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800 m. Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CH CBE FRCP (23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018) was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub- 4-minute mile . At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres and finished in fourth place. This achievement strengthened his resolve to become the ...
This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [ 1] This barrier would not be broken by a high school student until 1964, when ...
A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1.6 km) in four minutes or less. It translates to a speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). [ 1] It is a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures. The first four-minute mile is usually attributed to the English athlete Roger Bannister, who ran it in 1954 at age 25, in ...
Pomodoro Technique. A pomodoro kitchen timer. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. [ 1] It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the ...
Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [ 1] Maintained since 1947, the clock is a metaphor, not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances.
Music video. "4 Minutes" on YouTube. " 4 Minutes " is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her eleventh studio album Hard Candy (2008), featuring vocals by fellow American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake and American producer Timbaland. It was released as the lead single from the album on March 17, 2008, by Warner Bros. Records.
Alan Eustace. Robert Alan Eustace (born 1957) is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and first Senior Vice President for Knowledge at Google until retiring in 2015. [ 3] On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner 's world record.
4 Minute Mile is a 2014 American drama film directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud, written by Jeff Van Wie and Josh Campbell, and starring Kelly Blatz, Richard Jenkins, Cam Gigandet, Lio Tipton, [ a] Rhys Coiro, and Kim Basinger. It is distributed by Gravitas Ventures, [ 1][ 2] and the international sales rights are held by Double Dutch ...