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Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion by which humans and other animals move rapidly on foot. Running is a gait with an aerial phase in which all feet are ...
1747 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the ...
Running, including running and jumping [40] Gymnastics including bridging, handstands, and acrobatics. [40] Vaulting [40] Swimming [40] Horse riding including for long distances [40] Co-operative calisthenics. A person stands on a sturdy plate, which is then lifted up by other people. A person sits in a chair which is connected to a pulley system.
For example, in 1747, ... the oldest and longest-running scientific journal in the world, ... The inventor is unknown, ...
The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Anatomy. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), ...
Other running events included a two-stade race, the Diaulos (running race) [10] and the dolichos, which was a long-distance race that was 20 or 24 stades long, or about two and a half miles to three miles. [11] For races longer than one stade, runners would have to turn 180 degrees around a post at each of the two ends of the stadium ...
This poem inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin and other founders of the modern Olympic Games to invent a running race of approximately 40 km (25 mi) called the marathon. In 1921, the length of marathons became standardized at 42.195 km (26.219 mi).
In 1747, Franklin (already a very wealthy man) retired from printing and went into other businesses. [76] He formed a partnership with his foreman, David Hall, which provided Franklin with half of the shop's profits for 18 years. This lucrative business arrangement provided leisure time for study, and in a few years he had made many new ...