfather, Auguste Piccard, also a medical doctor, was the...
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Jacques Piccard dead at 86.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 11/4/2008; 588 words
; ...other man has died at the age of 86. His company Solar Impulse says Piccard died Saturday at his home in Switzerland. Piccard helped his father, the famous physicist Auguste Piccard, invent the bathyscaphe, a vessel which allows humans to descend...
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Undersea explorer Piccard dead, aged 86
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/1/2008; 418 words
; ...other man has died at the age of 86. His company Solar Impulse says Piccard died Saturday at his home in Switzerland. Piccard helped his father, the famous physicist Auguste Piccard, invent the bathyscaphe, a vessel which allows humans to descend...
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Piccard Medical Corporation.(management issues)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Nursing Homes; 12/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...Star Trek the Next Generation, but "Piccard" spelled with two C'S, named after two pioneering Swiss aeronauts. Piccard Medical Corporation is the namesake of Auguste and Jean-Felix Piccard, twin brothers who, in the 1930s...
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Piccard, Auguste
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PICCARD, AUGUSTE ( b . Basel, Switzerland, 28 January...Minnesota, 23 January 1960), Auguste Piccard achieved fame and distinction as a...became a U.S. citizen in 1931. Auguste Piccard attracted world attention when, on...
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Auguste Piccard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Auguste Piccard The Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) is famed for his explorations of the stratosphere...Born into an academic family in Basel on Jan. 28, 1884, Auguste Piccard was educated there and at the Zurich Polytechnic. From...
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Jacques Piccard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Jacques Ernest Jean Piccard was born July 28, 1922...exploits of his father, Auguste, a physicist who became...atmosphere. In 1931, Auguste reached a record altitude...the upper atmosphere, Auguste Piccard then turned to inventing...
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Piccard, Jacques Ernest-Jean (1922- )
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Piccard, Jacques Ernest-Jean (1922- ) Swiss...engineer, physicist, and economist Jacques Piccard is a Swiss oceanic engineer best noted...vessel he helped build with his father, Auguste Piccard. Jacques Ernest-Jean Piccard was born...
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balloon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...balloon (see airship ). In 1932 the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard , one of the major figures in 20th-century ballooning...crossed the Pacific. In Mar., 1999, Jacques Piccard, Auguste's grandson, and Briton Brian Jones made the first...
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