* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

Campbell's speed on his final Lake Eyre run remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001 ; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her potential only partly realised.

The highest available speed through ADSL technologies was upgraded to 8MB in download in February 2008 and then to 24MB later that year.

Noon Greenwich Mean Time is rarely the exact moment when the sun crosses the Greenwich meridian ( and reaches its highest point in the sky at Greenwich ) because of Earth's uneven speed in its elliptic orbit and its axial tilt.

This tornado also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph ( 484 +/- 32 km / h ).

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

Team races are also held ; in long track speed skating, the only team race at the highest level of competition is the team pursuit, though athletics-style relay races are held at children's competitions.

Vilnius count with the highest internet speeds in the world, with an average download speed of 36. 37 MB / s and upload speed of 28. 51 MB / s.

The highest wind speed ever measured in a tornado, which is also the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet, is 301 ± 20 mph ( 484 ± 32 km / h ) in the F5 Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma, tornado which killed 36 people.

One discipline administered by the FIS but not usually considered part of racing is speed skiing, in which competitors strive to achieve the highest total speed in a straight line, with no gates or turns.

The two most important factors for a long throw are the angle of release ( 45 ° up from the ground ) and the speed of the ball ( the highest possible ).

The highest speed runs are usually fairly short, but they can be quite intense.

During the highest tides rising water is funnelled up the estuary into a wave that travels upstream against the river current at a speed of 8 to 13 miles per hour.

The 1959 models were marketed as " the Linear Look ", and also featured a bar-graph speedometer which showed a green indicator through, then changed to orange until, then was red above that until the highest speed read by the speedometer,.

The highest speed for a MotoGP motorcycle in 125 cc category is by Valentino Rossi in 1996 for Aprilia and the top speed in the history of MotoGP is, set by Dani Pedrosa riding a Repsol Honda RC212V 800 cc during Free Practice 1 at the 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.

The highest speed limit anywhere on the island is 35 km / h ( approximately 20 mph ), and it is lower in built-up and other congested areas.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The highest position is known as a ' research scientist.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.

This is much smaller than the highest resolution of even the very large reflectors now under construction, and consequently the radio emission of different regions of the disk cannot be resolved.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;

These two nations to this day have attained the highest Human Development Indexes within Central America in a traditionally unstable and impoverished region.

He demonstrated an early interest in politics and attained with difficulty the position of alcalde del primer voto, or head of the Asunción cabildo, by 1809, the highest position he could aspire to as a criollo.

Several Puerto Ricans became notable commanders, five have been awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration in the United States, also several Puerto Ricans have attained the rank of General or Admiral, which requires a Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.

A large portion of Antrim is hilly, especially in the east, where the highest elevations are attained.

Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank — that of Großadmiral ( Grand Admiral ) — in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz.

Moses attained the highest possible human level.

Toward the middle and later phases of the Yuan, they received equivalent treatment as the ruling Mongols and attained highest offices in the Central Court.

He attained the highest public office as one of the Prytaneis ( presidents, having a six months tenure ) of Rhodes.

Partially due to the strike of BBC's rival ITV, City of Death scored high ratings ; the fourth episode was watched by over sixteen million viewers, the highest audience ever attained by an episode of Doctor Who.

Chiefs were at once qualified for the highest grade, but ordinary members attained promotion only through initiatory rites.

With the development of the local oil industry, the town's population attained its highest level of 4, 800 in 1964.

, Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment level and median household income of any racial demographic in the country, and they attained the highest median personal income overall.

He says, " I consider him to have attained the highest degree of perfection who is convinced of religious truths without having scrutinized them and reasoned over them " (" Kuzari ," v .).

He says, " I consider him to have attained the highest degree of perfection who is convinced of religious truths without having scrutinized them and reasoned over them " (" Kuzari ", v .).

In August 1936 the Silver Jubilee train on the descent of Stoke Bank headed by 2512 Silver Fox driven by George Henry Haygreen achieved a maximum of, then the highest speed attained in Britain with an ordinary passenger train.

As was the norm, he soon relinquished the position and leadership of the Taira clan, with the goal of maintaining the social and political prestige of having attained the highest office in the land, but being free of the attendant duties.

During this time he attained the Boy Scouts ' highest rank: Eagle Scout.

** The increasing complexity of matter has not only led to higher forms of consciousness, but accordingly to more personalization, of which human beings are the highest attained form in the known universe.

Laver attained his highest ranking on that computer of World No. 3 in 1974.

He attained the highest government positions within ten years, which added to his modesty and tranquility.

This shoreline marks the highest level attained by the Pleistocene lake approximately 15, 500 years ago.

Once a year, during the full moon in May or June, Buddhists in Indonesia observe Vesak () day commemorating the birth, death, and the time when Siddhārtha Gautama attained the highest wisdom to become the Buddha Shakyamuni.