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unusual facts about two miles



Gunnar Höckert

A week later, on the same track, Höckert ran a new world record in 2 miles (8:57.4) and another week later, he equalled the Jules Ladoumègue's 2,000 m world record 5:21.8 in Malmö.


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1970 Lubbock tornado

At about 9:35PM, a second and much more significant tornado touched down near the campus of Texas Tech University, snapping light poles at Jones Stadium, home of the Red Raider football team, then began to track northeast, carving a path of destruction that at its peak reached almost two miles in width right through the heart of the city.

Alum Rock

Alum Rock, Birmingham, an area in the United Kingdom, two miles east of Birmingham's city centre

AT6 Monument

The site is easily reachable from Oklahoma State Highway 2—a sign erected by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (originally intended for use on the day of commemoration, but also as a gift to the students by grateful troopers) guides would-be visitors from the turn-off approximately two miles north of Moyers.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 81

It goes west on Kansas Ave. for about two miles (3 km) in a concurrency with US-56 and turns south on Main Street for two miles (3 km), passing Central Christian College and National Cooperative Refinery Association.

Battle of Orewin Bridge

A local inhabitant had told the Marchers about a ford across the Irfon two miles downstream near its confluence with the River Wye, and they sent most of their archers across it to attack the Welsh in the flank.

Battle of San Marino

When the assault on Coriano was resumed on the 12th, led by two armoured divisions with heavy artillery support, these forces pushed westwards; their goal was to pass through towards the town of Montescudo, about two miles from the Sanmarinese border.

Battle of Walaja

The centre of the battlefield was about two miles southeast of present, Ain-ul-Muhari, 35 miles southeast of present, Najaf, and six miles southeast of present Ash Sinafiyah.

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

Deals were struck with recalcitrant landlords and Bromsgrove station was built almost two miles outside the town, in Aston Fields.

Boston Camera

The aircraft was seventy-two miles away, and yet we could see people in Central Park.

Broadfield Stadium

The Stadium is located next to a roundabout about a mile from Crawley railway station and two miles from Three Bridges railway station, which is on the Brighton Main Line.

Carfin Grotto

The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally referred to, was the brainchild of Father, later Canon, Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin, which lies two miles east of Motherwell, in the West of Scotland.

Carisbrook

Located at the foot of The Glen, a steep valley, the ground is flanked by the South Island Main Trunk Railway and the Hillside Railway Workshops, two miles southwest of Dunedin city centre in the suburb of Caversham.

Coggabata

Two miles south of the fort a Roman road was uncovered linking the western end of the Stanegate to Kirkbride to the west.

Craig Peyer

Cara Knott was last seen alive at a Chevron gas station just two miles away from the murder scene.

Dawn Run

In her second season, she won eight of her nine races, including the English Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leapardstown, both over two miles, and the French Champion Hurdle (Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil) at Auteuil over three miles, becoming the first horse to complete the treble.

Dixon, Missouri

Route 133 runs north from Interstate 44 exit 145 about two miles east of Hazelgreen to Richland, Swedeborg, Crocker, and about two miles west of Dixon, then north out of the county.

Dixon, New Mexico

About two miles (3 km) north of the town on NM Highway 75 rock and mineral collectors can visit the Harding Mine, a pegmatite mine donated to the University of New Mexico by Dr. Arthur Montgomery.

Durant Multi-Sports Complex

The Durant Multi-Sports Complex is an athletic facility located two miles (3 km) southeast of Durant, Oklahoma, on Highway 78.

Florida State Road 407

Within the SR 528/SR 407/I-95 triangle is a swampland containing the southern unit of St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge, a popular resting area for migrating birds (the northern unit is two miles (3 km) to the north, adjacent to I-95 and SR 50), and just to the west of the triangle is Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, which extends from SR 50 southward to just south of SR 520 in nearby Orange County.

Friend or Faux

In reality the Everwood is an abandoned hotel called the Aspotogan Sea Spa, located on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada, and situated about two miles (three kilometers) south of the location of the Grey Gull in Tilley's Cove.

Gemini 3

The spacecraft is on display within the Grissom Memorial of Spring Mill State Park, two miles east of Grissom's hometown of Mitchell, Indiana.

