Weir in the River Derwent at Chatsworth House – credit Tom Bendall
Erden Eruc – CC Wikimedia Commons
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Good News in History, July 21
14 years ago today, Turkish-American Erden Eruç became the first person to perform a human-powered circumnavigation of the world, in a journey of 41,000 miles and over 5 years. The trip crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true […]