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The second tennis Grand Slam tournament of the year is named after a man who didn't actually play tennis.
Roland Garros was an aviation pioneer who became the first person to fly across the Mediterranean Sea before joining the French army.
He is considered the first modern fighter pilot, downing four German planes during World War I. Garrow spent three years in a German prisoner of war camp, escaped, then returned to the front lines.
He was killed in action in October 1918, the day before his 30th birthday.
Ten years later, his former business school classmate proposed the new Paris tennis stadium be named in his honor.
Back in the 1990s, Duffy starred in one MTV show and met his wife on another.
The couple and their nine kids are now the focus of The Great American Road Trip, a five-part series that will air on YouTube.
The show urges other families to hit the road, too.
But critics say that is hard to do when gas prices are so high because of the U.S.
Some also wonder if taxpayers footed the family's bill.
Duffy says production costs were covered by a non-profit, which in turn credits sponsors like Boeing, Toyota, and Shell.
The Department of Transportation says the series was filmed in one- to two-day production windows, during which Duffy conducted business, including air traffic control tower visits.
This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, President Trump has never been more unpopular.
And the midterms are now less than six months away.
The politics of a wartime economy this week on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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Perlman rose to fame on America's Got Talent in 2015.