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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

Boston Marathon

The oldest annual marathon in the world, first run on 19 April 1897 and held every year since.

42.2, -71.5 · route · 1897 – present, annual

On the world

  • A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

Connections · 3 of 6

  • located in BostonThe course runs inbound from Hopkinton through the western suburbs and finishes on Boylston Street in Boston.
  • operated by Boston Athletic AssociationThe Boston Athletic Association has organised the race since its first running in 1897.
  • comparable to New York City MarathonBoth are point-to-point courses whose difficulty is concentrated late — the Newton hills from about 27 km, the bridge climbs from about 25 km — which is why neither is where records are attempted.

865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate insteada coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on the Moon

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1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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