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Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from 14 November 1889, to 25 January 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
In the 2014 80 Days game based on the book, Passepartout is the player character, accompanying Phileas Fogg around the world in a text based world, designed around a branching plot format. In the VR game "Walkabout Mini Golf", a DLC level is based on the book, where in the hard version of the level, the player plays as Passepartout collecting ...
Total duration (days) Departure date Arrival date Notes Reference Steve Fossett: 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes 19 June 2002 3 July 2002 Spirit of Freedom balloon, first solo aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling from Northam, Western Australia [32] Steve Fossett: 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 seconds 28 February 2005 3 March 2005
Take the name James, the number three baby boy name of the 1920s. In 2022, James still held up as one of the most popular baby boy names, coming in at number four.
In 2011, Brazilian businessman and TV host Álvaro Garnero and journalist José Antonio Ramalho made a bet with a pub owner in London to travel around the world in 80 days. The Record (TV network) TV series "50 by 1 - Around the World in 80 Days" followed their journey. Both Brazilians crossed the Atlantic and Pacific, USA, Canada, Alaska ...
In fact, there’s a whole theory to support the trend of bringing new life to old-fashioned baby names dubbed the 100-Year Rule; per the rule, it takes 100 years for an old-fashioned name to ...
It seems parents in the US have a lot of leeway when it comes to naming their children.
Jean Batten in 1937. Aleko Konstantinov – a cosmopolitan traveler, was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America. His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris, General Land Centennial Exhibition (1891) in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 – including a visit to Niagara Falls – provided Bulgarian ...