In 1988 this Pythoner made it around the world in 80 days for the BBC with 17 hours to spare
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days - Amazon.com  Buy Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days on Amazon.com  FREE ... Crossing 17 borders and meeting innumerable challenges, he saw Venice from the back of a ... Palin, a member of the Monty Python comic troupe, is the most recent .... book based on the TV travelogue that Michael Palin made for the BBC in 1988.
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Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia  Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, ... The twelve hours gained earlier are lost, but Fogg shows no regret. .... In 1889, Nellie Bly undertook to travel around the world in 80 days for her .... World in 80 Days, a seven-episode series made by the BBC in 1988 starring...
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days - Wikipedia  Around the World in 80 Days is a 7-part BBC television travel series first ... World... and would go on to criticise the show; calling it "A seven-hour ego trip"), and the ... where he sees the world-renowned evzones, and meets a die-hard Python fan. ... ahead of schedule and that time lost will be made up throughout the voyage.
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jeopardy/10 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  [{"question":"In a 2003 annual cost-of-living survey, it was ranked as the world's most expensive city","category":"ASIAN HISTORY","value":"$200","answer":"Tokyo"} .... 1988 <a href=\"http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-17_DJ_08.jpg\" ... Pythoner made it around the world in 80 days for the BBC with 17 hours to spare"...
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Around the World with Tauck | Tauck Travel Blog  Aug 13, 2015 ... Travel around the world with Tauck travel tours just as science fiction author ... and the opening of the Suez Canal had made such a journey even possible. ... 'round-the-world trip isn't so easy at that as Monty Python's Michael ... BBC TV series, making his 80-day deadline with a scant 17 hours to spare!
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Dave Rabbit: The Man, The Myth, The LEGEND! - Ibiblio  Aug 2, 2012 ... Although sale of the original copy of the only-surviving recording of Radio First ... Until 2006, not much else was known about the elusive and .... May 1968: If memory serves, the flight from the states to Vietnam was around 16 hours. ... In almost the time it took me to pack my bags, I was off to Phan Rang Air...
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Around the World in Eighty Days Chapter 11 Summary - Shmoop  Free summary and analysis of Chapter 11 in Jules Verne's Around the World ... In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price ... British government if it's found out that Passepartout entered the holy pagoda...
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Re: ping: Mary Shafer - Gondwanaland - Google Groups  Nov 2, 2008 ... She could have bet $1,901--just enough to beat Kevin if ... nearly 22 hours to achieve this in 1875; in 1994 it took only 7 hours & 17 minutes.".
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Around the World in Eighty Days Quotes by Jules Verne - Goodreads  A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.  Jules ... Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days. 5 likes  Like.
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Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records of All Time - Space.com  Apr 5, 2016 ... So Glenn holds another record as well: the longest time between trips to space (36 years 8 months). ... The most consecutive days in space by an American is 340 days, ... astronaut, spent more than 199 days aboard the space station. ... of NASA's Apollo 17 mission spent just under 75 hours  more than...
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80,000 fare for the world's longest taxi journey | Guinness World ...  May 11, 2012 ... Expedition smashes two Guinness World Records after clocking up ... reception back in London following a 15-month long trip around the ... for the highest altitude reached by car after the three drove Hannah ... cab was borne out of the lads' own cab journey home one evening, after a night out on the tiles.
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Around the World in 80 Days | Nellie Bly in the Sky  Posts about Around the World in 80 Days written by Rosemary J Brown. ... out to beat not only the 80-day fictional Phileas Fogg record but also try to one-up ... each reporter left from New York, but went the opposite way around the world. ... 'Homes and Gardens' section of the newspaper, Bly faked her own insanity to gain...
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956) Starring ... - Three Movie Buffs  Feb 28, 2005 ... David Niven and Cantinflas in Around the World in 80 Days. Around The World in 80 Days is the slowest paced race movie you are ever going to see. ... Still this very long movie is more of an event film than it is an entertaining one. ... (oops) Passepartout left the gas on, but fortunately Phileas Fogg wins his...
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - CrAiGeR's Cinema Corner  2004, PG, 122 mins. Passepartout: Jackie Chan / Phileas Fogg: Steve Coogan / Monique: Cecile De France ... The film opens in late 19th Century England where Phileas Fogg (the very funny, but ... made the loyal guest of the polygamist Prince named Hapi (played by the Governor of Kah-i-fornia, Arnold Schwazenegger).
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days - Wikipedia  Around the World in 80 Days is a 7-part BBC television travel series first broadcast ... trilogy of globe-crossing series featuring Michael Palin as he visited many countries. The second series was Pole to Pole (travelling from the North Pole to the...
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jeopardy/1640_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME | The first of these was by Aleksey Leonov in 1965 & took 12 minutes, 9 seconds; he was attached to a 16-foot cord | a spacewalk.
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in 10 and a half days - Daily Mail  Feb 11, 2013 ... Speedy Philip Young and Paul Brace shaved more than three days off the ... Philip said that the hardest part of the trip had been a stretch in northern ... from London to Cape Town in a Morris Eight, a drive that took five months. ... The previous record for the Cape Town to London route stood at 14 days,...
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July History In Pop Culture  2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world (Australia to Australia ) nonstop in a balloon in just under two weeks. 2005 - The Live .... 1922 - Future film 'Tarzan' star Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
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Steve Fossett: Always Scouting For New Adventures 4-22-44 Flown ...  Steve Fossett and a crew of 12 sailed around the world on Cheyenne, .... I had to fly 22,000 miles to get around the world, and the longest duration .... Steve Fossett achieved the first solo nonstop RTW speed record in the GlobalFlyer, in 2005. .... The 4,000-pound GlobalFlyer took off carrying nearly 18,000 pounds of jet fuel...
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Search eText ...  Around the World in 80 days was written during a time of war between France ... The English gentleman, Mr. Phileas Fogg, enters into a wager whereby he will ... At one such visit to the club to play cards, he gets into a conversation with his ... the entire plot and from then on we see how Fogg goes around the world and we...
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: Chapter 24  Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding ... Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the ... to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was named the General Grant. ... the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship's chronometers.