Rags to riches
With multiple media reports bannering an extension for Vontaze Burfict, the Bengals continue their tradition of using the preseason as their March Madness for free agency. According to multiple media...
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Home run king Babe Ruth helped pioneer modern cancer treatment
Babe Ruth poses in the visitors dugout in Cleveland in this 1927 photo. The beloved baseball player died from cancer on Aug. 16, 1948. Photo by Louis Van Oeyen/Western Reserve Historical Society/Gett...
Richard Branson, Jeff Skoll Among Business Leaders Looking To Meet Put...
Some of the world’s wealthiest people are seeking an audience with Russian president Vladimir Putin, hoping perhaps that business can succeed where politics has failed. In a statement released ...
E-commerce a real adventure for Calgarian
Live Out There CEO Jamie Clarke is driven by powerful passions – among them, scaling the world’s highest peak, and promoting his Calgary based business. In 2010, he took his company’s flag to the top...
Octogenarian British adventurer climbs iconic Scottish landmark
Climb: Sir Chris Bonington ahead of Old Man of Hoy climb. An octogenarian adventurer has beaten one of Scotland’s most difficult climbs – 48 years after he first completed the challenge. Sir Ch...
Global explorer Alastair Humphreys discovers ‘microadventureR...
CNN’s Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for times, videos and features (CNN) — “Sorry — the sun is shining so I’ve gone to...
Video: Daredevil James Kingston hangs one-handed from crane in Bangalo...
Don’t mind me, I am just hanging around “He’s mad,” or “He’s got a death wish”. Either one of these two is how you will react when you see these videos of Ja...
Swiss-Brit adventurer emulates Marco Polo’s footsteps in Hangzhou
Liam Bates, a 26-year-old who grew up in Switzerland and London, has been named the winner of Hangzhou’s ‘Modern-day Marco Polo’ global competition. Organised by the Hangzhou Tourism Commission, the ...
Robin Williams: His 50 greatest jokes
Robin Williams performing at the 25th Birthday Gala Dinner in Jupiters’ Pavilion Ballroom in 201.0 Source: Supplied IN MEMORY of Robin Williams’ passing, here are 50 of his greatest jokes. 1. “If it’...
Base jumper’s death-defying leap off London skyscraper
Moment a base jumper makes a terrifying leap off the balcony off a roof bar on a London skyscraper. Sourcehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk , 19th August, 2014
That’s a tight squeeze! Helmet camera captures terrifying moment...
Man takes a running jump off a cliff before making a beeline for the gap If he doesn’t get it right he faces crashing into a concrete apartment block Luckily his timing is right and he pulls of...
Paralyzed since ’89, Bob Bell still seeks challenges
Adventurer Bob Bell won’t let paralysis keep him from living his life. Pensacola native Bob Bell has been a quadriplegic since 1989 but that hasn’t slowed him down. He inspires others to ...
The nine most heroic airline pilots of all time
After a pilot was forced to land a plane one-handed, due to his prosthetic limb falling off, we look at other miraculous airline escapes The remnants of Aloha Flight 243 Landing in gusty conditions i...
Interview: Fifty Years Since the Death of Heroic Spy Eli Cohen
Nadia Cohen, widow of legendary Israeli spy, speaks to Arutz Sheva on grief – and on the state’s failures to locate her husband’s body. Eli Cohen, hy”d Nadia Cohen, widow of l...
Expedition Yemen: inside one of the world’s most dangerous count...
As the Adventure Travel Film Festival begins, here is a sneak preview of one of the films on show Fans of adventure, film or both who are free this weekend might want to check out the British leg of ...