In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Unaware that competitors were meant to sleep during the race, he kept running continuously. Against all expectations, he won by a margin of 10 hours.
In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, arrived at the start of the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon looking entirely out of place. The race, stretching nearly 600 miles across Australia, was typically reserved for elite endurance athletes with specialized training, equipment, and support teams. Cliff turned up in loose overalls and rubber work boots, and most observers assumed he would not even make it through the first day.
Yet Cliff had spent much of his life herding sheep on his family farm, often covering long distances on foot for hours at a time. His running style was nothing like the others—short, shuffling, and unorthodox—but it was steady and relentless. Crucially, he was unaware of the standard race strategy, where competitors ran in long shifts and then slept for several hours. Cliff simply kept moving.
While the favorites stopped to rest, he continued through the night. As the days passed, it became clear he was not just surviving the race—he was leading it. Spectators began lining the route to watch the slow, determined figure pass mile after mile.
After 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes, Cliff Young crossed the finish line in first place, finishing about 10 hours ahead of his nearest competitor and shattering the previous record by nearly two days. When he learned there was prize money, he reportedly gave it away to the other runners, saying they had all worked just as hard.
His distinctive running style later became known as the “Young Shuffle.” Initially mocked, it was eventually studied by ultramarathon athletes for its efficient, energy-conserving motion over extreme distances.
@FoxNews FIX News at it again 👀
It’s amazing but NOT surprising that the clowns want to highlight this but ignore the FACT that 99% of voter fraud is committed by republicans 👀
A California woman is set to plead guilty for paying homeless people to register to vote and sign political petitions.
Federal prosecutors charged Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong with allegedly paying people — including homeless individuals — to register to vote while she collected ballot-petition signatures in Los Angeles.
Prosecutors said Armstrong sometimes provided homeless individuals with her former Los Angeles address to list on voter registration forms, which registered them to vote in both California and federal elections.
Armstrong was charged with a felony count of paying another person to register to vote, in which she could face a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.
While the billionaires get much richer, 60% of working class Americans struggle to afford food or housing. Millions are losing healthcare.
Yes. The very rich should start paying their fair share of taxes. That’s why I support the California Wealth Tax on billionaires.
@THR These people will be the first to die when the world goes haywire. They will be CLUELESS without an 'assistant' or food fetches when their money is useless. 😂🤣😂
@archeohistories This dude doesn't have a fucking clue what happened last month let alone 4,000 yrs ago. The EGO of these 'intellects' is mind blowing.
The 4000 year-old network of ceramic water pipes unearthed at archaeological site of Pingliangtai on Central Plains of China 🇨🇳 represents an unprecedented social and environmental manipulation as Neolithic societies faced surging environmental crises in East Asian Monsoon region...
Ancient ceramic water pipes in China show neolithic people accomplishing complex engineering feats communally, without centralised authority. The pipes are 4000 years old, dating back to Longshan period (3000-1900 BC) of Chinese society. Also known as Black Pottery Culture, Longshan period marked transition from independent neolithic communities to China’s first dynastic states which emerged more than 3000 years ago. Team of archaeologists found oldest known ceramic water pipes in China, demonstrating that locals were capable of major feats of engineering without centralized state government. The findings are described in a study published August 2014, in the journal Nature Water.
A network of ceramic water pipes and drainage ditches at central Chinese walled site of Pingliangtai show signs of cooperation among the neolithic community to build and maintain water system, according to a study published in Nature Water. There is no record of centralised power or authority in region during that period. About 500 people would have lived in neolithic Pingliangtai. Town was surrounded by protective earthen walls and a moat. It sits on the Upper Huai River Plain. 4,000 years ago, region saw major seasonal climate shifts. Summer monsoons regularly saw 500mm of rain fall monthly. Managing such deluges would have been critical for region’s inhabitants.
Pingliangtai’s neolithic occupants built and operated a two-tier drainage system unlike anything on Earth at the time. Drainage ditches running parallel to rowed houses diverted water from residences to a series of ceramic water pipes that carried water into town’s surrounding moat. The pipes have a diameter of about 20–30cm and are made up of 30–40cm segments that slot into each other to carry water over large distances. Pingliangtai’s drainage system is unique for its primary function to divert flood waters. Other water infrastructure from this period around the world tended to be used for sewerage or other purposes. While it is unclear exactly how labour was divided, lack of any evidence of centralised power at the time suggests that townspeople worked together to build and maintain the structure.
