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Early Friday Photo: A whole lotta shoes

Passport has the day off tomorrow for the July 4th holiday here in the United States, so here’s an early Friday photo to contemplate. Enjoy your weekend! Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON – JULY 02: Eight-year-old Peter Wajda of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, poses for photographs on top of 10,512 sneakers tied by their laces and ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Passport has the day off tomorrow for the July 4th holiday here in the United States, so here's an early Friday photo to contemplate. Enjoy your weekend!

Passport has the day off tomorrow for the July 4th holiday here in the United States, so here’s an early Friday photo to contemplate. Enjoy your weekend!

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

WASHINGTON – JULY 02: Eight-year-old Peter Wajda of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, poses for photographs on top of 10,512 sneakers tied by their laces and laid heel-to-toe in the courtyard at National Geographic Society headquarters July 2, 2008 in Washington, DC. Assembled by National Geographic Kids magazine, the string of shoes was certified Wednesday by Guinness World Records as the longest chain of shoes, measuring 8,700 feet or nearly 1.65 miles. Wajda, a third-grader at Moorestown Friends School, organized a shoe drive and collected 509 of the shoes used to set the record. The shoes will be shipped to Nike’s Reuse-a-Shoe program and recycled into basketball courts and other play surfaces.

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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