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- Description: Launched in 2002, The World cruise ship is the largest residential vessel in the world, consisting of 165 luxury residences. In addition to private residences, the ship features a variety of communal areas such as restaurants, bars, a spa, a gym, a library, and even a miniature golf course. Its itinerary is unique, as it is decided annually with the active participation of the residents, allowing them to explore remote and exotic destinations around the world, turning every journey into an unforgettable and personalized experience
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Boat, ship, Barca, nave, Bateau
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://aboardtheworld.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1495908
MS The World is a residential cruise ship. Unlike other cruise ships, which operate like a resort, it is operated like a condominium complex, with large cabins that can be purchased. The residents, from about 19 countries, live on board as the ship travels. Some residents choose to live on board full-time while others visit periodically throughout the year. The ship is operated by ROW Management, Ltd., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
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- Description: Bicycle tour of the United States
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Velocipede, Vélocipède
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
Until recently little information was available on Gray. It is now known, however, that he was born in the farm hamlet of East Springfield, New York, located about 50 miles west of Albany on the Western Turnpike. Members of the Gray family were prosperous farmers who had been in the Cooperstown region since shortly after the Revolution.
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- Description: The Thomas couple, accompanied by a small dog, tackled on foot the road separating Columbus, Ohio, from San Francisco, California, covering a total of 2'500 miles
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Mr. and Mrs Robt. L. Thomas, walking from Columbus - O. to San Francisco
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- Description: Frederick Diodati Thompson, an American traveler and author, published In the Track of the Sun: Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter in 1893, lavishly illustrated by Harry Fenn, one of the leading engravers and illustrators of late-Victorian America. The book follows the itinerary of a late-19th-century globetrotter across Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Japan, and the Pacific, before returning to the United States. Its numerous illustrations - port scenes, landscapes, temples, and portraits of local life - give the volume both documentary and aesthetic value, turning it into a visual travelogue that exemplifies the high point of the illustrated travel book tradition
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1850-1906
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://archive.org/details/intrackofsunread00thom
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113804666
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thompson, Frederick Diodati, e Harry Fenn. In the Track of the Sun; Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter. New York: D. Appleton, 1893.
Mr. Thompson left New York for Chicago on October 14th, 1891, and returned to that city on May 18th in the following year. This handsome volume records by pen and pencil what he saw and thought of lands, seas, men, and cities during that time. He began by going across the Continent to Victoria, British Columbia ; went thence to Vancouver, and from Vancouver sailed to Japan. Japan seems to have exercised on him its customary fascination. China did not please him as much. (Why, we may ask, the very hideous picture of "After the Execution" ?).
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- Description: Peter Root and Mary Thompson set off from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, in 2011, planning to cycle around the world. After traveling the roads of Europe, the Middle East, and China, they were struck and killed instantly by a pickup truck in Thailand on February 13, 2013
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/18/british-cyclists-killed-thailand
- Multimedia: https://vimeo.com/twoonfourwheels
We are Mary Thompson and Peter Root. At 5.00pm on the 12th July 2011 we got the boat to France with loads of stuff and two bikes. We’ve created this website to document our adventures along the way.
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- Description: Rob Thompson took his skateboard and equipped it with a trailer to carry essentials. He departed from Leysin, Switzerland, on June 25, 2007, and arrived in Shanghai on September 28, 2008, covering 12'000 kilometers. In his blog, he recounts this incredible adventure, which began a few years earlier with a similar journey but on a bicycle
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Others, Altri, Autres
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: http://www.14degrees.org
I sat down one day and jotted down some thoughts on why exactly I want to do this. Usually I wouldn’t feel a need to justify myself, but, I mean come on, around the world by recumbent bicycle and skateboard?
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- Description: Thompson and Glover embarked on a transcontinental tour in 1907
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Thompson & Glover of Hollywood on their transcontinental tour in their 1907 Brush, one of the oldest gas buggies in actual service
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- Description: Around the world bicycle tour in the 1920s
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thorenfeldt K., Round the world on a cycle, London, Selwyn & Blount LTD, 1928.
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- Description: On the postcard, one of the two globetrotters is portrayed in front of the Temple of Zeus in Athens
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Temple de Jupiter Athènes