Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers
The Human Arrow
There is a non-embeddable video of this at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 21, 2024 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1930s
Jean-Yves Blondeau, Rollerman
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 22, 2023 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Europe, Mental Health and Insanity
Red Hill Jr.‘s Niagara Falls Plunge
Once a common trope, the voluntary plunge over Niagara Falls seems to be extinct. This list at Wikipedia records the last such try as occurring in 2017. Would authorities even allow such an attempt these days?Wikipedia entry for Hill Senior and Junior.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 29, 2023 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Lakes, Ponds, Rivers, Streams, Swamps and Other Bodies of Fresh Water, North America, Twentieth Century
“Lucky” Fluckey: The Only Submarine Commander Ever to Blow Up a Train
So long as submersible vessels are in the news...His Wikipedia page.
In one of the more unusual incidents in the war, Fluckey sent a landing party ashore to set demolition charges on a coastal railway line, destroying a 16-car train.[4] This was the sole landing by U.S. military forces on the Japanese home islands during World War II. Fluckey ordered that this landing party be composed of crewmen from every division on his submarine. "He chose an eight-man team with no married men to blow up the train," Captain Max Duncan said, who served as Torpedo Officer on the Barb during this time. "He also wanted former Boy Scouts because he thought they could find their way back. They were paddling back to the ship when the train blew up."[5] The selected crewmen were Paul Saunders, William Hatfield, Francis Sever, Lawrence Newland, Edward Klinglesmith, James Richard, John Markuson, and William Walker. Hatfield wired the explosive charge, using a microswitch under the rails to trigger the explosion.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 24, 2023 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Military, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, War, 1940s, Asia
Follies of the Madmen #557
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 24, 2023 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Advertising, Twentieth Century
The Trampoline Performance Art of Yoann Bourgeois
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 03, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Music, Clumsiness and Grace, Performance Art, Gymnastics
Joie Chitwood’s Auto Show
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 13, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1950s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows, Cars
Rome fire-fighting cadets, 1962
Firemen as acrobats.
Newsweek - July 23, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 22, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1960s
Fred and Coronet Cordon’s Whip Act
Photo source.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 16, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Television, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
An Impressive Fall
This story is not quite so remarkable as Alex's tales of Empire State Building suicides who survived, but it will do.Source: The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) 01 Aug 1910, Mon Page 2
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 05, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Domestic, Family, Danger, Risk, and Peril
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