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George Meegan. George Meegan (2 December 1952 – 10 January 2024) was a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot, completed in 2,426 days [1 ...
A Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life. Length: 7,000 miles (11,000 km) Date: March 1984 – November 1985. Miles walked per month: 368 miles (592 km) Details: A Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life called for an end to the Cold War with better relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Long Walk of the Navajo, the 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the U.S. Government. The Long Walk, an annual event and charity inspired by Michael Long 's 2004 walk to Canberra to highlight Indigenous Australian issues. The March (1945), also known as the Long Walk, westward marches by groups of Allied POWs ...
Thirty years later, AIM led the Longest Walk 2, which covered 8,200 miles (13,200 km) starting from the San Francisco Bay area and arriving in Washington, D.C. in July 2008. The Longest Walk 2 had representatives from more than 100 American Indian nations, and other indigenous participants, such as Maori. It also had non-indigenous supporters.
978-0-451-08754-6. The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone ...
Darlene Nichols, also known by the names Kamook, Ka-Mook, Kamook Nichols and Ka-Mook Nichols, is the name of a former AIM member and Native American protester. She is best known for her role in the American Indian Movement for organizing (and participating in) The Longest Walk, and for serving as a key material witness [10] in the trials of Arlo Looking Cloud, Richard Marshall, and John Graham ...
Known for. Long-distance walking. Ffyona Campbell (born 1967 in Totnes, Devon) is an English long distance walker who walked around the world between 1983 and 1995. She set off at the age of 16 and covered 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) over 11 years and raised £180,000 for charity. She was the youngest person to walk the length of Britain and ...
He played Garner Ellerbee in the 1990s "show that celebrated European beauty." Baywatch actor Gregory Alan Williams, who played Sgt. Garner Ellerbee on the popular lifeguard series and its spinoff ...