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  2. List of pedestrian circumnavigators - Wikipedia

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    4 years, 3 months, 16 days. Distance. 23,250 kilometres (14,450 mi) Name. Steven M. Newman. Newman became the second man independently verified to walk around the world on April 1, 1987, exactly four years after his departure. His walk was very similar to Kunst's, covering four continents and 14,500 miles.

  3. Stair climbing - Wikipedia

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    Stair climbing. Stair climbing is the climbing of a flight of stairs. It is often described as a "low-impact" exercise, often for people who have recently started trying to get in shape. A common exhortation in health pop culture is "Take the stairs, not the elevator ". The Force Plate-Mounted Stairs by AMTI are primarily used for research into ...

  4. Circumnavigation world record progression - Wikipedia

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    12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru ( Air France ) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.

  5. List of circumnavigations - Wikipedia

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    Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from November 14, 1889, to January 25, 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.

  6. Circumnavigation - Wikipedia

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    A person walking completely around either pole will cross all meridians, but this is not generally considered a "circumnavigation". The path of a true (global) circumnavigation forms a continuous loop on the surface of Earth separating two regions of comparable area. [citation needed] A basic definition of a global circumnavigation would be a ...

  7. Climbing stairs could help you live longer—and ... - AOL

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    Design a circuit workout for yourself that includes climbing a few flights of stairs at a moderate pace and then dropping onto the floor for strength training, such as push-ups or crunches. For ...

  8. CN Tower - Wikipedia

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    It is the world's highest full-circle, hands-free walk. Visitors are tethered to an overhead rail system and walk around the edge of the CN Tower's main pod above the 360 Restaurant on a 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) metal floor. [31] The attraction is closed throughout the winter and during periods of electrical storms and high winds.

  9. Penrose stairs - Wikipedia

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    In the real world, the hero should always be in front of the villain throughout this chase. However, in the case of the Penrose stairs the hero descends another flight of stairs to catch up to the antagonist and catch him unawares. [14] The cover of the 2011 album Angles by American rock band The Strokes depicts a complex set of Penrose stairs.