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Show _ CIRCLING THE GLOBE . No one has ever really reallycircled really circled the globe , because to toliterally toliterally } lIterally do that would mean going gomg around theVOlld the wolid \VOlld VOlld world \ at atits atits its circumference , whether by following foIlow'mg foIlowmg ' ' the 'the equator or orotherwise orotherwise ! otherwise . But going gomg aiound alound around the world is generally un- un understood understood un understood - - around the earth betweenthe betweenthe between betweenthe derstood to mean any passage the t\\ t \ two t0 \ 0 poles . , . , - , . , How the time required for this feat ? has been le re- re reduced ic-duced ic duced - . 1 1duced duced is strikingly illustrated by the fact that UJai lUageUen's lUageUens Magellen's Magellens lUageUen'sship Magellen'sship Magellensship ' ship Victory , the first to cncumnavigate cllCUmnavlgate circumnavigate the globe in m the theaccepted theaccepted tneaccepted accepted sense , , took three years , lacking Iackmg 12 days , , for itsvoyage itsvoyage its itsvoyage voyage , 1519 to 1522 . . j Drake made it 1t in 1052 days , something somethmg over a half halfcentUlJ.r halfcentury halfcentury centUlJ.r centUlJr century . later . Ca Cavendish ' endlsh endish in 1856 sailed from Plymouth PlymouthEngland , , f fThen England , and returned in 781 days . Then challenged by Jules Verne's Vernes Ver'ne's ' ' ' book , "Aiound Aiound IIAlound "Around Around " the theWorld thoWorld I 1 ; 'Vorld Vorld World ' in 80 days , " Nellie BIy Bly , a newspaper woman , went wentA wentaround wentaround A around the v world . orld by boat and train in 72 days in 1889 1889.The 1889The wentI . I 1 y The ne\t ne t ne.t net nett \ . . year George Francis Train Tram did the stunt in 67 67days 67days 67days days , . Other records ranging rangmg aiound alound around 40 days were made madein I iin in ] 11 the succeeding succeedmg years before the advent of the airplane . In 1927 Linton Lmton and und ' Wells 'VeIls VeIls , employing employmg train , boat and andairplane andairplane andairplane I airplane , completed the circuit circU1t in 28 days . In 1928 Mears Mearsand Mearsand ! and CoIIyer Collyer ColIyer reduced the time to 24 days ; the dITigIble dirigible dITigIbleGlaf dirigibleGiaf dirigibleGiaf Glaf Giaf Zeppelin Zeppelm in rn ] n 1929 cut the record to 21 days . j Then came the real record-breakers record breakers - , ' Wiley 'VIley VIley Post and andHarold andHarold andHarold Harold Gatty in 1n 1931 made the trip by airplane in 8 days days,15 days15 , 15 hours and 51 minutes . A few days ago the speediest speediestJ speediestworld J _ ; world worldfJight flight of all time was made by Wiley WJley Post . , dne-eyed dne eyed tine-eyed tine dneeyedt tineeyedt dne-eyedaviator dne eyedaviator - - t aviator , flying alone , in 7 days , 18 hours and 49 minutes minutes.And minutesAnd . , ' And that's thats ' something someth1ng for other globe trotters to shoot at . |