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Ryan LaFlare flights for UFC fights
Long Island’s Ryan LaFlare began his mixed martial arts career by fighting for Ring of Combat in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a simple 162-mile drive from his home in Copiague. Since signing with the UFC, LaFlare has traveled the world to compete. His seventh UFC fight is Feb. 11, 2017, in … wait for it … Brooklyn, New York. Follow his career flight path below.
Note: Miles shown represent the distance from NYC to that city via World Atlas, and don’t reflect LaFlare’s actual flight itinerary. They also do not include the return flight back to New York.
Around the world . . . almost
The circumference of Earth measured at the equator is 24,901.55 miles. So, Ryan LaFlare is close to having flown around the world just to get to his fights in mixed martial arts, a sport that is still banned in his home state of New York. If you include the trips back to New York, he’s nearly been around the world both horizontally and vertically. (The Earth’s circumference from pole to pole is 24,860 miles.)
UFC fight 1: Stockholm, Sweden
UFC fight 2: Goiania, Brazil
UFC fight 3: Sacramento, California
UFC fight 4: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
UFC fight 5: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
UFC fight 6: Las Vegas, Nevada
UFC fight 7: Brooklyn, New York
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Many cities did he visit
and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home.
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Tell me, too, about all these things
O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
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So now all who escaped death
in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.
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But as years went by
there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people,
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His troubles were not yet over
Nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
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Now Neptune had gone off
To the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East.
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He had gone there to accept
A hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival.
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At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus
Who had been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods.
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How men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
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Look at Aegisthus
He must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him;
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With these words she flew away
Like a bird into the air, but she had given Telemachus courage, and had made him think more than ever about his father.
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For I sent Mercury
To warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. Mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full.
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