Pole sitting is the practice of sitting on top of a pole (such as a flagpole) as a test of endurance. A small platform is typically placed at the top of...

accounts say 1885] – October 11, 1952), was a pole sitter who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s, sitting for days at a time on elevated perches throughout...

St. Ungulant lives on top of a pole. In the episode Souvenirs of the TV series M*A*S*H, Cpl. Klinger sets a pole sitting record. In Anatole France's Thaïs...

fuel stop by the #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari to take second position. The pole-sitting #85 Iron Dames Porsche led the first half of the race, before running...

the pole sitting #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac, while the sister #70 car qualified further back, in 7th, 1.4 seconds behind the pole sitting car....

income. Examples include dance marathon or walk-a-thons, pole sitting, marathon swimming, ice sitting, burial artists and other forms of early endurance art...

Steven Richards won the race for Ford Performance Racing, ahead of the pole-sitting Triple Eight Race Engineering car of Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell...

Brothers film Animal Crackers, which features a line of dialogue about the pole sitting fad of the 1920s. The band was inspired to spell "sitter" as "sitta"...

race of attrition, all the front-running cars retired except for the pole-sitting Williams-Renault of Damon Hill. Hill won by two clear laps, only the...

gained his nickname from Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly, who was famous for pole-sitting in the 1920s. Kelly played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats...

Hours of Sebring with both cars starting on the front row. However, the pole-sitting R10 had to start from the pit lane due to the need to rectify heat exchanger...

to the front. A blocked fuel-filter cost Klaus Ludwig two laps in the pole-sitting Porsche. Thereafter the chase was picked up by his teammate Bob Wollek...

however, problems on all four cars - first suspension damage on the pole-sitting #3, then three related engine issues - the #2, the #1 and the Oreca #4...

running toward either pole. The chasing team can get around these restrictions if the active chaser either switches roles with a sitting teammate (by touching...

things your righteousness shall be perfect. Saints portal Simeon Stylites Pole-sitting Hermit Ascetic "St. Daniel the Stylite - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online"...

former F1 driver Jean-Pierre Jarier. After dicing for the lead with the pole sitting Lancia LC2 of Bob Wollek and Alessandro Nannini for the first third of...

haircut. Fads such as marathon dancing, mah-jong, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular. The height of the clip joint. The Harlem Renaissance centered...

Toyota qualified in third position, seven-tenths of a second behind the pole-sitting No. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer and...

and finally took back second place at half-race distance from Theys' pole-sitting TWR. After its delays, the Cottaz/Alliot/Policand Courage had quickly...

Games 2006 in electronic sports and between 1997 and 2003 the annual pole-sitting world cup. Many industrial and trading companies have settled in Soltau...

proper position after qualifying, resulted in the pole sitting car of Sacks essentially being a sitting duck, which more or less caused The Big One at the...

Stavelot to the Bus Stop chicane), hoping to give himself an edge over the pole-sitting Senna. At the start, Prost took the lead after Senna suffered wheel spin...

first hour, the #1 Porsche would take the lead over the #8, with the pole-sitting #7 in third. Going into the second hour, the leading Porsche began to...

they lost a lap to the Ferté brothers in the other Jaguars. In C2, the pole-sitting Mako Spice had fuel-vaporisation problems almost straight away, and fell...

running over exhaust debris on the back straight. Then Cudini spun the pole-sitting C9 at the Dunlop Curve avoiding a back-marker and had to spend eight...

Jackson Nissan drivers George Fury and Mark Skaife finished 2nd in their pole sitting Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R, while finishing 3rd was the outdated Mitsubishi...

is commemorated May 24 by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Saints portal Pole-sitting Nikitsky Monastery Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites. St. Nicholas Russian...

The No. 8 Toyota of Davidson closed to almost within a second of the pole sitting Audi with 15 minutes remaining to take third position. Kristensen separated...

cockpit. With the proviso that all cars had to qualify within 85% of the pole-sitting car's average speed for safety reasons, it meant that several cars failed...

200th motor racing victory and the lead of the GTLM points lead. The pole-sitting Corvette Racing trio of Antonio García, Jan Magnussen and Mike Rockenfeller...