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Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.
It was my longest operation.
I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.
But 20 years on, my patient, Surinder, is Asia's longest surviving cadaveric liver transplant to date.
They've tried things like choosing something at random or applying what's called the "first-in, first-out principle," which means removing the item which has been in the memory for the longest.
The biggest speakers have the longest waves, which have the most current, and the current is what's causing these things to move.
The OED defines spectrum as "The entire range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, from the longest radio waves to the shortest gamma rays of which the range of visible light is only a small part."
In the global health community, we like to say it's one of the longest pieces of research that's been running.
This two-and-a-half-inch bat has a three-and-a-half-inch tongue, the longest relative to body length of any mammal in the world.
The longest part of that flight is actually the boat out and back.
Now the last option was the longest, and the most difficult: to sail 1,500 miles due south in hopes of reaching a certain band of winds that could eventually push them toward the coast of South America.
I've spent a lot of the fall talking to the three major organizations that survey American political attitudes: Pew Research, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, and the most important but the least known is the American National Election Studies group that is the world's longest, most respected poll of political attitudes.
Ethiopia has had the longest tradition of writing, with the Ethiopic script that was developed in the fourth century A.D. and is used to write Amharic, which is spoken by over 24 million people.
So for the longest time, all I would do is recall the memory of this person over and over again, wishing that I could get rid of that gut-wrenching, visceral "blah" feeling.
The longest at the moment is in Japan.
In just its third year, Hitch served 30 million trips in this past holiday season, the longest of which was further than 1,500 miles.
It survived gravity, barbarians, looters, developers and the ravages of time to become what I believe is the longest continuously occupied building in history.
In 1972, Eddy Merckx set the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour at 30 miles, 3,774 feet.
For the longest time in the food industry, there was a sense that there was one way, a perfect way, to make a dish.
So they are outdoor spaces and indoor spaces, and you move from one to the other, and there is contact with nature, and most relevantly, at every level of the structure, public gardens and open space: on the roof of the podium, climbing up the towers, and finally on the roof, the sky park, two and a half acres, jogging paths, restaurants, and the world's longest swimming pool.
But that was the longest journey that I have ever had in my whole life.
In the process, we broke the record for the longest human-powered polar journey in history by more than 400 miles.
We'd made the longest ever polar journey on foot, something I'd been dreaming of doing for a decade.
And we also, on the web, during this week we streamed more than 100 years of video to 148 nations, and the websites are still there and they will be forever, actually, because Hurtigruten was selected to be part of the Norwegian UNESCO list of documents, and it's also in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest documentary ever.
Whales are also known to undertake some of the longest migrations of all mammals.
And after years, seven years of fundraising, seven years of being told no, seven years of being told by my family to seek counseling and psychiatric help, eventually three of us found ourselves marching to the South Geographic Pole on the longest unassisted march ever made anywhere on Earth in history.
For the world leaders, we've been to every world Earth Summit, all three of them, with our brave yacht, 2041, twice to Rio, once in '92, once in 2012, and for the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, we made the longest overland voyage ever made with a yacht, 13,000 kilometers around the whole of Southern Africa doing our best to inspire over a million young people in person about 2041 and about their environment.
I knew he would call in the morning, but that night was one of the saddest and longest nights of my life.
It was the saddest and longest night of his life as well.
Now there's plenty of room for critique that we haven't done enough, and what it is that we've done hasn't been effective enough, but the truth is this: The fight against global poverty is probably the broadest, longest running manifestation of the human phenomenon of compassion in the history of our species.
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