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Nope, no one has walked in the moon twice (yet :)). Three have flown to the moon twice however. Jim Lovell on Apollo 8 and 13, John Young on Apolo 10 and 16, and Gene Cernan on Apollo 10 and 17.
All three commanded their second Apollo missions, so Young and Cernan each walked on the moon. Because of the Apollo 13 accident, Lovell lost the opportunity to land, so that would make him the only person ever to fly to the moon twice without landing on it…
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Of course this is right… not sure why I put walked in there. Carry on!
I think that the OP is getting after something that one would think a lot of people have done that in actuality were done by very few. The Jeanette Rankin one is a good example. With as many pacifists/isolationist elected before WWI and WWII and the tendency of Congressmen to stay in office, it is surrising that only one person voted against the Declaration of War.
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It’s the nature of sports records. Only one person won the most games. Only one person threw the most touchdowns. Only one person ran the fastest mile. Etc. etc. etc. (Excluding the odd cases where there are ties.)
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Except that the baseball examples that were given are not cases of the person to do X the most, but rather the only person to do X.
For example, someone else can come along and get his 512th win, displacing Cy Young off the top of the wins chart. However, he will then be alone at the top of the list.
The examples given, however, do not rely on the person having the most of any particular stat, but being the only person to accomplish a feat, which is repeatable by others. It is conceivable that another person could come along and be elected to both the Baseball and Pro Football HOFs, and it’s conceivable that another person could come along and hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in the same inning.
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I think that the OP is getting after something that one would think a lot of people have done that in actuality were done by very few. The Jeanette Rankin one is a good example. With as many pacifists/isolationist elected before WWI and WWII and the tendency of Congressmen to stay in office, it is surrising that only one person voted against the Declaration of War.
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What’s also interesting about Rankin is that those were the only two Congressional terms that she served in. She represented Montana from 1917-19 and then again from 1941-43.
While about fifty Congress(wo)men voted against the U.S. entry into WWI, she was the only one who voted against declaring war on Japan following Pearl Harbor.
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I think you could reasonably subdivide these. Pauling won in two catagories with no sharing, while Curie won in two separate sciences. (and her husband, and her daughter and her son in law also won Nobels, as I recall - must have put some serious pressure on the grandkids). That probably be most Nobels for a family too.
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On top of which, while the remaining daughter, the late Ève Curie,[sup]*[/sup] never herself won a Nobel, her husband collected the Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF at the 1965 ceremony.
Incidentally, the Curie grandkids - Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Joliot - have had none-too-shabby scientific careers by most other standards.
[sub]No, I hadn’t realised that she’d been still alive at 102 until after her death was announced in October this year.[/sub]
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Damn that was going to be mine! 1900 times the course has been attempted, but only twice has anyone achived TOTAL VICTORY!
(I love Ninja Warrior )
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Was Makoto Nagano the second victor? I keep hearing there were two, but the only one I’ve seen complete all four stages is the former crab fisherman guy with the spiked hair and really bad eyesight.
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Gerald Ford is the only non-elected President to survive TWO assassin attempts in 17 days, both made by a woman who had previously made infamous news stories involving crimes against famous people (let’s see anybody break that one).
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Okay. Andrew Jackson is the only president to survive two assassination attempts within seconds of one another. Richard Lawrence approached Jackson at the Capitol Rotunda with two pistols. The first misfired, so he tried the second, which also misfired. Jackson then subdued Lawrence with his cane (let’s see a modern president do that, eh?), until he was restrained by others.
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Jackson then subdued Lawrence with his cane (let’s see a modern president do that, eh?), until he was restrained by others.
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I have to ask: Which of them was ‘restrained by others?’ (I have this image of Andrew Jackson beating the guy senseless…)
From the sound of things, a little from column A, a little from column B. This Wikipedia page says that Jackson attacked Lawrence with his cane, “prompting his aides to restrain him.” Lawrence’s page states that Lawrence was quickly wrestled into submission by people in the crowd, including congressman Davy Crockett (speaking of “things I’d like to see our elected officials in DC doing today”…), but doesn’t mention Jackson needing to be subdued.
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Was Makoto Nagano the second victor? I keep hearing there were two, but the only one I’ve seen complete all four stages is the former crab fisherman guy with the spiked hair and really bad eyesight.
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Yup, that’s the other one. He completed the course in the 17th competition.
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Okay. Andrew Jackson is the only president to survive two assassination attempts within seconds of one another. Richard Lawrence approached Jackson at the Capitol Rotunda with two pistols. The first misfired, so he tried the second, which also misfired. Jackson then subdued Lawrence with his cane (let’s see a modern president do that, eh?), until he was restrained by others.
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Yes, but both of Ford’s attackers were woman (You’ve come a long way, baby) who had previously been infamous (Squeaky Fromme of the “Manson family” and Sara Jane Moore who was involved in the circus around Patricia Heart’s kidnapping). What had Robert Lawrence done previously?
THAT’s the kind of thing I’m looking for. Thank you.
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And if you believe that one I’ve got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn and some nice land in Florida. If his wiki is to be believed he swam an amazing 6-8mph for 6 to 8 hours every day. That’s twice as fast as anyone else in the world.
There is someone else who’s swam down the Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi and Danube rivers, Martin Strel. Even with the river flow he averaged 2-3mph.
