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  2. Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly - Wikipedia

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    According to one account, Kelly climbed his first pole at the age of seven, and at nine he performed a "human fly" trick, climbing up the side of a building. [1]He is credited with popularizing the pole-sitting fad after sitting atop a flagpole in 1924, either in response to a dare from a friend [7] or as a publicity stunt to draw customers to a Philadelphia department store. [8]

  3. Pole sitting - Wikipedia

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    14-year-old William Ruppert breaking the pole sitting record of 23 days, in 1929. Flagpole sitting was a fad in the mid-to-late 1920s. The fad was begun by stunt actor and former sailor [2] Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly, who sat on a flagpole, either on a dare by a friend [3] or as a publicity stunt. [2]

  4. Flagpole - Wikipedia

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    A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.

  5. List of flagpoles by height - Wikipedia

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    Cairo Flagpole: New Administrative Capital, Cairo Egypt: 201.952 m (662.57 ft) [1] 26 December 2021 Free–standing 2 National Flag Square Flagpole 2 (2024-now) Neftchiler Avenue, Bayil, Baku Azerbaijan: 191 m (626.64 ft) [2] 2 August 2024

  6. Human billboard - Wikipedia

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    Two human billboards in Stockholm, one holding a placard and the other wearing a sandwich board. A human billboard is someone who displays an advertisement on their person. . Most commonly, this means holding or wearing a sign of some sort, but also may include wearing advertising as clothing or in extreme cases, having advertising tattooed on the b

  7. Ceiling fan - Wikipedia

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    The wall control, which contains a motor speed regulator of some sort, determines how much power is delivered to the fan and therefore how fast it spins. Older such controls employed a choke—a large iron-cored coil—as their regulator; these controls were typically large, boxy, and surface-mounted on the wall. They had anywhere from four to ...