<Li> In 1903, James Willis Sayre, a Seattle theatre critic and arts promoter, set the world record for circling the earth using public transport: 54 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes . </Li> <Li> In 1908, Harry Bensley, on a wager, set out to circumnavigate the world on foot wearing an iron mask . The journey was abandoned, incomplete, at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 . </Li> <Li> In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days, He wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days . </Li> <Li> In 1988, Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin took a similar challenge without using aircraft as a part of a television travelogue, called Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days . He completed the journey in 79 days and 7 hours . </Li>

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