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Brian Jones

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Brian Jones 1947-, British balloonist, b. Bristol. A former Royal Air Force pilot, he entered the world of ballooning in the 1980s, and in 1997 became an organizer for the attempt of the British-built, Swiss-sponsored Breitling Orbiter 3 to circle the world nonstop. On Mar. 1-20, 1999, he and Dr. Jacques Piccard (see under Piccard, Auguste ) succeeded where many had failed, floating from Switzerland southwest to Mauritania, then eastward across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, North America, and the Atlantic to a landing in the Egyptian desert. They wrote Around the World in 20 Days (19... Read more
Brian, Donald
Brian, Donald (1877–1948), singer and...Florodora , and The Belle of New York , Brian came under George M. Cohan 's aegis, playing Henry Hapgood in Little Johnny Jones (1904) and Tom Bennett in Forty‐...production of The Merry Widow (1907). Brian then was starred as Freddy Smythe in ... Read more
The Rolling Stones
...Dartford, Kent, England); guitarist Brian Jones (Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones, born...Chapman, and a guitar player named Brian Jones. Jones was quite different from...Marquee Club in 1963, billed as " Brian Jones and The Rollin' Stones" (after... Read more

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