“The discovery of this ceramic water pipe network is remarkable because the people of Pingliangtai were able to build and maintain this advanced water management system with stone age tools and without the organisation of a central power structure,” says senior author Dr Yijie Zhuang from University College London’s Institute of Archaeology. This system would have required a significant level of community-wide planning and coordination, and it was all done communally.
Previously, it has been assumed that complex water systems in ancient societies would have required strong, centralised governance or even despotism. India’s Indus River Valley contains the world’s oldest known water pipes. Copper pipes ran through a palace complex around 4000–3000 BC. Around the same time, ancient Egyptians and Minoans had established vast networks of underground water systems. These systems predated impressive Roman aqueducts by nearly 4000 years. They also emerged in societies that fit conception that only communities led by congregated authority saw building of complex water systems. “Pingliangtai is an extraordinary site,” says co-author Dr Hai Zhang of Peking University, China. “The network of water pipes shows an advanced understanding of engineering and hydrology that was previously only thought possible in more hierarchical societies.”
#archaeohistories
Earlier this month, Senator John Fetterman disclosed a purchase of Micron Technology stock $MU.
Micron was awarded $6.1 billion through the CHIPS Act, the largest grant made under the program.
Fetterman serves on the Senate Commerce Committee, which has oversight authority related to CHIPS Act funding.
The stock has increased more than 60% since his reported purchase.
@mmmcrazybread@Chicago_Goofies This is why white leftists keep electing RACIST BLACK MAYORS. Just so they can announce to their friends and the world that they voted 'for a black peoples'
Yesterday, a woman walking her dog in the Wicker Park neighborhood was approached by three men. They asked her if she could make a donation for their friend's funeral. When she agreed, they scanned her Apple Pay and charged her 5,000. She immediately confronted them; they hit her and took off running. The man facing away in the picture has a red tattoo on his face.
@Chicago_Goofies It's the new black scam. They're PIECES OF SHIT. Don't believe ANY OF IT. Why do people want to be 'so nice' that they believe anything?!??
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
@SenWarren No no Pocahontas. It's time for YOU and your cronies to stop LAUNDERING MONEY. We all now can see the frauds that you are. Thank you internet. Corporations could give you TRILLIONS and yet somehow you'd still be screaming 'we need more!' once you WASTE all of it.
@MbarkCherguia Because they've been lied to. "Get off my land. I built this" 😂and to top it off, black people did this bullshit all through 2020 with ZERO CONSEQUENCES because 'someone' was a slave at 'some point' in the past.
🚨: After travelling for almost 5 decades, and more than 15 billions miles, Voyager 1 is about to make history.
It will soon reach one full light-day away from Earth!
@GavinNewsom 😂🤣😂 same nonsense 'political game' words again, different mouthpiece. EVERYONE KNOWS Gavin that whatever you say, the EXACT OPPOSITE is the real truth 😂🤣😂
@dos_lynx@Kittenwaffin They weren't there to shop. They were there to cause confrontation and show how 'racist' everyone is. Only they couldn't even do that right. 😂
@Kittenwaffin The wind could blow through the store and this type of mindset would say, "yuuUUP.... They be's trying to freeze outs da black peoples's". IT'S EXHAUSTING. And NOONE CARES. These 2 woke up, got dressed, and said, 'let's go film a video that shows how racist everyone is'.
@MLFootball Dear black American athletes - take note and be GRATEFUL to the 1st country in history....the USA.... to ABOLISH SLAVERY. Stop your whining and neverending 'protesting' as you rake in MILLIONS while screaming 'oppressed' and 'modern slavery' 😂
BEAUTIFUL MOMENT:
Every Venezuela player removed their caps during their country's National Anthem after winning the World Baseball Classic, and they all had TEARS flowing.
This was the most important day of these players lives representing their country.x.com/Fatslob1123/st…