Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil. It was her first venture of the kind but she admitted to no qualms at the thought of traveling 10,000 mi., of entering jungles never visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions...
...Greek athlete, Pheildippides, ran from the field of Marathon to Athens, to gasp, before falling dead, that the Greeks had been victorious over the Persians. Distance: 26 mi...
...longest continuous flight, with fuel stops, by any dirigible still belongs to the late Shenandoah, which traveled in 1924 from Lakehurst to the Pacific and back, entering Canada and Mexico - 9,317 mi. compared with the Norge's 6,280 mi. from Rome to Teller...
...transatlantic flights of the British R34 in 1919 were 3,600 and 3,450 mi., both nonstop. The first really long dirigible flight was made in 1917 by the German L-59, from Jamoli, Bulgaria, via Smyrna, the Mediterranean and the Libyan desert into East Africa and return - about 4,500 mi. without a stop
...Norge's Spitzbergen to Teller flight of 2,700 mi. is the longest successful nonstop flight for nonrigid dirigibles. The French Dixmade had covered over 5,000 mi. and weathered an African hurricane, when she was lost with all hands in the Mediterranean...