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In the Rowans by Balmorhea

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The marathon runner who went missing for 50 years
 
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever.
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The marathon runner who went missing for 50 years

Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.

Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.

There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever.

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Central Park and midtown skyscrapers viewed from above. New York City.
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Central Park and midtown skyscrapers viewed from above. New York City.

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Ey zavallı milletim dinle! Şu anda hepimiz burada seni kurtarmak için toplanmış bulunuyoruz. Çünkü, ey milletim, senin hakkında az gelişmiştir, geri kalmıştır gibi söylentiler dolaşıyor. Ey sevgili milletim! Neden böyle yapıyorsun? Neden az gelişiyorsun? Niçin bizden geri kalıyorsun? Bizler bu kadar çok gelişirken geri kaldığın için hiç utanmıyor musun? Hiç düşünmüyor musun ki, sen neden geri kalıyorsun diye durmadan düşünmek yüzünden, biz de istediğimiz kadar ilerleyemiyoruz. Bu milletin hali ne olacak diye hayatı kendimize zehir ediyoruz. Fakir fukaranın hayatını anlatan zengin yazarlarımıza gece kulüplerinde içtikleri viskileri zehir oluyor. Zengin takımının hayatını gözlerimizin önüne sermeye çalışan meteliksiz yazarlarımız da aslında şu fakir milleti düşündükleri için, küçük meyhanelerinde ağız tadıyla içemiyorlar. Ey şu fakir milletim! Aslında seni anlatmıyoruz. Sefil ruhlarımızın korkak karanlığını anlatıyoruz. İşte onun için sana yanaşamıyoruz. Senin yanında sığıntı gibi yaşıyoruz. Hiç utanmıyor muyuz? Hiç utanmıyoruz.
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  • That TimeRegina Spektor

That Time by Regina Spector

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  • Baleen MorningBalmorhea

Baleen Morning by Balmorhea

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I’d decided the campus was just a place to hide. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.
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Six-year-old piano prodigy Emily Bear. In an old (2008) interview:

“Where does this come from?”

“I don’t know. Probably my heart.”

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  • Blaspheming BarryLenny McLean

Blaspheming Barry by Lenny McLean as seen on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

“If I had British accent, I’d never shut up”

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Central Park, NY

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Tribe Meets White Man for the First Time

Tribe on Papua New Guinea meets white man for the first time. Filmed in 1976.

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