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gravity's stubborn enemy, climbed by everyone, conquered by no one without a little sweat
means A set of steps arranged to let you move between different levels of a building, one foot at a time.
from From Old English 'stǣger,' which traces back to the verb 'stīgan,' meaning 'to climb or ascend' — a root shared across the old Germanic tongues (German still has 'steigen,' to climb). So a 'stair' is quite literally a climbing-place, and the plural 'stairs' simply names the whole upward run of them. The same ancient climbing-root also gives us 'stile,' the step over a fence.
- falling risk
- Stairs send over a million people to ER yearly
- penrose trick
- Some staircases loop forever, but only on paper
- ancient design
- Stone steps date back over 4,000 years
- odd step rule
- Builders favor odd counts to ease your stride
- fitness hack
- Climbing burns more calories per minute than jogging
potemkin steps odessa — 192 steps in odessa, ukraine, famously featured in eisenstein's 1925 film battleship potemkin
spanish steps rome — 138 steps connecting piazza di spagna to trinità dei monti in central rome, built 1723-1726
mont st michel stairs — grand degré staircase of 350 steps leading to the abbey atop mont saint-michel in normandy