Frankly, none of this background information made me more eager to sign up for the Citi Field event even though at three miles, the Spartan Sprint sounds like pretty weak stuff compared to other races in their portfolio, including the eight-mile Super Spartan, the 13-mile Spartan Beast and the 24-hour Death Race.

WSJ: This Is One That's for the Spartans

The nine-and-a-half-hour film about the German death camps in Poland is composed mainly of interviews with Jews who survived them, Germans who helped run them, and Poles who lived alongside them.

NEWYORKER: Witness

The two leaders spoke for approximately one hour and discussed a number of topics, including the impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on the fight against terrorism and on regional dynamics, their shared commitment to Afghan-led reconciliation, progress on forging an enduring U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership, and transition to Afghan leadership for security.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

After the last death of a former prime minister, Sir Edward Heath in 2005, the Commons staged an hour-long debate to pay tribute.

BBC: Manchester

Her death comes exactly five weeks, almost to the hour, after the apparent suicide of David Wilson, her record producer boyfriend and father of her infant boy.

FORBES: Country Singer Mindy McCready Dead of Apparent Suicide

Ms Davies arrived an hour and a half after the baby's death, the inquest heard.

BBC: England

Of the five shows--sitcoms Happy Hour and 'Til Death and dramas Justice, Standoff and Vanished--introduced last fall, only one, 'Til Death, is returning for a second season.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In a four-hour gun battle, Ma Barker was shot to death on the second floor.

FORBES: Infamous Estates: Homes With Notorious Histories And Criminal Pasts Come To Market

He pointed out that the seven hours of parliamentary time allocated contrasted with the single hour MPs devoted to a discussion of Sir Winston Churchill after his death in 1965.

BBC: Baroness Thatcher's death reopens wounds in Yorkshire

"In an hour, a half hour - just ten minutes - the crayfish can claw my fish to death, " says Salah Zayed a 56-year old fisherman who says he's been tossing his nets into the Nile since he was a child.

CNN: Egypt's crayfish invasion

Among the more esoteric offerings are the world's first text message movie and Star Spangled To Death, a six-hour video started 50 years ago by director Ken Jacobs.

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