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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. Kelty (company) - Wikipedia

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    Kelty released approximately 170 products / 253 models with annual catalog updates. Tents are one of the core products of Kelty. Kelty tents are made of high-quality materials. Kelty tent fabrics are made of Polyester, which is longer-lasting than Nylon, and the poles are made of lightweight aluminum. Kelty's focus as a brand remains budget ...

  4. Buzzword of the Week: Tent Pole

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    Even so, tent poles didn't really penetrate popular culture until 1992, when the phrase was featured in the film Wayne's World. While discussing Claudia Schiffer, Michael Myers' character, Wayne ...

  5. Pole sitting - Wikipedia

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    Pole sitting is predated by the ancient ascetic discipline of stylitism, or column-sitting. St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388 –459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years. [1] 14-year-old William Ruppert breaking the pole sitting record of 23 days, in 1929

  6. NEMO Equipment - Wikipedia

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    NEMO is best known for its AirSupported Technology, which incorporates low pressure airbeams in place of traditional aluminum tent poles. [8]NEMO has also worked with the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts on its Extreme eXPeditionary Architecture (EXP-Arch) project to create shelter concepts based on highly mobile, quickly deployable, and retractable architecture systems.

  7. Three boys beat homeless man with tent poles, tripod in Long ...

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    The situation escalated when the trio struck the man with tent poles and a tripod. They also threw other objects at him, according to police. Read more: Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built ...