After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
The same thing happens with the magnetic field lines, which suddenly reconnect, resulting in a hole a few kilometres wide in the armour of the magnetosphere, through which plasma can spill.
Brigadier Gordon Messenger, a spokesman for the British military, conceded on the Today programme that the security zone in the Sangin valley is just "several square kilometres" in size but added that this provides a haven for the local population.
They can travel thousands of kilometres in a single trip, yet move only a few hundred metres.
For rural people especially, walking several kilometres in heavy downpours could prove one too many hurdle.
The last two kilometres were probably the hardest two kilometres in my life.
And both now have missiles able to carry such weapons over hundreds of kilometres in a matter of minutes.
The 17.6 kWh battery enables the lively city car to travel around 140 kilometres in city traffic without producing any local emissions.
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Yet after ten months of laying siege to the Tigers' enclave, the army has gained a few kilometres in the south-west, and little else.
The area was once enclosed by a city wall that was 10m high and five kilometres in circumference, built in 1555 and torn down in 1911.
It symbolises the death marches that took place when the Germans began emptying the camps and forcing prisoners to walk hundreds of kilometres in freezing weather with little food.
"The vehicles will cover thousands of kilometres in test drives and evaluations to gather valuable research data from every-day driving scenarios, " said Christian Ress, technical expert, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
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The Arctic sea ice is constantly moving, breaking open and reforming into different shapes - which means we can end up moving several kilometres in any direction while we are asleep in our tents.
He spoke of distances in metres and kilometres, and it took me a while to understand that this was not an affectation so much as a driving need to convert units of measurement more or less instantaneously.
The head of a team responsible for flight safety during eruptions told the agency that an cloud of ashes over 100 kilometres in length was moving to the northeast and could pose a threat to aircraft on international routes near Kamchatka.
The 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).
If the orbiting behemoth passes through a "keyhole" in space measuring several hundred kilometres wide during this pass, it will strike Earth in 2036.
Clearance zones have fallen from 15 miles (24 kilometres) in the 1960s to two or three miles now.
ICO's ten satellites fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit and have a life-span of 12 years.
They would take tourists to at least 62 miles (100 kilometres) in altitude, near the very edge of the earth's atmosphere.
Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, west of Toronto, plans a branch campus next year in Brantford, 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.
The Marathon des Sables covers a distance of 151 miles (243 kilometres) in six days - the equivalent of nearly six regular marathons.
He was transferred to a maximum security prison 400 kilometres away in the state capital of Chihuahua - and placed in solitary confinement.
ICO's satellites will fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit.
Swift, who rode well to reach the leaders in the final few laps, looked spent in the final few kilometres but hung on for his fourth spot.
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It had plans to add a second factory in Lacq, some 70 kilometres (44 miles) north.
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Another seven people were killed in Tonga, several hundred kilometres farther south.
Hours before the voting began, suspected Islamic rebels killed 23 civilians in Sendjas village, 180 kilometres (112 miles) west of the capital Algiers.
The South West Coast Path, which wiggles for 1, 014 extremely undulating kilometres from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset via the shorelines of Devon and Cornwall, is Great Britain's longest national trail.
On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.
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