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Pat Farmer established the fastest around Australia long run record of continuous running in 191 days and 10 minutes (around 6 months) over 14,662.4 km (9,111 mi) during his Centenary of Federation run. He set a new world 10,000 km (6,214 mi) record in 129 days, broke a long-standing Australian record of more than 13,383 km (8,316 mi) in 174 days.
The Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The Cape of Good Hope is not the southern tip of Africa, which is actually Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast. [261] The majority of the Sahara consists of rocks, rather than sand. [262] [106] Rivers do not predominantly flow from north to south.
The X-15, at Mach 6.72, is one of the fastest manned aircraft. Cooled nickel-titanium skin; highly integrated (due to domination of interference effects: non-linear behaviour means that superposition of results for separate components is invalid), small wings, such as those on the Mach 5 X-51A Waverider. High-hypersonic 10.0–25.0 6,615–16,537
At the time, the UK's gold reserves were worth about US$6.5 billion, accounting for about half of the UK's US$13 billion foreign currency net reserves. [ 135 ] The 2001 AOL merger with Time Warner (a deal valued at $350 billion; which was the largest merger in American business history) [ 136 ] was 'the biggest mistake in corporate history ...
The video game industry continued to be dominated by Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft; while indie games became more popular, with Minecraft becoming the best-selling game of all time. Handheld console gaming revenue was overtaken by mobile gaming revenue in 2011.