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unusual facts about human chain



USA for Africa

USA for Africa also held a benefit event, Hands Across America, in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States.

Yesha Council

In 2005 the Council led the protest campaign against the disengagement plan with peaceful mass protests: the human chain of 130,000, the Kfar Maimon march of 50,000, the Kotel rally of 70,000, and the Tel Aviv rally of 200,000.


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Ken Kragen

A year later, Kragen organized Hands Across America, a transcontinental human chain that involved 6 1/2 million people.