George Bardeen

The most amazing rumor about this home was that it had a tunnel that went under the Kalamazoo River all the way to his paper mill, about two miles away.

Girton, Cambridgeshire

It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.

Hill City, Minnesota

Hill City is situated on the shores of Hill Lake, a glacial formation roughly two miles long and an average of .25 miles wide.

Huggins, Missouri

It is located on Route M about two miles north of Route 38 near Bendavis.

Japanese submarine I-26

In the evening of 20 June 1942, while patrolling two miles off the coast of British Columbia, I-26 surfaced and shelled the lighthouse and radio-direction-finding (RDF) installation at Estevan Point.

Johnstown Christian School

The Holsopple campus is located in the Davidsville-Holsopple area of Somerset County, about two miles from Conemaugh Township High School.

Magee, Mississippi

The Sanatorium Museum, a museum of memorabilia from the old tuberculosis hospital, includes the old telephone switchboard, a patient bedroom with nightstand, equipment and many photographs, located on Highway 49 North two miles (3 km) north of Magee, in Sanatorium, Mississippi.

Mayhew, Indian Territory

Mayhew, Indian Territory, located two miles north of present-day Boswell, Oklahoma, was the seat of government of the Pushmataha District of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory.

Millers River

Major tributaries of the Millers River are Tarbell Brook, which enters about two miles west of Winchendon Center, the Otter River, which enters in Winchendon in Otter River State Forest, and the Tully River, which enters in Athol.

Mohican State Park

The Class B Campground is located approximately two miles west of the Class A Campground, located off of Ohio SR 97.

Mount Pleasant, Utah

The old settlement was burned down by local Native Americans, so when a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the area in 1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location—one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti.

MV Hjaltland

On 23 August 2013, MV Hjaltland was diverted from its normal route to assist with search and rescue efforts following the crash of a Super Puma helicopter two miles off the Shetland coast close to Sumburgh.

MV Kerlogue

On 2 April 1941 a British convoy was attacked by German bombers, two miles south of Tuskar Rock.

Netherfield, Nottinghamshire

Covering an area, as today from the north end of Victoria Road just passing the crossings of the former Nottingham - Gedling - Daybrook line, the eastern end of Gedling up to Rectory Junction Viaduct covering an area, end to end of one and a half to two miles (3 km).

New Jersey Route 14

On the Westchester side of the river, the Cross County Parkway was to be built and extended two miles to the bridge approach for opening to commercial traffic.

Novgorod Kremlin

Novgorod Kremlin (also Detinets) stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River in Veliky Novgorod about two miles north of where it empties out of Lake Ilmen.

Riverton, Kansas

The famous Rainbow Bridge, about two miles (3 km) west of town, was the site where in the year 2000, musician Brad Paisley performed the song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 for the TLC (TV channel) special "Route 66: Main Street America".

Shillingford, Devon

Shillingford is a village two miles (3 km) north-east of Bampton on the River Batherm in Mid Devon, close to the border with West Somerset.

Squirrels Estate

It is situated approximately two miles south-west of the town centre, bordering onto countryside in the direction of Kidderminster.

Stoke-by-Clare

Stoke-by-Clare is a small village in Suffolk located in the valley of the River Stour, about two miles west of Clare.

Strasburg, Pennsylvania

It developed as a linear village along the Great Conestoga Road, stretching about two miles along path later known as the Strasburg Road.

Tarraby

It is about two miles away from the city centre of Carlisle and is near the River Eden.

Utah State Route 181

In the route's first two miles (mostly within modern Millcreek Township), a small military logistics facility and St. Mark's Hospital were located on the west side, the latter at the junction with 3900 South.

Vere Temple

Vere Temple was born at Boreham Manor, two miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire to parents Grenville and Katherine Temple.

W2W

The northerly spur passes through Hamsterley, taking two miles (3 km) more to reach the beautiful cathedral city of Durham than the easier southern spur which passes through Bishop Auckland.

Wisconsin Highway 190

The road's name comes from older mapping methods that the road would lead directly towards the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison if built in a straight line from Lake Michigan, though current day mapping actually places it two miles north of downtown Madison.

Woodside, Dudley

Duncan Edwards, who played for Manchester United and England, and died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, was born in a house on Malvern Crescent on 1 October 1936, but grew up two miles away on the Priory Estate.