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1 day ago · The June 20 – 22 weekend will feature 35 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars across the three classes. Watkins Glen, New York. The 3.4-mile, 11-turn traditional road course in the Finger Lakes region of New York state will host the two, 40-minute races. Practice begins on Thursday morning, June 20, with a second session that afternoon.
20 hours ago · Columbus on a melting iceberg. Columbus is experiencing its first heat dome. This is the new reality of our changing weather. The tipping point to avoid severe climate change was years ago. City ...
2 days ago · • Glen Gulutzan, who has been an NHL head coach with Dallas and Calgary before spending the last six seasons as an assistant with Edmonton. ... John Tortorella’s final season was 2020-21, ...
May 21, 2024 · John Glenn (born July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.—died December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio) was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, had made a single orbit of Earth in 1961.) Glenn joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942.
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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3]
Feb 18, 2022 · Learn about the historic Mercury-Atlas 6 mission that made John Glenn the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7. See photos and details of the launch, the flight, and the recovery of the astronaut and his spacecraft.
John Philip Glen (born 1 April 1974) is a British politician and former management consultant who has served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General since November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury in Wiltshire since 2010.
