Land Speed Records
Between 1962 and 1967, Burt Munro from New Zealand used a modified 1920s Indian Scout to set a number of land speed records, as dramatised in the 2005 film The World's Fastest Indian.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.”
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Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.”
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