Dedicated cyclists set different goals to strive for, from cycling 40 miles in a day to cycling 5,000km or around 3106 miles in a year. I love cycling because it’s fun working your legs, hips, and ...
A 70-year-old man from Limerick is seeking the Guinness World Record for walking the equivalent of the Earth’s circumference in under 1500 days. Vinod Bajaj, from Castletroy, has walked 40,107km ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you’ve never ...
MATTAPOISETT, MASS. (WHDH) - A Mattapoisett man is close to completing a decades-long journey to walk the length of the Earth’s circumference. It all started with a doctor’s order in 1988 and now, ...
Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man in Alaska and his little Shih Tzu have logged a lot of miles on their daily walks — enough to circle the world. Over the past eight ...
IN Sky and Telescope of September, under the heading “Saluting an Astronomer”, Joseph R. Habes has an article which describes the method adopted by Eratosthenes for measuring the circumference of the ...
A San Luis Obispo resident rode the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth on his bike. Tony Murphy took 11 years to ride 24,901 miles on his bike, which is the same as one time around the Earth ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results